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Shortly after his impressive speech, Obama was given an hon...5/20/2013 8:28:59 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2151With scandals falling like rain on the White House, President Obama went with an unconventional choice to be the next Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) : Justin Bieber.  The president apparently made the decision after spending time ...5/20/2013 5:02:10 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2150The Obama Administration has been plagued by scandal after scandal lately, but new polls show that the president's approval rating hasn't been negatively impacted by so much as a scratch or a dent. Puzzled by this, we hit the streets of Washington D...5/20/2013 10:46:19 AMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2148In the wake of last week's Kitchen Nightmares season finale, which featured the Scottsdale, Arizona bistro "Amy's Baking Company" and the social media firestorm it kicked off, some on the right are asking "What connection does President Obama have to...5/19/2013 9:53:26 AMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2146The Obama administration has found itself embroiled in scandal after scandal recently. But the Benghazi conspiracy theories, the Associated Press subpoenas, and the IRS Tea Party scandals are all about to be completely forgotten, as a new, bigger sc...5/18/2013 9:12:04 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2147It's a little known fact that, like Beetlejuice, if the people inside the Beltway call someone or something "Nixonian" more than 1,000 times, his ghost will manifest itself to give a press conference.  That threshold was met yesterday when Congressma...5/18/2013 3:37:22 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2144Some financial analysts have expressed concerns recently that a number of banks are starting to return to the old, dirty habits that caused the great recession, with shoddy lending practices and questionable, lowered standards that could reverse the ...5/18/2013 11:29:54 AMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2145On Thursday, NBC New York caught disgraced former Congressman and potential New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner sitting on the stoop in front of his childhood home in Park Slope, alongside his wife, Huma Abedin, with a filming production c...5/17/2013 8:50:49 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2143This has been a banner week for the Republican National Committee (RNC), and they are partying like its 1959.  All liquor stores in the area have sold all of their champagne to the RNC and the orders keep coming in. "We cannot keep up with their o...5/17/2013 5:19:06 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2141The Republican Party is outraged at the mainstream media, and might even pass down a gag order on republicans in the House and Senate from doing interviews with anyone outside of Fox News, after a few news organizations reported this week that there ...5/16/2013 8:05:03 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2142Watching Mark Sandford (R-SC) being sworn in as the newest member of the House of Representatives gave former Senator and presidential candidate John Edwards (D-NC) an idea or two. He is planning a comeback, though he apparently is unsure what office...5/16/2013 3:05:03 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2139In the past thirty or forty years, the Republican party has fought tooth and nail against any form of taxation, to the point where these days, some conservatives go so far as to say nothing should be taxed whatsoever. And this week, the GOP is plann...5/16/2013 7:05:02 AMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2140While the incident in Benghazi was not caused by an American anti-Muslim video, it may have been related to American media.  Apparently, Kim, Kloé, and Kourtney Kardashian were planning a new spinoff, "Kim, Khloé and Kourtney take Benghazi," and it w...5/15/2013 8:36:38 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2138Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) announced today that in light of Minnesota's recent legalization of gay marriage, she will be constructing defensive structures on the property of her home in the hopes of, quote, “keeping the gay barbarian hordes off my ...5/15/2013 3:05:01 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2136The IRS found itself in hot water recently, after acknowledging they heavily scrutinized conservative groups with the phrases “tea party” and “patriot” in their names during the 2012 election period. And today, the story took another turn for the wo...5/15/2013 7:05:00 AMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2137A recent poll shows that former half-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin would narrowly beat out Senator Mark Begich (D-Alaska) in a 2014 midterm race if she were to run. Palin hasn't publicly commented yet on whether or not she'd consider running for ...5/14/2013 9:09:00 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2135US Diplomat Ryan Fogle was arrested in Russia today after Russian Foreign Ministry officials accused him of spying for the CIA. Fogle was handed over to the US Embassy in Moscow and declared persona non grata, whereupon he was ordered to leave the c...5/14/2013 3:05:02 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2134Congressmen Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Paul Ryan (R-WI) are officially in a vampire cult and this is the real reason for the hearings on Benghazi.  