TagsTagsIn New Hanover, North Carolina, the County Board of Commissioners unanimously voted yesterday to turn down a state grant that would have covered medical services related to family planning, because it also would have covered contraceptive supplies. The all-male county board explains their reasoning: “The answers that I got were that ...
North Carolina, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Atavism, Republican Party, Contraception, Birth Control, Bad Craziness
Harvard Law Professor Derrick Bell's widow, Janet Dewart Bell, has a message for the right wing mob: "Have you no sense of decency?" Some other messages too. You'll want to watch this video. Video
Andrew Breitbart, Breitbart.com, Derrick Bell, Racism, President Obama, Right Wing, Bad Craziness
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
It's no longer surprising, but the right wing blogs are full of comments today praising the soldier who allegedly committed mass murder in Kandahar, killing men, women, and children asleep in their beds. Gateway Pundit: It’s a start. Now for the rest of the bastards. [...] Congratulations to the soldier...give him a heros ...
Fox News, Hate Speech, Comments, Right Wing, Bad Craziness, Racism, Bigotry, Gateway Pundit, Michelle Malkin
Rush Limbaugh may have "apologized" (disclaimer: not a real apology) for his caveman comments about Sandra Fluke, but the right wing blogosphere continues to spew torrents of venom at her. Tonight's case in point is hate group leader Pamela Geller, parroting the latest talking point that Ed Schultz is somehow equivalent ...
Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Pamela Geller, Hate Speech, Slut-Shaming, Bad Craziness
In case you were wondering what the right wing blogs have been saying about Sandra Fluke today, here's a representative example at The Jawa Report: Rush Limbaugh Apologizes to Sandra 'Not a Slut, I Just Like Having Sex Alot' Fluke. Why? I have no idea. Well, I do have an idea. ...
Sandra Fluke, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Bad Craziness, Right Wing
Today, the Washington Post weighs in on the absolutely vile remarks made by Rush Limbaugh this week, calling law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and "prostitute" and demanding that she post videos of herself having sex online: The GOP Can No Longer Avoid Its Rush Limbaugh Problem. For the good ...
Rush Limbaugh, Republican Party, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Hate Speech, Right Wing, Bad Craziness
In case you had any remaining doubt about how much Mitt Romney will pander to the social conservative right wing in order to get the Republican nomination, tonight he's coming out in support of the anti-contraception Blunt amendment. One day before a critical Senate vote that could loom large as ...
Mitt Romney, Election 2012, Contraception, Women's Rights, Birth Control, Misogyny, Bad Craziness
Frank Gaffney with hate group leader Pamela GellerHere's an astonishingly paranoid article in the Washington Times by anti-Muslim crusader Frank Gaffney, warning right wingers yet again that shariah law is about to take over America, and arguing that people who criticize Gaffney and his conspiracy theories are "precisely the same" ...
Pamela Geller, Frank Gaffney, Anti-Muslim, Bad Craziness, Bigot Brigade, Bloodthirsty
Giant wingnut via Shutterstock Man, who let the wingnuts out? Who? Who? Earlier we had our Wingnut Jaw-Dropper of the Day, but now we have our Crazed Right Wing Social Engineering Scheme of the Day, in a blatantly racist, hallucinatory article by Brion McClanahan at the Daily Caller: 'Damn, I just want ...
Daily Caller, Right Wing, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Racism, Reactionary
Race via Shutterstock OK, we have a winner in today's Wingnut Jaw-Dropper Sweepstakes, an article at religious right website cnsnews.com by Craig Bannister that reads like an exaggerated parody of right wing misogyny -- but it's not: Sex-Crazed Co-Eds Going Broke Buying Birth Control, Student Tells Pelosi Hearing Touting Freebie Mandate. ...
Women's Rights, Misogyny, Birth Control, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Looney Tunes
The most extreme religious fanatic in the Republican presidential race, Rick Santorum, is not going to back down on his crazed statement that John F. Kennedy makes him want to puke. It's hard to believe that this kind of hateful, childish ranting is going to get Santorum elected. But it might ...
Rick Santorum, Republican Party, Religious Right, JFK, Separation of Church and State, Bad Craziness
The Republican Party is promoting (or has already gotten signed into law) their Neanderthal "mandatory invasive ultrasound" laws in Virginia, Alabama, N. Carolina, Illinois, Texas, Arizona, Florida, Kansas, and Pennsylvania. And as of today, we can add Idaho to the list: Pre-Abortion Ultrasound Bill Introduced in Idaho. The Idaho bill was ...
