LGF Archives: April 2009
Texas Creationist School Board Chairman Gets the Boot
Science | Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:05:43 pm PDT
Republican Governor Rick Perry appointed Don McLeroy twice as chairman of the Texas State Board of Education, in a sustained effort to sneak the teaching of creationism into public schools, but tonight the confirmation of the creationist dentist is reportedly dead in the water. The confirmation of State Board of ...
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We Got Love Mail!
Moonbats | Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:07:16 pm PDT
From a reader in Honolulu, Hawaii, possibly located somewhere near Punchbowl in Makiki, here’s a really lovely email from the phony return address “yourmom@lgfsucks.com,” titled (in an apparent attempt to trick me into reading it, even though the return address might be seen as a giveaway): “your excellent service” ... ...
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Oklahoma GOP Platform Requires Teaching Creationism
Science | Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 7:03:57 pm PDT
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, ...
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A Book to Fight Leftists With
Moonbats | Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:59:05 pm PDT
Following my post on “Books to Fight Creationists With,” a reader emailed today to ask whether I could recommend a book or books to combat leftist propaganda in the same way; specifically the very common moonbat talking point that “real communism has never been tried.” In a way, this is a ...
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Thursday Afternoon Open
Open | Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:10:01 pm PDT
Life is like a trumpet. If you don’t put anything into it, you don’t get anything out. — W. C. Handy
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ADL Condemns Remarks by Geert Wilders
US News | Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:29:26 pm PDT
The Anti-Defamation League has issued a condemnation of Geert Wilders, currently on tour in South Florida ostensibly promoting “free expression”—except in the case of Muslims: DL Condemns Anti-Islam Remarks Made by Dutch Parliamentarian During Appearances in S. Florida. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) strongly condemns remarks made over the last few ...
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Thursday Afternoon Music: Bela Fleck, 'Spain'
Video | Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:37:49 pm PDT
Chick Corea’s classic tune “Spain,” in a unique version by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, featuring Victor Wooten (bass) and Roy “FutureMan” Wooten (drumitar). [Video]
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Pat Buchanan Compares Nazi Demjanjuk to Jesus Christ
Opinion | Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:50:09 am PDT
In a recent column for Human Events, Pat Buchanan compares Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk to Jesus Christ: The True Haters. The spirit behind this un-American persecution has never been that of justice tempered by mercy. It is the same satanic brew of hate and revenge that drove another ...
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Swine Flu Is Evolution in Action
Health | Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:55:24 am PDT
Last weekend in a post about swine flu, I remarked that the appearance of this virus is a perfect example of rapid evolution in action. Amazingly, this triggered a couple of emails from people denying that viruses evolve, and one comment from a reader who said I was “becoming an ...
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Associated Press Suddenly Remembers How to Fact-Check
Media | Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:26:32 am PDT
The honeymoon of Barack Obama and the Associated Press is definitely over: FACT CHECK: Obama disowns deficit he helped shape. WASHINGTON – “That wasn’t me,” President Barack Obama said on his 100th day in office, disclaiming responsibility for the huge budget deficit waiting for him on Day One. It actually was ...
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PETA Wants to Set Up a Stinky Hog Farm at the Capitol
Moonbats | Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:58:09 am PDT
I’m no fan of PETA (in fact, I think they’re idiots), but I have to admit I kind of like this idea: PETA wants to bring hog farm to Capitol. (Not for the same reasons as PETA, though.) As the “swine flu” outbreak continues to make headlines, the animal rights group ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:10:22 pm PDT
Tiny green birds skate over the surface of the room. A naked girl prepares a basin with steaming water, And in the corner away from the hearth, the red wheels Of an up-ended chariot slowly turn. After a long moment, the door to the other world opens And the golden figure of a man appears. ...
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Books to Fight Creationists With
Science | Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:43:10 pm PDT
A letter from a Texas lizard in a predicament: Recently moving to East Texas has brought me in close contact with many who believe the earth is 6000 years old and that teaching any aspect of evolution is a Satanic plot. I need some guidance as to what to read ...
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Climate Change: Halfway There?
Environment | Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:24:06 pm PDT
Uh oh. Humans Halfway to Causing Dangerous Climate Change. When human injection of carbon into the atmosphere reaches 1 trillion tons, dangerous climate change with average global warming of more than 2 Celsius degrees will likely occur, a new analysis finds. And humans are hurrying toward that 1 trillion mark. So ...
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Onion: Coup at UN Building
Video | Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:51:05 pm PDT
Breaking news from The Onion... [Video]
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Vlaams Belang and Scientology - Together at Last
World | Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:32:52 pm PDT
Belgian neofascists Vlaams Belang join with American pseudo-religio-fascists Scientology, in one of the most surreal moronic convergences you’ll ever see. [Video] How much weirder is it going to get? (Hat tip: MagnaniomousCoward.)
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Obama Speaks
Politics | Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:22:02 pm PDT
Here’s a thread to dish about President Obama’s “First 100 Days” press conference...
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Snowe: 'Ideological Purity Is Not the Ticket Back'
Politics | Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:16:53 pm PDT
Republican Senator Olympia Snowe follows Jon Huntsman Jr. in an attempt to stage an intervention on the GOP: We Didn’t Have to Lose Arlen Specter. There is no plausible scenario under which Republicans can grow into a majority while shrinking our ideological confines and continuing to retract into a regional ...
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Utah Governor Huntsman to GOP: 'You Can't Just Say No'
Politics | Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:12:23 pm PDT
Utah’s Republican Governor Jon Huntsman is trying to talk the GOP down from the ledge. With the party reeling from Sen. Arlen Specter’s defection, a prominent moderate Republican governor is warning that GOP leaders in Washington have failed to offer a positive alternative to President Obama’s initiatives. “You can’t just say ...
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Two More DHS 'Left Wing Extremism' Reports
US News | Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:37:15 am PDT
Since people continue to rant about the Department of Homeland Security’s report on “right wing extremism,” saying things like: I won’t hold my breath waiting for a “left wing extremist” report. ... here are two more DHS reports on “left wing extremism,” available through Wikileaks, and just like the “right ...
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We Got Mail!
Moonbats | Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:38:45 am PDT
Our post titled “Rebranding Hate in the Age of Obama” triggered several hate mails, including this charmer titled “You lost me,” from a self-identified “white male” in New York who seems to think I’ll be crushed when he doesn’t visit LGF any more. Sorry Charles but I am no ...
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Osama Bin Dead (For a Long Time)
World | Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:43:27 am PDT
What I’ve believed for a long time about Osama bin Laden — that he’s the world’s most talkative corpse — is starting to leak out from sources in Pakistan: Bin Laden could be dead, whereabouts unknown: Zardari. ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari said on Monday that the ...
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Pelosi Admits Being Told About Waterboarding, But...
Politics | Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:15:03 am PDT
In an interview with CNN’s Candy Crowley, Nancy Pelosi has changed her story again; now she says she was briefed on waterboarding—but she was told the CIA wasn’t going to use it. Candy Crowley — a tough, well-informed and underrated interviewer — kicked it off by asking the Speaker about ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:25:05 pm PDT
Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva. And there was the slow movement and the lovely last ...
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Rebranding Hate in the Age of Obama
US News | Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:07:30 pm PDT
Here’s a cheerful little bedtime story, about the increasingly successful efforts of neo-Nazis and far right racist organizations to conceal their true purposes and re-enter the mainstream by exploiting populist anger: Rebranding Hate in the Age of Obama. It’s not about hate, it’s about love. Love of white people. That’s ...
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Ron Paul and the John Birch Society
Politics | Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:04:04 pm PDT
Since people are still (amazingly!) showing up at LGF defending Ron Paul’s “honor,” please note: in October 2008, Ron Paul was the keynote speaker at the John Birch Society’s 50th anniversary. Madison - Former Republican presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas will keynote Saturday’s session of the 50th anniversary ...
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What Right Wing Extremists?
US News | Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:00:48 pm PDT
Two deputies were allegedly murdered over the weekend by a member of the Florida National Guard who was “severely disturbed” by the election of Barack Obama, and believed the US government was conspiring against him. The events that led to the shooting deaths of two Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputies Saturday ...
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Tuesday Afternoon Music: Todd Rundgren, 'Soul Brother'
Video | Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:52:12 pm PDT
From a 2004 appearance on the David Letterman show, Todd Rundgren and band all dressed up in pimp regalia, with a great performance of “Soul Brother,” from the album Liars (one of his best). [Video]
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UAW Will Own 55% of Chrysler
Business | Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:20:32 pm PDT
The United Auto Workers union will now own the largest share of Chrysler LLC, as the auto industry meltdown begins to get seriously loony: UAW Said to Get 55% Chrysler Ownership, Board Seats. Anyone over there ever heard of a “conflict of interest?” April 28 (Bloomberg) — The United Auto Workers ...
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Creationist Opponent and Pro-Science Lizard Runs for Texas School Board
Politics | Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:39:33 am PDT
LGF lizard Joel W. Walker (nickname “spaceman”) is running a campaign for the local School Board of College Station, TX, home of creationist dentist Don McLeroy, on a pro-science platform. He writes: LGF played a critical role in focusing my attention on our state’s curriculum battle. I hope you’ll have a ...
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The Ron Paul Tea Parties
Politics | Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:01:35 am PDT
I know a lot of people want to deny it, but statistics posted and analyzed at FiveThirtyEight.com show a strong correlation between attendance at tea parties and support for crazy uncle Ron Paul: Were the Tea Parties Really a Libertarian Thing? What we seem to have is an audience that ...
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Arlen Specter Bails
Politics | Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:35:24 am PDT
I guess it’s supposed to be big news that Senator Arlen Specter has announced he’s switching parties and becoming a Democrat. I must be jaded or maybe just worn out by partisan political posturing, because I’m trying to stifle a yawn.
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President Apologizes for Air Force One Overflight
US News | Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:10:44 am PDT
As expected, President Obama apologized this morning for the ridiculously stupid Air Force One flight over New York City: POTUS on AF1 incident: ‘Mistake ... Won’t Happen Again’. President Obama just spoke about the Air Force One incident in a photo op with FBI Director Robert Mueller. “It was a mistake, ...
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The Name-Jackers Are At It Again
Blogosphere | Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:45:31 am PDT
Every once in a while, a random deranged idiot gets on the Internet and impersonates me, registering accounts in my name, and posting ugly and/or crazy comments at other blogs and websites. Several people have emailed to let me know that someone’s been doing this yesterday and today; one place ...
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A State of Delusion
Middle East | Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:33:12 am PDT
As delusional diplomats continue pushing for a Palestinian state living in peace next to Israel (a state that might be named “Fantasyland,” with apologies to Walt Disney), “moderate” Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas rejects calling Israel a Jewish state. JERUSALEM — The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, on Monday dismissed a ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:31:32 pm PDT
Majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But—like other precious, sacred things, such as the home and the family—it’s not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a ...
