Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:13:53 am
Image credit: Shutterstock In Utah, Republicans are putting in place another right wing social engineering program -- a bill that will require all sex education classes to follow an abstinence-only curriculum prohibiting any instruction in contraception. A bill requiring sex education classes to teach an abstinence-only curriculum moved closer to becoming ...

Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:44:55 am
Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock Like many religious right wing fanatics, Rick Santorum sees conspiracies everywhere. He can turn absolutely anything into a secret plot to persecute Christians, especially if it's endorsed by President Obama. The latest example: President Obama advocates for getting more young Americans into college -- Rick Santorum says it's ...

Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:41:15 pm
Here's a second live-snarking thread for the CNN Republican Party debate, as they approach the last few minutes with a deluge of xenophobia and atavism, but not a single question about science education, evolution, or climate change...

Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:49:24 pm
The Girl Scouts are a tactical arm of Planned Parenthood? You could have fooled me -- and millions of other families who have had their kids go through the Girl Scout programs over the decades since it was founded. Yet, Indiana Republican, Rep. Bob Morris of Fort Wayne, claims to have ...

Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:23:39 pm
For Rick Santorum, this isn't just a contest to win the office of the presidency -- it's an existential fight to the death with SATAN! Santorum: Satan Is Systematically Destroying America. This is not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war. This is a spiritual war. And ...

Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:45:15 am
It was bad enough when CPAC recently allowed the wacko paleo-conservative John Birch Society to have an exhibit, but this year things are exponentially worse. This year, the Conservative Political Action Conference, at which presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich will appear, is having a panel discussion featuring ...

Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:09:19 am
Hate group leader Pamela Geller is spewing insults at me again, for pointing out her disgusting exploitation of a murdered Muslim woman. As usual with right wing tirades, she attempts to reverse the reality and project her own illness onto me, accusing me of being "pro-jihad," of being a "misogynist ...

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 ...

Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:24:38 pm
A terrible precedent: apparently caving in to the right wing crusade against Planned Parenthood, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has decided to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer prevention. It's a concrete example of how the religious right's reactionary anti-choice agenda is hurting women ...

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 ...

Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:51:11 pm
Watch out, here comes the GOP Clown Car again, disgorging its endless cargo of makeup-laden performers for another fantabulous debate about nothing of consequence. In the Big Top, the Romney harlequin has no choice but to attack the Gingrich jester like a mad (but hilarious!) dog tonight; you can look forward ...

Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:06:42 pm
As we've noted at LGF many times, Fox Nation, official discussion forum of Fox News, has become utterly indistinguishable from a neo-Nazi hate site like Stormfront. And here's another graphic, disgusting demonstration. Yesterday, whatever race-baiting goon runs that site posted a video of Sheila Jackson Lee, criticizing Newt Gingrich's racist code ...

Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:24:48 pm
A stunning admission today in the News Corp. hacking scandal; as Rupert Murdoch's company settled with some of the phone hacking victims, lawyers for the victims announced that senior News Corp. employees and directors had admitted to knowing about the illegal operations, deceiving investigators, and destroying evidence: Murdoch Company Settles ...

Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:01:48 pm
The National Center for Science Education has long been a leader in the battle against those who relentlessly try to insert creationism into public school science classes; they're probably most well-known for the key role they played in the Dover "intelligent design" trial. (Which didn't go well at all for ...

Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:44:10 am
Follow the links and read the complete articles for a fuller picture. The Mexican-American Studies program was started in part to "help bridge the achievement gap for Hispanic students". [...] For more than 30 years, the Tucson Unified School District operated under a federal court order to desegregate its schools. In 2009, the ...

Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:47:31 am
A new book about the President and his wife is being released this coming week, and that's all the right wing blogs need to launch a stunning barrage of hatred and overtly racist comments. Let's face it, they're now completely out in the open. You'll find blatantly racist comments at nearly ...

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 ...

Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:57:52 am
Yes, that's right -- Republicans in the Senate have blocked the proposal to extend the payroll tax holiday through next year, proving once again that they're not really opposed to raising taxes, as long as it's the poor or the middle class who pay. NPR asked Republican leaders in the House ...

Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 6:08:26 pm
Newt Gingrich may be ahead in the polls, but he's never going to be the Republican nominee, for two reasons: 1) everyone knows that Mitt Romney is next in the GOP's good ol' boy line of succession (and it will become crystal clear when he gets the endorsement of John ...

Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:37:00 am
Amazing. We've actually reached the point in the slow motion train wreck called the Republican Party at which a presidential candidate simply lies outright about President Obama -- and when called on it, he openly admits he lied and boasts that it was a success: Team Romney Crows About That ...

Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 5:54:13 pm
Herman Cain's campaign sent out the following email to their list today, immediately after Sharon Bialek's press conference finished: I am a serious person, seeking the opportunity to do a serious and very important job. Our nation has very serious problems, particularly of an economic nature, and Barack Obama does ...

Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:06:42 am
The sex scandal may be the least of Herman Cain's worries; now reports are emerging about some very shady payments from an organization that has mysteriously gone out of business. And that's not all. Herman Cain's two top campaign aides ran a private Wisconsin-based corporation that helped the GOP presidential ...

Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:13:58 am
Right wing media and blogs have been ranting in unison for weeks about Occupy Wall Street, pulling out every dishonest smear tactic in the book and doing their best to discredit and destroy the movement. But it's not working: Poll: 43 percent agree with views of 'Occupy Wall Street'. Young and ...

Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:46:53 pm
Here's an extraordinary speech on climate change and the insanely dangerous behavior of the right wing, by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), via Joe Romm. Mr. President, I am here to speak about what is currently an unpopular topic in this town. It has become no longer politically correct in ...

Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 12:43:00 pm
I was recently able to view the October 18th airing of the PBS Frontline documentary, "Lost in Detention" on the state of deportation in the U.S. under the Obama administration. In a word, it's pathetic, but worth the time to watch. Video Beginning in 2008, under the Obama administration, the U.S. Immigration ...