It has been long known that Ryan is a vampire and it was only suspected that Issa is really Count Chocula...5/14/2013 7:05:02 AMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2132The big office upstairs has reported down to PTP's editorial staff that we need to feature more celebrity, gossip-related stories on Pardon the Pundit, but do so with a “political edge.” We were confused by this strange order, seeing as how we're a ...5/13/2013 8:05:01 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2133In an effort to be more transparent in their goals, Cable News Network (CNN) announced today that it is changing its famous slogan to more accurately describe what they do. Citing the recent coverage of both the Jodi Arias trial and the Cleveland...5/13/2013 3:05:00 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2129Lois Lerner, head of the Internal Revenue Service's Exempt Organizations Division, publicly apologized on Friday for the targeting of conservative groups during the 2012 election, adding scrutiny to any organization with the phrases “tea party” or “p...5/13/2013 8:13:17 AMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2131Republicans in the House and Senate have recently been murmuring over possible impeachment proceedings, as the inquisition intensifies over President Barack Obama's involvement in a supposed cover-up of the September 11th, 2012 US Embassy attack in B...5/12/2013 8:06:02 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2130Politicians, both Democrats and Republicans alike, often tell us they legislate the way they do because they want to help moms. So the staff here at PTP thought it'd be fitting to ask Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Majority Leader Eric ...5/12/2013 5:09:28 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2128Mark Zuckerberg's immigration advocacy group has lost a few high-profile wealthy backers recently, including Elon Musk and David Sacks. The news seems to threaten Zuckerberg's group, but Zuckerberg himself has come up with a solution to the issue. ...5/12/2013 10:18:00 AMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2127The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, better known as “NOAA,” recently announced that on May 9th, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have surpassed 400 parts per million for the first time in all of human history, marking a d...5/11/2013 3:05:36 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2124The tiny South Pacific island nation of New Zealand is believed to be drawing up plans for a full-scale invasion of North Korea, probably taking place sometime in the next two or three weeks. Sources in New Zealand's government -- four drunk guys an...5/11/2013 7:05:35 AMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2126Whole Foods Market Inc. revealed on Thursday that an error on their part led to labels getting swapped on real chicken salad and vegan, imitation chicken salad. The mistaken foods were sold in fifteen stores in Connecticut, Main, Massachusetts, New ...5/10/2013 8:05:35 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2125The GOP has had their sights set on Hillary Clinton for several months, pushing the theory that the former Secretary of State and obvious frontrunner for 2016 covered up a conspiracy to hide the truth about a deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya on Septe...5/10/2013 3:05:34 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2123President Barack Obama is visiting Texas today, the first stop on a cross-country tour to promote his new job growth agenda. Texas Governor Rick Perry greeted the president on the tarmac shortly after Air Force One landed, after which Perry cordiall...5/9/2013 8:05:32 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2122Former Vice President Dick Cheney suggested on Thursday that the GOP should subpoena former Secretary of State over the Republican-developed conspiracy regarding the deadly Benghazi attack on September 11th, 2012. And in the hours since Cheney made ...5/9/2013 3:05:32 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2119The Obama Administration is on the cusp of backing an FBI plan to radically adjust domestic surveillance laws in the United States, making it legal for law enforcement agencies to wiretap internet usage and web browsing behavior. To learn more about...5/9/2013 7:05:31 AMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2120Rush Limbaugh has had an ongoing dispute with the Cumulus Radio Network, which broadcasts his show. CEO Lew Dickey has repeatedly asserted that Limbaugh has crushed the network's ad sales, offending Limbaugh to the point where he has publicly consid...5/8/2013 8:05:30 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2121Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, who found himself caught up in an extramarital affair back in 2009 involving an Argentinian woman he's currently married to, managed to narrowly defeat Elizabeth Colbert Busch -- the older sister of famed ...5/8/2013 3:05:30 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2118On Tuesday, North Korea officially launched what they billed as “the largest cyber attack