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Calif. GOP Leader Says Offensive Obama Email Sender Should Resign

FULLERTON, Calif. -- The head of Orange County's Republican Party is vowing to keep up the pressure on a local GOP official to resign for sending an offensive email about President Barack Obama. "This issue will not go away until she has taken 100 percent responsibility for sending out a racist email that offended...

The Lighter Side of WikiLeaks

(Dec. 7) -- When it comes to WikiLeaks, not every news story about the whistle-blower group has to be so doom and gloom. As the general public clings to each new development in the ongoing Julian Assange saga, the lighthearted among us can't help but poke a little fun at the recent WikiLeaks uproar. What better than...

SNL Skit a Warning for Obama?

(Nov. 23) - It's always been a good sign for "Saturday Night Live" when people are still talking about the show on Monday morning. That's happening more often now that the venerable comedy program is sharpening its satire of President Barack Obama. This weekend's show opened with a parody of Obama's news conference with...

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02/24/12 1935 Carnival Police Notice should be interpreted in... Source: The Malta Independent Online Historian Henry Frendo was glad to hear the news that political satire in Carnival is not banned at law but pointed out that the Police Notice to which Minister de Marco referred on Monday should be interpreted in the context of the time when it was issued.
01/05/12 Political satire Source: UDaily - Univ of Delaware - Newark DE 3:16 p.m., Jan. 5, 2012-- Daily Show viewers are deep.

Background on political satire

Political satire is a significant part of satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics; it has also been used with subversive intent where political speech and dissent are forbidden by a regime, as a method of advancing political arguments where such arguments are expressly forbidden.

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