Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 2:24:32 pm
So here we go again with a very touchy Islamic group threatening “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker with death because the cartoon show dared to have a cartoon character version of Mohammed, the revered prophet of Islam, revered so much that if you don’t revere him some ...

Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:40:34 am
The far right freak show called Freedom Watch will soon be a mainstream staple on the Fox Business Network, hosted by Judge Andrew Napolitano. Freedom Watch began as a web-only show; here’s an episode featuring one of Napolitano’s frequent guests, conspiracy whack job Alex Jones, who Napolitano introduces as “the one, ...

Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:15:33 am
White supremacist and apologist for the Confederacy and the Third Reich Pat Buchanan has a real corker of a column out today, suggesting that the force behind the tea party movement may be the rise of ethnic nationalism and race-based tribalism in the United States. And ol’ Paleo Pat actually thinks ...

Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:03:03 am
Here’s a disturbing report on the rise of the “Patriot” movement, with profiles of 36 of the leaders of this far right antigovernment lunacy, including World Nut Daily’s head loon Joseph Farah, Alex Jones, Glenn Beck, and John Birch Society leader John McManus — all of whom are welcome in ...

Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:51:25 am
Henry Kissinger has long been accused of denying and/or downplaying the danger of the covert assassination plan Operation Condor, and the Los Angeles Times has a story about a newly declassified document that gives even more weight to these accusations, suggesting that Kissinger canceled sending a cable that might have ...

Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 2:06:03 pm
This week in Wausau, Wisconsin, organizers of a tea party rally had to cancel the appearance of a speaker from Alabama when it came to light that he had a history of speaking at white supremacist events. Attorney John Eidsmoe agreed to withdraw after another tea party speaker complained. Eidsmoe has ...

Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 6:35:29 pm
At the Baton Rouge Tea Party on April 15, 2009, with tea bags hanging from his ears, a neo-Confederate confronts an African American who asks why he’s flying the Dixie flag. Bad craziness ensues. [Video] (Hat tip: Trout.) Am I allowed to use “teabagger” to describe this guy when he hangs them from his ...

Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:28:09 pm
A short documentary film about one of the true heroines of American science, Genie Scott of the National Center for Science Education, who has dedicated her life to making sure that evolutionary science isn’t forced out of US schools by the dishonest creationist forces of darkness. Bravo, Genie! [Video]

Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:57:35 pm
Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) thinks the best way for the United States to respond to a cyber attack would be to nuke somebody. “If in fact there is a nation who is compliant with all of the rules ahead of time and they’ve complied with the United Nations on nuclear proliferation, ...

Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:08:20 pm
So, I turn on Fox News just to see what the Glenn Beck Comedy Hour’s topic for the day is, and here’s Beck ranting about the need for more religion in government, in front of two blackboards covered with pictures of the founding fathers — who are no doubt rotating ...

Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:49:50 pm
Senior editor for The Atlantic Ta-Nehisi Coates puts it all in a nice neat package: Proud Of Being Ignorant. A lot of you have e-mailed me to note that Virginia governor Bob McDonnell has decided to honor  those who fought to preserve, and extend, white supremacy. I don’t really have much to ...

Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:22:46 pm
Bob McDonnell, the Republican governor of Virginia, is bringing back a long-running right wing tradition by declaring April 2010 “Confederate History Month” — at the request of the neo-Confederate group “Sons of Confederate Veterans,” described by Civil War historian James M. McPherson as a white supremacist organization. The two previous governors ...

Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:49:21 pm
You probably heard about John McCain’s latest pathetic attempt to rebrand himself as a good ol’ right winger, by claiming he has never considered himself a “maverick.” Ahem. Worth the Fighting For: The Education of an American Maverick, and the Heroes Who Inspired Him, by John McCain. McCain’s primary opponent in Arizona, ...

Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:10:54 pm
Yes, it’s another case of child abuse covered up by the Catholic Church: Vatican Declined to Pursue Accused Priest. A Catholic priest charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl in Minnesota has been allowed to continue working at a Catholic diocese in southern India despite warnings from an American bishop ...

Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:26:58 pm
Whoa. The comments for this Fox News story about anti-abortion murderer Scott Roeder’s sentencing are jaw-droppers — many of them openly cheering for the killer: Abortion Doctor’s Killer Uses Sentencing as Forum. gummer Nebraska I THINK THAT HE MIGHT BE A HERO IN PRISON BECAUSE THEY REALLY DO NOT LIKE BABY KILLERS ...

Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:28:04 am
Speaking of RedState.com blogger Erick Erickson, he said yesterday on his radio show that if anyone tried to get him to fill out the American Community Survey, he would pull out his wife’s shotgun. ERICKSON: This is crazy. What gives the Commerce Department the right to ask me how often ...

Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:12:38 pm
Sometimes you just have to laugh; President Obama really does have a way of twisting the GOP into uncomfortable ideological pretzel shapes: Boehner rebukes Obama offshore drilling plan. President Barack Obama’s plan to allow expanded offshore oil and gas exploration won rebuke from the top House Republican on Wednesday. House ...

Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 5:27:56 pm
Female suicide bombers struck today in two central Moscow subway stations, killing at least three dozen people in the latest attack by Chechnyan Muslim fanatics: Toll From Moscow Bombing at 37. MOSCOW — Female suicide bombers set off huge explosions in two subway stations in central Moscow during the Monday ...

Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:15:09 am
Politico’s Mike Allen has an interesting post about David Frum’s excommunication from the American Enterprise Institute; apparently Frum’s departure was ordered by the AEI’s deep pockets donors, who cannot stand criticism as the right wing slides ever deeper into an abyss of powerless rage and negativity. EXCLUSIVE: David Frum told ...

Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:26:37 am
John Avlon says this new Harris poll is scary, and that’s probably an understatement. Bad craziness has taken over the right to an appalling degree. Obama Derangement Syndrome—pathological hatred of the president posing as patriotism—has infected the Republican Party. Here’s new data to prove it: [Item List] These numbers all come ...

Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:55:50 pm
To Michelle Malkin, if President Obama shows any sign of being even slightly happy about the success of his health care reform bill, it’s “gloating.” And in the comments for her thread (among dozens of comments talking about buying food, guns, and ammunition, joining militias, and going on “a war footing”), ...

Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:05:17 am
The American Medical Association is now officially endorsing President Obama’s health care legislation: AMA Supports House Passage of Health System Reform. Washington, D.C. – After careful review and consideration, the American Medical Association (AMA) today announced its qualified support for the current health reform bill as a step toward providing ...

Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:42:30 pm
Hawaiian public service officials are normally the most laid-back public service officials in the country; to get on their last nerves you really have to work at it. But the Birther kooks are nothing if not persistent: Hawaii Birthers Bill: State May Start Ignoring Requests For Obama Citizenship. HONOLULU — Birthers ...

Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:00:43 am
Attorney General Eric Holder is turning into quite a rambunctious cowboy: If bin Laden is found, he’ll be killed, Holder says. Osama bin Laden “will never appear in an American courtroom,” Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. told House members at a hearing Tuesday. “Let’s deal with the reality here,” Holder ...

Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:50:32 pm
The investigations into child abuse in Germany’s Catholic schools are continuing to widen, now getting close to Pope Benedict himself, as his brother Georg Ratzinger has been implicated in covering up the systemic child abuse (with the now well-known Catholic Church practice of moving priests around to different parishes) — ...