It’s fallen to The Daily Show’s JON STEWART, of all people, to make an issue of the failure to pass the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which would provide needed funds to victims of the environmental and health hazards at Ground Zero.. He basically turned his show over to it last night.

It’s been about seven or eight hours now, so it is high time to render a final, definitive verdict: Has the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” succeeded? Or failed? Has sanity indeed been restored? The answer is.. no. Clearly, the entire enterprise has been an utter debacle of utterly debaculous proportions. [...]

Just wow. I had a tremendous time today at the Rally to Restore Sanity. The crowd was huge and entirely friendly. There were lots of creative signs, but people were very polite and lowered their signs when asked once the rally started. I did smell a little weed in the air now and then and saw a few folks sitting on top of traffic signals. The musical guests were tremendous. By inviting Muslims Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Yusuf (formerly Cat Stevens) to take part in the rally, Stewart did a nice job of putting faces to Muslims as opposed to fanning the flames of hatred by stating all Muslims are terrorists.

The most disturbing moment of John Stewart’s interview with President Obama was when Obama claimed the soon-to-exit director of the National Economic Council, Larry Summers, had done a “Heckuva Job.” It was a statement both profoundly wrong and politically stupid. On so many levels, it was an awful thing to say just days before the election. It is a moment that has honestly made me question Obama’s judgment and basic intelligence.

I was on MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan show at 4pm EDT discussing Barack Obama’s appearance on the Daily Show. There were some claims made about the impact of the health care bill that are, at best, obfuscations.

What the president cannot seem to grasp is that people now hear his words—poetry or prose—in the context of their lives. And when Obama tells his one-time supporters that he has gotten 90 percent of what he wanted, those people have to wonder if what the president wants and what they want is still (or was ever) the same thing.

With just 8 days til Election Day and a neck-and-neck race for Prop 19, every minute counts to get out the vote for legalizing marijuana in California. In order to get these young voters to the polls, Just Say Now is organizing a Prop 19 Day of Action to take place across the country on Saturday, October 30.

In an attempt to decry bigotry, Rick Sanchez proves what a bigot he really is.

The best political organizers in America who aren’t getting Koch money happen to be Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Lady Gaga.

It’s ultimately a sad, adolescent view of manhood — Christians as macho soldiers — that reduces men to testosterone-fueled, war-fighting machines.