Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 6:21:00 pm
Apparently this is a "first stage agreement," whatever that means: French Foreign Minister: Iran Nuclear Deal Reached. GENEVA (AP) -- The French foreign minister says Iran and six world powers have reached a first-stage agreement on curbing Iran's nuclear program in return for sanctions relief. Laurent Fabius gave no details as ...

Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:11:58 pm
I'll forego the temptation to say "what took you so long:" Google's Eric Schmidt Announces New Blocks on Child Porn. Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt has outlined how his company is introducing new measures to block child pornography from appearing in its searches. Schmidt explained the changes to Google's search ...

Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:09:52 pm
Yes, you read that correctly: puppy bombs. If you saw the headline and actually believed it for a second, then your bullshit detector is probably in serious need of a tune-up. Think about it for a minute--the Muslim Brotherhood soaked puppies in gasoline so they could lob them at the ...

Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 10:32:24 am
Hard to believe it was only a few days ago that activist Glenn Greenwald said this on CNN: It's definitely not the case that every country mass, bulk collects the communications of millions of innocent people... Because today, Greenwald's former employer The Guardian pretty much destroys Greenwald's dishonest claim: GCHQ ...

Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:29:22 am
French newspaper LeMonde is reporting today that NSA officials were not lying when they said the recent stories about NSA data collection in France and Spain were "completely false:" Surveillance: DGSE transmitted the data to the American NSA (Google Translate). According to our information, collected from a senior official of ...

Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 5:46:07 pm
Russian hosts of the Group of 20 summit near St. Petersburg in September sent world leaders home with gifts designed to keep on giving: memory sticks and recharging cables programmed to spy on their communications, two Italian newspapers reported Tuesday. A Kremlin spokesman denied the allegations reported by Il Corriere ...

Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:32:16 am
If you want people to believe that the Affordable Care Act is the worst thing since slavery, maybe it's not a good idea to wave a freaking Confederate flag at your White House protest. The symbolism is beyond appalling: the first black President of the United States protested with the ...

Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:28:26 am
Here we go again in Kansas, where Republicans are trying to use the "religious freedom" ploy to get their creationist nonsense into public school science classes: Anti-Evolution Group Sues to Block Kansas School Science Standards. This is the Republican Party in 2013: ignorant, reactionary anti-science religious fanatics, and proud of it. ...

Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 2:48:02 pm
Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman wrote Monday that the president had been indicted Sept. 18 by a citizens grand jury in Ocala, Fla., and convicted by a people's court of defrauding voters by using a false birth certificate to prove his eligibility for office. Klayman said Obama waived his right ...

Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:38:46 am
YouTube Republican representatives Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), and Steve King (R-Iowa) held a press conference last week in Egypt, praising and thanking the Egyptian military for a July 3 ouster of what Bachmann called the "common enemy" Muslim Brotherhood. Via the Washington Post's Max Fisher comes video of the ...

Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:48:47 pm
Tony Perkins, leader of the hate group Family Research Council, has a brilliant suggestion for funding the Syrian bombing campaign - strip it from Obamacare: After Jordan insisted that the GOP-led House should strip funding from Obamacare by using the budget and debt ceiling debates as leverage, the Religious Right ...

Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 11:03:06 am
Declared goals and specific limits are what past policy has been missing. Well, here it is. Whereas, on August 21, 2013, the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack in the suburbs of Damascus, Syria, killing more than 1,000 innocent Syrians; Whereas these flagrant actions were in violation of international ...

Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:36:47 am
Kick back and enjoy the crazy, because there's boatloads when these certifiable whackadoodles get together! Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) filled in for Tony Perkins on the Family Research Council's Washington Watch radio program yesterday where he interviewed ultraconservative activist Alan Keyes. He reminisced about voting for Keyes for president and ...

Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 7:03:42 pm
Russian newspaper Kommersant reports that NSA leaker Edward Snowden was reaching out to Russian authorities while he was still in Hong Kong. The respected Russian newspaper Kommersant is reporting that NSA leaker Edward Snowden approached the Kremlin for support and spent a few days in the Russian consulate in Hong ...

Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:50:29 am
Maj. Nidal Hasan has been convicted of 45 charges of murder and attempted murder, and faces a likely death sentence. FT. HOOD, Texas -- A military jury on Friday convicted Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan on 45 charges of premeditated and attempted premeditated murder in connection with the shooting rampage at ...

Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:35:45 am
Glenn Greenwald is in a fine rage today, spewing threats at Britain to publish even more damaging documents: Glenn Greenwald to Publish UK Secrets After Britain Detains Partner. RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 19 (Reuters) - The journalist who first published secrets leaked by fugitive former U.S. intelligence agency contractor Edward ...

Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 5:40:15 pm
The New York Times report on today's huge libertarian freak-out has a very interesting detail, completely left out of the reports by the Guardian and Glenn Greenwald: Britain Detains the Partner of a Reporter Tied to Leaks. Mr. Miranda was in Berlin to deliver documents related to Mr. Greenwald's investigation ...

Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:05:32 pm
Now why would the UK detain someone who lives with Glenn Greenwald, who's been leaking top secret UK documents? Wow. That's a real head-scratcher. Glenn Greenwald's Partner Detained at Heathrow Airport for Nine Hours. The real question is how Greenwald and his partner could have been so out of touch with reality ...

Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:30:05 am
The military's removal of President Mohammad Morsi opened up a can of worms from which the Egyptian polity is not likely to recover anytime soon. Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood had been busy attempting to impose its socio-political will on a nation that was largely unwilling to go along with their agenda. The ...

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 7:51:58 pm
Greenwald cultists are already mocking this report, but American officials have told the New York Times that the terror alert issued today was prompted by the interception of electronic communications among top Al Qaeda leaders. WASHINGTON -- The United States intercepted electronic communications this week among senior operatives of Al ...

Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 2:37:17 pm
Media Matters The relentless Fox News propaganda about Benghazi never stops, and as all of the allegations pushed by Fox and the GOP (they're pretty much the same thing, of course) have ended up thoroughly debunked, they're now reduced to the mindless repetition of blatant lies, simply trying to trick anyone ...

Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:07:02 am
YouTube Charges of anti-Muslim prejudice flew thick and fast following Fox News anchor Lauren Green's interview with Reza Aslan, a religious scholar and the author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth in which she repeatedly asked Aslan why, as a Muslim, he is interested in writing ...

Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 4:35:41 pm
Oh Glenn. Any excuse to stroke your Obama Derangement Syndrome, right? The rabidly pro-war and anti-Muslim GOP former Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Peter King, has repeatedly lavished Obama with all sorts of praise and support for his policies in those areas. The Obama White House frequently needs, ...

Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:54:56 pm
At LGF we've noted many times the curious phenomenon of the Unison Wingnut Chorus -- the almost instantaneous coordination of talking points throughout the right wing blogs and media. And of course, there's nothing spontaneous about it; like good little authoritarians, wingnut bloggers and journalists are following directions from a ...

Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:47:20 pm
Concertina wire could be installed on the border fence to the east and west of downtown Nogales, much to the chagrin of the city council. The wire, made of razor-sharp blades attached to coiled metal strands, was installed on the fence separating San Diego and Tijuana five years ago and ...