Author: George Vasilopoulos

Texas Governor Rick Perry has gotten glasses and some have speculated on an apparent increase to Perry’s book-learning credentials. Despite Perry’s new bookish, academic look, he is still so stupid. And a new pair of glasses won’t erase the memory of his tarnished and spectacular failure of a presidential campaign in 2012 and other dumb blabberings. Gov. Rick Perry has made a laughing stock of himself on so many occasions. His dull-witted drivel is enough to give Michele Bachmann a competitive run on the stupid thought expressway. Perry’s career in recent years has been one embarrassing quote after another....

By Mike Papantonio Aren’t you just a little bit tired of listening to Harry Reid and dozens of spineless Democrats talk about the threat of the nuclear option? I tried to count how many times we have been through this ridiculous scenario where the Democrats tell the rest of us that “they really are not bluffing this time”. With a straight face they tell us that they really are going to act like courageous adults, be responsible, and do what the hell we sent them to Washington to do and that is to legislate, make decisions, and make critical...

An $85 million wrongful death lawsuit that was filed today claims that the 2011 death of a Brooklyn man was caused because he drank Red Bull energy drinks. Cory Terry, 33, of Brooklyn, NY, died two years ago while playing basketball, less than an hour after he drank a Red Bull energy drink. Attorney Ilya Novofastovsky said in the suit that Red Bull downplays the effects and dangers of the many additives outside of caffeine that Red Bull has in its drinks. “Extra stimulants that make it different than a cup of coffee, said Novofastovsky. “[They] are more dangerous...

Last May, the Sunlight Foundation conducted a study that analyzed the grade level in which every person in Congress speaks. When the results came back, the Sunlight Foundation saw that not only did Congress, as a whole, drop an entire grade level, but that the bottom 10 were Republicans. The highest of the bottom 10 only scored ranked at an 8.6 grade level while the very bottom, held by then-freshman Congressman Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC), scored a 7.9 grade level. As a whole, Congress was speaking at an 11.5 grade level in 2005, then, at the time of the...