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Monday Night Music: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, 'Over The Wall'
Video | Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:11:48 pm PDT
Bela Fleck (banjo), Victor Wooten (acoustic bass), Jeff Coffin (flute), and Roy “Futureman” Wooten (percussion), groovin’ in a Cuban way. [Video]
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The Beam in Joshua Trevino's Eye
Blogosphere | Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:07:39 pm PDT
In some more fallout from Dave Weigel’s article for the Washington Independent, Joshua Treviño posted a cheap shot at me a few days ago, in an article titled: A responsible anti-jihadism? Charles Johnson’s disenchantment with a movement he did much to create is more likely a function of his contrary ...
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Dave Weigel Digs Through LGF's Archives Looking for Dirt
Blogosphere | Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:54:13 pm PDT
Dave Weigel takes a few shots at me today, by digging up some old LGF posts (I’m getting used to this technique, from all sides): The Washington Independent » A Blast from Charles Johnson’s Past. The posts in which I linked to Pamela Geller were from a different time, before she ...
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Monday Afternoon Open
Open | Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:06:42 pm PDT
I don’t have fun. Actually, I had fun once. In 1962. I drank a whole bottle of Robitussin cough medicine and went in the back of a 1961 powder-blue Lincoln Continental to a James Brown concert with some Mexican friends of mine. I haven’t had fun since. It’s not a ...
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Video: Hamas Tactics in the Gaza Strip
Middle East | Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:26:46 pm PDT
Here’s a very good video presentation created by the IDF, showing the tactics used in the Gaza Strip by the terror gang Hamas. [Video]
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Pro Koln: The Wrap-Up
World | Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:42:00 am PDT
Gegenkritik has a post on the confrontation over Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller’s now-canceled participation in the “pro-Köln” meeting in Germany, with important context on the political background that makes this issue so complex: German conditions. Recently, there has been a major confrontation in the American blogosphere with Charles Johnson’s ...
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An Epidemic of Amnesia
Opinion | Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:50:26 am PDT
Former CIA director Porter J. Goss has a column in the Saturday Washington Post on the sudden “epidemic of amnesia” among House Democrats about harsh interrogation techniques: Security Before Politics. A disturbing epidemic of amnesia seems to be plaguing my former colleagues on Capitol Hill. After the Sept. 11, 2001, ...
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Saudi Arabia: Parental Permission Required for Jihad
World | Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:21:22 am PDT
Saudi Arabia’s latest plan to “reform” jihadis is getting positive reviews from Agence France Presse: Saudis use soft touch to ‘save’ former militants. The care centre is Saudi Arabia’s front line for ensuring that Al-Qaeda does not rear its head again, after a series of lethal domestic attacks between 2003 ...
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Bad Craziness Watch: The Mainstreaming of Alex Jones
Politics | Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:24:36 am PDT
John Hawkins on the disturbing and destructive “mainstreaming” of conspiracy monger Alex Jones by the right wing: Conservatives Shouldn’t Be Conned: Alex Jones Is Crazypants. During the 2008 Republican primaries, Ron Paul was semi-regularly appearing on the Alex Jones show. Setting aside any other disagreements I had with Ron Paul, ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:19:30 pm PDT
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw
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Sliver
Images | Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 8:12:41 pm PDT
Camera: Canon Powershot G10, tripod-mounted.
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The Door Opens - Update: The Door Closes
Open | Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:33:34 pm PDT
Registration is open for a limited time. Read all the rules before you register, and commit them to memory. The short version: %%LIST=Don’t register with a proxy. Don’t register with a throwaway email address. Don’t register more than one account at a time. Don’t be a jerk. Don’t be a troll. Don’t be a sock puppet. Stinky ...
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Bad Craziness Watch: Glenn Beck Fans and Swine Flu Conspiracies
Moonbats | Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:55:21 pm PDT
A sampling of comments from Fox News rising star Glenn Beck’s official 912 Project website, from the thread titled, “Swine Flu?” There are currently 369 comments in the thread, almost all of them raving about conspiracies. [...]IF ONE PERSON IN MY FAMILY DIES FROM THIS FLU I WILL HOLD OUR GOVERMENT ...
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How Safe Are Your Passwords?
Science | Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:03:55 pm PDT
Here’s an eye-opening article by computer security expert Bruce Schneier on the lessons learned from a database of stolen passwords: Real-World Passwords. How good are the passwords people are choosing to protect their computers and online accounts? It’s a hard question to answer because data is scarce. But recently, a colleague ...
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Clinton to Lebanon: Don't Worry
Middle East | Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 5:45:33 pm PDT
Hillary Clinton has assured Lebanese President Michael Suleiman that the US will never sell out Lebanon. BEIRUT (AP) — Ahead of an election that could oust the U.S.-backed Beirut government, America’s top diplomat said Sunday that Washington supports “voices of moderation” and never will make a deal [with] Syria that ...
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Sunday Afternoon Music: Nickel Creek, 'Ode to a Butterfly'
Video | Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 3:07:53 pm PDT
Nickel Creek rips through “Ode to a Butterfly,” on the PBS show “Austin City Limits.” This is from their first album, Nickel Creek. (Hit the “HQ” button for better audio and video.) [Video]
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About William F. Buckley's 'Sage Advice'
Opinion | Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 1:07:33 pm PDT
Since Robert Spencer posted a veiled threat today to attack me physically (quote: “Buckley’s sage advice to Gore Vidal comes to mind at this point”), here’s an interesting article that deals with what Spencer calls Buckley’s “sage advice:” Ego & Argument — The Happy Warrior: William F. Buckley, Jr. Note that ...
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Sunday Morning Open
Open | Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:32:52 am PDT
It’s still morning in California, so here’s an open thread while the world keeps turning...
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Breaking: Public Health Emergency Announced
Health | Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:10:42 am PDT
According to the White House, the Department of Health and Human Services is going to issue a “public health emergency” about the outbreak of swine flu...
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Spencer Changes Story, But Still Defends Pro Koln - Update: Pro Koln Organizers Say Spencer and Geller Confirmed in Writing
World | Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 8:58:12 am PDT
Robert Spencer says he won’t attend the Pro Koln conference of Eurofascists, after waffling on it and smearing me for days with insults and ad hominem attacks. (Attacks that continue today.) Meanwhile, at the website of Pro Koln, they still say Spencer is going to be the main speaker. This website is ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:28:46 pm PDT
During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts. Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this ...
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More Anti-Vaccination Craziness at HuffPo
Health | Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 9:46:26 pm PDT
Writing about the latest anti-vaccination insanity published at Huffington Post, Phil Plait says: I am embarrassed I ever wrote anything for HuffPo, which is now a cesspool of misleading misinformation. I could have told you that long ago, Phil. But we all have our blind spots, I guess.
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Peter Funch: Photographic Dreams
Images | Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 7:15:36 pm PDT
Artist Peter Funch creates mind-bending images by setting up his camera in one spot, shooting pictures for several days at a time, then using Photoshop to blend the separate photographs in thematic ways:
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Bad Craziness Watch: Alex Jones Pushing Swine Flu Conspiracy
Moonbats | Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 5:49:09 pm PDT
Here comes the next wave of bad craziness, promoted as always by one of the worst raving nutjobs in America, Alex Jones (friend of Fox News contributor Judge Andrew Napoitano): the swine flu conspiracy theory. Medical Director: Swine Flu Was “Cultured In A Laboratory”. UPDATE at 4/25/09 6:31:34 pm: Note: there is nothing ...
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Pro Koln Organizer's Nazi Merchandise
World | Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 3:56:17 pm PDT
Since Robert Spencer is posting claims from “Pro Koln” organizer Manfred Rouhs that he has no neo-Nazi connections and is not an extremist, here’s a little tidbit of information that might put a crimp in Spencer’s apologetics. Manfred Rouhs is the owner and editor of the website nation24.de. Among other cheerful Nazi ...
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Saturday Afternoon Open
Open | Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:12:58 pm PDT
Skipping down the road, whistling a happy tune, footloose and fancy free, not a care in the world, here’s your traditional Saturday afternoon open thread...
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How Do You Say 'Liar' in German?
World | Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 1:20:27 pm PDT
The pro-fascist German website pi-news.net is now claiming that I “forged” the photograph of Filip DeWinter with Markus Beisicht of the “Pro Koln” group: Translated version of http://www.pi-news.net/. This is an outrageous lie. In my previous post, I linked to the site where I found the picture, through Google Images: Translated ...
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Taliban Maneuvering for Position in Northwest
World | Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:53:44 am PDT
Long War Journal is keeping close tabs on the disturbing advance of the Taliban into Afghan and Pakistani territory: Pakistani military, Taliban maneuver for position in northwest. The Taliban blocked a military convoy from moving into the main town in Swat as rumors swirl that the military will launch an ...
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Harry's Place: Pro Koln is a Fascist Organization
World | Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:28:39 am PDT
David T at Harry’s Place gets the point: Pro Köln is a Fascist Organisation. Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs has been reporting on an ‘anti-Islamisation’ conference organised by Pro Köln, which is the successor to the neo-fascist “Deutsche Liga für Volk und Heimat“. We expect fascists to use anti-Muslim bigotry ...
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David Duke Expelled from Czech Republic
World | Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:37:08 am PDT
The Czech Republic has expelled American white supremacist creepazoid David Duke from the country: PRAGUE, April 25 (Reuters) - Czech police released former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke early on Saturday and expelled him from the country, his lawyer said. The American was detained on Friday on suspicion of denying ...
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Classic Misdirection from Spencer and Geller
World | Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 9:29:24 am PDT
This morning we have another case of classic misdirection from the Eurofascist-supporting twins, Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller; they’ve both posted long ad hominem screeds attacking me for “falling for fauxtography.” Apparently, one of the photos I used to illustrate my post yesterday about the neo-facscist and outright neo-Nazi connections of ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:15:45 pm PDT
If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race, I would give the same answer that most people would: nuclear war, global warming and Windows. — Dave Barry
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The Missing Link Between Seals and Land Mammals
Science | Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:53:06 pm PDT
An amazing discovery in Canada, after a team of paleontologists ran out of gas: Arctic fossil points to missing link between seals and land mammals. The fossil remains of a flipper-free mammal related to modern seals have been discovered in Nunavut by Ottawa researchers who stumbled upon them after their ...
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Texas School Board Creationist On the Hot Seat
Science | Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:13:09 pm PDT
Creationist dentist Don McLeroy, appointed twice to the Texas State Board of Education by Governor Rick Perry, is on the hot seat this week, and he is blatantly lying about promoting creationism in Texas public schools. AUSTIN – State Board of Education Chairman Don McLeroy vigorously denied Wednesday that he ...
