Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:52:31 am
This is the moron whose ex-wife is suing him for more than $100,000 in unpaid child support, now attacking a veteran who lost both her legs in Iraq: Rep. Joe Walsh Blasts Double Amputee's Military Service, Says She's Not a 'True Hero'. YouTube Video Though he never joined the military himself, ...

Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:00:17 pm
I'm going to put the ramifications of the GOP's decision to strike down any portion of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare/HCR/Health Care Reform) that the Supreme Court leaves intact in the widely expected decision that is to be released tomorrow up front. Provisions that the GOP would eliminate, and which have ...

Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:57:43 pm
The far right religious fanatics of "Live Action" are pushing yet another "hidden camera" hit job on Planned Parenthood today, a hit job so obvious and inept that Planned Parenthood caught on to Live Action's sneaky activities more than a month ago. This time, the heavily edited video is supposed to ...

Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:11:30 am
A medical exam taken the day after George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin shows that Zimmerman had a "closed fracture" of his nose (which means the skin was not broken) and two cuts on the back of his head. And the autopsy results for Trayvon Martin show that he had ...

Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:25:22 pm
Where does GOP presumptive nominee Mitt Romney stand on foreign policy? That's a question that even his advisers are asking. He went and said that we shouldn't negotiate with the Taliban and that we should defeat the Taliban, even as many of his advisers and supporters are looking at a ...

Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:00:28 pm
The latest polling in Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum's home state, shows that Republican voters are now entering the "acceptance" stage, and are getting ready to bite the bullet and vote for Mitt Romney: Romney Takes the Lead in Pennsylvania. Mitt Romney's taken the lead in PPP's newest poll of Rick Santorum's ...

Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:14:00 am
Fox News anchor Heather Childers, who tweeted links to a radical right wing conspiracy website yesterday accusing Barack Obama of threatening to kill Chelsea Clinton and faking his birth certificate, has today set her Twitter account to protected. Meanwhile, LGF reader RadicalModerate took a look at "Godfather Politics," the site to ...

Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 5:59:35 pm
One of the weirdest reactionary things conservatives do is to gleefully waste energy to show those dumb liberals what they think of their "Earth Day" and "Earth Hour:" Turn on the Lights for Human Achievement Hour. Tonight, from 8:30 to 9:30, environmentalists will observe Earth Hour, turning off all their ...

Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 2:52:44 pm
YouTube Video A truly horrifying story from California: California Muslim Mother Beaten to Death, Left With Note Saying 'Go Back to Your Country'. I'm sure some will disagree with me, but I have no doubt that the climate of deranged xenophobia and anti-Muslim hatred built and fed by people like Newt Gingrich, ...

Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:22:00 pm
Rick Santorum has won the Oklahoma and Tennessee primaries, and he's now beginning his victory speech in Steubenville, Ohio, so here's another thread to discuss... Delegates won so far: Romney: 81 Gingrich: 34 Santorum: 25 Ron Paul: 0 (sorry, Paulians)

Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:08:13 am
The GOP's uterus inspection device Virginia isn't the only state in which Republicans are trying to pass vicious slut-shaming mandatory ultrasound laws, of course; the GOP is also pushing this misogynistic legislation in Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas, and now Pennsylvania. A bill that would require women to have an ultrasound at ...

Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:13:50 am
Male Republican religious fanatics in Idaho are now trying to pass a measure that would allow any employer to deny women contraception coverage, and once again seeking to equate contraception with abortion: Idaho Bill Targets Contraceptive Rules. Republican caveman Carlos BilbaoBOISE — A measure to allow Idaho employers to ignore ...

Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:37:00 am
First Lady Michelle Obama is helping raise money for the presidential campaign by doing photo sessions, at $5K a pop. This is completely standard practice, not unusual at all in an election season. But at Fox Nation, the official Fox News forum, it's the occasion for yet another deluge of vile ...

Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 3:57:34 pm
I just discovered this gem at YouTube, while searching for videos with Todd Rundgren -- the entire legendary 1981 Utopia concert from the Royal Oak in Detroit, just under an hour long. The band really kicked ass this night, and Todd's voice has never sounded better. I set this embedded video ...

Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 10:15:20 am
The Las Vegas Sun reports that voter turnout for the Nevada caucuses was very low, despite the Republican Party's constant fear-mongering and attacks on President Obama. Something's going wrong with the GOP strategy of demonization and Tea Party ultra-conservatism; I suspect the toxic atmosphere of the far right is beginning to ...

Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:29:55 pm
Komen Foundation CEO Karen Brinker may have denied that their decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood had anything to do with politics, but the religious right activists who've been waging a campaign against Planned Parenthood certainly think otherwise -- and today they're freaking over the Komen Foundation's apparent reversal: Religious ...

Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:48:23 pm
Looks like Nevada Republicans are starting to get used to the idea of holding their noses and taking their Mitt Romney medicine: Romney Poised to Roll, Poll Shows. A new poll shows Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney headed for a blowout victory Saturday in Nevada's GOP caucuses. Romney wins support from ...

Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:58:49 pm
Here's a thread to keep up on breaking news from the Florida GOP primary election. Currently, with 56% of the vote counted, it's 48% for Romney vs. 31% for Gingrich. It's going to be a landslide for Romney. UPDATE at 1/31/12 5:03:29 pm And that's it -- Associated Press just called the election ...

Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:24:18 pm
The latest poll from Quinnipiac University is even more bad news for Newt Gingrich: he's behind Mitt Romney in Florida now by 14 points. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has a 43 - 29 percent lead over former House Speaker Newt Gingrich among Republican likely voters in Florida, the nation's ...

Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:56:08 pm
Here's a lovely moment from last night's South Carolina primary, at Newt Gingrich's victory speech. Gingrich says, "Just think how radical he [Obama] would be in a second term," the crowd boos loudly, and someone yells "No more years!" And then, quite clearly, at 9:08 into this video, you hear another ...

Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:45:18 am
CNN commentator and right wing hate spewer Erick Erickson finally wrote something today with which I can agree wholeheartedly: The base is revolting... Absolutely! When a conservative audience boos gay soldiers, cheers for letting uninsured people die, cheers Newt Gingrich's blatant race-baiting, boos Juan Williams, and shouts "string him up" ...

Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 10:06:50 am
Newt Gingrich's appallingly overt race-baiting has paid off big-time in South Carolina, where the Confederate flag flies in front of the state Capitol building: Gingrich Is Well-Positioned as South Carolina Votes. Newt Gingrich, who had trailed Mitt Romney by a double-digit margin in South Carolina in several polls conducted just ...

Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:32:03 am
Andrew Breitbart crony and CNN commentator Dana Loesch defends herself against criticism of her comments supporting desecrating corpses by spewing insults at her critics and calling it "Correcting the Progressive Spin on My Defense of the Marines." Because in Loesch's twisted mind, only a "progressive" could possibly be appalled at US ...

Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:27:16 am
I can't figure out whether Rick Santorum is being really smart or really, really stupid here, but The Daily Caller's Jamie Weinstein is absolutely horrified: Santorum commits Republican sacrilege: Attacks Ronald Reagan. BRENTWOOD, N.H. — Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum committed one of the gravest sins in Republican politics on ...

Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:06:33 pm
Hate group leader Pamela Geller is losing it over Wordpress.com shutting down the "Bare Naked Islam" anti-Muslim blog: BNI SHUT DOWN AGAIN, HAMAS-TIED CAIR DOES VICTORY DANCE!!!!! - Atlas Shrugs. After ranting about the threats she has received (as if that somehow excuses threats against other people), Geller concludes her babbling ...