Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:38:18 pm
Here's an excellent post at ScienceBlogs by Ed Brayton, on his view of Islam and Sharia Law. I could have written this myself; I agree with every word. Let me first state the obvious: Radical Islam -- which probably should be called reactionary Islam instead -- is the single most ...

Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:51:10 am
Salon's Joan Walsh points out that while left-wing journalist Nir Rosen was correctly denounced by everyone for his crude comments about assaulted reporter Lara Logan (and he then apologized and resigned from his job at NYU), right wing bloggers like Jim Hoft, Pamela Geller, and Robert Stacy McCain are getting ...

Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:30:44 pm
Today Glenn Beck tied all his ideas and blackboards together into one Grand Unified Theory of Bad Craziness. We're in the End Times, man. Game over. Ben Dimiero has a look at Glenn's "expert" for the show, Joel Richardson, author of The Islamic Antichrist: Tonight On Glenn Beck: End Times Author Who ...

Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:22:12 am
The results of a new phone survey commissioned by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy show that Egypt is not going to become an Islamic theocracy ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood, despite the relentless fear-mongering of the American right wing. Key Findings: This is not an Islamic uprising. The Muslim ...

Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:29:54 pm
After I posted an essay in Talking Points Memo's TPM Cafe about Michael Wolraith's book Blowing Smoke, imagine my surprise to find the same old stalkers and dimwitted creeps who follow me everywhere on the Internet posting the same old ugly, moronic comments at TPM. It's as predictable as the ...

Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:59:51 pm
At fraudster Andrew Breitbart's "Big Government" tabloid site, the redoubtable Kristinn Taylor and Andrea Shea King come up with the looniest post yet on the situation in Egypt, a dimwitted conspiracy theory leading back, inevitably, as all wingnut conspiracy theories must, to Barack Obama: Did Muslim Brotherhood Learn ‘Day of ...

Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:56:37 am
The Onion News Network encapsulates Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller. And the harpy shrieks: THE SILENCE OF MUSLIMS IN AMERICA! - Atlas Shrugs For years, since 911, actually, we have been told that Islam is a religion of peace (despite the tens of thousands of Islamic attacks across the world since 911) ...

Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:52:41 am
Former feckless International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei is making a play to assume power in Egypt, and on his arrival today in Cairo he was mobbed by reporters -- but not supporters. Cairo - Egyptian opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei arrived in Cairo Thursday, talking of 'change' as the ...

Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 4:30:15 pm
It's been a great week for monumental right wing blogosphere fails, and it looks like they're just getting warmed up. For a while there, Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller was trying to minimize her contribution to the Idiotic Conspiracy Theory of All Time known as Birtherism. But Geller is finally comfortable with ...

Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 1:47:52 pm
The Boston Globe reports that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney seems to be keeping his distance from the Tea Party. The feeling is mutual. Teabaggers absolutely hate Mitt Romney for many reasons, including his religion, his pro-choice background, and his relative moderation in a field of extremists. It's not just that ...

Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:49:12 pm
According to an interesting new Gallup poll, 70% of Americans say religion is losing its influence on American life. Note that this doesn't necessarily mean religion is losing its influence on America, just that 70% of Americans think it is. And they won't all be atheists either. A significant part of that ...

Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:38:03 am
New York's The Jewish Week includes Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller in their list of Seven Who Made A Difference In 2010, and not in a good way. Pamela Geller, by contrast, has been described as one of the most “outraged and outrageous” personalities influencing public policy in the U.S. Her website, ...

Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:50:24 pm
Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller has hit the big time; she's featured in the Southern Poverty Law Center's Winter 2010 Intelligence Report, along with deranged preacher Terry Jones: Geller, Jones Amp Up Anti-Muslim Hate Rhetoric. The annual observances in New York City of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the ...

Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:05:20 pm
A few days ago we noted that Tea Party loon Sharron Angle had launched a new organization called "The Patr Jot Cauc SPAC" ... ... oh, wait ... that's "The Patriot Caucus PAC." Anyway, LGF reader Sergey Romanov browsed around the site and dug up this gem of an anti-evolution rant ...

Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:33:58 am
Although the vast majority of creationist politicians are Republicans, here's a monumental facepalm of a story from Kentucky, where Democratic Governor Steve Beshear is proposing to hand over millions of state dollars and tax breaks to a dishonest fundamentalist Christian group run by fanatics, to build a ludicrous creationist "theme ...

Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 6:36:28 pm
At Religion Dispatches, Julie Ingersoll has an excellent post on the extreme fundamentalist sect known as "Christian Reconstructionism" and its influence on the modern libertarian movement's call to destroy the Federal Reserve: Better Dead Than ‘Fed’: Behind Palin’s Dig at ‘Unbiblical’ Fed. While Ron Paul’s anti-Fed crusade is widely thought ...

Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 11:05:27 am
The American Family Association's Bryan Fischer almost seems like a parody of an insane right wing fundamentalist, but he's all too real -- and he's influential enough to share the stage with all the top GOP politicians at the last Values Voter Summit. In Fischer's latest unbelievably hateful post at the ...

Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 3:48:14 pm
The Catholic Church is looking for some good men to fight off an invasion of disembodied malevolent entities. Citing a shortage of priests who can perform the rite, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops are holding a conference on how to conduct exorcisms. The two-day training, which ends today in Baltimore, is ...

Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:52:14 am
It was only a few years ago that Republicans were screaming "traitor!" at anyone who tried to undermine the office of the Presidency in such a blatant manner: Rep. Eric Cantor Tells Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu: New GOP Majority Will 'Serve As A Check On The Administration'. NEW YORK -- Rep. ...

Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:00:04 pm
Oklahoma Republicans can celebrate the passage of their measure banning Islamic law (shariah) from ever being used in court cases (it never has been, but that's a minor point when you're saving America from the Moslem Peril). But as they're cracking open the champagne, someone should mention to them that they ...

Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:13:40 am
Yesterday, in a debate at Widener University Law School before an audience of legal scholars and law students, Christine O'Donnell reiterated her position that local public schools should teach young earth creationism in science classes. Which is bad enough. But in trying to support her ludicrous anti-science position, O'Donnell revealed her shocking ...

Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:03:53 am
If you've read anything by Robert Spencer, you already know that he will blatantly lie when cornered. Today he responds to my piece for the Guardian, with a ridiculous article that calls Pamela Geller a defamed freedom fighter. Spencer leaves out all the childish insults that he normally posts at his ...

Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:17:45 pm
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten ...

Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:46:51 am
The violent British anti-Muslim gang known as the English Defence League (a group of football hooligans and criminals with roots in the neo-Nazi British National Party) is developing links with the Tea Party movement -- and is being legitimized in America by Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and their Bigot Brigade. ...

Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:41:26 pm
Not to say, "I told you so," but the new study from the Public Religion Research Institute confirms the major point about the Tea Party movement I've been making all year: it's dominated by the religious right. Nearly half (47%) also say they are part of the religious right or ...