Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:50:46 am
Clements was the latest victim of increasingly active violent right-wing extremists. While American politicians and the U.S. public continue to focus on the threat from jihadist extremists, there seems to be too little awareness that this domestic form of political violence is a growing problem at home. From 2002 to ...

Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:15:59 pm
DERPAt CPAC, the incredibly dense Jim Hoft won the "Accuracy in Media" award, and today he's demonstrating the peerless skill that led to this honor with a post desperately trying to spin away the embarrassing little white supremacist incident at yesterday's festivities: BUSTED: Supposed 'Racist Event' at CPAC 2013 a Big ...

Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:00:22 am
Ten Things to End Rape Culture Walter Mosley's piece is an excellent, excellent takedown of victim-blaming and is a sensible, well-written article with practical take-aways. I encourage you all to read it and to spread it. We have far, far, far too much rape in our society. Women in ...

Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:46:25 am
Caveman via Shutterstock Oh, for Pete's sake. When are Republicans going to learn that when the subject of rape comes up, they should shut the front door? This time it's the president of the California Republican Assembly, Celeste Greig, who thinks a woman who is raped is less likely to get pregnant ...

Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:55:54 pm
It shouldn't surprise anyone that the NRA and Wayne LaPierre in particular are lying about facts or statistics, and flip-flopping on what should otherwise be agreement to get universal background checks. LaPierre's a shill for the firearms industry, so anything that cuts to the bottom line would not pass muster. ...

Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:44:52 pm
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Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:28:09 am
A lawsuit against a Kansas woman who publicly proclaimed her admiration for the man who gunned down one of the country's few late-term abortion providers is revealing the unwavering support a small group of radical anti-abortion activists has for the imprisoned killer despite an ongoing federal investigation into the ...

Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 3:20:49 pm
Video Thousands of demonstrators rallied Saturday in Washington to demand tougher gun control laws, many describing themselves as first-time capital marchers who've had enough of gun violence. On a cold day, a vanguard led a blocks-long procession with a big blue banner, declaring "March on Washington for Gun Control: When we ...

Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:33:49 pm
Speaking at the Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show (SHOT) in Las Vegas (a major gun industry trade show), Ted Nugent launched into another vitriolic tirade against President Obama, calling him "an evil, dangerous man who hates America," and coming very close to outright advocation of assassination and revolution. It seems ...

Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:38:26 pm
Leave it to Rush Limbaugh to come up with the sickest, weirdest right wing take on the gun control debate. CALLER: ...on any given day in Americans [sic], more than 3,000 children are killed from abortion and we have no problems with that. We're OK with that. It's not an issue. So you can't spend 40 ...

Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:04:10 am
Also see: Obama Gun Proposal to Look Beyond Mass Shootings

Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:53:27 pm
I hadn't looked at Pamela Geller's site in a while, but I just did, and wow. She's always been a swivel-eyed loon, but the hate is just off the charts now. Non-stop rage and bigotry. Really ugly stuff. One of her latest crazed posts defends the leader of the fascist English ...

Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:41:11 am
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, are launching a new gun control initiative, specifically to counter the insidious efforts of the "ideological fringe" pro-gun lobby. Here's their op-ed in USA Today: Giffords and Kelly: Fighting Gun Violence. In response to a horrific series of shootings that ...

Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 6:33:08 pm
The next right wing freakout isn't hard to predict, as the Obama administration starts putting out feelers to see if America's ready to do something about its insanely out-of-control addiction to guns: White House Weighs Broad Gun-Control Agenda in Wake of Newtown Shootings. The White House is weighing a far ...

Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:39:44 am
Daniel Henninger weighs in with yet another ridiculous right wing excuse for gun violence; in this article for Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, Henninger argues that to really understand why the Newtown school shooting happened, we have to go back, back through years, all the way to 1968 (cue harp ...

Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:23:56 pm
Here's a list of the scapegoats and excuses we've heard so far in the ongoing pro-gun noise machine's efforts to blame gun violence and the Newtown school massacre on absolutely everything but the ready availability of millions of weapons like the Bushmaster AR-15 style assault rifle used by Adam Lanza. (All ...

Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:50:09 am
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Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:30:04 pm
The big push to divert the discussion of guns and gun control into a discussion about mental illness is really beginning in earnest tonight. And unfortunately, many liberals arguing for gun control are falling for the diversion, because yes, mental health care is terrible in America and it does need ...

Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:20:43 am
It might be comical to watch right wingers attempting to come up with talking points to spin the atrocities in Newtown, if the subject wasn't so horrible. Some of their suggestions for dealing with the issues of gun violence are so absurd, though, that you just have to laugh. To ...

Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 11:27:06 am
Take a look around the right wing blogs and news sites, and watch Fox News, and you may notice that there are suddenly a lot of conservatives arguing that the real problem that leads to gun violence is mental illness -- and that the solution is "better mental health care." While ...

Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 11:32:45 am
Some facts from the Harvard School of Public Health about the correlation between gun availability and homicides: Homicide - Firearms Research - Harvard Injury Control Research Center - Harvard School of Public Health. 1. Where there are more guns there is more homicide (literature review). Our review of the academic literature ...

Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:44:05 pm
We knew this would happen, didn't we? Here are probably the two most despicable right wing reactions so far to the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. First, Mike Huckabee on Fox News (of course), saying that we shouldn't be surprised that "schools become a place of carnage" when we have "systematically ...

Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:44:19 pm
According to a witness to Steven Crowder's nasty little stunt at the Michigan protest yesterday, he was provoking and insulting demonstrators, deliberately trying to goad them into violence. Knowing how the Fox News/Breitbart gang love to stage these kinds of fake incidents to picture their targets as violent thugs, it was ...

Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 4:27:36 pm
A few days ago LGF and I got into a bit of a squabble with renowned climate change denier Marc Morano over an error I made concerning his "debate" with Bill Nye. I wrote that he used a talking point often trotted out by the denialists (and found on Morano's ...

Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 4:42:11 pm
They don't really take holidays over at Breitbart.com; they're in wingnut auto-rant mode 24/7, 365 days a year, and Thanksgiving is no exception. Ben Shapiro, for example, can always find time to dash off an overheated tirade about Barack Obama's insidious socialist atheist Muslim agenda: FOR FOURTH STRAIGHT YEAR, OBAMA'S ...