Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:57:17 pm
Drought via Shutterstock Environmental scientist Robert J. Brulle has an op-ed in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, calling for the environmental movement to redouble its efforts to move climate change onto the presidential agenda, and criticizing the irresponsible behavior of both candidates as the climate continues to heat up: Conspiracy of ...

Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:54:19 am
In the span of just a few years, Berkeley Prof. Richard Muller went from being a climate change skeptic to a believer that humans are responsible for climate change. The reason: overwhelming evidence. My total turnaround, in such a short time, is the result of careful and objective analysis by ...

Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:29:14 pm
A group of scientific and engineering organizations is trying to get the presidential candidates to commit to a debate on science in America: Quest for Science Debate Continues. As CJR points out, in the last election both John McCain and Barack Obama gave fairly detailed written responses. I have no doubt ...

Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 5:09:44 pm
Javascript via Shutterstock The dirty secret of these tech posts is that I often write them for myself, because they help me organize my thoughts; sometimes the process of making it simple enough and abstract enough to post about on LGF even suggests improvements to programming techniques. And believe it or not ...

Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:58:31 pm
Speaking at the exclusive River Hills Club in Jackson, Mississippi, where wealthy donors paid up to $50,000 to see him, Mitt Romney pointed at the waiters serving the elite crowd and said Barack Obama has let them down. Addressing 300 contributors who paid $2,500, $10,000 or $50,000 to hear him ...

Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:21:18 pm
In a way, Tim Pawlenty is the perfect running mate for Mitt Romney; he's a fundamentalist Christian, a creationist, and a climate change denier, but he somehow manages to project a bland non-threatening persona. In other words, a reactionary nut who doesn't look like a reactionary nut. Perfect. It was four ...

Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 6:39:42 pm
Remember the Tea Party -- that reactionary right wing movement that helped lead the Republican Party into the fever swamp of madness? Well, in places like Tennessee they found especially fertile ground, and that state's Teabaggers are demanding that school textbooks leave out America's history of slavery. A little more than ...

Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:25:40 pm
Source code via Shutterstock Here's where I geek out and lavish praise on a great software tool I wish I'd started using a long time ago: LESS « The Dynamic Stylesheet language. In web development, one of the drawbacks of CSS is that it's not really a language, but a static list ...

Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:02:16 am
You can find the complete text of the Texas Republican Party's 2012 platform here. Reading through it, here are some of the best bits: 2. The sanctity of human life, created in the image of God, which should be protected from fertilization to natural death. ... 7. Having an educated population, with ...

Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:44:25 pm
Louisiana is embarking on a great fundamentalist adventure with Gov. Bobby Jindal's wide-ranging school voucher program, which diverts state education funds to primarily religious private schools -- many of whom will be teaching a curriculum designed by the most extreme and fanatical Protestant religious groups in America: Louisiana Voucher Students ...

Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:42:09 pm
So after Joe the Plumber suggested that gun control was responsible for the Holocaust and that the Bible is more accurate than science textbooks because "it was never revised," I'm sure you're all wondering who's running his brilliant communications operation. One great introduction to Joe's "Director of Communications" Phil ...

Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:03:57 pm
At a Heartland Institute anti-science conference recently, Peter Sinclair interviewed one of the main attack dogs of the climate change denial gang, Marc Morano, and man, does this ever reveal the twisted mindset and thuggish tactics of these dishonest energy industry shills. YouTube Video Also see: Graham Readfearn | Who Is Filling Climate ...

Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 6:38:33 pm
Oh sure, you may be jaded and tired of hearing about the Communist plot to pollute our precious bodily fluids, but are you ready for the MIND-BENDING HORROR of America's Marxist Picnic? And on Father's Day, no less? The evil. The sheer evil. I could go on and on. These oft-cited ...

Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:15:38 pm
Read the whole thing here. A hangman's noose. For two decades, that's what the elite Albuquerque Police Department unit assigned to the city's worst criminals has used as its symbol. It will no more. After Journal inquiries, Police Chief Ray Schultz said in an email late Thursday that he is doing away ...

Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:05:12 am
The big news today is the announcement that the Obama administration plans to stop deporting many young illegal immigrants, basically implementing the DREAM Act by executive order. As we've noted previously, Mitt Romney's immigration policy is being set by one of the most extreme right wing anti-immigrant ideologues in America, ...

Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:18:12 am
We've had many posts at LGF about Fox News morning show Fox & Friends, because it's one of the craziest, most despicable shows on Fox. Creationism, climate change denial, racism, Birtherism; name a far right malfunction and you can bet Fox & Friends promotes it. Well, this morning, Fox News caveman ...

Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:04:28 pm
Here's one for the annals of hate group leader Pamela Geller's Infamous Apparently Inebriated Posts; a reader emailed this morning to let me know that the following amazingly incoherent rant had appeared at her website. I grabbed a screenshot of Google's cached copy before it goes away (the post has ...

Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:44:54 am
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, scion of the Bush dynasty, says there would be no place for the hallowed Ronald Reagan -- or his father -- in today's far right Tea Party GOP. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said today that both Ronald Reagan and his father George H. W. ...

Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:43:27 pm
Without exaggeration, this is one of the most amazing and beautiful videos I have ever seen. The full-screen 720p version is mind-blowing. YouTube Video Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun. During its five-year mission, it ...

Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:08:51 am
Another day, another outright lie from one of the most dishonest right wing "pundits," Dana Loesch, who told CNN's Carol Costello this morning that right wing Birthers don't exist. Here is what -- nobody -- nobody believes that the President wasn't born in Hawaii except for people like Phil Berg ...

Sat, May 26, 2012 at 7:23:08 pm
After Breitbart blogger Dan Riehl's sexist comments about Joan Walsh were publicized, Mediaite's Tommy Christopher asked Dana Loesch for a comment, which makes sense given that Loesch works at Breitbart.com and frequently claims that the War on Women is a liberal conspiracy. Loesch, as is her usual practice, refused ...

Sat, May 26, 2012 at 12:33:52 pm
Here's Dan Riehl, a Breitbart.com writer who's on Mitt Romney's list of approved bloggers, reacting to Salon editor Joan Walsh's criticisms of Andrew Breitbart: I don't mind Joan Walsh getting low, but if she's going to open her mouth, wish she'd do something I might actually enjoy for once! — DanRiehl (@DanRiehl) ...

Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:59:37 pm
Right-wing bloggers (Michelle Malkin, Adam Baldwin, Katie Pavlich) have been hyping a story lately of a 16-year old conservative girl who was purportedly subjected to "vulgar comments from progressives" after recording a youtube video arguing in favor of the North Carolina amendment outlawing gay marriage. The girl is now ...

Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:16:40 pm
Since President Obama's recent endorsement of gay marriage, and the ensuing backlash from the Right, a question has been bugging me... Just why do many people - particularly religious conservatives - fear gay marriage, especially when they seem willing to at least tolerate the legality of gay behavior? I realize that ...

Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:21:03 am
The heirs of Andrew at Breitbart.com have managed to turn the site into a total laughing stock; if you were ever curious what a rabidly partisan website utterly divorced from logic, reality, and simple decency looks like, here you go: Breitbart.com. The Breitbrats are coming unglued today about the Washington Post ...