in the history of Asia” on the United States, with plans for repeated attacks all throughout the week. However, Pentagon officials say there's nothing to worry...5/8/2013 7:05:29 AMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2117A giant 6-foot tall talking fish, walking on what appeared to be fins that had somehow mutated into legs, uncomfortably waddled out before a gaggle of reporters today to address growing concerns over a nuclear power plan spill, and subsequent plant s...5/7/2013 8:56:25 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2116The Huffington Post officially launched “Huffington Post Japan” today, a new regional branch of their website which focuses on delivering new content to the people of the Land of the Rising Sun. We spoke with site owner and founder Arianna Huffingto...5/7/2013 3:05:30 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2114At the recent White House Press Correspondents' Dinner, President Obama showed a comedic clip starring Stephen Spielberg, Tracy Morgan, and the president himself, where he said he was being played by Daniel Day Lewis in a new movie about him. Obama ...5/7/2013 7:05:28 AMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2115On Friday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie killed a desk that crawed onto his desk while he was speaking with a group of school children. The story made some comedic headlines this weekend, and drew the typical ire from PETA, but today, Christie ...5/6/2013 8:48:42 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2113On Monday morning, President Barack Obama took to the White House Rose Garden to promote his newest plan to create jobs -- 535 of them, to be exact -- in the Washington DC area... by using constitutional loopholes to fire everyone in the House and Se...5/6/2013 3:05:26 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2112A new PTP/ PPP/ Reuters/ Gallop poll compiled this morning shows that a large majority of Americans would rather trust Casey Anthony as a babysitter for their own children than they'd trust congress to run the country. The stunning data doesn't bode...5/6/2013 7:05:26 AMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2111The city of Atlanta, Georgia is on lockdown today, with police, fire, FBI, NASA, and National Guard units hunting exhaustively for a dangerous killer robot unleashed on the world by cable news network CNN, which is headquartered in the city. Authori...5/5/2013 8:05:25 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2110On Saturday, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre found himself in the midst of yet another of his legendary controversies, after asking “how many Bostonians wished they had a gun two weeks ago?” And today, the NRA has hired a ballistics scie...5/5/2013 3:05:24 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2105An unidentified US official told Reuters this week that the number of names on a classified central database of suspected terrorists has skyrocketed in the past five years, from 540,000 potential terrorists to 875,000. State Department, Pentagon, FB...5/5/2013 7:05:24 AMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2109Former Vice President Dick Cheney was spotted in Wyoming today by a local newspaper reporter, who immediately raced over to ask him a few questions. Cheney, who typically only leaves his underground lair on the Equinox and when his stocks of virgin ...5/4/2013 10:34:57 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2108May 4th is known around the world as an unofficial “Star Wars” holiday, thanks to the similarity between the date and a popular phrase from the films (“May the fourth be with you”). But while millions celebrate the films and their legacy, troubled n...5/4/2013 3:53:25 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2107May 4th is celebrated by millions of “Star Wars” fans around the globe, and the United States Congress is no different. But sequester cuts had threatened to limit or even cancel Congress' plans to celebrate the beloved science fiction franchise... u...5/4/2013 7:05:23 AMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2106On Wednesday, South Carolina's State House passed a bill that declares President Barack Obama's signature health care legislation, the Affordable Care Act (known colloquially as “Obamacare”), “null and void,” while also making its implementation in t...5/3/2013 9:00:26 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2104It's official: Rhode Island is now the tenth state in the country to legalize gay marriage. The stunning news came just three days after Tim Hinkley, the only gay man in all of Rhode Island, came out to the other seven residents of his state. Ea...5/3/2013 3:05:21 PMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2102Draft legislation authored by House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) would subject the National Science Foundation's peer review process to politics, contradicting scientific method and putting a huge damper on the agencies research prog...5/3/2013 7:05:20 AMhttp://PardonThePundit.com/?ID=2103Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) recently introduced a bill in the House that would stop the United States Census Bureau from conducting practically any surveys at all, other than the decennial population count ordered by the Constitution. We sat down wi...5/2/2013 8:05:19 PM