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Holocaust Denial at Pat Buchanan's Official Website
US News | Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:20:02 pm PDT
At Pat Buchanan’s official website, a rousing discussion on the premise that the Holocaust never happened. Notice the scare quotes around “The Holocaust:” Discussion about ‘The Holocaust’. | DisInformation, Deception and Other Tricks | Brigade Forum | Patrick J. Buchanan - Official Website. 5:47 am March 28, 2009 Rodfish Member Ref Holocaust, Do you know that ...
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Oklahoma Man Arrested for 'Tea Party' Twitter Threats
US News | Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:25:11 pm PDT
The FBI has arrested an Oklahoma City man who used Twitter to post threats that he would turn the April 15th “tea party” into a “blood bath.” An Oklahoma City man who announced on Twitter that he would turn an April 15 tax protest into a bloodbath was hit with ...
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Friday Afternoon Open
Open | Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:43:01 pm PDT
This whole world’s wild at heart and weird on top. — Wild At Heart, director David Lynch
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David Duke Pinched in Prague
World | Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:06:01 pm PDT
White supremacist creep David Duke is going to regret accepting an invitation from Czech neo-Nazis to visit Prague: Czech police arrest former Ku Klux Klan leader Duke. Prague - The Czech police arrested David Duke, former leader of the Ku Klux Klan racist movement, in Prague today on suspicion of ...
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UN Can't Wait to Prosecute Bush Officials
World | Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:23:58 am PDT
By opening the door to prosecutions of CIA officials, President Obama is relinquishing US sovereignty in favor of international law, and the United Nations is salivating at the prospect of prosecuting American citizens: UN torture envoy: US must prosecute Bush lawyers. VIENNA – The U.S. is obligated by a United ...
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Robert Spencer Confirmed to Attend Eurofascist Conference
World | Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:38:01 am PDT
Yesterday when we posted about the participation of Pamela Geller (owner of “Atlas Shrugs”) in a German anti-Islam conference organized by a group with extensive ties to neo-Nazis, the latest word was that Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch had not yet confirmed his participation. Today “Pro Köln” has announced that Spencer ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:24:49 pm PDT
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business. — Gertrude Stein
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Wall Street Journal Expels Paul Belien's Fascist Website
Blogosphere | Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:12:48 pm PDT
I don’t know when it happened, but the Wall Street Journal quietly removed Paul Belien’s Eurofascist website Brussels Journal from their OpinionJournal Federation page. This LGF post might have had something to do with it: Brussels Journal Advocates Tribal Nationalism, White Separatism.
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Fire Marshall Bill's Anti-Vaccination Madness
Health | Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:31:01 pm PDT
Apparently, physicians and medical scientists are just as disgusted with the Huffington Post as your average “right wing” blogger. Who knew? Jim Carrey, husband of anti-vaccination kook Jenny McCarthy, has written a screed for Arianna advocating the latest Dark Ages fantasy of the left and the right: that vaccinations cause autism. This ...
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Pamela Geller: Poster Girl for Eurofascists
World | Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:37:33 pm PDT
Pamela Geller of “Atlas Shrugs” and Paul Belien of “Brussels Journal” have been announced as speakers at a German far right event organized by a group called “Pro Köln” — a successor to the notorious fascist group “Deutsche Liga für Volk und Heimat” (the “German League for People and Homeland”). The ...
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Bawer: Heirs to Fortuyn
World | Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:17:55 pm PDT
Bruce Bawer has an excellent essay at City Journal on Europe’s tilt to the right; not the extreme right represented by Vlaams Belang and the BNP, but the “respectable right” — the Heirs to Fortuyn. Some Spaniards have lurched rightward toward the national-Catholic, proto-fascist ideology of Franco’s time and become ...
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Thursday Afternoon Open
Open | Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:18:20 pm PDT
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition. — John Neal ...
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Judge Napolitano Appears on Alex Jones Show
Moonbats | Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:14:19 am PDT
Frequent Fox News contributor and host of Fox News online show “Freedom Watch,” Judge Andrew Napolitano, appears on one of the craziest, most extreme conspiracy/hate/kook shows in America. Alex Jones is the 9/11 Truther who Napolitano called, “the one, the only, the great Alex Jones.” Bad, bad craziness. [Video]
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Taliban Advance Eastward, Threaten Islamabad
World | Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:10:29 am PDT
The militant Islamic throwbacks calling themselves the Taliban are on the brink of taking over one of Pakistan’s main cities: Taliban advance eastward, threaten Islamabad. Amazingly, they don’t seem to have responded to Barack Obama’s plea for them to unclench their fists. The Taliban are pushing past the districts of Swat ...
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Fox's O'Reilly Producer Ambushes GE Shareholder Meeting
Media | Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:40:30 am PDT
MSNBC’s extreme leftward bias is obvious to any honest observer; Keith Olbermann is the poster boy for it, and was the winner of our 2007 Fiskie award. But with this little stunt, Fox News crossed a whole lot of journalistic lines into behavior that borders on unethical: Drama at GE shareholders ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:18:39 pm PDT
The best mind-altering drug is the truth. — Lily Tomlin
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The Ron Paul Tea Party/Fox News Nightmare
Politics | Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:43:02 pm PDT
As Ron Paul turns into a Fox News regular, sane writers like Timothy Sandefur are increasingly saying “WTF?” Freespace: Ron Paul’s secession lies on video. And meanwhile, Ron Paul’s “tea party” organizer in the Bay Area is using an ugly antisemitic graphic as a promotional tool: Response in GOP/tea party/anti-Semitism flap. Is ...
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Onion: Should We Be Doing More To Reduce Graphic Violence?
Humor | Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:19:44 pm PDT
The Onion’s All-American Panel continues doing the job the mainstream media refuses to do, examining vitally important issues like: “Should We Be Doing More To Reduce The Graphic Violence In Our Dreams?” [Video]
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And Now, the Festo Air Penguin
Video | Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:03:37 pm PDT
[Video] (Hat tip: Killgore.)
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Real Torture in the UAE
Video | Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:46:45 pm PDT
This is what real torture looks like, as a member of the United Arab Emirates royal family is caught on tape: ABC News Exclusive: Torture Tape Implicates UAE Royal Sheikh. [Video]
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Creationist Clip 'n Save
Humor | Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:00:41 pm PDT
LGF reader Zimriel created this handy dandy model form letter for creationists driven into a seething frenzy by an LGF post, to help them put together that dramatic flounce-off email with a minimum of effort: CREATIONIST FORM LETTER Dear Charles, I’m a [] longtime poster with 0-3 comments since January 2008 [] longtime lurker [] ...
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Gawker Gets Its Smear On
Blogosphere | Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:28:17 pm PDT
And now, right on cue, John Cook at the unethical leftist hate site Gawker.com is taking shots at me: Right-Wing Blogger Goes to War With the Idiots He Created. Well imagine that! If you organize people around the notion that all Muslims everywhere want to kill white Americans, some kooks ...
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Wednesday Afternoon Open
Open | Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:07:33 pm PDT
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. — Oscar Wilde
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Will Obama Prosecute CIA Officials or Won't He?
US News | Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:58:18 am PDT
It looks like the Obama administration is getting ready to break their promise not to prosecute CIA officials: Holder: ‘follow law’ in US interrogation probe. WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday said the Justice Department will follow the law wherever it leads in probing U.S. ...
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PoliGazette Takes on the Hatebloggers
Blogosphere | Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:30:01 am PDT
Michael van der Galien gets it. Let one thing be clear: in the battle between Gates of Vienna, Atlas Shrugs on the one hand (I do not count Donald Douglas as truly being on their side for he is much more than an “anti-Jihad blogger” and he is not a ...
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Iranian Irony Watch
World | Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:07:39 am PDT
Iran’s “new unmanned aircraft” happens to be an Israeli Heron 1. (But their nuclear program is the real thing.)
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Anti-Obama Rumor Mill Exposed Again
World | Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:30:42 am PDT
Another ridiculous Internet rumor bites the dust: Obama OK’d 2 SEAL teams for pirates. President Obama dispatched two separate teams of Navy commandos to carry out last week’s rescue of a merchant ship captain held hostage by Somali pirates but left the operational details and rules of engagement to military ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:22:10 pm PDT
I once said cynically of a politician, “He’ll double-cross that bridge when he comes to it.” — Oscar Levant
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Amazon's Got Groceries
Lifestyle | Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:30:37 pm PDT
If you need groceries (and who doesn’t?), you may not be aware that you can now get a lot of your most common items at Amazon; staples like paper products, and packaged goods like oatmeal, coffee, tea, nutrition bars, soft drinks, etc. I’ve been ordering stuff this way for months, ...
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Tuesday Night Music: Tommy Emmanuel and Jake Shimabukuro
Video | Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:22:41 pm PDT
[Video] (Hat tip: Michael.)
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Judge Napolitano Pimping Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, and Glenn Beck on Fox News
Moonbats | Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:47:36 pm PDT
“Judge” Andrew Napolitano is at it again, legitimizing the worst people in American politics on his “Freedom Watch” Fox News online show. This time around, he’s pimping for Ron Paul, racialist paleocon Lew Rockwell, and Glenn Beck, and featuring Baptist pastor Steve Anderson (who specializes in provoking border control agents, ...
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Civil War Raging in Right-Wing Blogosphere
Blogosphere | Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:13:49 pm PDT
And all because I refuse to go insane like so many others have: Civil War Raging in Right-Wing Blogosphere. I’ll just deal with one of the lies contained in the quotes in this article: “He chose to portray the Brussels Conference as evil and he unconscionably slandered the people who attended,” ...
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Ban Ki-moon Issues Incredibly Weak Statement on Ahmadinejad
World | Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:28:36 pm PDT
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plays dumb. VALLETTA (Reuters) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accused Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday of misusing a UN conference on racism at which he attacked Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians as racist. “It is very regretful that the conference was misused by the Iranian president ...
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Remembering the Holocaust
World | Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:18:06 pm PDT
As a tide of antisemitism rises again in the world, led by evil men such as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Holocaust Remembrance Day is more important than ever. The sane and the caring will win this struggle in the long run, but we must never forget what can happen when our eyes ...
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Stephen Hawking Expected to Recover Fully
Science | Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:18:00 am PDT
Good news, after yesterday’s report that Stephen Hawking had been rushed to the hospital: Hawking expected to recover from infection. LONDON (AP) — The family of physicist Stephen Hawking expects him to recover fully from a chest infection that has left him hospitalized, Cambridge University said Tuesday. Hawking “was being kept ...
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FBI Adds 'Animal Rights' Terrorist to Wanted List
US News | Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:00:25 am PDT
The newest addition to the FBI’s “most wanted” list: a left wing extremist. WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, an accused domestic terrorist is being added to the FBI’s list of “Most Wanted” terror suspects. Daniel Andreas San Diego, a 31-year-old computer specialist from Berkeley, Calif., is wanted for the ...
