Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:13:37 am
To prop up the religious right's homophobic "Defense of Marriage Act," House Speaker John Boehner has retained one of the most expensive law firms in the country: REVEALED: Boehner’s High-Priced Lawyer Is Charging the American Taxpayer $520 Per Hour. This is the Republican idea of fiscal responsibility. No amount of money ...

Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:38:02 am
I woke up today feeling masochistic, I guess, because I spent about 15 minutes having a look around the wingnut blogosphere to see what was shaking in the Land of Epistemic Closure. The Daily Caller has an article accusing Glenn Beck of using the work of numerous right wing loons (such ...

Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 6:52:28 pm
Al Gore gave a speech at Power Shift 2011, a conference for student activists, and stated some powerful truths that will now be mocked and derided by the ignorant, anti-science right wing: Gore to young advocates: Battle industry lobbyists to turn the tide on climate. “It’s true that governments by ...

Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 8:03:32 pm
Gail Collins makes an important point about the right wing vendetta against Planned Parenthood, in her New York Times op-ed column: The War Behind the Abortion War. For eons now, people have been wondering why the two sides can’t just join hands and agree to work together to reduce the ...

Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:35:08 pm
Tennessee is a very active front (but not the only one by a long shot) in the Republican Party's all-out war against science. As we noted last week, Republicans in the Tennessee House of Representatives passed an absurd anti-evolution bill deceptively labeled as "academic freedom" -- the latest tactic of ...

Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:52:19 pm
Good news for people who value sanity: the Oklahoma Senate has effectively killed the ridiculous "anti-shariah" law passed by the loony Republicans in the Oklahoma House, perhaps realizing that America already has a very effective safeguard against takeover by shariah (i.e., the US Constitution). Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller, leader of the ...

Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 8:03:07 pm
Crazy libertarian uncle Ron Paul would seem to be a poor fit with today's religious right-dominated Republican Party. But they're willing to overlook his anti-war isolationism and anarcho-capitalist economic lunacy, because Uncle Paul is just as eager to control women's bodies as the rest of the GOP: Ron Paul antes ...

Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:48:08 am
At the very last minute, the Republican Party backed down on holding the budget hostage to destroy Planned Parenthood. But the attacks against the nation's largest provider of women's health services are not going to stop; in fact, you can expect right wingers to get even more vicious and dishonest. ...

Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:53:14 am
While everyone's attention was focused on Washington DC last week, Republicans in Tennessee's House of Representatives passed a bill that will shield science teachers from being disciplined if they're creationists or global warming deniers. The Republican Party: protecting ignorance and destroying America's scientific future. Some quotes from the Neanderthals who pushed this ...

Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 3:31:01 pm
It's mind-bogglingly inhuman and heartless, but this, folks, is how the Republican Party views women who are victims of rape: Idaho Rejects Rape Exception In Abortion Bill Because ‘The Hand Of The Almighty’ Was At Work. Marching in step with the GOP’s nationwide war on a woman’s right to choose, ...

Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:12:42 pm
The Republican Party is still pushing hard to defund National Public Radio, but last year the government gave more money to America's craziest fundamentalist "college," Liberty University -- where the biology department teaches young earth creationism. Liberty University, the evangelical private Christian school founded by dead apartheid-supporting bigot Jerry Falwell, ...

Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:10:55 am
A team of UC Berkeley physicists and statisticians led by global warming "skeptic" Richard Muller launched a project recently to analyze the scientific data on temperature trends. They were apparently fairly certain they'd find evidence to prove that climate change is not happening. Imagine my surprise to discover that the initial ...

Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:06:09 pm
Here's an excellent example of the twisted, bizarre thinking of the anti-gay religious right, as the "Reverend" Jim Garlow thanks African-Americans for saving America from the "bondage" of gay marriage. "Isn't it interesting that the African-Americans that were brought here against their will, coercively, in bondage, in chains, in a ...

Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 6:53:48 pm
Here's a report at UN Dispatch on what today's slaughter of UN workers in Afghanistan means: This Attack is Different. Foreigners committed to assisting in the rebuilding of Afghanistan have long accepted the possibility that they might die at the hands of warring parties, but this degree of violence from ...

Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:57:54 am
The Justice Department has released the results of the inquiry into their handling of the New Black Panther "voter intimidation" case, after years of allegations from the right that the case demonstrates systemic anti-white racism in the Obama administration. Would you be surprised to learn that this endlessly hyped case was ...

Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:20:35 am
"I ♥ Muslims."Republicans in Alaska, as in many other states, are pushing ridiculous fear-mongering "anti-sharia" legislation instead of doing the real work of the government. Today in Alaska, Rep. Carl Gatto is holding a hearing to promote this absurd nonsense, and he's calling as a witness none other than one ...

Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:42:12 pm
The religious fanatics on the Texas State Board of Education are gearing up for another fundamentalist hoedown, as Chairwoman Gail Lowe tries to stack the panel that will review the state's science curriculum with creationist loons. Lowe has nominated more potential panelists than any other board member. And a number ...

Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:23:06 pm
A coalition of extremist anti-abortion groups (including video fraudster Lila Rose, left) has launched an effort to flood Congress with calls to defund Planned Parenthood. They claim to have a million people ready to do this, and it may even be true. Today, the Susan B. Anthony List, Family Research Council ...

Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:49:26 am
In addition to all the other wonderful things Republicans have been doing lately (union-busting, misogynistic anti-abortion legislation, tax breaks for the richest, keeping gays down), they've also introduced a record number of bills that promote the teaching of creationism in science classes as a valid alternative to evolution. Sometimes these ...

Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:03:31 pm
As we reported earlier, South Dakota's conservative governor has just signed a bill mandating a 3-day wait for women who choose to have an abortion. The law says an abortion can only be scheduled by a doctor who has personally met with the woman, but then a 3-day wait is ...

Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:04:46 am
The Republican governor of South Dakota, Dennis Daugaard, has signed a law that forces women considering an abortion to wait three days after meeting with a doctor -- and also requires them to undergo "counseling" at anti-abortion "pregnancy help centers" run by religious fanatics. And it's coupled with an attack on ...

Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:39:53 am
This is shaping up to be the most reactionary far right Republican Party presidential campaign in history. We've got serial philanderer and newly-minted religious right mouthpiece Newt Gingrich, creationist anti-gay panderer to hate groups Tim Pawlenty, Herman "All Muslims want to kill us" Cain, Haley "The KKK wasn't so bad" ...

Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:24:39 am
Juan Williams is earning his two million dollar salary from Fox News today, with a vindictive attack on NPR published at The Hill: WILLIAMS: Now it's time to defund NPR. Here's the statement Williams thinks is the outrageous final straw: Last week my line of defense for NPR ran into harsh ...

Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:12:42 am
The modern Republican Party openly makes alliances with ugly, bigoted hate groups; it's become so commonplace that no one even notices any more. Case in point: serial philanderer Newt Gingrich's work with the disgusting far right American Family Association to deprive gay Americans of rights: Gingrich Said to Funnel $125K ...

Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:06:16 am
A judge in Wisconsin's Dane County has granted a temporary restraining order to block official publication of the Republican Party's anti-union law. UPDATE at 3/18/11 10:40:03 am Far right loon Michelle Malkin thinks Walker should just ignore the ruling. Jim "Dim" Hoft immediately started shrieking about radical left activist judges.