Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:30:03 am
It happens whenever Andrew Breitbart posts a video of President Obama: a sickening deluge of gutter hatred, deranged Birtherism, racial slurs, and occasionally open threats against the President: Breitbart.tv » Obama Ridicules GOP: Maybe They Couldn’t Understand Jobs Bill. These are just the comments that stood out as especially hateful -- ...

Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:52:22 am
Here's a good piece by Michelle Goldberg on the relentless attempt by the right wing hate machine to smear Occupy Wall Street as "antisemitic:" Occupy Wall Street Isn't Anti-Semitic, But It's Too Leaderless. One of the curses of left-wing politics is the perennial presence of International ANSWER, a front group ...

Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 4:38:13 pm
In the October 14th episode of his radio show, Rush Limbaugh defended the Ugandan terrorist group calling itself the Lord's Resistance Army, portraying the LRA as Christians targeted by President Obama for being Christian, and defending the agitprop of the LRA by reading it as gospel. Only at the very last ...

Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:33:13 pm
A 20-month old infant with a terminal disease died this week, after his parents sued the Canadian government to allow them to perform a tracheotomy to keep him alive: 'Baby Joseph' Dies at Home After Long Treatment Battle. The "pro-life" movement seized on this case, because they believe God wanted this ...

Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:20:02 pm
As we wait for the latest outbreak of GOTP debating, I'd just like to say that it's pretty cool how all the right wing blogs are expressing gratitude to President Obama for standing by Israel and forcing Mahmoud Abbas to abandon the Palestinian statehood bid, then walking out on Ahmadinejad's ...

Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:32:21 am
The Obama administration has promised to veto the Palestinian bid for statehood in the UN Security Council, but of course that doesn't stop the loons running for the GOP nomination from attacking him anyway, with the usual right wing nonsense that Obama has changed the US stance toward Israel (he ...

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 ...

Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 10:31:42 am
In an interview for ABC News, Jon Huntsman called out his Republican opponents for rejecting the science of evolution and climate change. Tapper asked, "Were you just being cheeky or do you think there's a serious problem with what Governor Perry said?" Huntsman's response: "I think there's a serious problem. ...

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 ...

Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 11:35:02 am
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer have been unstinting in their support for the English Defence League, even after their thuggish neo-Nazi connections were exposed. Here's a report at the Guardian on EDL leader Alan Lake, and his online essay calling for the torture and execution of David Cameron and the Archbishop ...

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 ...

Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:21:55 pm
Iowa's radical religious right group "The Family Leader" is now backing away from their crazed slavery language, in the pledge signed by Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum. They apparently have a dim realization that they might have crossed a line that shouldn't be crossed. But this is a political calculation, not ...

Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 11:02:10 am
Here's the Iowa Family Leader "Marriage Vow" signed yesterday by Michele Bachmann, and I recommend that everyone read this -- to see just how insane these people are. The very first bullet point on the first page gives you an idea: Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet ...

Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 1:45:27 pm
Bryan Fischer of the religious right organization American Family Association (a co-sponsor of Texas Gov. Rick Perry's upcoming prayer rally) puts his unique spin on Michele Bachmann's "John Wayne" gaffe -- according to Fischer, it was a big mistake for liberals to bring up John Wayne Gacy because homosexuals are ...

Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:12:56 am
More than 24,000 emails from Sarah Palin's time as governor of Alaska are being released today -- on paper, for some odd reason. ProPublica is going to make a full searchable archive available online as soon as possible: A Reader’s Guide to the (Still Coming) Sarah Palin Emails. What should ...

Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:01:10 pm
You may recall our story from last year about fundamentalist Christian leader George Rekers, who founded the politically active and virulently anti-gay Family Research Council with Dr. James Dobson -- and then was caught on vacation with a "rent boy." It wasn't the first case of an anti-gay preacher busted doing ...

Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:24:36 pm
I don't even know what to say about this sickening story: Idaho Woman Charged For Unlawful Abortion, Turned In By Anti-Choice Advocate. Unable to afford the doctors visits and medical bills associated with an actual medical abortion, Jennie L. McCormack of Idaho instead had her sister purchase drugs online to ...

Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:42:47 am
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Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:00:10 am
DERPThe densest right wing blogger on the web, Jim "Dim" Hoft, keeps finding new ways to excel at his chosen pastime of making a complete fool of himself in public. Today he live-hateblogged the President's address to AIPAC: OBAMA BOOED AT AIPAC (Video) | The Gateway Pundit They just introduced Barack ...

Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:23:48 am
In three short paragraphs about President Obama's speech this morning, the Associated Press warps the story beyond recognition: Obama says Palestine must be based in 1967 borders. WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is endorsing the Palestinians' demand for their future state to be based on the borders that existed before ...

Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:04:17 am
Are there any politicians left in America who can keep it in their pants?

Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:48:17 am
This is just what the Middle East needs right now: Glenn Beck Announces 'Restoring Courage' Event In Jerusalem, Says 'The Very Gates Of Hell Are Gonna Open Up Against Us'. Terrific. Beck's brand of high volume race-baiting and End Times paranoia ought to do wonders for the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Video

Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:37:19 am
Here we go again. Fox Nation shrieks: School Tells Child to Take Down Drawing of American Flag! This leads to hundreds of raging right wing comments. For example: nam_vet6869 2 hours ago WAKE UP AMERICA, WE ARE BEING OVER RUN BY THE SOCIALIST AND THE PRESIDENT IS HOLDING THE DOOR OPEN. It's also ...

Sun, May 8, 2011 at 11:14:21 am
Florida governor Rick Scott has a full plate of far right legislation to sign; the Tea Party is taking Florida as far back as they can, while they've got a dedicated loon in office. In addition to drug testing welfare recipients, Scott is also expected to sign a bill that will ...

Sun, May 1, 2011 at 11:43:03 am
Illegitimate children should have 'different rights'Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller has dropped the idiotic Layergate conspiracy theory, and moved right on to the next item on the Conveyor Belt of Bad Craziness. Geller and the rest of the wingnutosphere are all lathered up over the "shocking revelations" in Obama's father's immigration ...