Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:28:11 pm
Right Wing Watch takes a look at this weekend's Values Voter Summit, the annual meeting of some of the right wing's craziest elements -- Birthers, bigots, homophobes, conspiracy theorists, Dominionists, and a host of miscellaneous fundamentalist fanatics: Who's Who at the Values Voter Summit 2012. Tony Perkins Tony Perkins is president ...

Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:14:34 am
Jeffrey Goldberg has been trying to track down "Sam Bacile," the producer of the anti-Muslim film that precipitated the attack on the US's Libyan embassy, and this story is really beginning to smell bad now: Muhammad Film Consultant: 'Sam Bacile' Is Not Israeli, and Not a Real Name. As part ...

Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:13:43 pm
Mitt Romney first used this moronic anti-science line in his RNC acceptance speech, and it looks like it was such a big hit with the right wing base that he's going to make it part of his regular spiel: Mitt Romney's Climate Change Remarks on 'Meet the Press' Outrage Environmental ...

Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:20:10 pm
I just bought the Kindle version of Tyler Hamilton's book, and I'm sort of dreading it. A cyclist friend tells me it totally settles the issue of whether Armstrong was doping during his TdF wins, and not in Lance's favor. This would not surprise me, but I have to admit ...

Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:47:29 pm
There's a good chance Ron Paul's followers will do something crazy tonight, and an even better chance that Rand Paul will say something crazy. Also on the bill: anti-choice fanatic Mike Huckabee followed by pro-choice "moderate Republican" Condoleezza Rice. So that should be good for a little cognitive whiplash. Here's the ...

Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:18:45 pm
The Republican Party's 2012 platform is the most extreme right wing GOP platform in history. Name a radical far right position on almost any issue, and chances are good you'll find it enshrined in this document -- and that includes the "stealth shariah" hallucinations of the crazed anti-Muslim crowd. It's ...

Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:28:09 pm
Here's Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan in an interview last week with a horrifyingly calloused comment about rape victims, explaining why he would force women to bear the children of rapists -- because "the method of conception doesn't change the definition of life." YouTube Video A transcript: Interviewer: Abortion now... something ...

Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:14:10 pm
Lance Armstrong dropped his fight against doping charges tonight: Lance Armstrong called it quits late Thursday in his battle to end an investigation by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, a move that will most likely mean a lifetime ban for the seven-time Tour de France champion. And an AP breaking news ...

Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 5:27:01 pm
Well, the Republican Party has pretty much lost every black person in America, so now they're working on a similar strategy for Latinos by inviting Arizona's far right anti-immigrant Birther Sheriff Joe Arpaio to speak at the Republican National Convention. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is scheduled to speak to ...

Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:09:09 pm
GOP officials are trying their hardest to contain the fallout from the reprehensible comments made by Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, who is seeking a US Senate seat in a race against Claire McCaskill. Even Presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his vice president nominee Paul Ryan called on Akin to quit ...

Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:19:31 pm
GOP strategist Mark McKinnon was on MSNBC earlier, pretending he's just waking up to the Republican Party's war on women. “It’s very tough for people like me who are pro-choice Republicans. It’s admittedly not a large caucus. But when I have to see a story like Todd Akin, and then ...

Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:10:18 am
Mitt Romney's running mate Paul Ryan, one of the most extreme anti-choice fanatics in Congress, is desperately trying to put some distance between himself and Missouri caveman Todd Akin. But just look at the questions he refuses to answer directly, and read between the lines, and it's pretty obvious that even ...

Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:29:31 pm
As Todd Akin weathers the storm of disapproval in heroic right wing fashion, tied to the mast and ears plugged with wax, Republicans in Tampa are busily putting the finishing touches on a batshit insane 2012 platform, featuring total criminalization of abortion and the paranoid xenophobic fantasy that Islamic law ...

Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:15:46 pm
The Republican Party is in full retreat; the Associated Press just issued this breaking news alert: Breaking (4:06PM EDT): Mitt Romney says Republican candidate Todd Akin should exit Senate race in Mo. This is pure political fear. The word is getting out that Todd Akin's caveman views are nearly identical ...

Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:19:00 am
Even as most Republican big-wigs are denouncing Todd Akin's caveman views on women, they're preparing to certify a GOP platform that calls for criminalizing abortion in all circumstances. Tampa, Florida (CNN) - The Republican Party is set to once again enshrine into its official platform support for "a human life ...

Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:24:01 pm
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Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:02:17 am
Mitt Romney sticks his finger in the wind, triangulates the necessary political coordinates, and issues a statement. “Congressman’s Akin comments on rape are insulting, inexcusable, and, frankly, wrong,” Romney said. “Like millions of other Americans, we found them to be offensive.” But Romney has a problem. His running mate Paul ...

Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 6:41:11 pm
Proving that there is nothing too dumb to defend for a member of the Breitbart Brigade, former tea partier, receiver of massive government subsidies, and conservative speaker Chris Loesch took to Twitter to claim that Todd Akin's absurd comments about rape were "medically correct." In case you've been temporarily ...

Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:27:43 pm
This is a consequence of anti-government militias operating across the nation with unfettered access to firearms. Two Louisiana sheriff deputies assassinated and two others were injured outside New Orleans. Five people are now in custody in relation to the actions: A gunman shot and wounded a St. John Parish deputy ...

Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:49:45 am
San Francisco’s Municipal Railway is going to run the always-disgusting Pamela Geller's bigoted advertisements on their buses, but they're donating the ad revenue to the Human Rights Commission and placing their own signage next to the ads saying, "Muni doesn’t support this message." In the hate-addled mind of Pamela Geller, of ...

Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:12:30 pm
The president of the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage wasted no time capitalizing on the Family Research Council shooting incident, attempting to make it illegitimate to refer to groups like his as "hate groups:" Shooting Spurs Heated Debate on Gay Rights, 'Hate Group' Label. Brian Brown, the president of NOM, ...

Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:06:37 am
One of the amazing things about the rise of the far right (and not in a good way) has been the concomitant rise of conspiracy peddler Alex Jones, and today an elected United States Senator, Rand Paul, revealed that he's a reader of the twisted dishonest rubbish Jones disseminates: Senator ...

Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:13:31 am
Another shooting incident today, this time at the office of the anti-gay religious right hate group Family Research Council: Security Guard Shot at Family Research Council in Downtown DC. A security guard at the Family Research Council was shot and wounded Wednesday morning after a scuffle in the lobby of ...

Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:18:33 pm
The headline for this article from the Lexington Herald-Leader tells you everything you need to know about America's Republican Party in the year 2012: GOP Lawmakers Question Standards for Teaching Evolution in Kentucky. Kentucky's Senate Republicans pushed successfully in 2009 to tie the state's testing program to national education standards, ...

Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 7:08:20 pm
[Link: www.alternet.org...] The ads, which were rejected in New York by the Metropolitan Transit Authority before a judge ruled that the decision violated free speech rights, send a strident pro-Israel message. They read: "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man." Then, between two ...