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Reports from the Durban II Fiasco
World | Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:16:24 am PDT
Roger L. Simon is in Geneva, and has a report from the absolutely disgusting Durban II “anti-racism conference,” at which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave the keynote speech: Durban II Diary - Part 3: The Clowning of Ahmadinejad. (Video here.) Lawhawk points us at this video, showing Ahmadinejad’s entourage screaming at Holocaust survivor ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:12:26 pm PDT
Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour: he will always use it in evidence against you. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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A Little Light Breaks Through
Opinion | Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:52:08 pm PDT
An eloquent defense of LGF, from a Wild Irish Rose: Charles Johnson is right: why I stand in support of Charles Johnson and Little Green Footballs.
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The Constitutional Rights of Crackpots
Science | Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:33:24 pm PDT
Timothy Sandefur has a good post on the Institute for Creation Research’s absurd lawsuit against the state of Texas: ICR lawsuit against Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) has filed a lawsuit against the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) for denying it authority to ...
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Discovery Institute's Klinghoffer: 'Darwin's Tree of Death'
Science | Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:22:12 pm PDT
I may have jumped the gun when I pronounced the ICR’s suit against Texas the “ludicrous creationist news of the day.” Because Discovery Institute “senior fellow” David Klinghoffer’s latest article is so insanely over the top, it seems like a parody. But it’s not. Slouching Toward Columbine: Darwin’s Tree of Death. The image, ...
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Creationists Sue Texas Over Denial of Master's Program
Science | Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:45:17 pm PDT
Here’s our ludicrous creationist news of the day. After failing to get the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to accredit them to offer a master’s degree in science education, the Biblical literalists at the Institute for Creation Research are actually suing the state of Texas. That’s right. They wanted Texas to let ...
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Atlas Shrugs Promotes Neo-Nazi British National Party
Blogosphere | Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:34:51 pm PDT
Shrieking bigoted lunatic Pamela Geller has now graduated to promoting the skinheads of the neo-Nazi British National Party: Atlas Shrugs: PUSHBACK AGAINST MUSLIM EXTREMISTS IN THE UK. One of the demonstrations she’s pimping was organized by pro-BNP blogger Paul Ray, aka “Lionheart.” In January 2008, “Lionheart” wrote this on his blog: ...
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Monday Afternoon Open
Open | Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:17:02 pm PDT
It’s a Monday afternoon heat wave open thread...
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Stephen Hawking 'Very Ill,' Rushed to Hospital
Science | Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:39:49 am PDT
Bad news from Britain: Stephen Hawking hospitalized, reported very ill. LONDON – Famed mathematician Stephen Hawking was rushed to a hospital Monday and was seriously ill, Cambridge University said. The university said Hawking has been fighting a chest infection for several weeks, and was being treated at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, ...
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Clown Attack!
US News | Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:36:10 am PDT
Just when you think the ginned-up outrage over the DHS report on right wing extremism can’t possibly get any sillier, Michael Savage joins with the Thomas More Law Center to file what might be the silliest lawsuit in US history: Ann Arbor-based law center sues Homeland Security over ‘right-wing extremism’ ...
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The DHS Plot Thickens
US News | Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:56:33 am PDT
All you folks seething and yelling about the DHS report on “right wing extremism,” make sure to save some of your anger for the FBI, the U.S. Army Criminal Investigative Division, the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, because they’re in on the ...
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Clown Attack!
World | Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:40:43 am PDT
The United Nations “anti-racism” conference opened today in Geneva, Switzerland, on the birthday of Adolf Hitler, appropriately enough — featuring a speech by Iran’s Holocaust denying president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. And then, the clowns attacked with soft red objects. [Video] Iran’s president slams Israel, sparking Western walkout at UN racism conference. GENEVA (AP) — ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:21:24 pm PDT
Sir, there is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out. — James Randi
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Sunday Night Open
Open | Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 8:20:56 pm PDT
Some mornings it just doesn’t seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. — Emo Philips
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New Zealand Boycotts Durban II
World | Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 7:43:40 pm PDT
This one’s a bit of a surprise, because New Zealand is moonbat central: NZ won’t attend racism conference. Labour and the Greens are at odds with the Government over its decision to boycott this week’s United Nations conference on racism. Foreign Minister Murray McCully confirmed today New Zealand would not take ...
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The Door Opens
Open | Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 6:47:11 pm PDT
Registration is open for a limited time. Read all the rules before you register, and commit them to memory. The short version: %%LIST=Don’t register with a proxy. Don’t register with a throwaway email address. Don’t register more than one account at a time. Don’t be a jerk. Don’t be a troll. Do play nice.%% And then everything will ...
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Harry's Place Notices the Bloodbath
Blogosphere | Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:38:27 pm PDT
The increasing stridency of the US right is being noticed on the other side of the Big Pond: The Civil War On the U.S. Right. With the defeat of Bush, the U.S. Right wing blogosphere has gone nuts, and have started to slaughter each other. It is a tragic sight, ...
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United Nations Hypocrisy Writ Large
World | Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 4:43:23 pm PDT
Writing in the New York Times, a former United Nations security officer describes what the UN did in Somalia in 1995, in response to a hostage situation. In 1995, for example, the water supply for Mogadishu, the capital, was shut off by the United Nations humanitarian agencies until a hostage ...
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Sunday Afternoon Open
Open | Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:32:53 pm PDT
Just a happy-go-lucky open thread, as we whistle down the lane without a care in the world...
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Germany Boycotts Durban II
World | Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:03:29 pm PDT
This is great to watch, as country after country refuses to take part in the United Nations’ hatefest masquerading as an “anti-racism” conference: Germany joins boycotters of UN racism meeting. BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s government says the country will boycott this week’s U.N. racism conference out of concern that it ...
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Netherlands Boycotts Durban II
World | Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 1:56:48 pm PDT
Joining Canada, Israel, Italy, the United States, Australia, and Sweden: Netherlands refuses to attend UN racism conference. THE HAGUE - The Netherlands joined the United States and Australia Sunday in refusing to attend a UN conference on racism, saying it feared the event would be abused and place religion ahead ...
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Neo-Nazi Assassination Plot Update
US News | Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:50:44 pm PDT
An update on the story of the neo-Nazis who were arrested last October for plotting a crime spree that would have ended with assassinating the president: Cowart’s grandfather testifies in federal court. The grandfather of Daniel Cowart testified today that when he saw a sawed-off shotgun, duck tape and nylon ...
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What Right Wing Extremists?
US News | Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:46:11 am PDT
Anyone think stories like this might have something to do with the Department of Homeland Security being concerned about right wing extremism? Bomb-maker talked of Obama, Clinton assassination, feds say. A Clearfield County man caught with several homemade bombs told undercover federal agents how he would hope to see Sens. ...
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Sweden Boycotts Durban II
World | Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:02:06 am PDT
Joining Canada, Israel, Italy, the United States, and Australia: Sweden to boycott UN racism conference. Sweden will not send any ministerial officials to the UN conference on racism in Geneva on Monday, said Swedish Integration Minister Nyamko Subini. “This has been a difficult and problematic negotiation that has certainly become ...
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Obama Speaks in Trinidad
World | Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 9:32:48 am PDT
Here’s an open thread to discuss Barack Obama’s address at the closing of the Summit of the Americas...
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Australia Boycotts Durban II
World | Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 8:54:06 am PDT
A press release from The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs: Australia has decided not to participate in the Durban Review Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance to be held in Geneva from 20 to 24 April 2009. Australia has taken this decision with regret ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 11:22:18 pm PDT
That which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder. — Marianne Moore
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Heads Exploding Everywhere
Blogosphere | Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:22:14 pm PDT
’Charles Johnson’ - Google Blog Search.
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Heads Explode at Gawker.com
Moonbats | Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 7:17:56 pm PDT
Charles Johnson is a hysterical right-wing Muslim-hating blogger who runs a site with a stupid name called Little Green Footballs.
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Heads Explode at Fox News
Moonbats | Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 7:00:19 pm PDT
Missing the Mark - Glenn Beck.
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James Wolcott's Head Explodes
Moonbats | Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 6:54:10 pm PDT
Finally, Little Green Footballs and I Are in Accord!
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Heads Explode at Media Matters
Blogosphere | Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 6:46:05 pm PDT
Media Matters - It might already be too late for the right-wing blogs.
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Heads Explode at Ace of Spades
Moonbats | Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 6:43:14 pm PDT
Glenn Beck vs. Charles Johnson.
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Heads Explode at Washington Monthly
Moonbats | Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 6:41:59 pm PDT
I guess it was only a matter of time before Glenn Beck attacked Little Green Football’s Charles Johnson.
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Heads Explode at Daily Kos
Moonbats | Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 6:38:41 pm PDT
Daily Kos: Glenn Beck Is TOO CRAZY For Little Green Footballs.
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Heads Explode at Reddit.com
Moonbats | Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 6:36:05 pm PDT
Neocons are more intelligent than most conservatives but much more evil.
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Saturday Night Music: Greg Pattillo, 'Peter and the Wolf'
Video | Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 5:25:02 pm PDT
And now for something completely different, a one man version of the classic “Peter and the Wolf,” with beatbox, by Greg Pattillo. [Video] (Hat tip: Noah.)
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Breaking: Obama Will Not Go to Durban II
World | Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 3:05:47 pm PDT
The Obama administration has just announced that the United States will not participate in the UN’s so-called “anti-racism” conference: US to boycott United Nations racism meeting. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will boycott “with regret” a U.N. conference on racism next week over objectionable language in the meeting’s final ...
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Pat Robertson Urges Followers to Flood DHS Hotline, Says DHS is Controlled by Secret Homosexuals
Video | Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:43:13 pm PDT
Absolutely freaking insane. Pat Robertson urges his drones to jam the phone lines of the Department of Homeland Security, to scream about the “right wing extremist” report, wasting DHS resources and possibly blocking important calls. Then he says that “someone down in the bowels of that organization is either a convinced left ...
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Saturday Afternoon Open
Open | Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:57:11 pm PDT
An open thread for a sunny Saturday...
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Welcome Back to the Dark Ages, Thanks to Anti-Vaxers
Health | Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:33:29 am PDT
Thanks in part to the kooks on both the right and the left who are promoting anti-vaccination insanity (people like Jenny McCarthy and publications like World Net Daily), diseases long thought eradicated are making a big comeback in London. London is suffering a startling rise in diseases associated with Victorian ...
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Obama: More Popular Than Chavez in Venezuela
World | Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:46:10 am PDT
An adviser told ABC News today that President Obama is more popular than Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD — In an interview with ABC News, Jeffrey Davidow — a senior adviser to President Obama on Latin American affairs and director of the Summit of the Americas — ...
