Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:46:48 pm
Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths: [Item List] -- Will Durant, Declaration of Interdependence

Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:54:46 am
Don Black, head racist of the hate site Stormfront, makes it clear that for many years Ron Paul appealed directly to the white supremacist subculture: Stormfront Founder Don Black Says White Supremacists Thought Ron Paul Was 'One of Us'. Ron Paul posing with Don & Derek Black at the 2007 ...

Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:44:12 am
On page A1 of the New York Times today: Ron Paul Disowns Extremists' Views but Doesn't Disavow the Support. (It's more accurate to say that Ron Paul currently says he disowns these views, after promulgating them for decades.) [Don] Black of Stormfront said the newsletters helped make him a Ron Paul ...

Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:37:03 am
Hateblogger Pamela Geller is nothing if not persistent; in fact, she's the Energizer Bunny of anti-Muslim hate speech, and her utterly hilarious Butterball conspiracy theory is still going! Now she's accusing them of a "cover up." Wingnut comedy like this is impossible to write; only the authentically insane can maintain the ...

Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 3:53:02 pm
Time lapse sequences of photographs taken with a special low-light 4K-camera by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011. HD, refurbished, smoothed, retimed, denoised, deflickered, cut, etc. Music: Jan Jelinek | Do Dekor, faitiche back2001 w+p by Jan Jelinek, published by ...

Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:52:22 am
Here's a good piece by Michelle Goldberg on the relentless attempt by the right wing hate machine to smear Occupy Wall Street as "antisemitic:" Occupy Wall Street Isn't Anti-Semitic, But It's Too Leaderless. One of the curses of left-wing politics is the perennial presence of International ANSWER, a front group ...

Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:53:40 pm
US officials announced today that they have foiled an Iranian-backed terrorist plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington DC. At a news conference, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said two Iranians have been charged with conspiracy to murder a foreign official and conspiracy to commit an act of ...

Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 3:46:51 pm
Nicholas Kristof makes some good points about the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, especially on its lack of clearly stated goals: The Bankers and the Revolutionaries. To address that lack, Kristof has some suggestions: Impose a financial transactions tax. This would be a modest tax on financial trades, modeled on the suggestions ...

Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:47:15 am
Recently, Christopher Horner at the far-right American blog, Big Government, blogged that the FDA ban on asthma medication containing CFCs was the result of "Obama's FDA." Some of which he writes in Breathless: FDA Bans Asthma Medication: Then, as no Leftist idea is complete without a dash of self-contradicting demagoguery, ...

Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:35:43 pm
A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, ...

Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 6:30:13 pm
Muammar Gaddafi's son suddenly makes a dramatic entrance: The dramatic appearance Monday night of Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam at the Rixos hotel, where the Tripoli-based press corps remains trapped, contradicted the rebels’ assertion the day before that they had captured him and cast into doubt their claim of controlling 80 ...

Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 1:45:01 pm
By now you've probably heard about Oslo terrorist Anders Behring Breivik's "manifesto," a 1,516-page screed with some writing by Breivik, but mostly consisting of quotes and articles by "counter-jihad" bloggers and similar right wing sources. (You can find it on the web if you really want to read it; I won't ...

Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:13:07 am
Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive for Rupert Murdoch's News International, is now testifying in Parliament -- here's live video from Britain's Channel 4: Video

Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:57:43 am
In the ever-widening Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive for Murdoch's News International who resigned on Friday, was arrested today in London. Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World and allegations that police officers were ...

Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:59:13 am
Wow -- the Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal just keeps getting more outrageous, as news emerges that this criminal enterprise actually tried to hack into the phone records of British prime minister Gordon Brown: News International papers targeted Gordon Brown. Journalists from across News International repeatedly targeted the former prime ...

Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:53:08 am
Pamela Geller has released a ludicrous attempt to distance herself from the extreme right wing English Defence League, the violent gang of racists and neo-Nazis that she's been defending as "true patriots:" EDL Shake-up - Atlas Shrugs I was an early supporter of the EDL. I liked who they were ...

Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:25:26 pm
Here's a classic example of the bizarre reality-denying cognitive dissonance of right wing climate change deniers. In the Minnesota State Senate, one of the loudest voices against accepting the scientific reality of climate change is Michael Jungbauer, who's known for making grand pronouncements about "not being convinced" by the science, and ...

Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:30:29 am
It's become both an article of faith and a litmus test for conservatives to claim that global warming is a "hoax," presumably staged by evil scientists bent on world domination. This incredibly dangerous ostrich-like thinking is nearly universal on the right wing and in the Republican Party, and yesterday we ...

Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:28:58 pm
For a change of pace from the nasty details of Anthony Weiner's creepy "sexting" and Andrew Breitbart's creepy lies, here's a simply gorgeous video released today by NASA, shot by astronauts aboard a Soyuz spacecraft that had just undocked from the International Space Station. Looks so nice and clean up there. ...

Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:00:01 pm
"Muslims killed themselves in Yugoslavia" Remember when Muslim-hating demagogue Robert Spencer wrote a totally dishonest piece for the Guardian to run interference for his crony Pamela Geller, claiming (among numerous other lies and evasions) that she doesn't support murderous war criminals like Slobodan Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic? Today, Pamela Geller crossed ...

Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:55:46 am
Former ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, often touted as the most "moderate" of the possible Republican presidential candidates, told George Stephanopoulos this morning that he's fully on board with the GOP's plan to kill Medicare. George Stephanopoulos: How about Congressman Paul Ryan and (the) budget? Former Speaker Gingrich had some ...

Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:23:48 am
In three short paragraphs about President Obama's speech this morning, the Associated Press warps the story beyond recognition: Obama says Palestine must be based in 1967 borders. WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is endorsing the Palestinians' demand for their future state to be based on the borders that existed before ...

Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:27:10 am
He's a "chimpanzee in heat," well-known by his French nickname "chaud lapin" (hot rabbit), and he's also the chief overseer of the global financial system: French writer describes 2002 grab-and-grope by Dominique Strauss-Kahn. IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn acted like a "chimpanzee in heat" during a creepy previous grab-and-grope with a ...

Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:21:05 pm
If nothing else, Ron Paul is certainly consistent, if by "consistent" you mean "fanatically dedicated to extreme right wing libertarian ideology:" Ron Paul Says He Wouldn't Have Ordered Bin Laden Raid. In an interview with Iowa radio station WHO, the likely GOP presidential candidate said "things could have been done ...

Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:48:38 pm
Christopher Hitchens writes today that the killing of Osama bin Laden won't mean very much if the United States continues doing business as usual with Pakistan: Osama Bin Laden's legacy: It will depend in part on what Obama does next. There are several pleasant little towns like Abbottabad in Pakistan, ...