Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:41:50 am
I find it continually amazing to see the Republican candidates in this election openly advocating bizarre and extreme ideas like abolishing Social Security and the Department of Education. It seems to have become an article of faith on the right wing that all the social progress of the last century ...

Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:46:51 am
The violent British anti-Muslim gang known as the English Defence League (a group of football hooligans and criminals with roots in the neo-Nazi British National Party) is developing links with the Tea Party movement -- and is being legitimized in America by Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and their Bigot Brigade. ...

Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:14:38 pm
In Israel, the Education Ministry has fired chief scientist Dr. Gavriel Avital, a global warming denier and young earth creationist. Kudos! Letting someone like this be in charge of children's education is a recipe for ignorance and failure. If only Texas could figure that out. Sources familiar with the affair said ...

Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 11:48:03 am
Frank Rich makes some excellent points about Christine O'Donnell's value to the GOP good old boy network, cynically using the teabaggers to sleaze their way back into power: The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine O’Donnell. The more O’Donnell is vilified, the bigger the star she becomes, and the more she ...

Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:06:06 am
When the false claims about her education posted at LinkedIn were discovered, GOP anti-wanking candidate Christine O'Donnell said the information was posted by someone else. Unfortunately for O'Donnell's rather transparent attempt to cover up a lie with another lie, now another site has surfaced where the same claims were posted -- ...

Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:57:53 am
Matt Taibbi's piece on the Tea Party does an excellent job of documenting the real forces behind this far right populist movement -- corporate interests and Republican insiders: Tea & Crackers. Early in his campaign, Dr. Paul, the son of the uncompromising libertarian hero Ron Paul, denounced Medicare as "socialized ...

Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:59:17 am
Now Christine O'Donnell is claiming that the misleading information about her education was posted at LinkedIn by someone else. She doesn't know who. Just somebody who happened to know her education record well enough to embellish it. Wonder who it could have been? O'Donnell's statement, sent from the DC-area Shirley ...

Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:53:29 pm
Wow. Another false claim has been discovered on Christine O'Donnell's education resumé: Christine O'Donnell Lies About Attending Claremont Graduate University. A new report late tonight suggests O'Donnell did not attend Claremont Graduate University as she indicated. Gary Scott, a radio producer in Los Angeles and longtime political reporter and editor, uncovered ...

Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:03:42 pm
A new Pew Research survey finds that the people most knowledgeable about religion are atheists. Which shouldn't be a surprise, really; that's why they're atheists. Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on ...

Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:14:44 am
The GOP's anti-wanking, anti-evolution candidate in Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, has been caught in another "embellishment" of her education record; her bio claims she attended the University of Oxford, but as Greg Sargent details, the truth is she attended one course from an organization called the Phoenix Institute, that rented space ...

Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:03:34 pm
Running for the late Robert Byrd's Senate seat in West Virginia, GOP nominee John Raese is yet another anti-science far right Republican candidate, spouting pseudo-scientific gobbledegook about volcanoes to argue that he has "zero trust" in human-caused global warming. Even as he joked that the tea party movement was "a ...

Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 1:56:33 pm
The "gay Republican" is a weird chimera, trying to carve out a place in a political party fiercely committed to denying them civil rights. I'd like to wish them good luck, but this seems like the very definition of "wasted effort." And Ann Coulter's speech at GOProud's "Homocon" event is a ...

Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:24:45 pm
Yesterday we noted the Texas State Board of Education's latest obsession: a resolution to limit what textbooks can print about Islam, based on out of context selections from books that haven't been used for seven years. The Republican creationists and fanatics on the board have decided it's their job to ...

Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:23:40 am
Here we go again with the Republican religious fanatics of the Texas State Board of Education. Led by young earth creationist Don McLeroy, now they're jumping on the anti-Muslim bandwagon and working themselves up into another frenzy of outrageous outrage over world history books that aren't even being used any ...

Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:50:57 pm
Ben Dimiero asks: Is Jim Hoft ("Gateway Pundit") the Dumbest Human on the Internet? I would answer "yes," but there's some pretty stiff competition with people like Pamela Geller and Dan Riehl. In spite of the fact that Hoft embarrasses himself on a near-daily basis and has shown time and again ...

Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:33:12 pm
Democrats failed to get enough votes to break the GOP filibuster in the Senate, and the National Defense Authorization Act which would have repealed "Don't Ask Don't Tell" will not move forward to the debate stage. The right has another objection to the bill: the DREAM Act, which would provide a ...

Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:44:40 am
There was a time when openly associating with the cranks, racists, and conspiracy freakazoids of the John Birch Society would have spelled instant disaster for a politician's career. But in today's climate of right wing extremism, the John Birch Society has not only been re-legitimized, it's been welcomed back into the ...

Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:20:48 am
The San Angelo Standard-Times interviews Texas governor (and GOP candidate) Rick Perry about his views on education, and out comes the ugly anti-science fanaticism again. Perry thinks the Texas State Board of Education is doing a terrific job, and he's "a firm believer" in teaching creationism in public schools. Do ...

Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:09:24 am
Here's an excellent article by Will Bunch on the dishonest historical revisionism being quite successfully pushed by Glenn Beck, with the help of a cottage industry of extreme right wing religious fanatics determined to recast American history as a white Christian fable: Glenn Beck rewrites civil rights history. More recently, ...

Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:22:06 pm
Published today at the Arab News website: a photograph of Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the dreaded financier of some of Imam Feisal Rauf's projects, chairing a meeting with several executives from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., the parent company of Fox News. Shouldn't wingnuts be calling for a boycott of Fox ...

Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:03:19 am
There's quite a bit of talk lately about the fact that Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is a major shareholder in Fox News, and a business partner of Rupert Murdoch. Some have questioned whether it really matters, though, if the Prince hasn't tried to influence Fox's news coverage. Well, in 2005, ...

Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:10:52 pm
It's back to school time, and World Net Daily has a great article full of handy tips on making sure your children remain fully mind-locked, and teaching them how to resist that insidious science stuff liberals are always trying to force on God-fearing patriotic folks. First and foremost, of course, you'll ...

Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:47:00 am
The Nirther craziness is getting worse, like almost everything else about the right wing. A new poll by CNN and Opinion Research Corporation shows that 41 percent of Republicans believe President Obama was either probably not born in the US, or definitely not born in the US. Forty-two percent of ...

Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:36:05 pm
I never let schooling get in the way of my education. — Mark Twain

Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:02:57 pm
Running a site like LGF with a custom-designed content management system is a constant process of finding and opening bottlenecks. If you’re lucky, the bottlenecks result from an easily addressed database design problem. Tonight I discovered a bandwidth bottleneck that negatively affected every page served by the hamsters in our web ...