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Chimp of the Day
Images | Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:25:58 pm PDT
Via the Center for Internet Studies of Animal Cuteness, aka ZooBorns:
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The Door Opens
Open | Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:22:02 pm PDT
Registration is open for a limited time. Read all the rules before you register, and commit them to memory. The short version: %%LIST=Don’t register with a proxy. Don’t register with a throwaway email address. Don’t register more than one account at a time. Don’t be a jerk. Don’t be a troll. Do play nice.%% And then everything will ...
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What Right Wing Extremists?
US News | Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:40:49 pm PDT
Anyone think stories like this might have something to do with the Department of Homeland Security being concerned about right wing extremism? Report: ‘Dirty bomb’ parts found in slain man’s home. BELFAST, Maine — James G. Cummings, who police say was shot to death by his wife two months ago, ...
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Bad News for Rick Perry
US News | Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:22:29 pm PDT
Texas Governor Rick Perry (R), who appointed a raving creationist dentist to head the Texas Board of Education (twice), came out this week with a populist grandstand play intended to capitalize on the tea party demonstrations, hinting that Texas might secede from the United States. Unfortunately for Rick Perry, 75% of ...
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Obama Laughs It Up With Hugo Chavez
World | Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:24:11 pm PDT
I know some people think that because I refuse to jump on the bandwagon with some of the more ridiculous, exaggerated attacks against Barack Obama, I’m suddenly on his side. But this ... is absolutely sickening. Handout picture released by the Venezuelan Presidency press office showing the President of the US, ...
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Outright Dishonesty at the Washington Times
US News | Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:44:25 pm PDT
An editorial in the Washington Times is a perfect example of what I’ve been calling the “distortions” about the DHS report on right wing extremism: Smearing veterans. The whole piece is full of overheated accusations like this: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has defended her department’s outrageous claim that veterans are ...
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Moving Continues to Stink Open Thread
Open | Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:43:18 pm PDT
Yes, Stinky and I are still unpacking the secret Overlord Tools and cryogenic suspension chambers. Here’s an open thread while we deal...
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FBI Extremist Probe and Veterans
US News | Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:56:33 am PDT
The revelation that the FBI’s investigation of white supremacists and militia groups included a focus on veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan has prompted another round of outrage from the right wing blogosphere and talk radio—who seem completely unwilling to admit there could be a point to the investigation, and ...
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NYT Hyperventilates Over 'Brutal' CIA Tactics
US News | Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:33:09 am PDT
On the release of the Justice Department’s memos on interrogation techniques, the New York Times is predictably having a case of the torture vapors: Interrogation Memos Detail Harsh Tactics by the C.I.A. The “brutal” tactics they describe sound very similar to what happens every spring in frat houses across America. Together, ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:23:52 pm PDT
People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the ...
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Lebo: As Goes Texas, So Goes the Nation
Science | Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:17:40 pm PDT
An excellent article about the creationist insanity that reigns over the Texas State Board of Education, by Lauri Lebo: Evolution Challenged in “Textbook” Case: As Goes Texas, So Goes the Nation. Ken Mercer says evolution is disproved by the absence of any transitional fossil forms between dogs and cats and ...
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We Got Mail!
Moonbats | Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:41:01 pm PDT
Since Glenn “Punk” Beck spewed insults at me on his Fox News show today, I’ve received almost two dozen hate mails from his fans. Here’s one, from someone who thinks he’s being clever by using a proxy IP address. I’m leaving all the nastiness intact, so you can savor it ...
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LGF on Glenn Beck
Moonbats | Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:37:30 pm PDT
I still don’t have a working cable TV connection in my new top-secret underground facility, so I missed Glenn Beck’s show today (I wouldn’t have been watching anyway, to be honest), but I understand from several lizardoid reports that Beck had some things to say about me. Apparently he claimed that ...
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Video: Open-Mindedness
Science | Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:12:58 pm PDT
An excellent video presentation on what it really means to be “open-minded.” [Video]
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Breaking: Obama Will Not Prosecute CIA Officers for Waterboarding
US News | Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:49:28 am PDT
This breaking news is going to drive the left completely crazy. (A short drive.) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Thursday informed CIA officials who used waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics on terror suspects that they will not be prosecuted, senior administration officials told The Associated Press. Even before ...
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Video: Napolitano Pimping Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell Again
Moonbats | Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:43:43 am PDT
“Judge” Andrew Napolitano is at it again, legitimizing some of the worst people in American politics on his Fox News online show. This time around, he’s pimping for Ron Paul and racialist paleocon Lew Rockwell. Fox News, way off the rails again. This is the first of six videos. [Video] (Hat tip: Killgore, ...
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Rush and Glenn Beck Advertising Alex Jones
Moonbats | Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:30:08 am PDT
Currently being advertised on both the Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck radio shows: The Obama Deception, an Alex Jones film that rehashes every insane conspiracy theory about Barack Obama. The Ron Paul kooks are excited about their increasing legitimization.
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:39:26 pm PDT
If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it. — Art Buchwald
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Bobby Jindal's Wife Promotes Science Education While Hubby Works to Subvert It
Science | Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:01:56 pm PDT
A new survey of Louisiana residents shows that only 39% believe that the theory of evolution is supported by scientific evidence. And that’s just sad. But even sadder, in a pathetically ironic way: Bobby Jindal’s wife has started a foundation to promote science education in Louisiana. Among those who have expressed ...
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Ron Paul!
US News | Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:01:14 pm PDT
Ron Paul steps up and takes credit for the Tax Day Tea Parties: Statement on Ron Paul and ‘Tax Day Tea Parties’. ARLINGTON, Va.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—As activists across the country hold national tea parties, Campaign for Liberty president John Tate issued the following statement: “The concept of the modern day Tea Party ...
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Tea Party Reports Open Thread 2
Open | Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:49:22 pm PDT
Another thread to discuss the tea party demonstrations, since the previous one is approaching 1,000 comments already...
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Tea Party Reports Open Thread
US News | Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:45:08 pm PDT
Here’s a thread for LGF readers to file reports from the tax day tea party protests. It’s probably pretty obvious that I’m ambivalent about these protests, because I think they’ve been coopted to a large extent by Ron Paul nuts and other fringe groups. I know there are also a lot ...
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Press Release from DHS on 'Right-Wing Extremism' Report
US News | Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:56:45 am PDT
The hyperventilating continues, and now the Department of Homeland Security has been forced to respond to the flood of distorted stories. STATEMENT BY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY JANET NAPOLITANO ON THE THREAT OF RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM The primary mission of this department is to prevent terrorist attacks on our nation. ...
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The Ron Paul Tea Parties
US News | Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:09:50 am PDT
Here’s an AFP report on “tea party” demonstrations: Anti-Obama ‘tea party’ protests mark US tax day. NEW YORK (AFP) – Critics of President Barack Obama marked national tax day Wednesday with “tea party” protests that Republicans are calling the birth of a grassroots opposition, but Democrats dismiss as a fraud. Initially ...
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Code Pink at DC Tea Party
US News | Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:58:57 am PDT
It’s the wrap-around effect, as Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin gloms onto the tea party demonstration in Washington DC. Left, right, who cares? Not Medea, that’s obvious. She’s simply drawn to the extremism. (Hat tip: Age of Hooper.)
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Little Green Footballs at the Daily Beast
Blogosphere | Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:07:48 am PDT
I’ll take a wild guess and predict that this article at The Daily Beast by Benjamin Sarlin will bring me at least half a dozen hate mails (and just as many emails of support): Right-Wing Becklash. In an interview, Johnson told The Daily Beast that he was extremely concerned by ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:26:21 pm PDT
Not in the clamour of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Texas School Board Creationists Facing Curbs
Science | Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:54:02 pm PDT
After the ridiculous debacle in the Texas State Board of Education, in which creationists on the board (including young earth creationist chairman Don McLeroy, appointed twice by Republican governor Rick Perry) managed to insert several absurd anti-science amendments into the public school science curriculum, some Texas legislators are fed up ...
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Moving Still Stinks Open Thread
Open | Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:42:32 pm PDT
Here’s another open thread while we deal with more moving-related issues...
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About That DHS Report on Right-Wing Extremism
Blogosphere | Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:39:48 am PDT
Here we go again. The latest cause for hyperventilation in the right-wing blogosphere is a report from the Department of Homeland Security on the need for vigilance against extreme right-wing groups like Posse Comitatus, militias, “Patriot” groups, and neo-Nazis like the Christian Identity weirdos. Some bloggers, prompted by World Net Daily, ...
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Tuesday Morning Open
Open | Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:51:29 am PDT
It never rains, but it definitely do pour. There’s apparently a bad router somewhere in the Road Runner network, and I can’t reach LGF from my cable connection. So I’m back on the iPhone again. This is an open thread while I attempt to get this sorted out...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:34:38 pm PDT
“Faith” is a fine invention When Gentlemen can see — But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency. — Emily Dickinson
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To Everything There is a Season
Opinion | Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:39:40 pm PDT
Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but what the hell happened to “The buck stops here”? President Barack Obama is the Commander in Chief of the US armed forces. I certainly don’t agree with a lot of his policies, but I’ll be damned if I won’t — at the very least — respect the ...
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Frothing Paulians Link to LGF
Moonbats | Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:15:25 pm PDT
Proving once again that there’s nobody crazier on the Internet, a Paulian at The Daily Paul froths like a rabid dog about little old me. OMG! You really On April 13th, 2009 BigT says: didn’t look under that rock over at “Little Green Footballs”, did ya!? That is the vilest zionist neocon globalist/statist ...
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Monday Moving Music: Tom Waits, 'Come On Up to the House'
Video | Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:22:29 pm PDT
An interesting video version of a song from one of Tom Waits’ best albums, Mule Variations. [Video]
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The Return of the Son of Moving Stinks
Open | Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:50:03 pm PDT
How in the world do we beings from an alternate dimension end up accumulating so much stuff? We’re in the new secret underground lair and the Intarweb connection is operational, but there is still an incredible amount of work to finish up here, so the Lizard Army will have to ...
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Moving Stinks, the Sequel
Open | Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:41:21 am PDT
Yet another open thread, while we await the arrival of the all-powerful cable guy, so I can stop using the iPhone to post open threads...
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Overnight Open
Open | Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:12:41 pm PDT
It’s the traditional overnight thread, sans quote...
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Moving Stinks Open Thread
Open | Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 6:46:53 pm PDT
Back on the iPhone again, so I’ll keep this short and semi-sweet — moving really does stink, but the US Navy did us proud today. And yes, I know we’re supposed to detest and mock everything President Obama does, on pain of excommunication, but as Commander in Chief he deserves ...
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Sunday Open
Open | Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 2:37:34 pm PDT
Here’s another open thread, because it’s moving day at Lizard HQ...
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Sunday Morning Open
Open | Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:00:00 am PDT
Lizard Headquarters is being moved to a secret new location today, so posts are going to be sporadic for the duration. Bear with us, please; we’ll be back at full power again in a day or two.
