Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:36:35 am
Following up on Rick Santorum's new job at the conspiracy website World Net Daily, and his absolutely insane fear-mongering column about the UN treaty on the rights of the disabled, heartless Republican bastards in the Senate rejected the treaty today -- even with Bob Dole making a special appearance in ...

Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:10:19 pm
NPR has details: U.N. Votes to Give Palestinians 'Non-Member Observer State' Status. Exactly 65 years after the General Assembly, convened at Lake Success, New York, voted to divide Palestine between a Jewish state and an Arab one, the same body voted 138 to 9 in favor of recognizing the State ...

Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:40:58 pm
• Exhibit A: Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney with hate group leader Pamela Geller Mitt Romney and Pamela Geller About Pamela Geller: Pamela Geller is the anti-Muslim movement's most visible and flamboyant figurehead. She's relentlessly shrill and coarse in her broad-brush denunciations of Islam and makes preposterous claims, such as that President ...

Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:28:47 pm
Finally -- a poll Fox News and the Right Wing Unison Blogosphere will like. From CNN, keeping that horse race alive: Washington (CNN) – Two days before the first presidential debate, a new national survey indicates a very close contest between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney in ...

Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:28:15 am
Another day, another poll that right wingers will claim is "skewed" -- because the results are absolutely horrible news for Mitt Romney: Presidential Swing States (FL, OH & PA) Poll * September 26, 2012 * Obama Has Big Leads in Florida - Quinnipiac University. [Item List] President Barack Obama is ...

Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:04:39 pm
The latest wingnut outrageous outrage revolves around President Obama's use of the phrase "bumps in the road," while speaking about the road to democracy and peace in the Middle East and the Arab Spring during an interview on 60 Minutes last night. "I think it was absolutely the right thing ...

Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:40:11 am
In the wake of protests and riots as well as a terror attack against the US consulate in Libya that resulted in dozens of casualties and the death of US Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans ostensibly over a video denigrating Islam and the prophet Mohammed, a French satire magazine ...

Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:14:34 am
Jeffrey Goldberg has been trying to track down "Sam Bacile," the producer of the anti-Muslim film that precipitated the attack on the US's Libyan embassy, and this story is really beginning to smell bad now: Muhammad Film Consultant: 'Sam Bacile' Is Not Israeli, and Not a Real Name. As part ...

Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:39:54 am
Here's the schedule for today's festivities at the Democratic National Convention, following Michelle Obama's brilliant speech last night. 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (LOCAL) Call to Order The Honorable Antonio R. Villaraigosa Chair of the 2012 Democratic National Convention Committee Mayor of Los Angeles, California Invocation Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, 10th Episcopal District First Woman Elected Bishop ...

Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:14:10 pm
Lance Armstrong dropped his fight against doping charges tonight: Lance Armstrong called it quits late Thursday in his battle to end an investigation by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, a move that will most likely mean a lifetime ban for the seven-time Tour de France champion. And an AP breaking news ...

Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:22:43 pm
Click to enlarge President Barack Obama runs around his desk in the Oval Office with Sarah Froman, daughter of Nancy Goodman and Mike Froman, Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics, July 9, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:15:30 pm
The latest national CNN/ORC International survey is not good news for Mitt Romney; his unfavorable rating has jumped to 48%, and President Obama now has a 7-point lead. It all adds up to a seven point advantage for President Barack Obama over the former Massachusetts governor, with 52% of registered ...

Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:57:17 pm
Drought via Shutterstock Environmental scientist Robert J. Brulle has an op-ed in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, calling for the environmental movement to redouble its efforts to move climate change onto the presidential agenda, and criticizing the irresponsible behavior of both candidates as the climate continues to heat up: Conspiracy of ...

Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:38:35 am
Mitt Romney's trip to Britain is not exactly going swimmingly: Mitt Romney Rebuked by David Cameron in London Visit. Mr Romney Goes to London: barely having exited the threshold of the prime minister's residence, the American candidate blurts that he is now in the club with British intelligence. For our American ...

Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:53:05 pm
Read it all here. Mitt Romney's Bain Capital duped New Mexico more than a decade ago when it set up a Silver City call center, promising more than 1,000 local jobs, only to have it close just two and half years later in a wave of outsourcing, laying off almost ...

Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:21:47 pm
One of the big questions about Mitt Romney's association with Bain Capital is answered by his own 2002 testimony: Mitt Romney's Own 2002 Testimony Undermines Bain Departure Claim. WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney's repeated claim that he played no part in executive decision-making related to Bain after 1999 is false, according ...

Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:49:00 pm
We haven't had one of these posts in a while, not because the hate mail has dried up, but because it's usually so unimaginative and dull. But here's one that pretty much lays bare the deranged bigotry of the anti-Muslim crowd, in a few quick sentences dripping with vitriol. Tonight's bigot ...

Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:17:14 am
Kudos to Gov. Bill Haslam and his administration for not caving to the bigot brigades. Sadly, the Governor will probably now be labeled a RINO and accused of being connected (or at least sympathetic) to the Muslim Brotherhood. Added emphasis mine. Samar AliTea party and anti-Muslim activists are taking aim ...

Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:43:22 pm
Text of the Platform here First off, they decide to disregard any Supreme Court decisions they disagree with: We disagree with Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs. Bolton as 'settled law.' Under the Tenth amendment, these Supreme Court decisions have no authority over the states. They're on board with nullification: We ...

Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:46:34 pm
Another ugly story just coming out of Afghanistan today: photos of a disturbing incident involving US Army troops in 2010. The paratroopers had their assignment: Check out reports that Afghan police had recovered the mangled remains of an insurgent suicide bomber. Try to get iris scans and fingerprints for identification. The ...

Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:26:11 pm
National Review writer John Derbyshire has outdone himself this time. This article at TakiMag.com (more on this later) is his version of "the talk" black parents have with their children to warn them about the existence of racism -- and it's overtly racist, paranoid, and frankly deranged: The Talk: Nonblack ...

Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:08:45 pm
You know all that rhetoric about "race war" that's showing up at Breitbart.com and many other right wing sites these days? It's not just rhetoric. There are some people in Sanford, Florida right now who are taking it very seriously indeed: Armed Neo-Nazis Now Patrolling Sanford, Say They Are 'Prepared' ...

Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:49:24 pm
The Girl Scouts are a tactical arm of Planned Parenthood? You could have fooled me -- and millions of other families who have had their kids go through the Girl Scout programs over the decades since it was founded. Yet, Indiana Republican, Rep. Bob Morris of Fort Wayne, claims to have ...

Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 11:22:00 am
Anti-Muslim hate group leader Pamela Geller has seized on the murder of a 20-year old Muslim woman in Michigan, labeled it an "honor killing," and is now planning to hold a "conference" using the murdered woman's name -- against the wishes of the woman's family, and even though both the ...

Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:26:42 pm
One of the ways Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and the other anti-Muslim demagogues of the right give themselves a false air of legitimacy is by constantly forming and re-forming new "organizations," always with lofty-sounding announcements about their noble mission to save the world from the evil Islamic hordes. For example, ...