Politics

Hey, did you hear the good news? We managed to avoid soaring headlong off the fiscal cliff yesterday. Granted, the House pulled the plug on a bill providing emergency aid to people whose lives were destroyed by Superstorm Sandy to do it. But they did it. Hooray!(?)

If there's any doubt how strong the GOP's hold on Alabama is, consider this -- a Republican nominee beat out the Democratic incumbent for a seat on the Bibb County Commission last week despite the fact that he died a month earlier. Congratulations, Alabama, on taking partisanship to a whole new level.

An election is the ultimate celebration of democracy. However if you live in South Carolina or Kentucky, booze probably isn't going to be part of your November 6 revelry.

With so much drama in this year's presidential race, don't you kind of wish politicians would just come out and admit everything they've ever done wrong? That's what Kevin Maher, a comedian and (fake) politician running for a (fake) position in this funny video, does.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Newark Mayor Corey Booker are legends in their own right. However, when the two get together, their natural competitive instincts kick in and they become bitter rivals that can make Seinfeld and Newman look like the Olsen Twins.

Politicians are often accused of being plunderers and pillagers of their people's pesos and personal principles. At least this party doesn't pretend about their piracy and lets their people know it by putting "pirate" in their party's pseudonym. The "Piratenpartel" (translation: Pirates Party) has grown into a very popular political party among Germany's voters and political su

Just call her the "Secretary of Fun." Hillary Clinton, who was in Cartagena, Colombia this weekend for the Summit of The Americas, was seen drinking and dancing along with a posse of female aides late Saturday night at a club called Café Havana.

Before he became Vice President, then Delaware Senator Joe Biden was commonly referred to as a "Gaffe Machine." Looks like he could have messed up again while giving a speech.

Of all the music fanatics and crazy characters to show up at SXSW, we never expected to see presidential candidate from New Hampshire, Vermin Supreme. You remember this guy, right? How could you not? He promised everyone free ponies in exchange for their votes.

Have you seen the 'Kony 2012'? If not, you may be one of the few -- the haunting short film just became the most viral video in history.

If you want to find the mayor of Aredale, Iowa, the best place to look is probably the local high school. That's because 18-year-old Jeremy Minnier, who was elected to the town's highest seat on Tuesday, is still a senior.

According to Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, two new animated children's movies -- 'The Secret World of Arrietty' and 'Dr Seuss' The Lorax' -- are part of a plot by Hollywood and the Obama administration to "indoctrinate our children" with their liberal agenda.

Mitt Romney's numbers have been slumping a bit, but a new prophylactic featuring Romney's likeness can help give anyone a, uh, rise in the poll. We're very, very sorry about that joke.

Amazingly, there are still people on the planet who are connected to the internet, but don’t know that The Onion is not a source for actual news. These dim bulbs and dull knives clearly don’t understand satire, and the fact that it is the basis of all Onion content. This ignorance is still running so rampant that there is even a blog that posts the Facebook commentary of the slow ones who surf amo

Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has announced that she will resign from Congress this week to continue her recuperation from the brain injury she suffered when she was shot in the head early last year in a rampage that left six people dead.