Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:34:58 am
It's hot wingnut on wingnut action, as Redstate.com's head loon Erick Erickson links to a piece by plagiarist Ben Domenech, explaining why they now hate the National Review: National Review: “they lived long enough for us to see them become the villain.” Most observers presumed the magazine would endorse Romney ...

Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 9:41:16 am
Wingnut bloggers are hilariously freaking out today about a conference call held by the Romney campaign, because they took questions from Mother Jones and Talking Points Memo, but not ... them. The charge is led by third string wingnut "Datechguy:" If you're a conservative Mitt Romney apparently doesn't want ...

Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:57:39 am
Well, today Herman Cain came right out and admitted what we all knew: he's a token African American Republican, being used by the party in a blatant attempt to pander to black people and get their votes: Cain says his race will help the GOP. Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain ...

Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:09:37 pm
We have a terrorism arrest tonight, another case in which the suspect was under surveillance the whole time: Bloomberg announces arrest of terror suspect. New York (CNN) -- Authorities have arrested a man they claim was plotting to detonate pipe bombs, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday night. The Manhattan ...

Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:52:22 am
Here's a good piece by Michelle Goldberg on the relentless attempt by the right wing hate machine to smear Occupy Wall Street as "antisemitic:" Occupy Wall Street Isn't Anti-Semitic, But It's Too Leaderless. One of the curses of left-wing politics is the perennial presence of International ANSWER, a front group ...

Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 6:48:41 pm
Yes, he really did say this, and he apparently really does mean it: Cain Proposes Electrified Border Fence. Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Saturday that part of his immigration policy would be to build an electrified fence on the country’s border with Mexico that could kill people trying to ...

Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 4:38:13 pm
In the October 14th episode of his radio show, Rush Limbaugh defended the Ugandan terrorist group calling itself the Lord's Resistance Army, portraying the LRA as Christians targeted by President Obama for being Christian, and defending the agitprop of the LRA by reading it as gospel. Only at the very last ...

Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:57:27 pm

Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 9:52:57 am
The August jobs report is out and getting lots of headlines, but as is too often the case the headlines don't really tell the story. Right off the bat, let me criticize the "no jobs" claims so common in headlines - it's just wrong. There are always new jobs ...

Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 10:12:17 am
A disappointing move from President Obama, as he lets big corporations get away with poisoning our air for at least two more years: Obama pulls back proposed smog standards, in victory for business. President Obama abruptly pulled back proposed new national smog standards Friday morning, overruling the Environmental Protection Agency’s ...

Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:56:49 pm
A victory for women over the misogynistic right wing throwbacks in Texas: Key Provisions Of Texas Sonogram Law Struck Down. A federal judge on Tuesday struck down key provision of Texas' new law requiring a doctor to perform a sonogram before an abortion, ruling that the measure violates the free ...

Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:33:41 am
As he dives into the Presidential race, creationist Texas governor Rick Perry is trumpeting the alleged economic "miracle" in his state and claiming it as a victory for conservative policies. But are Perry's claims honest? Of course not: The Texas Unmiracle. What you need to know is that the Texas ...

Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:21:18 pm
Here's anti-Muslim lunatic Pamela Geller with steam shooting out of her ears, spewing paranoia in all directions, because I ... gasp! ... pointed out the public Amazon page for her new book (and its similarity to the manifesto of Oslo terrorist Anders Behring Breivik): LITTLE GREEN ASTROTURDS!!!!!!! - Atlas Shrugs ...

Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:09:41 am
In June 2007, "counter-jihad" blogger Pamela Geller posted the following Email from Norway, from a reader who sounds a lot like the Oslo terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik. This is what the post looks like today: I am running an email I received from an Atlas reader in Norway. It is devastating ...

Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:09:19 am
The deranged, blatantly racist and sexist advertisement produced by wingnut loon Ladd Ehrlinger, Jr. to attack Democrat Janice Hahn in California's special election didn't help her Tea Party opponent: California special election: Janice Hahn cruises to solid victory. Democrat Janice Hahn defeated Republican Craig Huey in a bitterly contested Southern ...

Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:57:51 pm
Recommended tonight: Carl Bernstein sums up what we know so far about the Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal. The hacking scandal currently shaking Rupert Murdoch’s empire will surprise only those who have willfully blinded themselves to that empire’s pernicious influence on journalism in the English-speaking world. Too many of us ...

Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:40:34 am
Dutch demagogue Geert Wilders, hero of the right wing "anti-jihad" loons, has been acquitted of hate speech in the Netherlands. The presiding judge said Wilders' remarks were sometimes "hurtful," "shocking" or "offensive," but that they were made in the context of a public debate about Muslim integration and multi-culturalism, and ...

Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:08:09 am
For more information on the dustup among Jon Stewart, Fox News, and Politifact, here's Politifact's original piece on Stewart's claim that Fox News viewers are more misinformed than viewers of other networks: PolitiFact | Jon Stewart says those who watch Fox News are the 'most consistently misinformed media viewers'. When many ...

Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:33:16 pm
I was going to ignore the latest claims of Andrew Breitbart's flying monkeys, as they desperately tried to pretend that they "totally discredited" my post fact-checking Breitbart's lies about the leaked Rep. Weiner photograph. I've learned that there's no point in engaging these people with arguments or logic; they just ...

Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:59:15 pm
Politifact notes that by hunting down and killing Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, President Obama was fulfilling one of his controversial campaign promises: The Obameter: We will kill bin Laden - Promise kept. During the 2008 campaign, then candidate Barack Obama pledged several times that he would act to capture ...

Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:27:20 pm
A New York Daily News anti-Obama article is spreading rapidly across the right wing blog echo chamber: Bush feels Obama ignoring ex-president's role in Osama Bin Laden strike for 'victory lap': source. The article by Thomas DeFrank quotes an unnamed "highly placed source" who says President Bush feels Obama is ...

Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:06:55 am
DERPAccording to Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller, President Obama only acted against Osama bin Laden because there was a military coup. Yes, she really did write that: SKULKING TOWARDS BIN LADEN: OBAMA OVERRIDDEN BY MILITARY AND INTEL OFFICIALS IN TAKEOUT OF OBL????!! Featuring this doozy of a crazed run-on sentence: It is the ...

Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:48:38 pm
Christopher Hitchens writes today that the killing of Osama bin Laden won't mean very much if the United States continues doing business as usual with Pakistan: Osama Bin Laden's legacy: It will depend in part on what Obama does next. There are several pleasant little towns like Abbottabad in Pakistan, ...

Sun, May 1, 2011 at 9:06:35 pm
Here's another thread to discuss the incredible news that Osama bin Laden has finally been brought to justice. I was pretty convinced that he was already dead, and that we might never know what really happened, but I've never been happier to admit I was wrong. It's been a long 10 ...

Sun, May 1, 2011 at 7:27:54 pm
President Obama is scheduled to make a statement at ~10:30 pm ET, related to national security. Here's a thread to discuss this unusual development... UPDATE at 5/1/11 7:32:43 pm Live video: [Video removed] UPDATE at 5/1/11 7:49:50 pm Multiple sources now confirming that Osama bin Laden is dead, and the US has the body and ...