Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:09:40 pm
For the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the Dove World Outreach Center in Florida is planning a special celebration: a good old-fashioned book burning. (RNS) A Florida church with “Islam is of the devil” signs in its front lawn plans to host an “International Burn A Quran Day,” on ...

Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:33:11 pm
The kooks really are taking over conservative news sites now, like an invasion of John Birch pod people. Just published at Townhall.com: an incomprehensible “international banking conspiracy” article by 9/11 Truther and JFK assassination troll Jim Marrs. Sometimes all you can say is, “Wow.”

Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:28:27 pm
Bin Laden’s Son Is Hospitalized After He Hears His Father’s Voice. Omar Bin Laden, the fourth-born son of Osama Bin Laden, has hospitalized and treated for schizophrenia after hearing his father’s voice in his head. “It’s true that he was put on medication but released himself early,” said a spokesman for ...

Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:40:00 am
Slate international relations columnist Fred Kaplan goes line by line through Mitt Romney’s attack on President Obama’s new START treaty, and concludes that it’s “shabby, misleading, and thoroughly ignorant.”

Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:47:11 pm
Here’s today’s genuine outrage, as Pope Benedict once again sides with child molesters within the Catholic Church against government officials trying to bring the molesters to justice: Pope deplores ‘sex abuse’ raids by Belgian police. Pope Benedict has joined mounting Vatican criticism of raids by Belgian police investigating alleged child ...

Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:35:22 pm
Iran has been making a lot of noise about sending a flotilla of “humanitarian aid” to Gaza, but today the news is that they’ve canceled their plan. And after blustering for weeks about destroying the Israelis if they tried to stop the flotilla, Iran’s reason for canceling is: they’re afraid of ...

Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 5:46:35 pm
In South Carolina, evangelicals, conservative activists, and the GOP base are feeling pretty uneasy about the gubernatorial campaign of Nikki Haley. You see, there’s that troublesome “heritage issue.” It’s bubbling up. Like sewer gas. “The heritage issue is starting to bubble up on emails,” said former Charleston County GOP chairwoman Cyndi ...

Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 5:35:45 pm
When visiting Oklahoma, you no longer need worry about being subjected to sharia law. I know this was a serious concern for many people. Oklahoma is poised to become the first state in the nation to ban state judges from relying on Islamic law known as Sharia when deciding cases. The ban ...

Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:39:24 pm
William Kristol’s article claiming that the Obama administration was planning to support an anti-Israel resolution at the UN was rapidly spread throughout the wingnutsphere, with the requisite expressions of outrageous outrage, rage, and more outrage. And once again, it’s a bogus story. The White House is sharply denying a claim by ...

Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:19:56 am
New GOP Senate candidate from Nevada Sharron Angle is apparently trying to quietly toss the online records of her extreme nativist and John Birch Society-inspired positions down the memory hole. Sharron Angle—Tea Partier, Oath Keepers supporter, anti-fluoride crusader, and new GOP candidate for Senate from Nevada—is already demonstrating her solidarity ...

Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:51:39 pm
Pro-Israel front group Reuters (ahem) asks the timely question: Q&A: Is Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza legal? The short answers: Yes, Israel’s blockade is legal under international law. Yes, Israel has the legal right to stop ships in international waters. Yes, Israel has the legal right to use force when stopping ships. And no, this ...

Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:52:14 pm
Tim Blair thinks people have only started leaving anti-Israel comments at LGF since my new “leftish conversion.” He says these are my “new friends.” Blair, you ignorant slut. People have been leaving anti-Israel comments at LGF for many years. It happens every time there’s a phony international incident like this. The ...

Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:42:59 am
You know that cargo that was so vitally important to deliver to the Palestinian people of Gaza? So important that peace activists put together a flotilla of Turkish ships and tried to run a blockade to get it there as soon as possible, before anyone else suffered and died waiting ...

Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:17:41 am
The Obama administration is not joining the international chorus of condemnation against Israel: Official: US Will Stand with Israel. I’m told there won’t be any daylight between the US and Israel in the aftermath of the incident on the flotilla yesterday, which resulted in the deaths of 10 activists. Regardless of ...

Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:43:22 pm
Uh oh. Fundamentalist Christian leader George Rekers, who founded the politically active and virulently anti-gay Family Research Council with Dr. James Dobson, has been caught by a Miami newspaper on vacation with a ‘rent boy’. The pictures on the Rentboy.com profile show a shirtless young man with delicate features, ...

Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:58:08 pm
The news is just coming out that a Pakistani man has been arrested at JFK International Airport in connection with the Times Square car bomb attack. NEW YORK – A suspect in last weekend’s failed car bomb attack on Times Square was taken into custody late Monday while trying to ...

Sat, May 1, 2010 at 6:12:58 pm
It’s official; far right newspaper the Washington Times is going on the auction block. Washington Times executives are negotiating to sell the newspaper, after the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s family cut off most of the annual subsidy of about $35 million that has kept the Unification Church-backed paper afloat, company ...

Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:46:52 pm
Oh, for Pete’s sake. In the “Science and Technology” section of Fox News today, a ridiculous hoax lifted from British tabloid The Sun, reported as straight news: Has Noah’s Ark Been Found on Turkish Mountaintop? A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers say wooden remains they have discovered on Mount ...

Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:05:25 am
Speaking of Birthers, leading Birther bird-brain Orly Taitz has a new plan to bring down our seekrit Moslem alien President — she’s going to have him prosecuted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes. US is not a signatory to ICC, however Kenya is. According to members of the ...

Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:51:25 am
Henry Kissinger has long been accused of denying and/or downplaying the danger of the covert assassination plan Operation Condor, and the Los Angeles Times has a story about a newly declassified document that gives even more weight to these accusations, suggesting that Kissinger canceled sending a cable that might have ...

Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:19:45 pm
Some very frightening news from the world of climate science, as an international scientific team discovers that the Arctic permafrost in Siberia may be starting to leak huge amounts of methane into the atmosphere. And if this proves to be true, my friends, it will put every other concern of human ...

Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:50:32 pm
The investigations into child abuse in Germany’s Catholic schools are continuing to widen, now getting close to Pope Benedict himself, as his brother Georg Ratzinger has been implicated in covering up the systemic child abuse (with the now well-known Catholic Church practice of moving priests around to different parishes) — ...

Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:36:30 am
Hillary Clinton dialed down the diplomatic confrontation with Israel this morning, pledging that the US has “an unshakeable bond” with Israel, and dismissing suggestions that the relationship between the US and Israel was at its worst point in decades. “We have an absolute commitment to Israel’s security. We have a ...

Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:14:53 pm
Imagine my surprise to discover the same stalkers showing up at the BBC who showed up at Dangerous Minds and Boing Boing, spewing the same hate speech: BBC - Blogworld - Best International Blogs: USA: Charles Johnson. I really do live inside their heads. It’s pretty comfortable there, once you ...

Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:49:06 am
Paul Coletti of the BBC’s Blogworld site interviewed me via webcam a few days ago, and the video is now up: BBC - Blogworld - Best International Blogs: USA: Charles Johnson. BBC Video