Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:54:09 pm
In March 2009, Florida Republican science denier Sen. Stephen Wise introduced an anti-evolution bill that quickly died in the legislature for lack of support. This year, though, after the influx of far right anti-science Tea Party candidates in 2010, Wise thinks his attempt to sneak creationism into public school science classes ...

Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:30:18 pm
If you had any remaining doubt that the Republican Party has become the party of science denial, today's vote in the House should settle the matter for good: House GOP rejects amendments that say climate change is real. Committee ranking Democrat Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) offered an amendment Tuesday that ...

Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:28:37 am
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's union-busting bill will face a legal challenge this Friday. A Wisconsin county executive’s challenge to a bill curbing collective bargaining for most state government workers will be considered at a hearing March 18, a judge said. The Wisconsin Assembly passed a modified version of Governor Scott Walker’s ...

Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:23:42 pm
Here's Frank Gaffney of the anti-Muslim Center for Security Policy, calling for Muslims who practice any version of sharia law to be arrested and prosecuted for "sedition." Gabriel: But a lot of people say that Sharia law is a religious practice, and maybe it should be protected by the First ...

Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 10:32:39 am
Last September LGF noted a firebomb attack against a Planned Parenthood office in Madera, California, occurring about a week after a local mosque was vandalized and hate messages posted on its walls. Last week, authorities arrested yet another right wing anti-choice fanatic (who happens to also be anti-Muslim) and charged him ...

Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:24:00 pm
Anti-choice smear artist Lila Rose will be appearing at a fundraiser for an extremist anti-abortion group, along with everyone's favorite half-governor: Sarah Palin to Share Stage With Lila Rose.

Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:51:50 am
My take on the Peter King hearings: People shouldn't pretend that there are no problems at all with radicalization among Muslims -- clearly, we need to be aware of the extent, and do what we can to defuse it and deal with its causes, while preventing attacks from any fanatics who ...

Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 1:10:20 pm
Witness the inhumanity of the right wing anti-choice movement: Abortion Law: Mother Denied Abortion, Then Had To Watch Baby Die. Nebraska’s new abortion law forced Danielle Deaver to live through ten excruciating days, waiting to give birth to a baby that she and her doctors knew would die minutes later, ...

Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 10:52:57 am
In a web chat with anti-choice fanatics last week, Michele Bachmann said she voted against a resolution to avoid a government shutdown, because it didn't destroy funding for Planned Parenthood. The “Defunding Planned Parenthood: Urgent Nationwide Webcast,” observed by the Minnesota Independent, was hosted by anti-abortion rights group the Susan ...

Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 1:17:22 pm
In the past couple of months, the Republican Party has launched an all-out assault on women's reproductive rights: [Item List] And that sad list is just off the top of my head; there's much more. Clearly, the Republican Party is extremely concerned about protecting the life of every single fetus, and willing ...

Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:01:53 am
Republicans in South Dakota who are sponsoring yet another absurdly draconian anti-abortion law are completely clueless as to what Planned Parenthood actually does. Republican state Sen. Al Novstrup (pictured, above) one of the bill's main sponsors, said that he views the legislation not as a fresh set of "restrictions" on ...

Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:26:15 am
The crazy is reaching epidemic levels as anti-choice fanatics in the House plan to hold the entire country hostage for their Dark Ages agenda, vowing to shut down the government unless Planned Parenthood is defunded. A pro-life leader in the House says he and many other Republicans will vote against ...

Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:02:45 pm
You may have heard about a demonstration scheduled for today at the White House, called "Sharia4America," announced by British radical Islamic buffoon Anjem Choudary. Frank Gaffney, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Glenn Beck, and the rest of the Bigot Brigade were convinced it was the beginning of the end. Glenn Beck's ...

Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:04:53 pm
Mike Huckabee is desperately trying to spin away his remarks about President Obama "growing up in Kenya," saying he misspoke -- even though he also referenced the Mau Mau uprising, in a lengthy story about Barack Obama's anti-American upbringing. So who does Mike Huckabee turn to when he wants to get ...

Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:42:01 pm
It turns out that the anti-choice group pushing Ohio's crazy "Heartbeat Bill" didn't just call one fetus as a witness to yesterday's hearing. They called two. If House Bill 125 is approved and signed into law, Ohio would have the most restrictive limits on abortion in the nation. "This bill would ...

Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:26:06 pm
Sometimes I can hardly believe how crazy the social conservative movement has gotten, and this is one of those times. As we reported last month, Republicans in Ohio launched their latest attack on women's reproductive rights by introducing the "Heartbeat Bill," which states that human life legally begins as soon as ...

Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:12:45 am
Right wing blogs are spinning like centrifuges today, desperately trying to minimize and discount the latest New York Times/CBS News poll -- because it shows that a large majority of Americans are opposed to the right wing's anti-union agenda. The nationwide poll found that embattled public employee unions have the ...

Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:55:37 am
Last week, Tennessee Republican State Senator Bill Ketron became the latest fear-mongering idiot to introduce a bill criminalizing "sharia law." Ketron's bill goes a bit further than other wingnut anti-sharia legislation, though, because he's proposing to make it a felony, punishable by 15 years in jail. And it gets worse, because ...

Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 2:35:34 pm
I thought it might be interesting to search YouTube for the advertisement that inspired Kathryn Lopez to write her anti-contraception article, and it popped right up. This nightmarish glimpse of a liberal dystopia is brought to you by Bayer. Feel the horror lurking beneath the surface, as these deluded, desperate women ...

Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:42:58 pm
Congratulations to Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller and Robert "Poison Dwarf" Spencer; their "Stop the Islamization of America" is listed in the Southern Poverty Law Center's annual survey of extremist organizations, under the heading of anti-Muslim hate groups. Anti-Muslim hate groups are a relatively new phenomenon in the United States, most ...

Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:30:23 pm
Raving religious right caveman Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association is apoplectic over the Obama administration's decision to stop defending the anti-gay and unconstitutional "Defense of Marriage Act" (DOMA). To Fischer, insufficient hatred is grounds for impeachment. Obama is violating his oath of office by refusing to defend DOMA. ...

Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:34:05 am
Still more big news: Indiana Republicans have announced that they're killing the so-called "right to work" bill. Senate President Pro Tempore David Long, R-Fort Wayne, said that he, House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, and Gov. Mitch Daniels all agree that the matter instead should be studied by a legislative committee ...

Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:11:52 am
I may have spoken too soon when I said the Scott Walker phone call was the big story of the morning, because this story is huge: Govt drops defense of anti-gay marriage law. In a statement Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder says President Barack Obama has concluded that the administration ...

Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:30:58 am
Across the nation, Republican administrations are launching attacks on labor unions. Today in Indiana, just as in Wisconsin, Democratic lawmakers left the state to deprive the GOP of a quorum.

Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:38:18 pm
Here's an excellent post at ScienceBlogs by Ed Brayton, on his view of Islam and Sharia Law. I could have written this myself; I agree with every word. Let me first state the obvious: Radical Islam -- which probably should be called reactionary Islam instead -- is the single most ...