Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:19:12 pm
Unless I passed out under an enchanted tree and have been sleeping for decades without knowing, this is the year 2012, right? AD? So why are we still fighting over contraception? The controversy over the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation’s decision to eliminate funding to Planned Parenthood—and subsequent reversal— ...

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 25, 2012 at 8:55:50 pm
Creationism, that zombie of the American political scene, rises again -- this time in Indiana: An Indiana Senate committee on Wednesday endorsed teaching creationism in public schools, despite pleas from scientists and religious leaders to keep religion out of science classrooms. Senate Bill 89 allows school corporations to authorize "the teaching ...

Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 4:14:55 pm
With all the focus on Newt Gingrich's race-baiting and "big ideas," one thing that hasn't gotten much notice yet: his outrageous anti-Muslim statements. There's a reason why Newt was scheduled to speak at hate group leader Pamela Geller's "Ground Zero Mosque" demonstration in New York, and there's a reason why she ...

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

Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:33:08 am
Jim "Dim" Hoft and company are upset that "Bare Naked Islam" has been taken down after a CAIR complaint and FBI investigation. (Note: I'm not a big fan of CAIR as they also have a history of hyper-sensitivity, some bad associations, and in the past they sent the FBI after ...

Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:16:48 am
The so-called "counter-jihad" bloggers are covering themselves in glory again, slobbering and ranting and trying to take advantage of a terrible crime to advance their un-American agenda. Same bigotry, different day. This time they've seized on a story about a man in Texas who killed six members of his own family on ...

Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:06:14 pm
This afternoon, MSNBC ran an above the fold photo showing a Navy sailor kissing her partner as the first sailor off their ship. That, by itself isn't particularly newsworthy. Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta, left, kisses her girlfriend of two years, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell, at Joint ...

Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:10:44 pm
In New Hampshire today, Ron Paul denied that he had anything to do with the blatantly racist newsletters sent out by his organization in the 1990s, despite undeniable evidence to the contrary: Ron Paul Denies Writing Past Newsletters Featuring Racial Slurs. "Everybody knows I didn't write them," Paul said during ...

Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:56:52 pm
In a town hall meeting in Iowa, Rick Perry was confronted by audience members over his support for the environmental disaster of "fracking" and his opposition to gays serving openly in the military. It's a picture of determined right wing ignorance again; Perry completely denied the scientific evidence that fracking can ...

Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 6:11:55 pm
How do you know when the Iowa Caucuses are approaching? When Mormon Mitt Romney starts sounding like Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Santorum, all rolled into one ranting Christian fundamentalist: Romney talks 'war on religion' in Iowa. "I know there are some people who would like to make this nation ...

Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:26:31 pm
Rick Santorum is infamous as one of the most determined religious fanatics in US politics, an activist who believes Christian creationism should be taught to all American children in science classes, and a persistent Republican advocate for injecting fundamentalist Christian religion into the political process at every level. Speaking at the ...

Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:56:13 am
Rick Perry's sick new campaign ad is chock full of gay-hatred and phony fundamentalist victimhood, trashing gay troops while attacking President Obama and "liberals" for a nonexistent "war on religion." What a disgusting campaign this is. I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian, but you don't need to ...

Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:09:37 pm
We have a terrorism arrest tonight, another case in which the suspect was under surveillance the whole time: Bloomberg announces arrest of terror suspect. New York (CNN) -- Authorities have arrested a man they claim was plotting to detonate pipe bombs, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday night. The Manhattan ...

Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 9:54:35 am
Perhaps we have become so numb to the political circus by now that we don't notice the extreme, but the Saturday November 19th GOP Presidential candidate Thanksgiving Family Forum (not really a "debate") in Iowa was more about religious identity than anything to do with Presidential responsibilities or the practice ...

Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:04:08 am
Anti-Muslim demagogues Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer have expressed their unqualified support for the fascist English Defence League on many occasions, despite the EDL's frequently violent demonstrations and the presence of many outright neo-Nazis among their ranks. Yesterday in Britain, police arrested nearly 200 members of the EDL for planning to ...

Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 4:38:13 pm
In the October 14th episode of his radio show, Rush Limbaugh defended the Ugandan terrorist group calling itself the Lord's Resistance Army, portraying the LRA as Christians targeted by President Obama for being Christian, and defending the agitprop of the LRA by reading it as gospel. Only at the very last ...

Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:39:52 pm
Here we go again. Based on a (probably deliberate) misreading of a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks, the right wing media are having yet another attack of the vapors. Linked at Drudge Report: Apologies Not Accepted - Investors.com. Leaked cables show Japan nixed a presidential apology to Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...

Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:50:21 pm
This is a test. Take notes. This will count as 3/4 of your final grade. Hints: remember, in chess, kings cancel each other out and cannot occupy adjacent squares, are therefore all-powerful and totally powerless, cannot affect each other, produce stalemate. Hinduism is a polytheistic religion; the sect of Atman ...

Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:25:37 am
The topics of creationism and evolution are always popular among the American media, of all types, and for good reason as the American population is split over their acceptance of modern science. Thus conflict of opinion arises when discussing these issues and this draws attention, as we've ...

Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 7:05:55 pm
Ann Coulter has always been willing to take the crazy rhetoric one step farther, and now she's coming out as the champion of right wing American creationism: LIBERALS' VIEW OF DARWIN UNABLE TO EVOLVE!!! Intelligent design scientists look at the evidence and develop their theories; Darwinists start with a theory ...

Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:27:41 pm
From NPR's Fresh Air, here's an excellent in-depth investigation into the ideology of the New Apostolic Reformation, the movement of extreme right wing Protestant Christians that is deeply involved in the Republican Party and this presidential campaign: The New Apostolic Reformation: The Evangelicals Engaged In Spiritual Warfare. [Audio] On Wednesday's Fresh ...

Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 6:38:15 pm
The latest attempt by creationists to get their nonsensical beliefs afforded special protection in public schools has been struck down by a federal appeals court: US judges rule in favor of teacher who called creationism 'superstitious nonsense'. A public high school teacher in California may not be sued for making ...

Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:33:13 pm
Steve Benen makes a good point here, about Rick Perry's statement that "in Texas we teach both creationism and evolution in our public schools:" Perry may have no idea what goes on in Texas’ public schools, but if they’re teaching “both creationism and evolution,” they’re violating the law. It’s not ...

Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:40:31 am
This needs to get much more attention: Rick Perry is the most overt creationist in a political party that's completely dominated by a crazed rejection of science. Here he is in New Hampshire, telling a young boy that evolution is just "another theory that's out there," and "in Texas, we teach ...