Slut-Shaming, Abortion, Ultrasound, State Rape, Bad Craziness, Atavism, Cavemen, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Idaho, Republican Party
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
Pat Buchanan: voice of reason. Wait, what? I think if you get down into where [Santorum's] been discussing it on the merits and demerits of contraception...that’s a moral issue. [...] We talked about that in college endlessly, but I think you move into an area where people don’t understand yet and ...
Pat Buchanan, Republican Party, Bad Craziness, Birth Control, Contraception, Atavism, Women's Rights, Cavemen
Image credit: Shutterstock In Utah, Republicans are putting in place another right wing social engineering program -- a bill that will require all sex education classes to follow an abstinence-only curriculum prohibiting any instruction in contraception. A bill requiring sex education classes to teach an abstinence-only curriculum moved closer to becoming ...
Utah, Republican Party, Social Engineering, Religious Right, Contraception, Birth Control, Sex Education, Bad Craziness
Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock Like many religious right wing fanatics, Rick Santorum sees conspiracies everywhere. He can turn absolutely anything into a secret plot to persecute Christians, especially if it's endorsed by President Obama. The latest example: President Obama advocates for getting more young Americans into college -- Rick Santorum says it's ...
Rick Santorum, Republican Party, Election 2012, Atavism, Religious Right, Fanaticism, Bad Craziness, Persecution Complex
The GOP's uterus inspection device Here we go again. Now the Republican Party's slut-shaming craze has spread to Illinois, with yet another uterus inspection bill: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois women who want to get abortions might be required to either view an ultrasound before the procedure or decline to do so ...
Cavemen, Atavism, Bad Craziness, State Rape, Ultrasound, Abortion, Slut-Shaming, Illinois, Women's Rights, Misogyny
Today in Phoenix, Arizona, far right anti-immigrant icon Sheriff Joe Arpaio was thoughtful enough to brief Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on the status of his investigation into whether Barack Hussein Obama is a sekrit Moslem socialist Manchurian candidate: Arpaio: I Briefed Santorum on My Birth Certificate Investigation. Phoenix (CNN) – ...
Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Birthers, Rick Santorum, Conspiracy Theories, Right Wing, Far Right, Bad Craziness
The Virginia House was scheduled to vote today on the unbelievably insane Republican bill that would make it compulsory for women seeking abortions to first be penetrated by a vaginal ultrasound probe, but after this demonstration developed they decided to postpone the vote: Silent Protest Outside, Virginia House Puts Off ...
Virginia, Ultrasound, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Republican Party, Bad Craziness
Speaking to the Ohio Christian Alliance today, the GOP frontrunner for the presidential nomination, Rick Santorum, said that he's opposed to requiring health insurance to cover prenatal screening. How in the world can anyone be opposed to prenatal testing? Because, according to Santorum, it's just another part of President Obama's nefarious ...
Rick Santorum, Republican Party, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Prenatal Screening, Abortion, Bad Craziness, Religious Right, Theocracy
First Lady Michelle Obama is helping raise money for the presidential campaign by doing photo sessions, at $5K a pop. This is completely standard practice, not unusual at all in an election season. But at Fox Nation, the official Fox News forum, it's the occasion for yet another deluge of vile ...
Fox News, Racism, Bigotry, Bad Craziness, Right Wing, Hate Speech, Michelle Obama
For Rick Santorum, this isn't just a contest to win the office of the presidency -- it's an existential fight to the death with SATAN! Santorum: Satan Is Systematically Destroying America. This is not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war. This is a spiritual war. And ...
Rick Santorum, Election 2012, Satan, Fanaticism, Bad Craziness
This just happened on MSNBC, as Andrea Mitchell interviewed Rick Santorum's main money man, Foster Friess: Santorum backer Foster Friess just said this on @MSNBC: In his day, Girls used aspirin for birth control - they put it btwn their knees — Jonathan Cohn (@CitizenCohn) February 16, 2012 Conservative humor rears its ...
Republican Party, Rick Santorum, Birth Control, Contraceptives, Cavemen, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Bad Craziness
In the increasingly absurd Republican Party war on contraception, today GOP religious fanatics held a hearing on birth control -- with no women on the panel: Rep. Darrell Issa Bars Minority Witness, a Woman, on Contraception. A Capitol Hill hearing that was supposed to be about religious freedom and a ...
Republican Party, Contraceptives, Birth Control, Darrell Issa, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Bad Craziness