Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:52:56 am
Bravo to GQ for actually asking a real question about science in their interview of Marco Rubio, and making him state outright that he's just another anti-science Republican: Marco Rubio Interview. GQ: How old do you think the Earth is? Marco Rubio: I'm not a scientist, man. I can tell ...

Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:21:21 am
Yes, the right wing is still trying to turn the Benghazi attack into a cut-rate Watergate scandal, despite David Petraeus's testimony backing up everything the administration said. Jennifer Rubin, the right wing hack masquerading as a Washington Post blogger, leads the charge with yet another determinedly stupid article: BREAKING: The ...

Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:34:12 pm
This horrifying story from Ireland is a grim warning of what's in store for the United States if the Republican Party's anti-abortion agenda is allowed to succeed: Woman 'Denied a Termination' Dies in Hospital. Two investigations are under way into the death of a woman who was 17 weeks pregnant, ...

Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:42:45 am
It's almost comical to see Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's efforts to position himself as the voice of reasonable conservatism. Remember, this is the Republican governor who's had more success than any other in sneaking creationism into public school science classes; make no mistake, Bobby Jindal is 100% in line with ...

Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:18:46 am
Some Republican politicians are trying to get out in front of their massive loss this election by making speeches calling for the party to stop being so stupid. No, really -- that's what Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said yesterday. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Monday called on Republicans to "stop being ...

Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 5:42:14 pm
I don't know what's keeping it awake in the rest of the country, but here in California the Republican Party is just about ready for a long, long nap: GOP Might Never Again Hold Power in California. Let's count the election day wounds: Mitt Romney lost to President Obama by a ...

Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 11:57:32 am
After losing the presidential election, with 70% of the Latino vote going to Obama, Republicans are suddenly making noises about the need to be less anti-immigrant. Or to be more precise, the need to appear to be less anti-immigrant. Of course, if they're serious about this, they should probably start by shunning ...

Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 6:18:58 pm
There are many reasons I'm voting Democrat this election but prime among them is that Mitt Romney has no core, no soul, no integrity. There are many words that you would never apply to him after his several years of unsuccessful campaigning, but chief among them are the words "courageous," ...

Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:12:00 am
The right wing's attempt to hype up a fake outrage over the Benghazi attack is continuing to fall apart: New Detailed Account of Benghazi Attack Notes CIA's Quick Response. Intelligence officials have disclosed a new detailed timeline of the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, acknowledging the CIA played ...

Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:26:22 pm
Presented for amusement and dissection, the Republican Party of South Dakota (SDGOP) has created this web ad exploring the differences between the state's Congressional candidates -- the family values farm-loving South Dakota girl versus the suspiciously worldly tree-hugging environmentalist librul. Right wing anti-intellectualism writ large, with flashy 90° angled captions and ...

Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:10:37 am
Jon Avlon has a piece at The Daily Beast on the sick and twisted world of the right wing Obama Haters Book Club, where fear mongering and deranged conspiracy theories are a thriving business. Welcome to the Obama Haters Book Club--a parallel universe of fear mongering for fun and profit.  Over ...

Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:41:07 am
It's almost comical, how Republican cavemen simply can't seem to stop themselves from saying disgusting, outrageous things about women and rape. Another Neanderthal emerged from his cave yesterday: Indiana GOP U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, who actually believes that if women get pregnant from a rape, it's "something God intended." And ...

Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:46:20 am
It's easy to laugh at Todd Akin's ridiculous caveman views, but Akin and the deranged anti-choice fanatics he associates with are really not a laughing matter; they're deadly serious and willing to break laws: Todd Akin Arrested on May 9, 1987 With Radical Anti-Abortion Group. We learned from a public ...

Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 7:54:20 pm
Tonight, the bogus right wing talking points about the Benghazi attack are totally falling apart, as the latest reports from the investigation become public: David Ignatius: Benghazi Intelligence Revealed. "Talking points" prepared by the CIA on Sept. 15, the same day that Rice taped three television appearances, support her description ...

Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:18:39 am
The Republican Party seems to be doing an excellent job of dishonestly using the attack in Libya that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens for political purposes. They're relentlessly trying to drum this up into a scandal where there is no scandal, and our feckless media are taking the bait, of course. Today ...

Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:40:58 pm
• Exhibit A: Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney with hate group leader Pamela Geller Mitt Romney and Pamela Geller About Pamela Geller: Pamela Geller is the anti-Muslim movement's most visible and flamboyant figurehead. She's relentlessly shrill and coarse in her broad-brush denunciations of Islam and makes preposterous claims, such as that President ...

Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:40:00 am
Mother Jones has released another potentially damning video, featuring Mitt Romney introducing Glenn Beck at a 2009 fundraiser for George Wythe University in Utah, founded by followers of far right crank W. Cleon Skousen. Among the superlatives he peppered his introduction of Beck with was the word "statesman." In 2009, Mitt ...

Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:27:01 pm
Meanwhile, in the other major sideshow going on in the Republican Party, Missouri caveman Todd Akin is in the news again because of a 2008 speech on the House floor in which he stated that doctors sometimes give abortions to women "who are not actually pregnant." Note that in this crazed ...

Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:40:24 am
With Mitt Romney's talk of "self-deportation," his endorsement of Arizona's anti-immigrant SB1070 law as a model for the nation, his employment of far right nativist Kris Kobach as an advisor, and his condescending joke about having a "better shot at winning" if he were Latino, this new poll from Latino ...

Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:59:44 pm
MSNBC Video Rachel Maddow does an excellent job in this segment of laying out the facts about Mitt Romney's unprecedented use of deliberate dishonesty as a political tool -- even after the dishonesty is exposed. There's nothing new about politicians lying, but I'd argue that there is something new about the ...

Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:04:39 pm
The latest wingnut outrageous outrage revolves around President Obama's use of the phrase "bumps in the road," while speaking about the road to democracy and peace in the Middle East and the Arab Spring during an interview on 60 Minutes last night. "I think it was absolutely the right thing ...

Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:40:11 am
In the wake of protests and riots as well as a terror attack against the US consulate in Libya that resulted in dozens of casualties and the death of US Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans ostensibly over a video denigrating Islam and the prophet Mohammed, a French satire magazine ...

Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 11:38:30 am
Probably the clearest, most direct expression of reactionary right wing anti-intellectualism we've seen yet: Rick Santorum Says 'Smart People Will Never Be on Our Side'. "We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country," Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, told the audience at the Omni Shoreham ...

Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:50:09 pm
Far right anti-immigrant Mitt Romney campaign adviser Kris Kobach is trying to have President Obama removed from the ballot in Kansas. And the reason for this extreme move is ... Birtherism. A GOP-controlled board in Kansas is trying to decide whether to remove President Obama from the state ballot over ...

Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:23:20 pm
The meeting of religious fanatics and social conservative lunatics known as the Values Voter Summit gets under way today in its usual caveman fashion, as Republican congressman Tim Huelskamp calls Planned Parenthood "racist baby killers", compares women's reproductive rights to slavery, and repeats the usual right wing lies about Obamacare ...