Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 1:34:49 pm
Here we have yet another unbelievably ugly right wing attack on women's rights, in Georgia this time, where Republican Rep. Bobby Franklin has sponsored a bill that requires police to investigate all miscarriages to make sure they weren't actually secret abortions. One in three pregnancies end in miscarriage. As a ...

Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:47:30 pm
Wisconsin's Republican Governor Scott Walker is not only trying to destroy public employees' unions. For years, he's also been working hard to force women back into the Dark Ages: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Abortion Crusade. Walker's nearly nine-year record in the Wisconsin Assembly, the legislature's lower house, reads like a ...

Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:23:02 am
It was bad enough when they tried to redefine rape, and worse when they tried to let pregnant women die rather than have abortions, but now the Republican Party in South Dakota is actually trying to pass a law that would legalize killing abortion providers. A law under consideration in ...

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 ...

Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:21:54 am
When the GOP made big gains in the 2010 midterm election, I predicted that we were going to see a full-out onslaught against women's rights -- and today we learned of the latest front in this misogynist war, as the religious right tries to redefine the word "preventive" in order ...

Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:16:05 pm
Today Arizona Republicans launched their first direct attack on the 14th amendment: Proposed Arizona law targets 'birthright' citizenship. PHOENIX (Reuters) – Arizona Republicans are to introduce legislation on Thursday seeking to challenge the right to U.S. citizenship for the children of legal and illegal immigrants born in the state. State Rep. ...

Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:54:14 pm
A 1997 letter from the Vatican to Ireland's Catholic bishops has surfaced, confirming what has been obvious for quite some time -- that the Catholic Church's world-wide cover-up of child molestation by priests went all the way to the top. (AP)  DUBLIN - A newly revealed 1997 letter from the ...

Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:12:40 am
This is why I've never liked Facebook: Facebook thinks twice on giving dev access to phone, address data. Facebook has put off its plan to allow developers access to users' phone numbers and home addresses. The company posted an update on its Developer Blog Tuesday morning, saying that it got ...

Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 8:45:41 am
DerpImagine my surprise. Instead of retracting his monumentally dumb post claiming that the White House flashed "applause" signs at the Tucson memorial, Jim "Dim" Hoft goes on the attack -- and it's just as lame and dishonest as the stupid post he refuses to correct. Hoft's weird fantasy: Figures. Charles Johnson’s ...

Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:37:14 am
In one of the most predictable reactions of the year, Tea Party wacko Christine O'Donnell responds to the news that she's under investigation for personal use of campaign funds by concocting a conspiracy theory. In a statement issued Wednesday, O'Donnell also suggested the investigation was the work of Vice President ...

Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 3:09:41 pm
Horrific revelation from a newly published section of Ireland's investigation into child abuse by Roman Catholic priests in Dublin: DUBLIN (AP) — The Vatican tried to stop church leaders here from defrocking a particularly dangerous pedophile priest and relented only after he raped a boy in a restroom at a ...

Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:20:00 am
A who's who of right wing politicians, religious right spokesholes, and anti-gay loons have signed a statement opposing the Southern Poverty Law Center's classification of many far right religious organizations as hate groups. LGF reader Gus 802 pasted together this picture of the statement, which they placed as an advertisement ...

Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:45:51 am
On Wednesday, Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller took her Traveling Bigotry Roadshow to an NYU class on "Cultural Wars." As usual when she's trying to appear rational, Geller denied that she has a single prejudiced bone in her body; this is her schtick at personal appearances, while on her website she ...

Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:03:40 am
Is Glenn Beck on final approach to a "Network" style meltdown? While suggesting he will be set up, Beck assures his listeners 'I'm not into child pornography'. Video

Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:25:31 am
The incoming religious right Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Lamar Smith, is making it very clear today that he intends to mercilessly hound the Obama administration. The San Antonio Congressman who is in line to become chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee is promising 'a number of ...

Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:59:10 pm
In the non-stop deluge of Obama Derangement Syndrome that pours daily out of the right wing blogosphere, one site regularly stands out for its excessive, extravagant dim-wittedness. One blog is a beacon of stupidity, a shining symbol of what can be achieved by an illiterate religious fanatic boiling with crazed ...

Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:32:52 pm
One of the scariest social conservative concepts to come to fruition in the last 40 years is the so-called "Personhood" bill, which is actually on the ballot in Colorado, thanks to the Republican/Tea Party. The latest poll data suggests the bill will probably not pass, but it has a disturbing ...

Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 5:52:00 pm
Today, Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller is advocating vigilante justice for those evil stealth jihadi Muslims in New Jersey. The hypocrisy loooms [sic] large. Here's a letter I thought I should share with you. I expect the gutless congressman who witnessed his Muslim constituents dancing on 9/11/01 will do nothing but ...

Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:52:41 pm
Today on his radio show, Glenn "Raving Freakazoid Nut Sandwich" Beck said parents who believe in faith healing should have the absolute right to refuse vaccinations and medical treatment for their children. Even if the kid loses an eye. After all, it's only one eye. And then he advocated killing any government ...

Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:40:02 pm
Salon's Justin Elliott says the New York Times did a softball profile of hate monger Pamela Geller, and he's right. I wouldn't call it a "puff piece," exactly, but it's another example of "magical balance fairy" journalism -- lacking quite a bit of context about Geller's more extreme statements and ...

Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:48:22 am
GOP gubernatorial candidate for New York Carl Paladino, who sent out emails to his list containing overt racism, pornography, and bestiality, and fathered a child in an extramarital affair, is telling audiences that he considers himself the "religious values" candidate. And as the religious values candidate, he wants you to know ...

Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:46:24 am
In the GOP war against climate science, the latest tactic is to launch "investigations" of their real enemies: the scientists themselves. It's a pretty obvious political calculation; since they can't argue with the scientific facts (not honestly, anyway) they're trying to discredit the researchers personally. One of the most aggressive attackers ...

Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:46:26 am
Charles Leaf, the reporter for New York's Fox 5 who's been aggressively promoting the "Ground Zero Mosque" bigotry, has been charged with sexually assaulting a 4-year old girl. Award-winning Fox 5 news reporter Charles Leaf was charged with sexually abusing a 4-year-old girl at his Wyckoff home, Bergen County Prosecutor ...

Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:20:53 pm
Sharron Angle's new attack ad contains a statement that is ... no other way to say it ... a lie. The ad asserts that Harry Reid voted to pay for "Viagra for convicted child molesters." But in reality, what Reid voted against was one of many silly obstructionist amendments to the ...

Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 2:52:13 pm
In a 2006 Delaware Senate primary debate, anti-wanking Republican candidate Christine O'Donnell boasted that she was "privy to" secret classified information about a Chinese plot to take over the United States. WASHINGTON — Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell of Delaware said in a 2006 debate that China was plotting to ...