TagsTagsFormer Alabama GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Johnson has left his wife and family and moved to New Zealand, where he'll be free to donate as much sperm as he wants. Bill Johnson, a former Alabama gubernatorial candidate, has left his wife and family in Prattville to be with babies he ...
Alabama, Family Values, Republican Party, New Zealand, Sperm Donations, WTF!?
Almost missed this one; remember when the entire right wing blogosphere went into a race-baiting frenzy over a story from Alabama, in which a white man was beaten by a group of African Americans who, according to the wingnuts, said it was "justice for Trayvon Martin?" Well, the story was bogus. ...
Trayvon Martin, Alabama, Hate Crime, Right Wing, Race-Baiting
The polls are just closing in Alabama and Mississippi, so here's a thread to keep up on breaking news from "the most important race in our lifetime." -- Newt Gingrich
Republican Party, Election 2012, Alabama, Mississippi, Primaries, Religious Right
Public Policy Polling has some very depressing results to report in a survey of Republican voters in Alabama and Mississippi. Not to put too fine a point on it, but a disturbingly large percentage of these voters are simply deranged. Majorities in both states believe that President Obama is a Muslim, ...
Poll, Birthers, Conspiracy Theories, Alabama, Mississippi, Racism, Evolution, Bad Craziness
The GOP's uterus inspection device Here we go again. Now the Republican Party's slut-shaming craze has spread to Alabama, with yet another uterus inspection bill requiring women seeking abortions to undergo trans-vaginal ultrasounds. And notice that State Sen. Clay Scofield openly admits there's no medical reason whatsoever; the only reason for this insane ...
Slut-Shaming, Abortion, Ultrasound, State Rape, Bad Craziness, Atavism, Cavemen, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Alabama, Republican Party
Another American visionary died today, a man whose influence on the social landscape of the United States cannot be measured: Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Civil Rights Pioneer, Dies at 89. [Audio] The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a pioneer of the civil rights movement, died Wednesday in Birmingham, Ala. Shuttlesworth led Birmingham's battle against ...
Today the Republican governor of Alabama, Robert Bentley, signed a law outlawing abortion after 20 weeks -- the fifth red state this year to do so. Apparently this is the Republican plan to create jobs and get the economy back on track -- by forcing women into back alley coat hanger ...
Abortion, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Republican Party, GOP, Alabama
The new anti-immigration law just signed by Alabama's Republican governor Robert Bentley explicitly violates the Bill of Rights's provisions against unreasonable search and seizure, by requiring police to arrest anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally if they can't produce documentation -- when stopped for any reason: Alabama ...
The people of Alabama may have thought they were electing a Governor, but they got a Republican Ayatollah. Alabama Republican Governor Robert Bentley said in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day message Monday that he does not consider Americans who do not accept Jesus Christ as their savior to be ...
Theocracy, Bigotry, Religious Right, Dominionism, Robert Bentley, Alabama, Creationism
Dale Peterson ran for Alabama Agriculture Commissioner in the GOP primary. He lost. Now he’s endorsing John McMillan, and you’d better not let him catch you on his lawn. [Video]
Alabama, Dale Peterson, Shotgun, Bad Craziness, GOP, Republican Party
Today’s right wing jawdropper: in Alabama, the “True Republican PAC” is running an advertisement mocking Republican gubernatorial candidate Bradley Byrne for supporting the teaching of evolution in schools. Yes, you read that right — these “True Republicans” are so proudly, invincibly ignorant that they’re making fun of a fellow Republican for ...
Bradley Byrne, Alabama, GOP, Republican Party, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Creationism, Evolution, Roy Moore, Idiocy
This is a live video feed from WHNT.com in Huntsville, Alabama, where reports are that a female staff member has shot and killed three people on the UA-Huntsville campus. WHNT Video
He’s a theocrat who has said he wants to rewrite the Constitution to make it more like the Bible, he’s a creationist, a homophobe, a smiling Fox News host — and that makes him a perfect candidate for Alabama: Alabama poll: Mike Huckabee is 2012 front-runner. In a reminder of ...
Mike Huckabee, Theocracy, Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Alabama, Judge Roy Moore
Emboldened by the success of the stealth creationist bill signed into law by Bobby Jindal in Louisiana, creationists in Alabama are making another attempt to sneak their agenda into schools. This is only the latest in a series of bills masquerading under the language of “academic freedom,” that are really ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, Alabama
An antisemitic white supremacist is running for Attorney General in the state of Alabama. In the Democratic Party. Ala. Candidate’s Views Startle Democrats. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Democratic Party leaders are wondering what to do about a candidate for attorney general who denies the Holocaust occurred and wants to “reawaken white racial ...