Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:51:26 am
For months, Hot Air listed Little Green Footballs under “Left Channels” before delinking us altogether, as a way of punishing me for leaving the right wing reservation. So imagine the sweet sweet irony as the religious right begins to reject Hot Air — because they’re not “conservative” enough: Conservatives can kiss ...

Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:02:16 am
Wow. Mickey Edwards, who chaired CPAC for five years and served in Congress for 16 years, has a powerful piece at The Atlantic explaining Why I’m Not at CPAC. The short version: because the modern right wing has been taken over by kooks. No, I’m not going to CPAC. And, ...

Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:33:31 am
Today’s manifesto for the new conservatism: The Mount Vernon Statement, signed by a who’s who of right and far right figures. Including Richard Viguerie. Right Wing Watch points out that just a couple of days ago, Viguerie told the Washington Times: “This is embarrassing,” activist and longtime direct-mail advertiser Richard Viguerie ...

Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:45:09 am
I’ve been wondering why the mainstream media have been so curiously uninterested in the bad craziness of the tea party movement, but with the release of this New York Times article the grace period may be coming to an end: Tea Party Movement Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right. This article ...

Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 4:32:15 pm
DeSmogBlog’s Mitchell Anderson has new information on the investigation into the cyber-burglary of Britain’s Climate Research Unit (CRU), thoroughly refuting the claims that the leak came from a “whistle-blower:” Who Hacked the CRU? An interesting post on IT-NETWORKS picks apart what is currently known about the hack job and what ...

Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:57:51 am
Glenn Beck deserves some credit today for exposing Texas gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina as a 9/11 Truther. Medina was known as the “tea party candidate,” which shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s been following the recent bad craziness at tea party events. It’s not mentioned in this article, but she has also appeared ...

Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:57:59 pm
Today’s unbridled paranoia from Pamela Geller at Andrew Breitbart’s “Big Government:” the US government is totally controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood. Good grief. Did you know in the FBI’s Counter-Terrorism Manual, the word jihad is not to be found? Not once. This is no accident. This is happening because for decades ...

Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:10:19 am
Pamela Geller’s appearance last night on the Joy Behar show with Ron Reagan and Stephanie Miller perfectly demonstrates why Geller has become known on the Internet as the “shrieking harpy.” Geller actually seems to think she came off well on this show, in which she tells Ron Reagan what his own ...

Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:43:41 pm
Tonight on the Chris Matthews show, in a discussion about the proposal to repeal the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, “senior fellow” Peter Sprigg of the far right religious group Family Research Council openly said he wants to see “gay behavior” outlawed. Wow. [Video] (Hat tip: Balloon Juice.)

Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:09:27 pm
British medical journal The Lancet has officially retracted the study they published in 1998 that began the still-spreading anti-vaccination craziness. [Video] Britain’s General Medical Council has issued a ruling as well, calling the research done by Dr. Andrew Wakefield for his discredited study linking MMR vaccine to autism “callous, unethical, and dishonest.” ...

Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:38:41 pm
In many ways I have an enormous amount of respect for Dennis Prager; unlike some of his fellow talk radio hosts, he gets deep into the issues, and for the most part refrains from demagoguery. And he and I have many things in common, particularly an understanding of the danger ...

Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:58:39 am
In Britain, a blogger who’s been blowing the whistle on the Holocaust denial activities of an Anglican vicar finds himself in trouble with the cops: Harry’s Place » Anglican Vicar Uses Police To Intimidate Blogger. As some people have noticed, I’ve been rather quiet in blogging about the Reverend Stephen Sizer’s ...

Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:56:04 pm
Shrieking harpy said what? “He’s a traitor, a turncoat, a plant. We may not know for years what actually happened.” Insert sigh. I have a few significant disagreements with the angle taken by Jonathan Dee in his profile for the New York Times, most of all his willingness to accept unverifiable anecdotal ...

Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:40:45 am
Last seen at LGF with a strange op-ed arguing that if “Mother Mary” had Obamacare she would have aborted God, Chuck Norris is back with an even more whacked out sequel for World Net Daily: Obama’s secret vault. Yes, that’s right. Chuck thinks the dreaded Executive Order 12425 will give Interpol ...

Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:57:49 am
At True/Slant, Barrett Brown has been getting into it with wingnut blogger Donald Douglas, and the story of Douglas’s latest attempt to defend the white supremacist connections of Robert Stacy McCain has some amusing turns. Brown has put up two posts that should be read in order for the full effect: Seven ...

Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 10:11:18 am
Muslims, Arabs, and Nigerians in the Detroit area held a demonstration yesterday outside the courthouse where Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was arraigned, to speak out against terrorism. Major LGF kudos to them. Detroit — Muslims, Arab-Americans and Nigerian-Americans stood together Friday outside the federal courthouse downtown to speak out against terrorism ...

Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 7:43:19 am
Yesterday in Denmark, a Somali armed with an axe and a knife was shot after trying to break into the home of the cartoonist who drew the infamous cartoon of Mohammed with a bomb for a turban: Somali shot after allegedly attempting to attack Danish cartoonist. (CNN) — A Somali ...