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Breaking: American Captain Freed
World | Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:54:58 am PDT
Great news in the Somali pirate standoff — it’s over: Official: US sea captain freed in swift firefight. WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Navy has rescued the American sea captain held by Somali pirates. A senior U.S. intelligence official said hostage Richard Phillips was not hurt in what appeared to be ...
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Chinless Opthalmologist Gets into the Spirit of Hope and Change
Middle East | Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:48:28 am PDT
You mean there are people who actually believe that chinless Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has suddenly become a “peacemaker?” Bashar Assad the peacemaker? Think again. In the last two or three years, a number of old arguments regarding Syria have again become fashionable. One of them is that peace with ...
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Happy Easter Morning
Open | Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:32:31 am PDT
Stinky Beaumont and I wish all LGF readers a happy, safe Easter Sunday.
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:11:47 pm PDT
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man. — Tom Waits, “Misery is the River of the World”
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The Rick Warren Experience
Religion | Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 6:46:14 pm PDT
Fox News is promoting Rick Warren like crazy tonight. It’s all part of the big cleanup. Rick Warren’s not a progressive Jerry Falwell. Really. He’s not. Pay no attention to those men behind the curtain. God talks to Rick every day. And God told Rick that evolution stinks. Do you believe Creation happened ...
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Keith Jarrett Trio: 'Oleo'
Video | Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 5:46:48 pm PDT
You might have to be a musician yourself to appreciate it, but in the first minute of this video, Jack DeJohnette turns the rhythm inside out in a way I can only describe as “totally sick.” Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack. Possibly the best piano trio ever, in a playful ...
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Analog Obligations Open Thread
Open | Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 2:27:01 pm PDT
Yes, it’s another open thread, while my lizardoid robot simulacra and I (overseen by the inestimable Stinky Beaumont) deal with some pressing business in the world of meat.
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Pizzagate: Not a Gate
Politics | Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:16:26 pm PDT
Since people keep bringing up the silly “Pizzagate” controversy, here’s a post that should be read before going any further with this: Right Wing Slams Barack Obama For Ordering Pizza. Really. I spoke with the restaurant’s manager, John Fitzgerald, and he gave me some things that we call “facts,” ones ...
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Saturday Afternoon Open
Open | Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:40:22 am PDT
Lots going on in the analog world today, so here’s an open thread for the lizards of the afternoon...
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Saturday Morning Music: Crowded House, 'World Where You Live'
Video | Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:13:47 am PDT
A great song and a great video, from the first album: Crowded House. [Video]
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Krauthammer: When Austria Mocks You, You're Having a Bad Week
Opinion | Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 8:25:46 am PDT
Charles Krauthammer’s latest: It’s Your Country Too, Mr. President. Our president came bearing a basketful of mea culpas. With varying degrees of directness or obliqueness, Obama indicted his own people for arrogance, for dismissiveness and derisiveness, for genocide, for torture, for Hiroshima, for Guantanamo and for insufficient respect for the ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:12:20 pm PDT
Hey hey, we’re the Monkees And people say we monkey around
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Paulians Briefly Link to LGF, Quickly Delete Evidence
US News | Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:46:26 pm PDT
Here’s a charming little thread posted tonight at the Ron Paul Forums, but quickly deleted when they realized I would trace the referrals back to them, titled: LGF: Tea Party Coopted by Paulians. Prompted by this LGF post, pointing out the Ron Paulians have infiltrated the Pensacola Tea Party. ...... Dripping Rain ...
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Friday Night Music: Ry Cooder, 'Jesus on the Mainline'
Video | Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:20:35 pm PDT
Gospel music, done to a turn, by Ry Cooder and The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces. [Video]
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Religious Extremists Sharing Tips
World | Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:37:45 pm PDT
Sinn Fein and Hamas: together at last. And the IRA head is now reporting to Barack Obama. What could go wrong? GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – The leader of Irish Republican Army-linked Sinn Fein party met with the head of the internationally shunned Hamas government during a two-day visit to Gaza ...
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Pensacola Tea Party Coopted by Paulians
US News | Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:01:54 pm PDT
Truthers and Ron Paul “activists” have apparently hijacked the management of the Tea Party in Pensacola, Florida. I apologize for sending this to list addressees individually. However, I was so shocked by Mr. A*’s words and the “activist” website where he has his email address (www.meetthetruth.com) that I felt it ...
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We Got Mail!
Moonbats | Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:17:00 pm PDT
Lots of hate mail today, which is always a treat! It was difficult to pick the worst, but because I care so much, dear readers, I’ve selected two winners from among the 17 admirers who shared their thoughts today. (Four letter words left intact for added spiciness.) First, we have a ...
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Friday Afternoon Open
Open | Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 2:34:34 pm PDT
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Glenn Beck Screams: 'Why Don't You Just Set Us on Fire?'
Video | Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:28:29 am PDT
Some more good clean harmless fun from jolly Glenn Beck, who switches from inept comedy to screaming craziness in the blink of an eye. [Video] (Hat tip: Allahpundit.)
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At Glenn Beck Tea Party: 'Burn the Books!'
Video | Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:18:53 am PDT
At a “Project 912 Glenn Beck Tea Party,” an unnamed speaker rants about “infiltration by the Communist Party” (a John Birch Society talking point), says that digital cable boxes are “brainwashing machines” planted in our homes by the government, and swears to stop paying taxes. The rant begins at about ...
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Ahmadinejad Will Attend Durban 'Anti-Racism' Conference
World | Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:33:18 am PDT
The Holocaust-denying thug-in-chief of Iran has announced that he plans to attend the United Nations’ “anti-racism” conference in Durban, South Africa: Another Forum For Ahmadinejad. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has announced his intention to attend the U.N.’s Durban II conference, which begins on April 20 in Geneva. The summit is billed ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:19:11 pm PDT
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. — Willa Cather
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Video: Baba Wawa and Uri Geller vs. James Randi
Video | Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:30:52 pm PDT
Classic debunking by James Randi, destroying Barbara Walters’ child-like faith in the psychic powers of Uri Geller. Barbara is so disappointed when Randi duplicates Geller’s hoaxes... [Video]
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Dreaded Conficker Worm Turns Out to Be Another Pointless Spammer
Science | Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:47:30 pm PDT
Well, the big computer security mystery of the year turned out to be just another spammers’ tool: Conficker Doomsday Worm Sells Out For $49.95. Last night the dreaded Conficker worm finally got the update we’ve been waiting for since April 1. But cyber Armageddon will have to wait another day. ...
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We Got Mail!
Moonbats | Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:11:42 pm PDT
Instead of posting any of the dozens of hate mails I’ve received in the past three days, here’s a look at the calm, reasoned discourse in which my critics engage; these quotes come from emails regarding my posts about creationism, Glenn Beck, and G. W. Bush bowing to accept a ...
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The Iowahawk Council of Automotive Advisors
Humor | Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:08:11 pm PDT
It’s obvious, really. The one man who can save America’s comatose auto industry courageously steps forward: iowahawk: The Iowahawk Council of Automotive Advisors. When it comes to naming a savior for the American car biz, I think we can do better. And by “we,” I of course mean “me.” And ...
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Midday Open Thread
Open | Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:22:43 pm PDT
Creationism is wrong; totally, utterly, and absolutely wrong. I would go further. There are degrees of being wrong. The creationists are at the bottom of the scale. They pull every trick in the book to justify their position. Indeed, at times they verge right over into the downright dishonest. Scientific ...
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France Terrified of Lance
Sports | Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:32:04 am PDT
The French have found a technicality they think will let them keep Lance Armstrong out of the Tour de France this year. Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong could soon face disciplinary proceedings from the French anti-doping agency AFLD, following what it says was improper behaviour during an anti-doping ...
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Photo of the Day
Images | Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:19:31 am PDT
Michael Yon has posted some more photos from Southeast Asia, including this one captioned “Morning alms at Luang Prabang, Laos.”
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Bristol's Ex: Sarah Lied
US News | Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:10:24 am PDT
Uh oh. The young man who impregnated Sarah Palin’s daughter said yesterday that the former GOP vice-presidential candidate is a liar and that she stopped being nice to him after her defeat in November. Levi Johnston, 19, stood by his claim that he lived with his former girlfriend, Bristol Palin, under ...
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China's In the House
Science | Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:58:57 am PDT
Chinese robots. The Internet is lousy with them. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. concerns about the potential for cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure extended to the American electrical power grid on Wednesday and experts pointed the finger anew at Chinese hackers, among others. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told reporters the power ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:18:15 pm PDT
Don’t you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don’t you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death? No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no. One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out ...
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Totten: Sadr City After the Fall
World | Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:12:33 pm PDT
Another great piece from Iraq by Michael J. Totten: Sadr City After the Fall. The way into Sadr City itself was from Combat Outpost (COP) Ford, a one-company base wedged between Sadr City and the adjacent Beida neighborhood. Captains Todd Looney and A.J. Boyes ran the company, and they were ...
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World Net Daily Still Looking for That Nirth Certifikit
Moonbats | Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:07:13 pm PDT
Hey, I have a great idea! Why don’t we all just walk up to a brick wall and smash our heads into it over and over and over? I know; it sounds painful. But look on the bright side! It will feel so good when we pass out. Hawaii lawmakers ...
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Amit Ghate: Attacks on LGF Are Revealing
Blogosphere | Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:29:15 pm PDT
Some nice words from Amit Ghate: Attacks on LGF are Revealing. Though I don’t have time to follow it as closely as I’d like to, I think Charles Johnson’s Little Green Footballs is one of the best (non-objectivist) blogs out there. He’s for free speech and strongly against Islamic totalitarianism ...
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Obama Aide Denies Barack Bowed to Saudi King
World | Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:33:22 pm PDT
Expect this news to launch a round of screaming that Barack Obama is lying: White House: No bow to Saudi. “It wasn’t a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he’s taller than King Abdullah,” said an Obama aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. As I ...
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Ahmadinejad Translated
World | Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:19:16 pm PDT
Let’s put Iranian thug-in-chief Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s latest statements through the LGF/Acme Super Duper Translatronic Device to find out what he really meant: Ahmadinejad: “The Iranian people would welcome a hand extended to it if the hand is truly based on honesty.” Translatronic Device: “The Holocaust was a lie! Jews secretly rule the ...
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Midday Open Thread
Open | Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:44:20 am PDT
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip.
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World's Craziest Bloggers Say LGF is 'Linked Up' with Neo-Nazis
Blogosphere | Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:33:50 am PDT
Hatebloggers Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer have really hit bottom now. What can I even say about this? It’s just sad, and utterly pathetic. Complete with upper case misspelling, unnoticed for more than a day: Atlas Shrugs: NEO NAZIS LINK UP WITH CHARLES JOHNSON, LITTLE GREEN FOOTBALLS SMEARS BECK, THE GOP ...
