Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 10:53:20 am
Image via Shutterstock Dick Cheney and many other Bush administration officials were lying about torture, and now we have proof. After reviewing thousands of the CIA's own documents, the committee has concluded that torture was ineffective as an intelligence-gathering technique. Torture produced little information of value, and what little it did ...

Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:43:12 am
The National Review brings us our absolutely vile right wing article of the day, as David Horowitz says, "Thank You, ISIS," for beheading people and posting the video --because according to Horowitz this will wake up Americans, make them truly hate all Muslims, and get us ready to kill, kill, ...

Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:45:31 am
DERPDutifully passing on some fear-mongering propaganda he picked up from (where else?) Fox News by way of Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter, the legendary Dumbest Man on the Internet, Jim Hoft, yells: US Lawmaker: Ten ISIS Fighters Have Been Apprehended Coming Across Southern Border (Video) | the Gateway Pundit Hoft thought this was ...

Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:51:26 pm
YouTube Yes, folks, it's yet another ridiculous trumped up fake outrage, spreading like wildfire through right wing blogs and news sites. You can probably expect to see this on Fox News any minute if it hasn't shown up there already. This time the idiots are freaking out at the chairman of the ...

Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:24:09 pm
Here's some common ground between America's religious right and the jihadis of ISIS: ISIS Bans Teaching Evolution in Schools. The new Mosul curriculum, allegedly issued by al-Baghdadi himself, stresses that any reference to the republics of Iraq or Syria must be replaced with "Islamic State." Pictures that violate its ultra-conservative ...

Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:03:33 pm
Gerald F. Seib. Photo from freshfiction.com The author of this column, published September 9th on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, is an award-winning journalist and author. Therefore I cannot attribute his writing here to sloppiness or factual cluelessness. I do not care to research his past work to ...

Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 10:41:33 am
MSNBC Here's the full transcript of the President's interview with NBC dunderhead Chuck Todd, and if you want to know why I refer to Todd that way, here's a perfect example. Obama mentioned Syria specifically four times before Chuck Todd blurted out, "You've not said the word, 'Syria,' so far in our ...

Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 3:00:47 pm
Here we go again, folks; you can see it coming already. During his press conference today, President Obama talked at length about the need to develop a strong, comprehensive regional strategy with US allies and partners to address the threat of ISIL. So what are the right wing blogs going to ...

Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:09:07 pm
YouTube Live from the Brady Press Briefing Room.

Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 4:26:13 pm
If you've followed Glenn Greenwald's work at all (and you aren't one of the acolytes who rush to excuse anything he says or does), you're probably aware that his criticism of the United States is relentless, at times bordering on pathological, and today at the Intercept he's published another one ...

Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 7:34:50 pm
DERPIt's always hilarious when the Dumbest Man on the Internet, Jim Hoft, pretends he understands what's going on the real world. In today's example of Hoft's monumental idiocy, this morning he posted one of his usual ridiculous anti-Obama rants, titled: Horror! Watch This Video and Tell Me Barack Obama Is ...

Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 1:08:28 pm
Last week Gabby Giffords co-authored an op-ed for CNN on Domestic Abuse and gun violence. Guns killing women: Time for Congress to act Basically, she is asking Congress to extend Federal gun laws that protect married women against abusive spouses to include single women who are abused and stalked. Seems, to me anyway, ...

Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 8:44:35 pm
[large]Exhibit A[/large] 'Jew-hating bitch Pelosi' says Hamas is a humanitarian group http://t.co/EMN37OxqKL — TwitchyTeam (@TwitchyTeam) July 30, 2014 A screenshot: CNS also reported as Pelosi: Qataris Have Told Me 'Hamas Is a Humanitarian Organization' which is more accurate. What Rep. Nancy Pelosi really said with context: PELOSI: Well, we all -- war is a ...

Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:52:30 pm
That bogus story about the ISIS Islamist group ordering all women to get circumcised has been debunked since early this morning, but at Breitbart "News" it's still on their front page without any sign that it's fake. JIHADISTS IN IRAQ ORDER WOMEN UNDERGO GENITAL MUTILATION That's their whole story in the screenshot ...

Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:20:17 am
Today, MSNBC's Ronan Farrow published an opinion piece in the Washington Post calling on companies like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to do more to stop terrorists from inciting violence. To make his case, Farrow cited the incitements to genocide by Rwandan media that led to a horrific bloodbath 20 years ...

Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 4:22:24 pm
YouTube Last night's Bill Maher show featured a panel with Paul Rieckhoff of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) and the Mighty Glenn Greenwald, who got into a very heated exchange beginning when Greenwald asserted that US troops in Iraq should be considered terrorists. It turned into a full-blown yelling match ...

Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 4:40:21 pm
Vimeo As we're being drawn yet again into the mess created by the Bush administration's disastrous war of choice in Iraq, here are some interesting and very pertinent comments from Bill Moyers and Andrew Bacevich on the immoral nature of "preventive" war. BILL MOYERS: What is it about how we go ...

Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:42:29 pm
MSNBC Here's an excellent report by Rachel Maddow on right wing media's coverage of the capture of the main suspect in the Benghazi attacks, focusing on the king of all wingnut sites, Drudge Report -- and segueing into a look at how the media is pushing so many pundits who were ...

Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 1:54:34 pm
YouTube Here's an exceptional moment for raving freakazoid nut sandwich Glenn Beck from his radio show today, via Right Wing Watch. Beck lapses into a hallucinatory fantasy in which he's the President of the United States (kind of a daymare, really), and describes how he would deal with issues like the crisis ...

Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:04:46 pm
But wait! We're not done with recycled neocon hawks and their bad advice yet! Now we have a two-fer at the Weekly Standard, as William Kristol and Frederick Kagan team up to call for MOAR WAR: What to Do in Iraq. This would require a willingness to send American forces back ...

Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:41:01 am
The latest public figure who was utterly horribly wrong in almost everything he did in Iraq but now wants us to send more US soldiers to die for a neocon pipe dream is L. Paul Bremer, the guy who dissolved the Iraqi Army and very possibly engendered the situation Iraq ...

Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 11:22:21 am
[large]December 4, 2008[/large] Fact Sheet: The Strategic Framework Agreement and the Security Agreement with Iraq To Ensure That The Security Agreement Is Consistent With The Capacity Of Iraq's Security Forces, The Dates Included In This Agreement Were Discussed With The Iraqis, General Petraeus, And General Odierno - They Allow For The ...

Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 1:01:57 pm
Remember this guy? Mitt Romney poses with anti-Muslim hate group leader Pamela Geller Yes, he's popping up again like a malevolent right wing jack-in-the-box, predictably calling President Obama all kinds of names and boasting about how he would have solved everything by... well, he actually never gets around to saying how he ...

Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:47:44 am
In a statement this morning, President Obama said he will not be sending US troops to Iraq, but did not rule out other types of military action such as airstrikes. Speaking just before leaving for North Dakota, Obama told reporters that Iraqi leaders would have to reach a political solution ...

Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:07:14 am
Getty Image A picture taken with a mobile phone shows uniforms reportedly belonging to Iraqi security forces scattered on the road on June 10, 2014, after hundreds of militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) launched a major assault on the security forces in Mosul, some ...