Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:08:58 pm
Normally I’d ignore this, but “Ace” has posted something so moronically misguided and false it calls for a response: Charles Johnson Now Deleting Posts for Mentioning Hacked Global Warming Fraud Emails. “Ace” says I deleted this comment by LGF reader ‘bosforus’ with “no explanation,” and that I’m “suppressing the data.” That’s ...

Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:44:57 pm
After Sarah Palin ended a book-signing event in Noblesville, Indiana, without signing more than 300 books for people who waited more than 6 hours to see her, the crowd turned on her outside her tour bus, booing and yelling “Quitting on the job!” [Video] Here’s a story on the embarrassing incident at ...

Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:19:33 am
Right wing bloggers and climate “skeptics” are ranting and fuming about “the global warming scandal of the century,” after the email server of one of the UK’s leading climate research centers was hacked, and thousands of emails were stolen and promptly posted all over the web. (Which is, of course, ...

Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:19:41 am
Here’s some good news if you live in Canada and you’ve been waiting for Amazon to release their terrific Kindle e-book reader in a Canadian version: your wait is over. In addition to having full access to more than 300,000 titles in the Amazon store, Amazon announced that Canadian newspapers ...

Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:24:57 am
White supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain continues to be welcomed in Republican circles; here he is posing at the American Spectator dinner with the two videographers who filmed the ACORN sting tapes: An O’Keefe/Giles Victory Lap. Also see: Sarah Palin’s Book Ghostwritten by Associate of White Supremacist McCain Robert Stacy McCain and the ...

Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:14:26 pm
New York Times writer Danny Hakim reports that Rudy Giuliani has decided not to run for Governor of New York. Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has decided not to run for governor next year after months of considering a candidacy, according to people who have been told of the decision. Many ...

Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:42:19 pm
On his front page today, Rush Limbaugh has a prominent link to “Prison Planet,” the website of whacked out conspiracy freakazoid Alex Jones, titled: Algore Photoshops Fake Earth. And possibly even more ridiculous, Limbaugh says his “official climatologist” is Dr. Roy Spencer — a notorious climate change denier and creationist, who ...

Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:16:55 pm
Ron Paul’s bill to audit the Federal Reserve has been approved. The House Financial Services Committee has approved Rep. Ron Paul’s measure to drastically expand the government’s power to audit the Federal Reserve. The measure, based on a Paul proposal that has attracted more than 300 co-sponsors, passed, 43-26, as an ...

Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:21:01 pm
Here’s a terrifically weird video for singer Charlotte Gainsbourg’s new song with Beck, directed by Keith Schofield. The iTunes Store has the single; the album comes out early next year. [Video]

Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:31:04 am
Far right New York congressional candidate Doug Hoffman has posted a wacky, paranoid “unconcession” letter at his website; he accuses ACORN and “the unions” of “tampering with democracy,” and the file name of the web page is “stolenelection.html.” Wow. Stop Another Stolen Election! (Hat tip: Dave Weigel, who points out that ...

Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:15:24 am
And again, Fox News shows old footage of Sarah Palin from the presidential campaign to give the impression that she’s drawing huge crowds on her book tour. [Video] The Swamp reports that heads may roll at Fox over this embarrassing incident.

Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:08:54 am
As we learn more about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, it’s clear that he was throwing off warning signals right and left — but nobody wanted to step up and take action about him until it was too late: Hasan’s Supervisor Warned Army In 2007. Two years ago, a top psychiatrist ...

Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:36:26 pm
Open thread, with baby sloths at the Sloth Sanctuary. Cuteness guaranteed. [Video] (Hat tip: Zooborns.)

Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:29:26 pm
At Huffington Post, TV talk show host Bill Maher has a very lengthy article trying to explain his anti-vaccination opinions, but it’s more obfuscation than explanation: Bill Maher: Vaccination: A Conversation Worth Having. It’s pretty long-winded and a bit whiny, and amounts to a restatement of Maher’s previous positions, which were ...

Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:55:37 am
At a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Eric Holder defended his decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 suspects in civilian court in New York. Holder said he knows “we are at war with a vicious enemy who targets our soldiers on the battlefield ...

Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:10:50 am
Sarah “I didn’t come from no monkey” Palin gets the ultimate soft ball interview from Rich Lowry at National Review: The Rogue, on the Record. When Lowry asks about her absurd fear-mongering “death panels” statement, she compares herself to … Ronald Reagan. You remember how Reagan called the Soviet Union the ...

Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:53:57 pm
Antoine Dufour (harp guitar) and Tommy Gauthier (violin) play “Solitude,” from their latest album Still Strings. (Here it is at the iTunes Store.) [Video]

Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:06:50 pm
Germany’s Spiegel Online reports on new research on the Greenland ice sheet (cross-checked with two different methods that yielded the same result), showing that the ice is disappearing much faster than previously believed. The dimensions of this frosty giant go way beyond human imagination. With a surface area spanning some ...

Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:38:10 pm
Washington Times editor Wesley Pruden sums up Barack Obama in racially charged language, saying Obama has no “blood impulse” to be an American. This kind of stuff is becoming more and more open in “conservative” media. It’s no fault of the president that he has no natural instinct or blood impulse ...

Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:06:36 pm
Prodded by Glenn Beck, far right candidate Doug Hoffman has ‘unconceded’ in New York 23. After some tabulating errors were discovered, Owens’ lead over Hoffman shrunk to 3,026 votes. But there are as many as 10,000 oustanding absentee and paper ballots that only today will begin to be counted. (And ...

Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:06:12 am
The Anti-Defamation League has released a detailed report on the increasing anger and hostility among the right wing, singling out many of the same personalities and issues on which LGF has been focusing recently. This is the index page with summaries of the main points: Rage Grows in America: Anti-Government ...

Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:33:09 am
NBC News political director Chuck Todd is in China with a team covering Barack Obama’s visit, and when they asked US ambassador Jon Huntsman about the craziness wracking the Republican Party back in the States, Huntsman laconically replied, “It’s a good time to be in Beijing.” By the way, when ...

Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:27:52 am
The Washington Post has published the presentation given to senior Army doctors in June 2007 by alleged Fort Hood killer Nidal Malik Hasan. Instead of lecturing about a medical subject as expected, Hasan recited a litany of standard justifications for militant Islam. It’s amazing (and not in a good way) ...

Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 6:31:01 am
Some of John McCain’s top campaign aides are not happy about Sarah Palin’s book. Top aides to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign hit back at Sarah Palin Friday and Saturday, calling the former vice presidential nominee’s soon-to-be-released book “revisionist and self serving” “fiction.” Campaign manager Steve Schmidt, who emerges as Palin’s ...

Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 5:13:59 pm
The leaders of an upcoming conference on global warming have met with President Obama in Singapore and decided to scale back their expectations: Leaders Will Delay Deal on Climate Change. SINGAPORE — President Obama and other world leaders have decided to put off the difficult task of reaching a climate ...