Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:11:30 pm
At Facebook, an eruption of support from the wingnut roots for Joe Stack, who flew an airplane into an Austin building this morning: Joseph Andrew Stack | Facebook. I wish I could say I was surprised, but there you go. There was a much larger outpouring of support for convicted anti-abortion ...

Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:04:34 pm
Tim Holmes has an excellent in-depth look at the manufacturing of one of the latest phony scandals in the recent deluge of anti-AGW propaganda: the claim that the IPCC AR4 made “false predictions” about the Amazon rain forest: “AmazonGate”: how the denial lobby and a dishonest journalist created a fake ...

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 6:27:26 pm
The National Post’s Jonathan Kay is not a liberal. He attended the Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, and filed this report for Newsweek: Tea Party Movement Is Full of Conspiracy Theories. (I know. I’ve only been trying to point this out for the past year.) After I spent the weekend ...

Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:28:19 am
During the 2008 Presidential election one of my main concerns about Barack Obama was that he would take a soft line toward the Hamas terrorist gang. And there were reasons to be concerned; to name just a couple, Obama was closely acquainted with several well-known Palestinian advocates in the US, ...

Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:42:22 pm
Uh oh. According to a group called “One People’s Project,” ACORN sting filmmaker James O’Keefe was photographed attending a 2006 white nationalist conference titled “Race and Conservatism.” James O’Keefe’s race problem. An activist organization that monitors hate groups has produced a photo of O’Keefe at a 2006 conference on “Race ...

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.” ...

Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:08:21 pm
The theory of anthropogenic climate change got some support from an unwanted source, in the latest anti-US audiotape from “Osama bin Laden.” “Talk about climate change is not an ideological luxury but a reality,” Mr. bin Laden was quoted as saying in a report on Al Jazeera’s English-language Web site. ...

Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:58:54 am
The jury in Wichita, Kansas, deliberated for just 37 minutes today before finding anti-abortion fanatic Scott Roeder guilty of first degree murder in the killing of Dr. George Tiller. Roeder testified that he shot Tiller in the head May 31 in the foyer of Tiller’s church in Wichita because he ...

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 1:55:08 pm
With all the traveling, I forgot to mention that I’m now cross-posting at True/Slant, at The Lizard Annex. Occasionally I’ll do pieces that will only appear there, so you may want to bookmark it. Naturally, some of the usual anti-LGF bots have already appeared in the comments over there, so I ...

Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:59:52 pm
It’s odd reading all these articles about me, all of a sudden, and even odder to read the blog posts. Kind of like seeing movies about yourself written from hundreds of different viewpoints, some of them taking the angle that you’re the most despicable creature to walk the earth since ...

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 ...

Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:54:54 pm
Yes, Rush Limbaugh again. This time he’s embroiled in a controversy over statements about “Wall Street bankers” (aka “Jews”). Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement calling Limbaugh’s comments “borderline antisemitism.” Now Ben Smith reports that Norman Podhoretz has ridden to Limbaugh’s defense and accused Foxman of ‘chutzpah’. Oh my achin’ head. (Hat ...

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 ...

Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:27:42 pm
Here are a few words about yours truly in a piece by Barrett Brown at Vanity Fair. Meanwhile, a blogger mentioned in Brown’s article, neo-Confederate Robert Stacy McCain, is trying to get his followers to “retweet” anti-LGF propaganda he’s posting: Robert McCain (rsmccain) on Twitter. McCain wants people to link to his ...

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 1:36:31 pm
Israel has been quietly developing an anti-missile system that really works, at least on the small scale — when you have hostile groups living right next door with no compunctions about using missiles to kill people indiscriminately: Israel says tests on Iron Dome missile shield have been a success. Israel ...

Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:12:06 pm
You have got to be kidding. Tonight we learn that the religious right isn’t just anti-science — they’re anti-science fiction too: Beware of Science Fiction. Science fiction takes the reader into a strange world without God. Oh, there might be “a god,” a “force,” but it is definitely not the God ...

Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:52:28 am
Ryan Mauro claims that I called him a racist — I didn’t — and posts yet another one of those straw man attacks for which the right wing has become infamous: Darnit! Charles Johnson Catches Me Being a Racist! Whatever Shall I Do? Oddly, he includes no link to LGF in ...

Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:36:42 pm
They laid low for more than a year, waiting for attention to go elsewhere, but the Louisiana Family Forum and right wing Republican legislators are now poised to use Louisiana Governor (and part time exorcist) Bobby Jindal’s stealth creationist bill to sneak the teaching of this anti-science doctrine into public ...

Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:07:11 am
Here’s the disgusting religious right story of the day, as the New York Times reports on a visit by three US evangelical leaders to Uganda that helped trigger the full scale persecution of homosexuals: After Americans Visit, Uganda Weighs Death for Gays. KAMPALA, Uganda — Last March, three American evangelical ...

Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 10:43:47 am
Hateblogger Jim Hoft replies to my post pointing out that he linked to an antisemitic, anti-America Bulgarian conspiracy website, by lashing out and accusing me of “supporting child porn:” A New Low… Charles Johnson Now Supporting Child Porn in Classrooms & Fisting Kits at School Functions. Please note, Mr. Hoft: Eugene ...

Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 2:40:02 pm
Gateway Pundit (Jim Hoft) is giddy with praise for the “Bulgarian media,” because they picked up on his disgusting homophobic smears of Obama’s education minister Kevin Jennings: The State-Run Media Won’t Touch It… But Bulgarians Not Afraid to Report on Jennings Fistgate Scandal. Hoft thinks the American media are deliberately ignoring ...

Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 1:09:07 pm
After bloggers began pointing them out, Minnesota Republican State Senate candidate Mike Parry deleted more than 40 racist and anti-gay comments from his Twitter feed: Senate candidate scrubs racist comments from Twitter. Among the tweets erased by Parry was a May 27 comment about President Obama: “read the exclusive on ...