Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 6:43:38 pm
Today I witnessed one of the most evil and dishonest right wing propaganda efforts I've ever seen, and that's really saying something. The false story spread from Jim Hoft to Drudge Report to Fox News within hours, and now a Texas community has been robbed of a huge economic benefit ...

Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:20:17 am
Today, MSNBC's Ronan Farrow published an opinion piece in the Washington Post calling on companies like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to do more to stop terrorists from inciting violence. To make his case, Farrow cited the incitements to genocide by Rwandan media that led to a horrific bloodbath 20 years ...

Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 6:15:17 pm
So, over the weekend this happened: a sitting Republican governor in a major state openly advocated sedition against the US government. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Saturday night accused President Barack Obama and other Democrats of waging wars against religious liberty and education and said that a ...

Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 6:54:03 pm
Submitted without comment. 'Soccer: Official Sport of Terrorism': Why is it you never hear of baseball hooligans? http://t.co/63HgvDxjIL — National Review (@NRO) June 16, 2014 UPDATE at 6/16/14 7:06:00 pm Threat Level Red - Soccer Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:07:14 am
Getty Image A picture taken with a mobile phone shows uniforms reportedly belonging to Iraqi security forces scattered on the road on June 10, 2014, after hundreds of militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) launched a major assault on the security forces in Mosul, some ...

Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:13:54 am
The Wall Street Journal has some excerpts from a bizarre pseudo-libertarian essay written by Tea Party heartthrob Dave Brat, warning that Hitler's Rise 'Could All Happen Again'. Raise your hand if you're shocked that a Tea Party religious fundamentalist employs confused Nazi Germany comparisons to market victimhood. But also notice that ...

Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:50:16 am
They do it every time -- whenever a high profile public figure is caught uttering racist comments, or a whenever a sociopath commits mass murder, the entire right wing media machine immediately starts searching through public records to see if that person ever, in his or her entire life, donated ...

Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 9:55:31 am
The gays are going to force us all into tolerating them, Or kill us. Or tolerance-camp us. Something that requires a pre-emptive strike by the forces of decency...which will coincidentally take the form of policing the population for gayness, criminalizing gayness, and maybe forced reparitive therapy...in camps. And the occasional ...

Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:17:55 am
Yesterday, this happened: creationist Texas Governor Rick Perry came out strongly in favor of letting prison rape continue unabated. "I will not sign your form and I will encourage my fellow governors to follow suit," Perry wrote in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, the first governor to make ...

Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 10:11:48 am
Ladies and gentlemen, the political genius of 23-year old Suey Park: #CancelColbert Activist Suey Park: "This Is Not Reform, This Is Revolution". What is the best way to work with white people, to get them on our side? I don't want them on our side. You don't want them on your side. This ...

Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:03:54 am
Image via Shutterstock Another awful Supreme Court decision today extends the Citizens United disaster and further erodes America's political system by striking down aggregate limits on campaign contributions; according to the new ruling, wealthy individuals may now contribute as much as $3.6 million to a single politician. The decision -- written ...

Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 6:17:50 pm
YouTube Hateful and even violent speech is familiar online; what's unusual are data-driven efforts to diminish them. Experiments so far have produced intriguing results including: some 'trolls' recant or apologize in response to counterspeech, and small changes in platform architecture can improve online discourse norms. In this talk Susan Benesch ...

Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:36:26 pm
Here's the official statement from the White House on today's Crimean referendum to secede from Ukraine: THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 16, 2014 The United States has steadfastly supported the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Ukraine since it declared its independence in 1991, and we ...

Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:01:35 pm
This image and others like it are making the rounds within conservative and other Tea Party-affiliated social media. Rightwing meme on race In favor of accuracy, below is a fact-check on each of these points: Who started the KKK? Nathan Bedford Forrest, a former Confederate Lieutenant General and war criminal (Fort Pillow massacre). He ...

Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:22:58 pm
Via Business Insider, here's the full text of US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power's strong statement on Russia and Ukraine, from today's meeting of the Security Council. Thank you Madam President. Listening to the representative of Russia, one might think that Moscow had just become the rapid response arm ...

Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:54:54 pm
[Live statement concluded... the discussion continues in our comments.] UPDATE at 2/28/14 3:05:23 pm A transcript of the President's remarks: STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT ON UKRAINE James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 5:05 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Over the last several days, the United States has been responding to events as they ...

Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 5:45:40 pm
Huge demonstration in Caracas, Venezuela, Feb. 22, 2014 I'm not really sure why President Maduro thinks having his officials negotiate with President Obama is going to solve his problems with his own people. CARACAS, Venezuela -- Massive demonstrations by opponents and supporters of President Nicolas Maduro were underway Saturday in central ...

Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 8:13:33 pm
Everything the wingnuts feared would happen as a result of gay marriage is now coming true. After 15 years together, Lisa Nelson has decided to marry Steel Spokes, her beloved bicycle. The next day, the Spokes shall depart on a six-month bicycle touring honeymoon. On March 2, 2014, the ...

Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 5:44:57 pm
Vimeo This film follows the ancient cycle of sunset, to night, to sunrise. A continuous loop of perpetual movement that has been unbroken since the dawn of time, and the only true constant in our lives. I shot this film over 12 days around the San Pedro de Atacama region ...

Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:13:32 am
On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the Mighty Glenn Greenwald wasted no time trying to co-opt the legacy of MLK for his anti-US propaganda campaign: MLK's Vehement Condemnations of US Militarism Are More Relevant Than Ever. The subtitle, in case you missed the animus: "His vital April 4, 1967 speech is ...

Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 9:40:30 am
Here's the complete speech on proposed NSA reforms given by President Obama today, for the record. As Prepared for Delivery - At the dawn of our Republic, a small, secret surveillance committee born out of the "The Sons of Liberty" was established in Boston. The group's members included Paul Revere, and at ...

Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:05:01 pm
Jim Garrow has decided the only way to stop the Obama regime is a military coup. Jim Garrow brought his tall tale about President Obama trying to murder him to The Pete Santilli Show on Friday, where he also plugged the anti-Obama Operation American Spring. Santilli, the radio host who ...

Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 5:26:50 pm
Vimeo Making "Cycle" was an amazing experience. it was created for the Israeli contest Maratoon 2013, in which we were giving five days to create a short animation from start to finish on the subject of bicycle. "Cycle" won second place! We are very thankful and happy that we had ...

Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:06:39 am
I mentioned in a comment to LGF Reader Randall Gross' page on the religious right and Nelson Mandela that the late Jerry Falwell stuck his foot in his mouth big time back in 1985 when he urged Congress to block sanctions against the Apartheid regime and called Bishop Desmond Tutu ...

Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:08:30 am
After becoming a right wing hero for killing a black teenager, George Zimmerman has now been arrested three times since his acquittal: George Zimmerman Arrested Again. WESH-Channel 2 reported that Zimmerman was accused of domestic violence by a girlfriend. The Sheriff's Office, in a short news release, reported that the agency ...