"January 3rd is the date set for the dreaded Iowa caucus. Historically, the event is one of few that sets the tone for the states that follow, and so much to-do has been given in preparation for the event. This, however, is almost entirely a show for the voting public and determines very little in the long run. What really matters are the delegate votes, of which there are 2,286, and while popular opinion can influence these votes that isn't always the case..."

"Politicians and the Internet go together like chocolate and carpenter nails. For example, do you remember that time Nancy Pelosi Rick Roll'd America before painfully explaining what that meant? Well, it seems that Tea Party enthusiast Jules Manson decided to one-up Pelosi by calling for the assassination of President Obama on Facebook..."

"I think it's safe to say that the Obama re-election campaign is just a tad unconventional. If the White House Dossier is to be believed, the Obama campaign is hoping to collect the e-mail addresses of Republican voters..."

"Now that Herman Cain has suspended his campaign, there may finally be hope for the GOP. Since we are finally free from the distraction of such stupid proposals as 9-9-9, we can begin to sift through the platforms and messages for meaning, helping us to select the person who may become the next President of the United States..."

"Still struggling to prove that he's not just a joke wearing a very convincing people costume, Donald Trump will be hosting his own debate in Des Moines, Iowa on December 27th...."

"Andrea Tantaros, a woman who writes for the New York Daily News website when she's not too busy trying to bring a human heartbeat to the cast of Red Eye, recently wrote a piece entitled 'Time to get a job: Occupy Wall Street crowd is un-American in its aims and methods.' .... much like the title, the whole thing is comprised of sweeping generalizations that you've probably heard a thousand times before..."

"In light of the recent allegation of a thirteen year affair, Herman Cain is 'reassessing' his campaign. Depending on who you talk to this means a wide variety of things. While most journalists interpret this as Cain bowing out of the race, campaign manager Mark Block swears that the opposite is true and that Cain is simply changing strategy..."

"Remember in August when we went through the debt-ceiling crisis and our country was on the brink of defaulting on our debts? Politicians were at each other’s throats and no one was willing to back down from their respective principled positions. It was not until the financial elites told the politicians that defaulting on debt would crash the entire financial system, did the politicians decide something needed to be done. Even though they managed to stave off default they in essence kicked the can down the road...."

"When the album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols was first issued on CD sometime in the late eighties, frontman Johnny Rotten was not a fan. He said that he didn't see the value of the band because of how accessible it had become. Essentially, the band that set out to bring down the rock n' roll establishment had been marketed so well that it had become the establishment itself..."

"There are a lot of phrases you could use to describe Herman Cain, and now it seems you can add 'sexual harassment enthusiast' to that list..."