Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) seemingly tied Christianity to U.S. national security during a bizarre speech on the House floor on Thursday, the Huffington Post reported. "If you were completely areligious, completely atheistic, but you wanted to have a free country, and you wanted to have it safe and protected, then it would sound like, from historical purposes, that it might be a good thing ...

A grand jury indicted an Ohio "sovereign citizen" who tried to steal 11 homes by moving in and filing a "quiet title" to claim ownership. Prosecutors said Robert Carr found empty houses in the Cincinnati area, changed the locks and filed court documents in attempt to keep the homeowner or bank from making any subsequent claims on the property. The legal maneuver has been ...

How could we forget old Bradley Dean? The effeminate but homophobic, Islamophobic, and racist bigot. Now we can add Godwin spewer to his lexicon of fail. Right Wing Watch recently exposed him again, here's a quote from something he wrote in that horrible propaganda rag, World Net Daily or as many are fond of calling it, "World Nut Daily" [wingnut]A recent poll out from ...

So much for their undying love for the Constitution. Although we keep hearing from far-right activists that the Constitution is a Bible-based document that belongs solely to the Tea Party, today WorldNetDaily tells us that the nation's founders were wrong to replace the Articles of Confederation (1781-1789) with the Constitution. WND columnist Ilana Mercer writes that the anti-Federalists were prophetic and right after all, ...

The Bible says so. During his recent appearance on "The Gospel Truth" with Andrew Wommack, Barton explained that Scott Peterson, who was convicted of having murdered his wife and unborn child back in 2002, should not have received the death penalty because there were no eyewitnesses to the crime. Citing Deuteronomy 17:6, which states that "on the evidence of two witnesses or of three ...

More: O'Reilly Reflects on Mandela's Life: 'Great Man, but He Was a Communist' Bill O'Reilly's first invocation of Nelson Mandela following his death Thursday night was in a segment with Rick Santorum on the future of the Republican party. But that wasn't the strangest part of it, it was when O'Reilly felt the need to declare, a number of times, that Mandela was a ...

In which we find that not only the religious right, but also Ronald Reagan, Jeff Flake, and Grover Norquist backed the apartheid rulers of South Africa. The news today of Nelson Mandela's passing is also time to reflect on the complicated relationship between Mandela and his anti-apartheid African National Congress (ANC) with the US, which did not always support the anti-apartheid struggle. In fact, ...

President Obama says the U.S. government "must lead by example" when it comes to safeguarding the environment, so he's ordering federal agencies to use more clean energy. Under a presidential memorandum out Thursday, each agency would have until 2020 to get 20 percent of its electricity from renewable supplies. "Government agencies currently get less than 10 percent of their electricity from renewable sources such ...

I always thought they couldn't get cancer. Scientists have known for more than 150 years that sharks get cancer. And yet the belief persists that the animals don't suffer from the disease. That misconception is promoted in part by those who sell shark cartilage, who claim that the substance will help cure cancer, said David Shiffman, a shark researcher and doctoral student at the ...

Cool! No doubt Glenn Greenwald will think this is aimed specifically at him. Be afraid, dudebros, be very afraid. he Naval Research Lab just launched a drone from a submerged submarine - giving a huge edge to the future of special operations. It took six years to develop and launch an all-electric, fuel cell-powered, folding-wing drone aircraft from a submerged submarine. The eXperimental Fuel ...

The right's contretemps with Pope Francis has brought out into the open what is rarely mentioned in polite company: most visible and famous Catholics who fight on behalf of Catholic causes in America focus almost exclusively on sexual issues (as Pope Francis himself seemed to be pointing out, and chastising, in his America interview), but have been generally silent regarding a century-old tradition of ...

Lucky to be alive. Vimeo We've seen some pretty terrifying stuff captured on action camera before, but this one ties with the skydivers who got hurled into empty space when their planes collided. It was uploaded by a BASE jumper who, on November 24th, took a leap that was almost his last. The BASE jumper in question goes by the handle Subterminallyill on Vimeo, ...

(Washington, D.C.) - Today, hundreds of women gathered on Capitol Hill to urge Congress to take action and pass an inclusive and common-sense immigration reform bill that addresses the concerns of women and families. Following the rally, many of these women, including Jessica González-Rojas, executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, and Kimberly Inez McGuire, associate director for government relations and ...

We've been talking a lot about drones lately, including the very cool and much less terrifying Amazon Drone, but it is not some kind of alien humanoid warrior bee. Too bad sci fi fans. :( Speaking of drones, here's something I didn't know about. The surprising history of the worlds first drones, or remote controlled vehicles used in warfare, have their origins in the ...

More: The Vicious Babushka: IT'S PIE DAY! the Lemon Meringue Pie We have not had a Pie Day! in a while, and we also neglected to even post to this blog during Hanukkah while we were on vacation in Alabama. Anyway this Lemon Meringue Pie was made the old-fashioned way and took over an hour of back breaking hard work so try it out! ...

I'm happy that the board is strongly opposing this lawsuit against science and reason. The laughable lawsuit tries to further faux Creationist victimhood at the cost of taxpayer dollars, which is something fundamentalists like these never seem to tire of wasting. Will a federal court dismiss a lawsuit seeking to prevent Kansas from adopting the Next Generation Science Standards? In documents filed on December ...

There are indeed things we don't talk about and it's long past time we do talk about it, share it and stop feeling it's our fault. Mental, emotional and financial abuse is widespread. It may not leave bruises, but the injuries run deep. Women from all walks of life can be subject to it. It happens to people of all races, all faiths, all ...

Posting this as a San Diegan and why I haven't bought that fish rag called the Union Tribune in years. I've literally turned down free copies of it, its that worthless a paper: Recently Papa Doug has taken time out from cheerleading for a new football stadium that will cost the local taxpayers upwards of around $300 to 500 million (the same taxpayers who ...

More power to them. Anyone working full time should not also need welfare in order to survive. Workers walked off their jobs at fast-food restaurants across the country as part of a national protest against low wages, a day after President Barack Obama renewed his call for a minimum wage hike in a speech Wednesday. The action is part of a growing movement against ...

Driving into work this morning, I noticed like a half-dozen Tea Party license plates on SUVs and sports cars. That was an extra large number today; I only usually see one or two. I wondered what the average member of the Tea Party movement would think/feel about if they were transported back in time to the Eisenhower era. Of course I picked November 5, ...