Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:51:07 pm
Image via Shutterstock Even if the US had something to do with this, the government would probably never admit it, but I think it's doubtful. North Korea's network is very small by world standards, and it wouldn't require a nation state to take it offline with a simple brute force DDoS ...

Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:21:20 am
I knew things had swung to the radical right in Nevada, but the Reno News & Review has a jaw-dropper of a report today on the Republican picked by the GOP to be speaker of the state assembly, Ira Hansen -- a paleoconservative caveman who wrote a column for years ...

Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 10:58:08 am
Spreading rapidly through the right wing blogosphere today, we see yet another completely false BOMBSHELL BREAKING STORY that hits two of the hottest wingnut hot buttons: Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. The wacky gang of crack right wing journalists at Breitbart "News" have not one but two articles pushing the claim ...

Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 3:06:05 pm
Dr. Craig Spencer in Guinea More good news from the Ebola front tonight as New York's Dr. Craig Spencer continues to improve, is playing a banjo and riding an exercise bike, and is expected to be released from isolation soon; another success story for US medicine against this potentially lethal virus. ...

Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:32:15 pm
Wow. This is an extraordinary statement from Greenwald, Poitras, Scahill and Cook, throwing Matt Taibbi under the bus and backing it over him several times: The Inside Story of Matt Taibbi's Departure From First Look Media - the Intercept. In June, Taibbi, Greenwald, Poitras, and Scahill wrote a joint letter ...

Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:17:24 pm
Video Good news from the Ebola front: Amber Vinson, the second nurse who contracted Ebola through close contact with Liberian patient Thomas Eric Duncan, has now been declared free of the disease and discharged from the hospital. Vinson is one of two Dallas nurses who was diagnosed with Ebola after treating ...

Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:46:57 am
Iowa Republican Joni Ernst is running for the Senate seat vacated by Democrat Tom Harkin, and she's been campaigning on her history as a person who loves castrating hogs, often saying in her speeches that she plans to "make Obama squeal." She's super-classy. And she's also a true far right extremist, ...

Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 10:35:23 am
The new conservative cause is attacking history courses because they don't teach enough "American exceptionalism," and focus instead on liberal left wing progressive stuff like facts and truth. The latest example is taking place in Colorado right now, where the state Board of Education is under siege by idiotic demagogues ...

Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 5:30:57 pm
I have a pretty tough shell after 13 years of blogging, but this report by Elisa Crouch about 18-year old Michael Brown, gunned down by a police officer yesterday in Missouri, brought tears to my eyes. What a tragic loss to the world. Michael Brown Remembered as a 'Gentle Giant'. ...

Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 6:08:28 pm
The cheerful sign outside Jane Cornell's summer school classroom in Pennsylvania's wealthiest county reads "Welcome" and "Bienvenidos" in polished handwriting. Inside, giggling grade-schoolers who mostly come from homes where Spanish is the primary language worked on storytelling with a tale about a crocodile going to the dentist. This poster and ...

Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:07:42 am
Over the weekend, President Obama issued the following press release on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, at the close of Ramadan: As Muslims throughout the United States and around the world celebrate Eid-al-Fitr, Michelle and I extend our warmest wishes to them and their families. This last month has been ...

Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 11:58:53 am
The man in the photo below, Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, was born & raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza. He studied hard and received a scholarship to study medicine in Cairo, then went on to earn a diploma in Obstetrics and Gynecology from the University of London. He subsequently ...

Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 4:45:00 pm
Tucson City Councilwoman Regina Romero on the right, Dolores Huerta on the left, and an unidentified man in the middle in this photo posted to Twitter by Ms. Romero. Contrast with a certain Southern California town: Stop deporting kids and tearing apart families. That's the message Tucson's City Council could send to ...

Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 6:15:17 pm
So, over the weekend this happened: a sitting Republican governor in a major state openly advocated sedition against the US government. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Saturday night accused President Barack Obama and other Democrats of waging wars against religious liberty and education and said that a ...

Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:18:25 pm
Remember when Bobby Jindal called on Republicans to "stop being the stupid party?" Well, after doing his best to destroy the Louisiana public school system and allow religious charter schools to receive state funding, Jindal has now decided to withdraw Louisiana from the Common Core educational standards program. Simmering tensions over ...

Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:01:57 pm
It looks like we have another sovereign citizen trying to murder police. ***CAVEAT*** It is not yet confirmed that the links below are one and the same with this person. A Bureau of Land Management ranger and a California highway patrolman were shot during an armed confrontation on Saturday, the ...

Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:00:11 am
As details begin to emerge about the shootings in Las Vegas yesterday, it's clear that this is yet another case of extreme right wing terrorism fueled by the dangerous rhetoric of the Bundy Ranch loons and right wing media's constant incitement: Shooters in Metro Ambush That Left Five Dead Spoke ...

Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 1:14:42 pm
Here's Senator Rand Paul speaking at the Republican Party of Texas state convention today, then proudly broadcasting his "joke" over Twitter. Because there's nothing funnier than sending Democrats to be killed by the Taliban, is there? I'm sure it brought the house down. "Mr. President, let's set up a new trade. ...

Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 11:03:09 am
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina gave advocates of charter schools and the privatization of public education a rare chance: a blank slate on which to construct their utopian plan of childhood education. There are now no traditional public schools in New Orleans. They've all been replaced by charter schools, which are ...

Sat, May 17, 2014 at 6:58:59 pm
Here we see the kind of narcissistic moron who gives all bloggers a bad name (not that most right wing bloggers don't deserve it): Activist Arrested After Photographing Thad Cochran's Bedridden Wife. A Mississippi political activist has been arrested for allegedly breaking into the nursing home of Sen. Thad Cochran's ...

Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 9:02:51 am
In an interesting twist to the BLM vs. Bundy standoff in Nevada, the BLM has released 400 cattle they rounded up belonging to Cliven Bundy, a rancher at odds with the government for 20 years. See previous LGF posts here and here. Several hundred Bundy backers converged on Bureau of ...

Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 3:36:56 pm
I'll need to put the LGF web server into maintenance mode for a short time, probably within the next 3 hours, in order to complete some work cleaning up the mess created by this nasty Heartbleed apocalypse you might have heard about. The good news is that our servers are ...

Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:23:49 pm
Getty Image CPAC is currently having its annual shindig in Maryland. CPAC is run by the American Conservative Union, and the event needs lots of money to happen. But it's not grassroots organizations that are funding this event. It's heavy hitters and deep pockets. Who's really sponsoring CPAC? It's big energy companies, tobacco, ...

Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:14:41 am
I was about to write that it was nice to see a Republican standing up to the all-powerful anti-science wing of the party for a change, but then I checked, and Gov. Jay Nixon is a Democrat, which comes as no surprise at all: Evolution Bill Not Best for Education, ...

Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:04:55 am
Turns out that the George Polk Award is given out by Long Island University which is also home to the Homeland Security Management Institute. Polk Award page at Long Island University: The George Polk Awards are conferred annually to honor special achievement in journalism. They were established by Long Island University ...