TagsTagsOooo-klahoma. If the state didn't exist, the Onion would have to invent it. Today's story of totally insane right wing fear-mongering is brought to you by GOP State Sen. Ralph Shortey, who is very upset about food products that contain aborted fetuses. Not a joke, of course. It's simply impossible to ...
Oklahoma, Republican Party, Ralph Shortey, Abortion, Bad Craziness, Idiocy
News services report that tornados have touched ground near Piedmont and Union City in Oklahoma, west of Oklahoma City... Here's Weather Underground's Interactive Tornado Map to keep track in real time, and a thread for live updates from LGF readers... UPDATE at 5/24/11 3:02:09 pm News9.com's live video stream.
In Oklahoma, Republicans in the House of Representatives have passed a proposed constitutional amendment that eliminates affirmative action in state government, a move that's completely typical for today's GOP, where the bad old racists are coming out of the shadows everywhere. Republican Sally Kern explained the reasoning behind this amendment: ‘Blacks’ ...
Oklahoma, Racism, Republican Party, GOP, Sally Kern, Affirmative Action
Good news for people who value sanity: the Oklahoma Senate has effectively killed the ridiculous "anti-shariah" law passed by the loony Republicans in the Oklahoma House, perhaps realizing that America already has a very effective safeguard against takeover by shariah (i.e., the US Constitution). Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller, leader of the ...
Oklahoma, Shariah, Anti-Muslim, Bigotry, Republican Party, Idiocy, Right Wing, Pamela Geller, Shrieking Harpy
A federal judge in Oklahoma City has issued a temporary restraining order against the Republican-sponsored measure to ban shariah. The order stays in effect until a hearing on November 22. This news isn't really a surprise; as we noted yesterday this constitutional amendment is riddled with logical problems and overly broad. ...
Oklahoma, Shariah, Anti-Muslim, Bigotry, Republican Party, Idiocy, Right Wing
Oklahoma Republicans can celebrate the passage of their measure banning Islamic law (shariah) from ever being used in court cases (it never has been, but that's a minor point when you're saving America from the Moslem Peril). But as they're cracking open the champagne, someone should mention to them that they ...
Oklahoma, Shariah, Anti-Muslim, Bigotry, Republican Party, Idiocy, Right Wing
Yesterday the voters of Oklahoma sprang into action and passed landmark legislation to ban something that doesn't exist. Washington - Central US state of Oklahoma is to become the first state in the US to ban Islamic sharia law. That's the result of a voter initiative in the state that passed ...
Oklahoma, Shariah, Anti-Muslim, Bigotry, Republican Party, Idiocy, Right Wing
When visiting Oklahoma, you no longer need worry about being subjected to sharia law. I know this was a serious concern for many people. Oklahoma is poised to become the first state in the nation to ban state judges from relying on Islamic law known as Sharia when deciding cases. The ban ...
Oklahoma, Far Right, Republican Party, GOP, Religious Right, Sharia, Bigotry
Disgusting. The social conservatives in the Oklahoma House of Representatives have decided that women who are considering abortions should be forced to undergo an invasive ultrasound procedure, and they’re not going to let a governor’s veto stop them: Oklahoma House Overrides Abortion Restrictions Vetoes. OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma House voted ...
Oklahoma, Far Right, Republican Party, GOP, Abortion, Anti-Choice, Misogyny, Religious Right
Here go the anti-choice Republicans again; in Oklahoma a gang of GOP lawmakers has tried to pass a series of absurdly intrusive bills designed to intimidate and frighten women out of having abortions — including a bill that would mandate an invasive ultrasound procedure. Absolutely unbelievable! These social conservative creeps are ...
Oklahoma, Far Right, Republican Party, GOP, Abortion, Anti-Choice, Misogyny, Religious Right
So now we have Republicans in the Oklahoma state legislature (state Sen. Randy Brogdon, R-Owasso, a Republican candidate for governor, and state Rep. Charles Key, R-Oklahoma City) who think it’s a great idea to set up a heavily armed state militia: Okla. Tea Parties And Lawmakers Envision Militia. Frustrated by ...
Oklahoma, Militia, Far Right, Republican Party, GOP, Anti-Government, Cranks, Bad Craziness
A former Marine and current member of the Oathkeepers militia group, who was a featured speaker at the July 4th tea party in Oklahoma, has been arrested on suspicion of rape — and when his home was searched, police discovered a grenade launcher stolen from a California Army base: ...
Oklahoma, Tea Party, Terrorism, Domestic Terrorism, Right Wing, Extremism, Bad Craziness
In an attempt to threaten and scare women out of having abortions, Republicans in Oklahoma (Sen. Todd Lamb, R-Edmond, and Rep. Dan Sullivan, R-Tulsa) crafted a new law that blatantly violates the state and federal constitutions, requiring physicians to provide the state with detailed personal information about women who have ...
The new Oklahoma law that blatantly violated state and federal constitutions, by requiring that detailed information about each woman who has an abortion be published on the state’s website, has been delayed by at least a month: Okla. Abortion Publicity Law Blocked by Court. To challenge the state constitutionality of ...
In an attempt to threaten and scare women out of having abortions, Republicans in Oklahoma (Sen. Todd Lamb, R-Edmond, and Rep. Dan Sullivan, R-Tulsa) have created a new law that blatantly violates the state and federal constitutions, and requires physicians to provide the state with detailed personal information about women ...
You’ll never witness a better example of political pandering than this video, in which Indiana Republican Representative Mike Pence ducks, dodges, and refuses to answer simple questions from Chris Matthews about whether he accepts the theory of evolution — even including the obligatory “global warming” diversion that we’ve seen in ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Oklahoma, GOP, Republican Party, Anti-Science
The new Republican Party platform of Oklahoma requires teaching creationism in public schools. And people wonder why I call this “the GOP’s big problem.” The Platform of the 2009 Tulsa County Republican Convention. (PDF) 7. We believe that the scientific evidence supporting Biblical creation should be included in Oklahoma public schools curricula, ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Oklahoma, GOP, Republican Party, Anti-Science