TagsTagsOn Meet the Press, David Gregory pushed GOP House Speaker John Boehner pretty hard to repudiate the moronic, essentially racist Birther conspiracy theory, but Boehner refused to do it. Let's face it -- the Republican Party will never risk alienating these people, because an ignorant, rage-filled base of reactionary voters ...
Republican Party, Right Wing, Far Right, Elections, Birthers, Nirthers, Conspiracy Theories, John Boehner, Meet the Press
The new Missouri House of Representatives majority leader, Timothy W. Jones, elected unanimously to the position by the new Republican caucus, is an unapologetic Birther.
Republican Party, Right Wing, Far Right, Elections, Birthers, Nirthers, Conspiracy Theories
It gets worse. Not only is the incoming Republican leadership planning to launch inquisitions into their political enemies, they're plotting a full-out assault on the science of climate change. If the GOP wins control of the House next week, senior congressional Republicans plan to launch a blistering attack on the ...
Republican Party, Right Wing, Far Right, Elections, Global Warming, Climate Change
The incoming religious right Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Lamar Smith, is making it very clear today that he intends to mercilessly hound the Obama administration. The San Antonio Congressman who is in line to become chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee is promising 'a number of ...
Republican Party, Right Wing, Far Right, Elections, Lamar Smith, Religious Right
The latest Gallup poll shows that Tea Party-fueled blind rage is probably going to result in big wins for the Republican Party. This will go down as the most thoroughly astroturfed election in history. President Obama had better warm up his veto pen. Get ready for two years of GOP-driven gridlock, attempts ...
Republican Party, Right Wing, Far Right, Elections, Poll, Gallup
The latest Newsweek poll shows that President Obama's approval rating has jumped. The poll finds that 48 percent of registered voters would be more likely to vote for Democrats, compared with 42 percent who lean Republican (those numbers are similar to those in the last NEWSWEEK Poll, which found Democrats ...
New York Times writer Danny Hakim reports that Rudy Giuliani has decided not to run for Governor of New York. Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has decided not to run for governor next year after months of considering a candidacy, according to people who have been told of the decision. Many ...
Pro-western parties have won an important victory against Hezbollah in Lebanon: Lebanon’s pro-Western majority declares victory. BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s pro-Western coalition declared victory early Monday, as local television stations reported the faction had successfully fended off a serious challenge by the Shiite militant group Hezbollah and its allies to ...
Lebanon, Hezbollah, Fuad Saniora, Democracy, Hizballah, Elections
Joshua Muravchik looks at recent developments that show Islamists Losing Ground in the Middle East. Are George W. Bush’s “democratization” policies bearing fruit? The results of Kuwait’s elections last month — in which Islamists were rebuffed and four women were elected to parliament — will likely reinvigorate the movement for greater ...
Kuwait, Women's Rights, Islam, Elections, Democracy, Islamism, Militant Islam
Fantastic news from Kuwait, where the modern world finally seems to be taking hold: In a first, four women elected to parliament. Some great news for women in the conservative Persian Gulf: Kuwaitis elected their first-ever women lawmakers [second item] to parliament. Voters in four districts elevated women into parliamentary jobs. It’s ...
The latest news from Israel’s elections: Both parties claim victory and race to form rival coalitions. Both Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s Kadima party and Binyamin Netanyahu’s opposition Likud styled themselves the winners of Tuesday’s elections, after exit polls broadcast on the three television networks showed Kadima would be the largest ...
Dave at Israellycool is Liveblogging the Israeli Elections.
Great photos and reports from military service members on the Iraqi election, at North Shore Journal: Iraqi Provincial Elections Succeed.
Bret Stephens has a good piece in the Wall Street Journal, with a question for Barack Obama: Iraq Is Obama’s Mideast Pillar. So what are you going to do about the one bright spot on your map — an Arab country that is genuinely democratic, increasingly secular and secure, anti-Iranian ...
Iraq has truly come a long way from its nightmarish days of dictatorship: Iraq wraps up election with no major violence. BAGHDAD – Iraqis passed through security checkpoints and razor-wire cordons to vote Saturday in provincial elections that are considered a crucial test of the nation’s stability as U.S. officials ...
Public outrage is building in Canada, after election officials decided to allow Muslim women to vote in all federal elections while in disguise. Canada’s chief electoral officer will be asked to reverse his decision to allow veiled people to vote, or explain himself to a parliamentary committee. If Elections Canada’s chief ...
Canada, Elections, Women's Rights, Misogyny, LGF, Radical Islam
Canada will now allow Muslim women to vote in all federal elections while in disguise. Veiled women will be able to vote in the upcoming Quebec byelections — and all future federal contests — without showing their faces, Elections Canada says. “It applies throughout the country,” said spokesman John Enright. “It ...
LGF, Canada, Radical Islam, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Elections
Iran says they have video shot by an unmanned drone showing a US aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Iran’s Arabic language television station broadcast footage it claimed showed a US aircraft carrier cruising in Gulf waters it said was taken by an unmanned Iranian drone. The brief ...
Iran, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Weapons, Islam, Nuclear Proliferation, Israel, Europe, Elections
More approval for the rise of the Appeasement Party, from the friendly mullahs of Tehran: Khamenei calls elections a victory for Iran. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday called U.S. President George W. Bush’s defeat in congressional elections a victory for Iran. Bush has accused Iran of ...
Iran, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Weapons, Islam, Nuclear Proliferation, Israel, Europe, Elections
Mark in Mexico is liveblogging the Mexican elections, now that Mexican election laws allow media coverage.
As Israel prepares to go to the polls, Ynet reports that the defense establishment is dealing with 85 terror warnings, 14 of them concrete. Islamic Jihad is the main culprit; they’ll be the ones carrying out most of the attacks, now that Hamas needs to keep a slightly cleaner image. ...