Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 2:41:07 pm
Wow. The racism that underlies much of the tea party movement is coming to the surface more and more, and yesterday in Washington DC the mask came completely off: Protesters hurl slurs and spit at Democrats. Washington (CNN) - Civil rights icon and veteran Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, said anti-health ...

Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 8:37:17 am
This week, Jenny McCarthy and the anti-vaccination “movement” were definitively shut down by a special branch of the US Court of Federal claims: Court says thimerosal did not cause autism. WASHINGTON – The vaccine additive thimerosal is not to blame for autism, a special federal court ruled Friday in a ...

Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:14:53 pm
Imagine my surprise to discover the same stalkers showing up at the BBC who showed up at Dangerous Minds and Boing Boing, spewing the same hate speech: BBC - Blogworld - Best International Blogs: USA: Charles Johnson. I really do live inside their heads. It’s pretty comfortable there, once you ...

Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:45:51 am
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch blog has some interesting information about white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain — who is apparently writing for the Washington Times again (in addition to posting articles at Pajamas Media and Hot Air). Robert Stacy McCain, a former key Washington Times editor who has ...

Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:04:31 am
Richard Metzger has posted part 2 of his interview with me: Dangerous Minds | Charles Johnson: Why I Parted Ways with the Right (Part II). Richard includes these comments: Charles Johnson joined me for a discussion of the right wing flame war directed at him, the Darwin-hating, know-nothing Creationists and the ...

Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:49:42 pm
Rachel Maddow has been doing some excellent investigative work looking into the secretive religious-political group known as “The Family,” and their connections to the “C Street House” where anti-choice health care opponent Rep. Bart Stupak lived until very recently. [Video]

Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:04:01 pm
I’ve had serious differences of opinion with Media Matters blogger Eric Boehlert in the past, but his latest piece on the desperately absurd efforts of the right wing blogosphere to label Pentagon shooter John Patrick Bedell as a “left winger” is right on the money: The Pentagon shooter, insurrectionism, and ...

Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:13:34 pm
The wingnut blogosphere is in full shrieking harpy mode over Glenn Beck’s statement about anti-Muslim Dutch MP Geert Wilders (who wants to ban the Koran and make Islam itself illegal). This is one of those Bizarro days, because I actually find myself agreeing with Glenn Beck. Geert Wilders is a far ...

Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 1:52:32 pm
Does this qualify as a mild form of child abuse: teaching children to distrust science and believe lies? I think it does. I don’t believe it’s appropriate to try to stop these parents (through legislation) from destroying their children’s ability to think critically, but it’s not hard to make a case ...

Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:23:07 pm
Remember the story last week about California State Senator Roy Ashburn, the Republican “family values” anti-gay politician who was arrested for driving drunk after leaving a Sacramento gay nightclub with an “unidentified male?” Well, today, Ashburn uncloseted himself: Capitol Alert: Sen. Roy Ashburn: ‘I’m gay’. “I’m gay,” Ashburn told KERN radio ...

Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 8:39:47 pm
I’d just like to express my gratitude to the gods of the Internet that I’m not associated with irrational anti-science lunatics like Tim Blair any more. UPDATE at 3/7/10 9:04:59 pm: And white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain is chiming in too, with another thousand-word essay! It’s a two-fer! I must say, it’s ...

Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:50:02 pm
In the latest example in a long line of dishonest attempts to smear the science of climate change, one of the main critical witnesses in the UK Parliament’s hearings on the CRU email leaks is a shill for the oil and gas industries. And of course, he didn’t disclose this fact ...

Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:21:06 pm
I posted a link to the audio of Pentagon shooter John Patrick Bedell’s “manifesto” last night, but here’s a summary of what’s on that audio recording: Pentagon Shooter Worshipped Private Property Rights, Denounced Government ‘Schemes’ Like Public Education. The California man who opened fire last night outside the Pentagon was ...

Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:14:41 am
The Southern Poverty Law Center has a report on the hatred and extremism that has reared its head on the right since the election of Barack Obama: Rage on the Right. And it’s especially relevant after the shootings at the Pentagon yesterday, apparently perpetrated by a virulently anti-government libertarian who drew ...

Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:29:03 pm
The Associated Press reports: WASHINGTON — AP sources: Suspect in Pentagon shooting identified as 36-year-old John Patrick Bedell. The Internet Archive has a series of deranged audio files by “JPatrickBedell:” Internet Archive: Free Download: Directions to Freedom, part two (25 November 2006). And a JPatrickBedell is also the author of this ...

Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:44:07 pm
Adam Holland takes a look through the Campaign for Liberty website (formerly Texas Congressman Ron Paul’s official campaign site, now a Paulian gathering place), and discovers a motherlode of really bad craziness — raving antisemitism, conspiracy theories, and extreme anti-government paranoia: What’s new on Ron Paul’s website?

Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:49:05 am
What is this, the third or fourth California Republican caught recently with his pants down? California state Senator Roy Ashburn, a “family values” candidate and vehement opponent of gay rights, was arrested yesterday for driving under the influence — right after leaving a downtown Sacramento gay nightclub with an unidentified male ...

Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:13:27 am
I’ve written several times about the striking similarity between the tactics of creationists and climate change deniers, and about the recent efforts by creationists to use the phony controversies over global warming to legitimize their silliness. So this story by Leslie Kaufman in the New York Times comes as no ...

Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:27:36 pm
Rick Perry, who has stacked the Texas State Board of Education with anti-science religious fanatic creationists for the better part of a decade, is leading in the Texas GOP primary again. Imagine my surprise.

Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:30:31 pm
Frank Gaffney’s post at Andrew Breitbart’s “Big Government” blog is titled, “Can This Possibly Be True?” I suggest an alternate title: “Could This Possibly Be Any More Paranoid and Ridiculous?” Now, thanks to an astute observation by Christopher Logan of the Logans Warning blog, we have another possible explanation for behavior ...

Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:30:44 pm
Currently one of the top stories at Drudge Report: an anti-John McCain, anti-FDA article at the John Birch Society website. Here’s Google’s cache of the JBS article.

Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:35:35 am
Here’s some interesting news from the far right scene in Europe. For years, the Belgian Vlaams Belang party (a European party promoted by “anti-jihad” bloggers such as Pamela Geller, Gates of Vienna, and Brussels Journal) tried to deny they had any connection to the neo-Nazi British National Party. Well, they just ...

Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:02:22 am
The health care summit meeting is now underway at the Blair House in Washington DC; the GOP seems to be completely united in their anti-government message. It’s being broadcast on the cable news channels, so here’s a thread to discuss…

Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 6:47:24 pm
The neo-Nazi sites are all lathered up about Ron Paul winning the CPAC straw poll. And they’re not happy about LGF’s take on it. Not at all. Posted by one of the troglodytes at Stormfront today: Polymath Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 3,966 Re: Ron Paul Wins CPAC Poll There is a Jewish Supremacist ...

Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:58:17 am
Randy Olson, who made a great little movie about the “intelligent design” creationism movement called “Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus,” interviews climate scientist Michael Mann about the barrage of recent trumped up climate change “controversies:” MIKE MANN Part II: INTERVIEW – Who will provide communication expertise and leadership ...