Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:22:33 pm
The right wing astroturfers are calling in their markers. After defeating Feingold, Johnson himself has turned to K Street for help - hiring homeland security lobbyist Donald H. Kent Jr. as his chief of staff. Johnson is not alone: Many incoming GOP lawmakers have hired registered lobbyists as senior aides. Several ...

Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:12:17 am
Remember Jeffrey Lord’s rank piece of race-baiting at the American Spectator saying that Shirley Sherrod’s story of the lynching of a black man was a lie, because the man wasn’t hanged? Well, that disgusting little rationalization brought some heavy criticism down on Lord, as you might imagine. So today he’s moving ...

Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:57:08 pm
In Oakland, police have announced that Byron Williams, who was injured in a shootout with police on Sunday, was on his way to commit mass murder at offices of the ACLU and the Tides Foundation. OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ― Police say a California man who engaged in a freeway shootout ...

Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:49:01 am
Before the start of Stage 10 in the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong gave an in-depth interview to reporters about the recent doping allegations from Floyd Landis; VeloNews has a good report on it: Lance Armstrong hits back at systematic doping allegations, addresses ownership of USPS team. Speaking to reporters ...

Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:00:00 pm
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) gave the keynote speech at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver last weekend, and brought the crowd to its feet by saying President Obama is a tyrant who is turning America into a ‘nation of slaves.’ In a room of 600 conservative voters brought together by ...

Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:49:36 pm
As the bad craziness of the right wing continues to accelerate, a Republican committee at the Idaho GOP convention has voted to support creating a state militia. IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — Could Idaho get an all-volunteer state militia that’s out from under any federal control? A Butte County delegate to the ...

Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:39:02 am
Far right evangelist Lou Engle is highly influential among the social conservative wing of the GOP (which is pretty much the entire GOP); he has hosted “prayercasts” attended by top Republican politicians including former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, and is involved in many other high profile political activities. And this “man ...

Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:28:52 pm
And people said I was exaggerating when I compared the religious right to Saudi Arabia. Who Is Pastor Jeff Owens? [Video] (Hat tip: beekiller.)

Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:36:58 pm
This month, the two main Ron Paul-related websites (“Campaign for Liberty” and “The Daily Paul”) both published eulogies for author Eustace Mullins, who recently died at the age of 86. The Daily Paul’s version: Eustace Mullins Passes On. Legendary author of scores of books and pamphlets demolishing the lies of ...

Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:03:27 am
One of the most ignorant (and often intentionally deceptive) “common sense” talking points promoted by the climate denial industry is that cold weather proves global warming theories are a hoax. Every time there’s a blizzard, this hoary old chestnut is taken out of the freezer, thawed out, and hyped by ...

Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:58:52 am
Here’s a report by Jeff Woods at the Nashville Scene on yet another lunatic speaker at the first National Tea Party Convention, homophobic theocrat Judge Roy Moore: At Tea Party, Gay-Bashing ‘Ten Commandments Judge’ Calls Obama Immoral. Leave it to the “Ten Commandments judge” to inject gay bashing into the ...

Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:31:41 am
Former TV weatherman Anthony Watts has been engaged in an ongoing attack on the reliability of the US network of surface weather stations, claiming that poor placement of the stations has resulted in data that’s biased toward the warm side. Watts set up the website SurfaceStations.org to coordinate photographic evidence ...

Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 1:08:48 pm
Way out west there was this fella I wanna tell ya about. Goes by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least that was the handle his loving parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. See, this Lebowski, he called himself “The Dude”. Now, “Dude” - ...