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since 2007, Carl Levin leads Senate oversight of the Pentagon and is at the forefront of the raging debate over the defense budget. Levin and Sen. John McCain, the committee's ranking member, agree that the $600 billion in military cuts set to take effect next year unless a new budget passes would be, in

passes would be, in Levin's words, "a train wreck." (Defense Secretary Panetta has preferred the more apocalyptic "doomsday mechanism.") But while McCain has proposed protecting the defense budget by reducing federal spending elsewhere, Levin has argued, "We should do something intelligent, which mea

hat won't be the case everywhere in the world." 11. Jon Stewart At a time when American news organizations have cut back their foreign presence, Jon Stewart's Daily Show has only increased its attention to world affairs, with analysis of the financial crisis in Greece ("a country whose whole language is w

llenger Mitt Romney had accused him of a "lack of leadership" and a "policy of paralysis." During the last month, Obama may have been responding to John McCain, Lindsay Graham and other Republicans who attacked him for showing weakness toward Putin and in the Ukraine. These critics advocated even louder s

ast month, Obama may have been responding to John McCain, Lindsay Graham and other Republicans who attack

ch of the censors and bureaucratic joke collectors. The weekly satirical television show presented by Bassem Youssef — who has been called Egypt's Jon Stewart — is evidence of this change. For a year, Mr. Youssef ridiculed President Mohamed Morsi. After the ouster of Mr. Morsi, Mr. Youssef turned his atte

acted as though his advocacy of age-appropriate sex education for kindergarteners meant putting condoms on cucumbers. That didn’ t work, either. Then John McCain tried calling him a_ “socialist.” Also didn’ t work. Ironically, Socialist Party candidate Norman Thomas ran for president six times, and never won,

g, which lampooned Obama’ s victory. Co-creator Trey Parker explained, “We’ re just going HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015320 to make the Obama version, and if McCain somehow wins, we’ re basically just totally screwed.” Likewise, Garry Trudeau gambled that Obama would win, and his syndicated Doonesbury strip--publ

tivists by having celebrities come out of the pot-smoking closet. Already, veteran stand-up comic George Carlin—in an interview by 7he Daily Show’ s Jon Stewart following Carlin’ s HBO special—admitted that HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015299 he smokes a joint to help him “fine-tune” his material. “One hit is all | need

n Quinn, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation." The Tribune adds, "It's unclear what agents were looking for when they searched McClain's house in Quincy, which is about 100 miles west of Springfield along the Mississippi River," but "the search warrant indicates that federal investi

agreement to hold a vote next week on legislation extending a victims compensation fund for 9/11 workers, following an emotional appeal by comedian Jon Stewart and first responders." Senate Majority Leader McConnell's office "said that the vote will take place on or before next Wednesday and that the Senate