Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:13:08 pm
Today, 8 people were allegedly shot and killed at a Seal Beach beauty salon by suspect Scott DeKraai as reported by the Los Alamitos Seal Beach Patch: Seal Beach shooting suspect in custody Scott DeKraai. Eight people were killed and one critically wounded Wednesday afternoon when a heavily armed gunman wearing ...

Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:02:20 pm
Another thread to dissect the GOP debate in New Hampshire: [Debate's over, video's removed...] Favorite line of the night so far: when Rick Perry said, "That's why Americans are so untrustworthy." This is the guy who appointed creationists to head the Texas State Board of Education. Now you see why.

Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:13:23 am
When I was sixteen, I read the works of Ayn Rand. Specifically, I read the Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, which I reread several times, and some selected edited portions of her 'philosophical works'. The books made a large impression on me. I was a highly intelligent young man frustrated ...

Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:48:51 am
Michele Bachmann is still hammering away at Rick Perry's mandated HPV vaccinations, with another new video that sounds like it was recorded in a bathroom. If you listen carefully to what Bachmann is saying (and we all know how painful that can be), she's actually making two arguments: 1) that Rick ...

Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:33:11 am
In the latest demonstration of the GOP's concern for the well-being of the American people, Senate Republicans have blocked a disaster aid bill to replenish FEMA's funding. Republicans blocked an effort Monday by Senate Democrats to quickly pass a $7 billion aid package for victims of recent natural disasters like ...

Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:58:36 pm
Religious right pseudo-historian David Barton is connected to at least four of the current GOP presidential candidates; Michele Bachmann has brought him to Washington DC to hold seminars for conservative politicians, and Barton was one of the sponsors of Rick Perry's "The Response" prayer rally. Here's David Barton last year in ...

Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:37:45 am
The hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas in 1900, with winds up to 145 mph, was the deadliest in US history. Official reports put the death toll at about 8,000, but many believe the true number was much higher. So many people were killed that it was impossible to bury them ...

Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:27:41 pm
From NPR's Fresh Air, here's an excellent in-depth investigation into the ideology of the New Apostolic Reformation, the movement of extreme right wing Protestant Christians that is deeply involved in the Republican Party and this presidential campaign: The New Apostolic Reformation: The Evangelicals Engaged In Spiritual Warfare. [Audio] On Wednesday's Fresh ...

Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:00:11 pm
Here's a good piece by Dana Goldstein on the Republican Party's shift toward the anti-government, anti-education agenda epitomized by Michele Bachmann: The GOP'S New War on Schools. Bachmann stands at the forefront of the GOP's shifting allegiances on education. Like many female elected officials before her, she first got involved ...

Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:33:13 pm
Steve Benen makes a good point here, about Rick Perry's statement that "in Texas we teach both creationism and evolution in our public schools:" Perry may have no idea what goes on in Texas’ public schools, but if they’re teaching “both creationism and evolution,” they’re violating the law. It’s not ...

Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:45:59 am
Here's a good piece by Harold Meyerson on the sad facts behind Rick Perry’s Texas miracle. Consider the Texas that Perry holds up to the rest of the nation for admiration. It has the fourth-highest poverty rate of any state. It tied with Mississippi last year for the highest percentage ...

Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:54:34 am
(Credit: Gus 802.)At LGF we've been following the career of Texas Governor Rick Perry for years, often focusing on one of his "achievements" that has so far mostly eluded the mainstream media: Perry is undoubtedly the most determined, persistent, and outrageously overt creationist in the Republican Party, and arguably one ...

Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:35:45 am
A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey on the debt ceiling debacle shows that Republican attempts to dodge responsibility are not working: Democrats helped by debt debate, Republicans hurt according to poll. And the Tea Party's favorable ratings have hit an all-time low, as people remember their leaders' insanely nihilistic rhetoric (i.e. ...

Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 11:16:55 am
The New York Times' Joe Nocera apologizes for brushing off the warning signs when Rupert Murdoch took over the Wall Street Journal: The Journal Becomes Fox-ified. On Friday, however, the coverage went all the way to craven. The paper published an interview with Murdoch that might as well have been ...

Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:15:45 am
Michele Bachmann's husband Marcus is doing some desperate damage control today, insisting that his clinics are not anti-gay, and denying he ever called gay people "barbarians". An audiotape circulating on the Internet depicts Bachmann as calling gays barbarians in a 2010 interview he gave to the "Point of View" Christian ...

Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 6:29:09 pm
If you think the James Webb Space Telescope is exactly the kind of cutting-edge science the US government needs to support, here's a page where you can add your authenticated signature to an open letter to Save the James Webb Space Telescope from the depredations of the anti-science right wing. ...

Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 11:04:58 am
In the latest Republican Party move to strip away women's rights, the New Hampshire GOP has rejected a contract with Planned Parenthood that would allow them to continue dispensing contraceptives: Centers stop dispensing birth control. The six Planned Parenthood centers in New Hampshire stopped dispensing contraception last week after the ...

Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 2:10:06 pm
You've got to be kidding me. One of America's greatest, grandest scientific successes -- and possibly one of the biggest scientific successes of all time -- has been the Hubble Space Telescope. It has expanded our knowledge of the universe in ways that no one could ever have imagined. NASA has been ...

Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:10:32 pm
Michele Bachmann (R-Mars), rising star of the 2012 GOP presidential contest, absolutely epitomizes the anti-science, theocratic wing of today's Republican Party. Not only does she totally reject the voluminous scientific evidence for climate change, she's also an open, unapologetic creationist. And she doesn't just want to teach creationism to her Quiverfull ...

Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:25:26 pm
Here's a classic example of the bizarre reality-denying cognitive dissonance of right wing climate change deniers. In the Minnesota State Senate, one of the loudest voices against accepting the scientific reality of climate change is Michael Jungbauer, who's known for making grand pronouncements about "not being convinced" by the science, and ...

Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:00:07 pm
Announcing a new feature for registered users: if you have a Twitter account, you can now save your Twitter username in your LGF Account Settings page (it's near the bottom of the page). Once you enter the Twitter name and save settings, a link will appear in your LGF user profile ...

Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:29:43 am
Yesterday we pointed out that despite the right wing's hysterical ranting that President Obama had dealt Christians a grievous insult by not issuing an "Easter proclamation," the fact is that neither Ronald Reagan nor George W. Bush (or any other President since 1980, the farthest back I checked) ever issued ...

Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:50:32 am
The details of the budget deal reached by Republicans and Democrats have been released, and the cuts the Republicans demanded in the Environmental Protection Agency are absolutely grotesque. This is a very clear attack on the scientific institutions that study climate change, and a very clear attempt to remove restrictions ...

Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:53:14 am
While everyone's attention was focused on Washington DC last week, Republicans in Tennessee's House of Representatives passed a bill that will shield science teachers from being disciplined if they're creationists or global warming deniers. The Republican Party: protecting ignorance and destroying America's scientific future. Some quotes from the Neanderthals who pushed this ...

Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:12:42 pm
The Republican Party is still pushing hard to defund National Public Radio, but last year the government gave more money to America's craziest fundamentalist "college," Liberty University -- where the biology department teaches young earth creationism. Liberty University, the evangelical private Christian school founded by dead apartheid-supporting bigot Jerry Falwell, ...