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Report: US Crew Retakes Pirated Ship
World | Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:04:25 am PDT
CBS News reports that the crew of the hijacked cargo ship Maersk Alabama has possibly overpowered the Somali pirates: American Crew Battles Somali Pirates. (CBS/AP) The crew of a hijacked U.S. cargo ship is in a standoff with Somali pirates after attempting to retake the vessel, military sources told CBS ...
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About Glenn Beck's Extremist Rhetoric, Part 2
Media | Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:51:37 am PDT
David Frum asks “What is going on at Fox News?” The whole column makes good points (and Beck has already savaged Frum for it, of course), but let’s focus on one section: The audience for Beck’s Friday night special were each given copies of two books. One of them was Cleon ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:33:24 pm PDT
The health of a nation is inversely proportional to the number of laws needed to govern it. — Thomas Frey
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Video: Gingrich the RINO Obama Loving Socialist
Politics | Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:55:21 pm PDT
Here’s a video posted by Newt Gingrich on his own YouTube channel today. Skip ahead to 4:06 to hear Gingrich say: “if we bow to the Saudi king, which the president [Obama] did, which I thought was frankly not very good when President Bush did it.” [Video] Maybe I should forward all ...
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A Shout Out from HispanicBusiness.com
Politics | Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:01:57 pm PDT
Uh oh. HispanicBusiness.com - Conservative Blogger: Bush Also Bowed Before the Saudi King. Look out. Sanity is out of style.
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About Glenn Beck's Extremist Rhetoric
Media | Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:43:54 pm PDT
Michael A. Cohen has a piece in Politico today about the over-the-top irresponsible extremism and conspiracy theories promulgated by weeping Glenn Beck: Extremist rhetoric won’t rebuild GOP. Watching Fox News’ new sensation Glenn Beck is not for the faint of heart. It is a disquieting entree into the feverish mind ...
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Photo of the Day
Images | Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:59:01 pm PDT
A striking image from Laos, taken by the inimitable Michael Yon; for the story behind it, check Michael’s site.
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Here Comes LGF's 7,000,000th Comment
Blogosphere | Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:37:25 pm PDT
As I write, we have about 700 comments to go before someone posts the seven millionth comment at LGF. W00t! Comment #6,000,000 was posted only six short months ago, so the rate of commenting continues to accelerate, eventually, perhaps, reaching a singularity in which every comment ever posted will suddenly become ...
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Iranian Nuclear Smuggling Plot Uncovered in Manhattan
US News | Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:00:15 pm PDT
The Manhattan district attorney’s office has announced that they’ve discovered a plot to smuggle nuclear weapons materials to Iran, with the unwitting help of New York banks. The indictment will outline the financial conspiracy behind 58 different transactions, including shipments of various banned materials from China to Iran between 2006 ...
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Tuesday Morning Open
Open | Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:01:56 am PDT
So here you have Barack Obama going in and spending the money on embryonic stem cell research, and then some, fundamentally changing – remember, those great progressive doctors are the ones who brought us Eugenics. It was the progressive movement and it was science. Let’s put science truly in her ...
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Palin Finally Recognizes Alaskan Missile Defense Role
US News | Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:56:07 am PDT
After North Korea’s failed missile test (the rocket crashed into the ocean) Sarah Palin issued a statement on missile defense; at Closing Velocity, McKittrick says better late than never: Palin Finally Recognizes Alaska’s Vital Missile Defense Role. With missile defense budget cuts now in motion —- and Fort Greely’s planned ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:04:59 pm PDT
A ritual wouldn’t be much of a ritual if you didn’t feel like you’ve been put through the wringer, would it? — James Burke
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Video: The Glenn Beck Apocalypse
Video | Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:14:16 pm PDT
It’s funny because it’s true. [Video] (Hat tip: gmsc.)
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Antarctic Ice Bridge Collapses
Environment | Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:07:21 pm PDT
Uh oh. Ice bridge holding Antarctic ice shelf cracks up. OSLO (Reuters) - An ice bridge which had apparently held a vast Antarctic ice shelf in place during recorded history shattered on Saturday and could herald a wider collapse linked to global warming, a leading scientist said. “It’s amazing how the ...
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Obama Administration Defends Wiretaps
US News | Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:20:15 pm PDT
Well, well. After all the left’s ranting about the Bush administration’s evil, fascist wiretapping: Obama administration defends Bush wire-taps. (04-06) 15:26 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — The Obama administration is again invoking government secrecy in defending the Bush administration’s wiretapping program, this time against a lawsuit by AT&T customers who claim ...
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Monday Afternoon Open
Open | Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 1:40:19 pm PDT
I can prove now, for instance, that two human hands exist. How? By holding up my two hands, and saying, as I make a certain gesture with the right hand, “Here is one hand,” and adding, as I make a certain gesture with the left, “and here is another.” And ...
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We Got Mail!
Lifestyle | Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:24:04 am PDT
Among the dozen or so hate mails I’ve received this morning for not hating Barack Obama enough, here’s an email of support from a terrific writer, Tim Powers: Hello, Charles — This is just a brief note to counter some of the mail you’ve apparently been getting — I very much ...
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Turkey Foils Plot to Assassinate Obama
World | Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:02:46 am PDT
Turkish authorities claim to have foiled a plot to assassinate Barack Obama, by a man carrying a press card for JihadTV. Turkish security services have arrested a man of Syrian descent who was planning to assassinate US President Barack Obama during his current trip to Turkey, the Saudi daily Al ...
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Obama Speaks in Turkey
World | Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:51:05 am PDT
Barack Obama’s speech in Turkey: Obama backs Palestinian state, conciliatory to Muslims. ANKARA (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama told Turkey’s largely Muslim but secular democracy on Monday the United States was not at war with Islam and that it wanted to reinvigorate efforts toward creating a Palestinian state. Obama reiterated ...
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Rasmussen's Non-Apology Apology
World | Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:11:40 am PDT
Today, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen issued one of those political non-apology apologies we’ve come to know so well, intended to mollify the Islamic world while giving himself a way to argue that he didn’t really apologize at all. And also intended to smooth the way for his position ...
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Monday Morning Bow
World | Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:26:25 am PDT
Here’s an open thread for Monday morning, for everyone who wants to yell at me some more for pointing out that by bowing to King Abdullah, Barack Obama was simply following the well-documented, well-known tradition of US Presidents to pander to the Saudis. To sum up, presidential pandering to the Saudis ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:03:22 pm PDT
Exhortation to Learning A handsome man guards his image a while; a good man will one day take on beauty. — Sappho
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Earthquake Strikes Italy
World | Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:34:43 pm PDT
A major earthquake has struck central Italy; at least 13 people have been reported killed, and the toll will undoubtedly go higher. The quake, of a 6.3 magnitude, struck 53 miles northeast of Rome, said the US Geological Survey. Four children are among the dead and thousands are said to be ...
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Time to Legalize Weed?
US News | Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 8:19:32 pm PDT
So let’s try a non-controversial subject for a change. Like legalizing marijuana. Carlos Santana is in favor of it. Doesn’t that count? (I’m kidding, of course.) The US is currently spending more than $10 billion every year trying to stop people from consuming marijuana, and getting absolutely nowhere. Is it time to make ...
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Bush Bowed Too
World | Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 5:36:23 pm PDT
More than a few people on the right are screaming that Barack Obama should be impeached for bowing to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Those of you who are buying into this hyperventilating nonsense need to see this video. (Click the image to watch.) This deference to a very bad country has ...
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UN Springs Into Action, Does Nothing
World | Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 5:24:41 pm PDT
Susan Rice, our ambassador to the UN, says the most appropriate response to North Korea’s missile launch is to appeal to the UN Security Council. Good luck with that: UN Security Council Adjourns Without Response to North Korea Rocket Launch. The U.N. Security Council met in emergency session on Sunday afternoon ...
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Jindal-Endorsed Creationist Loses in Louisiana
Politics | Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:25:38 pm PDT
A Republican candidate endorsed by Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has lost big. Baton Rouge lawyer Dan Claitor beat businessman and fellow Republican Lee Domingue — the candidate with Gov. Bobby Jindal’s backing — to win the state Senate District 16 seat in Saturday’s special election. Claitor garnered 11,713 or 66 percent ...
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Le Pen Calls Nazi Gas Chambers 'A Detail' of WWII
World | Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:52:22 pm PDT
Jean Marie Le Pen, the leader of French neo-Nazi party “Front National” and friend and ally of Filip DeWinter of the Belgian fascist group Vlaams Belang, is back in the news again — for reiterating his Holocaust denial in a speech to the European Parliament: Le Pen calls gas chambers ...
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Denmark's Leader Will Apologize for Cartoons of Blasphemy
World | Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:24:18 pm PDT
What do you have to do to become the secretary general of NATO these days? Apologize to the Islamic world for exercising your right to freedom of expression. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Denmark’s leader, was one of the few European politicians who refused to give in to pressure from fundamentalists in the ...
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Sunday Morning Open
Open | Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:06:37 am PDT
An open thread for the remains of a Sunday morning...
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Pittsburgh Cop-Killer Was Conspiracy Nut and Member of Stormfront
US News | Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:31:19 am PDT
Yesterday we noted reports that Richard Poplawski, charged with murdering three police officers in Pittsburgh, was obsessed with the idea that Barack Obama wanted to take away his guns. Today more of Poplawski’s story is coming out, and it’s much worse than it first appeared. Poplawski was a follower of conspiracy ...
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Nuclear Fantasies Given Thumbs-Up By Associated Press
World | Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 8:44:24 am PDT
Associated Press “military writer” Anne Gearan wants us to know that Obama’s no-nukes pledge is not so farfetched. She gives this penetrating analysis of the arguments in favor of magically making all the nuclear weapons in the world vanish: * Nuclear weapons have become more trouble than they are worth, an ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:21:44 pm PDT
Gold Hat: Hola, senor. We are Federales. You know, the mounted police. Dobbs: If you’re the police, where are your badges? Gold Hat: Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges! — The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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Lizard Lounge Closes
Open | Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:33:25 pm PDT
I’ve become aware that there is a contingent of disgruntled LGF readers who have been using the Lizard Lounge — that I’ve been paying for, for the past three years — to trash and insult LGF and myself. As of right now, the Lounge is closed until further notice.
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Did They Launch or Didn't They?
World | Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 7:58:13 pm PDT
The world’s news services are stumbling over each other’s feet tonight. The BBC says: North Korea ‘has launched rocket’. But Reuters says: Japan red-faced over mistaken N.Korean rocket report. We’ll find out who’s right shortly. UPDATE at 4/4/09 8:16:31 pm: Looks like they did: North Korea Defies Warnings, Launches Powerful Rocket. TOKYO, April 5 — ...
