Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:32:24 am
The target of one of Andrew Breitbart's most despicable smears, Shirley Sherrod, is going back to work for the USDA, in a contract job to help the USDA improve its civil rights record. Sherrod will be a contract employee leading one of three field programs designed to bolster relations between ...

Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:00:46 pm
In the burgeoning genre of Right Wing Historical Revisionism, potential Republican presidential front-runner Mike Huckabee is proud to announce a new project: Learnourhistory.com! The Huckster is going to fight back against the "blame America first" attitude forced onto our schoolkids by secular atheist progressive commies, with a series of surrealistically awful ...

Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:12:37 pm
The comments are really pouring in to Fox News's article about rapper Common's invitation to the White House. Here's a selection of some of the most recent ones, from just the first couple of pages: smashthetaco Just now Yo, Weed is green, watermelon too. Your wife is a sasquatch. And so are you. Word Up, Ho ------------ nappybegone2012 ...

Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:18:11 pm
The outrageous outrages just keep on comin'! Next target on the right wing Conveyor Belt of Bad Craziness: singer Jill Scott. At fraudster Andrew Breitbart's site "Big Hollywood:" Like Rapper Common, White House Guest Jill Scott ‘Winces’ at Interracial Relationships. It's the same old tired "reverse racism" ploy, used by wingnuts ...

Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:11:53 pm
One problem with living on the west coast is that an east coast wingnut nontroversy has time to start spreading on Twitter, get picked up by dozens of right wing blogs, and be exposed as a ridiculous fraudulent non-story before I even wake up. The life cycles of these outrageous outrages ...

Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:04:51 pm
Andrew Breitbart's "Big Peace" is his anti-Islam site, run by Frank "Sharia Is Taking Over America" Gaffney and featuring an all-star cast of far right Muslim-hating loons. And today, they're getting out in front of the news by demanding proof that Osama bin Laden is dead: Display Bin Laden’s Body At ...

Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:46:30 pm
ABC News calls this a "victory for the Obama administration," but in truth it's a major victory for US science in the struggle against the powerful forces of religious fundamentalism, as a federal appeals court strikes down a lower court's ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. In ...

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 ...

Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:10:55 am
A team of UC Berkeley physicists and statisticians led by global warming "skeptic" Richard Muller launched a project recently to analyze the scientific data on temperature trends. They were apparently fairly certain they'd find evidence to prove that climate change is not happening. Imagine my surprise to discover that the initial ...

Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:17:25 pm
Here's a review of Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's crude anti-Muslim movie “The Ground Zero Mosque: Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks,” at the SPLC blog: Pamela Geller’s New Film: The Next Wave of Anti-Muslim Propaganda. The “seminal, ground-breaking” film (as described on SIOA’s website) is intended to cast the ...

Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:58:01 am
Gail Collins has a good piece in the New York Times about the latest smears perpetrated by Lila Rose (and hyped by fraudster Andrew Breitbart) against Planned Parenthood. “Planned Parenthood aids and abets the sexual abuse and prostitution of minors,” announced Lila Rose, the beautiful anti-abortion activist who led the ...

Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:51:26 am
I don't know why any good rock-ribbed conservative Tea Partier would even think of attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this year. I mean, look at the exhibitors! Not only are there going to be Sodomites, it's also been infiltrated by the creeping stealth global jihad: Right-Wingers Claim Muslim ...

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, ...

Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:27:42 am
The Internet black hole of far right theocratic craziness known as World Net Daily is celebrating today because religious fundamentalists are abandoning CPAC out of fear of a gay planet. Two of the nation's premier moral issues organizations, the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America, are refusing to ...

Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 5:28:19 pm
Creationist-friendly officials in Kentucky are moving forward with plans to grant tax breaks to the ridiculous "Ark Encounter" theme park, thereby ensuring the state's status as a laughingstock for the entire world, for many years to come. The six-member board voted unanimously to approve the incentives for the Kentucky Speedway ...

Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 5:02:25 pm
The music for this evening: ace producer Daniel Lanois's latest project, Black Dub, featuring the talented Trixie Whitley (daughter of the late great Chris Whitley). This track is titled "I Believe In You." [Video] Here's an Amazon widget with audio samples from the rest of this fine album: [Video]

Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:30:44 am
Several former editors for Wikileaks have resigned in protest against Julian Assange's top-down autocratic style, and are announcing the formation of a new project: "Openleaks." The pressure on WikiLeaks is increasing. DN.se reveals that several key figures behind the website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, ...

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 ...

Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:15:29 pm
A classically incoherent run-on title from the Shrieking Harpy introduces her latest outrageous outrage: JIHADIST DEVELOPERS OF GROUND ZERO MOSQUE HIT UP 9/11 FUND TO REBUILD LOWER MANHATTAN FOR $5 MILLION JIZYA TO ERECT ISLAMIC SUPREMACIST MEGA-MOSQUE Imagine the gall of these Islamic supremacists. The very idea that the infidels should ...

Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:59:36 am
In Texas, DNA testing has revealed that the key evidence against a man convicted of murder and put to death by then-Gov. George W. Bush was wrong. Claude Jones always claimed that he wasn’t the man who walked into an East Texas liquor store in 1989 and shot the owner. ...

Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:06:20 am
Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller was picked as one of Forward Magazine's 50 men and women who made an impact on the "Jewish story" in the past year, and the Forward editors correctly identify her as a bigot, a liar, and a raving kook: Forward 50 — The 2010 List. In ...

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 ...

Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:29:11 am
Here's my first piece for the Guardian's "Comment is free" site: Pamela Geller and the bloggers of hate. (I didn't pick the title or subheading, but they fit pretty well.) I'll cross-post the article here (including its British spellings), but you should also check out the comments at Cif; some of ...

Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 9:26:28 pm
Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller, arguably the two most visible spokespeople of the anti-Muslim group "Stop Islamization of America," are both very vocal supporters of the British organization called the English Defense League -- an offshoot of the neo-Nazi British National Party, composed in large part of skinheads, white supremacists, ...

Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 1:41:05 pm
NPR has some interesting details on the nuclear physicist and his wife who were arrested and charged with trying to sell nuclear information to Venezuela: Pair Accused Of Trying To Help Venezuela Get Nukes. CARRIE JOHNSON: Well, the key figure in this case is Pedro Mascheroni. He was born in ...