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Saturday Music: Ry Cooder, 'Crazy 'Bout An Automobile'
Video | Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 7:05:13 pm PDT
Ry Cooder and the Moula Banda Rhythm Aces tellin’ the truth. Every woman I know really is crazy about an automobile. [Video]
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Pope Benedict Announces Investigation of Corrupt Order
Religion | Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:28:06 pm PDT
This is good news about a very bad situation—a sign that the Catholic Church is starting to get serious about dealing with the corruption that has wreaked so much damage in so many lives: Vatican to investigate scandalized religious order. NEW YORK – Pope Benedict XVI has taken the extraordinary ...
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Video: The Basics of Evolution
Science | Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:09:31 pm PDT
Here’s an excellent video presentation explaining some of the basic ideas behind the theory of evolution, and addressing some of the most common misconceptions promoted by creationists, with a well-written script and artistic graphics. [Video]
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Three Policemen Shot in Pittsburgh
US News | Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:34:41 am PDT
Today in Pittsburgh, three police officers were murdered during a domestic disturbance call by a 23-year old man who reportedly feared that Barack Obama would ban guns. Police did not immediately release the gunman’s identity, but his friends identified him as Richard Poplawski, 23. They described him as a young ...
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Muslim Sailor Sentenced to 10 Years
US News | Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:05:27 am PDT
Muslim convert Paul R. Hall, who chose the Islamic name “Hassan Abu-Jihaad,” joined the US Navy, and was convicted last year of passing information on ship movements to Al Qaeda, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. The Investigative Project notes that the Hamas front group calling itself the ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:46:42 pm PDT
In another moment I had scrambled up the earthen rampart and stood upon its crest, and the interior of the redoubt was below me. A mighty space it was, with gigantic machines here and there within it, huge mounds of material and strange shelter places. And scattered about it, some ...
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German Neo-Nazis Need Money
World | Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:48:17 pm PDT
The German far right is having a little spot of bother—two and a half million Euros worth: No Mercy for NPD: German Far-Right Party Fined Millions. The nation’s largest neo-Nazi party, the NPD — with several members in state government seats — has been fighting for its life. On Thursday, ...
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Phoebe Has a Baby
Video | Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:15:57 pm PDT
Come on, little feller! You can do it! [Video] (Hat tip: the Columbus Zoo, via ZooBorns.)
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Friday Night Music: King's X, 'Pray'
Video | Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:25:49 pm PDT
King’s X, the thinking person’s hard rock band, with a song from their latest album XV. [Video]
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Anti-Vaccination Nut Jenny McCarthy on CNN
Health | Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:44:11 pm PDT
The anti-vaccine kooks are getting another boost of free publicity tonight on the Larry King show, featuring Jenny McCarthy—who is just fine with the return of polio if it helps her sell some more books. Disgusting, and irresponsible beyond belief. Shame on CNN and Larry King for promoting this destructive, ...
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Jingle Bombs
World | Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:45:54 pm PDT
Michael Yon has interesting photos of Pakistani “jingle trucks” turned into vehicles for weapons smugglers—exposed by man’s best friend: Jingle Bombs, Jingle Bombs. Soldiers call these colorful beasts “jingo trucks” because of all the chains and bells that make them sound like road chimes. Jingle trucks ply the roads ...
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The 2008 Pigasus Awards
Video | Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:01:24 pm PDT
It’s time for the James Randi Foundation’s “Pigasus” awards for 2008, and lo and behold — some of our favorite kooks and cranks are “honored,” including anti-vaccination airhead Jenny McCarthy and Ben Stein’s horrible creationist propaganda film “Expelled.” [Video]
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Iran's Manhattan Project
World | Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:50:41 pm PDT
Here we go. The Obama administration is beginning to float their “Iran’s getting nukes and we can’t stop them” trial balloon: US may cede to Iran’s nuclear ambition. US officials are considering whether to accept Iran’s pursuit of uranium enrichment, which has been outlawed by the United Nations and remains ...
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Mass Murder in New York
US News | Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:20:17 am PDT
Some reports say that more than a dozen people have been killed in Binghamton, New York, in a hostage standoff at an immigration services center.
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Taliban Flog Teenage Girl in Public
Video | Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:39:15 am PDT
Here we see the people that Hillary Clinton thinks should be offered an “honorable form of reconciliation,” the Taliban, brutally whipping a teenaged girl because she left her house in the company of her father-in-law. Warning: it’s a disturbing video. [Video] A video showing a teenage girl being flogged by Taliban fighters ...
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Krauthammer: Obama the Leveler
Opinion | Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:05:02 am PDT
Another perceptive column from Charles Krauthammer on Obama’s Ultimate Agenda: There is every political incentive to make these interventions in the banks and autos temporary and circumscribed. For President Obama, autos and banks are sideshows. Enormous sideshows, to be sure, but had the financial meltdown and the looming auto bankruptcies ...
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YouTube Restores James Randi Foundation Account
Media | Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:39:06 am PDT
Some small good news this morning: the James Randi Foundation account has been restored on YouTube. Phil Plait explains that the problem was apparently related to a copyright complaint about video footage: The JREF YouTube Account is back online! However, some videos that should be deleted, not due to copyright violations but ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:21:31 pm PDT
Responsibility’s like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight. — William McFee
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New Bill to Put Texas Creationists Under the Microscope
Science | Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:12:24 pm PDT
A new bill introduced in the Texas House of Representatives will require meetings of the Board of Education to be recorded in audio and video, broadcast over the Internet, and archived for reference—an excellent idea that will expose the anti-science agenda of Republican chairman Don McLeroy (appointed by Republican governor ...
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Thursday Night Open
Open | Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:07:53 pm PDT
Atheists: evil monsters, or immoral monsters? Discuss.
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Ward Churchill Wins, Awarded Princely Sum
US News | Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:04:11 pm PDT
Ward Churchill has won his lawsuit against the University of Colorado: Churchill Snatches Victory From The Slack-Jaws of CU. The jury has reached its verdict: The University of Colorado at Boulder improperly fired Ethnics Studies professor Ward Churchill; the jury awards Churchill One Dollar in damages. Since we’ve made no effort ...
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Zimmer vs. Will (Again)
Environment | Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:57:36 pm PDT
Science writer Carl Zimmer is calling out George Will again, this time for misrepresenting climate change statistics published by the World Meteorological Organization: George Will, Now With Misleading Links! One of the more egregious lines from George Will’s recent columns on global warming is the claim that real data shows ...
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Romney: Don't Wish for Obama to Fail
Politics | Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:11:25 pm PDT
Mitt Romney is obviously a RINO trying to split the GOP and subvert the cause of conservatism. Yes, that’s sarcasm, based on the copious insults directed against LGF for saying the same things: Romney: Don’t root for Obama to fail. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) said Wednesday that Republicans shouldn’t ...
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They've Got Us By the Gas Tank
Images | Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:25:26 am PDT
Lots of people blogging about (what appears to be) Barack Obama’s obsequious bow to the ruler of one of the most repressive theocracies on the planet, Saudi Arabia, at the G20 meeting in London: But lest we forget, this toadying to the religious apartheid kingdom didn’t start with our new President: [Video] Even ...
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Autism's False Prophets
Health | Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:47:33 am PDT
Dr. Paul Offit, MD, author of the excellent book Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, is interviewed on the Brain Science Podcast, debunking the hysteria being spread about vaccines. [Audio] (Hat tip: Paolo.)
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North Korea Going Ahead with Missile Launch
World | Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:50:28 am PDT
We’re on final approach to North Korea’s long range ballistic missile test; they’ve begun fueling the multi-stage rocket. Don’t worry, though; Barack Obama plans to respond with a firm protest to the United Nations. President Barack Obama told his South Korean counterpart, Lee Myung-Bak, at the Group of 20 nations summit ...
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Palestinian Terrorist Attacks Two Children with Axe
Middle East | Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:25:41 am PDT
This morning in the Israeli town of Bat Ayin, an Arab terrorist attacked two young boys with an axe, killing one and wounding another, then escaped. Soccer Dad has a report: Terror in bat ayin. Also see: The Muqata: Newsflash; Terror attack in Gush Etzion The Day in Israel: Thurs Apr 2nd, 2009 ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:24:02 pm PDT
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. — Ingrid Bergman
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We Got Mail!
Health | Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 7:54:53 pm PDT
Tonight’s angry, belligerent email is regarding our recent posts about the anti-vaccination insanity being promoted by the likes of Jenny McCarthy, from a reader in New York, titled “a love note of sorts.” But there’s really not much love in this one. Before you crap on people for being suspicious of ...
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Hitchens on George Galloway's Canadian Extravaganza
Opinion | Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:58:15 pm PDT
I agree with Christopher Hitchens on this one; by making a big deal about terror supporter George Galloway’s visit, the Canadian government has shot itself in the foot and given this creep more publicity than he deserves—and Galloway is an expert at exploiting these types of situations: We don’t need ...
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Anti-Vaxer Jenny McCarthy: 'It's Going to Take Some Diseases Coming Back'
Health | Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:34:39 pm PDT
Anti-vaccination kook Jenny McCarthy is interviewed today in TIME Magazine, and the former Playboy model/MTV airhead says if polio returns in a new pandemic because of anti-vaccination propaganda, she’s just fine with that. Your collaborator recommends that parents accept only the haemophilus influenzae type B (HIB) and tetanus vaccine for ...
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No Sign of Taliban Fist Unclenching
World | Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:50:45 pm PDT
We reach out, and beg, and offer deals to get them to unclench, and this is our thanks. KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents reject a U.S. offer of “honorable reconciliation,” a top spokesman said on Wednesday, calling it a “lunatic idea” and saying the only way to end the war ...
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We Got Mail!
Science | Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:41:54 am PDT
Wow. I guess I should have known, when YouTube blocked his account, that there are people out there who really really hate James Randi. Case in point: this email from a belligerent Randi-hater, who equates science and rational skepticism with “arrogance” and “book burning.” You might wish to do some ...
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Video: When Print Media and Blogs Collide
Video | Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:18:13 am PDT
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Wednesday Morning Open
Open | Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:37:43 am PDT
Here’s an open thread for what’s left of a Wednesday morning...
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Message to the Taliban
World | Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:25:08 am PDT
We may not like what President Obama is doing domestically, but this is exactly the right thing to do when the Taliban threaten to attack America: Drone Attack Kills 12 After Taliban Threatens DC. An American drone once again struck a suspected militant camp in Pakistan. 12 people are dead, ...
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FrontPage Unloads on the Nirthers
Moonbats | Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:05:09 am PDT
Finally, some responsible writing from a conservative source on the ridiculous and mind-bendingly stupid “birth certificate” conspiracy theory: Barack Obama: Born in Hawaii. It is time for folks to stop being played by the Obama campaign and drop this counter productive ‘phony birth certificate’ nonsense. But they won’t, of course. (Hat ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:21:11 pm PDT
Not that I think much depends On how we treat our feathered friends, Or hold the wrinkled elephant A nobler creature than my aunt. It’s simply that I’m sure I can Get on without my fellow man. — Ogden Nash
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