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Searched LGF articles for: honor killing (347 matches, in 14 pages)

The Battle for Ground Zero Revisited

Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 3:24:01 pm
As the rubble was removed from Ground Zero, thoughts turned to what would come of the World Trade Center complex. Millions of people streamed through the site before 9/11 annually, hundreds of thousands every day. What would be a fitting memorial? What would happen to retail space and office space? What would ...

Overnight Open Thread

Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:28:43 pm
Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crude as any, gross of speech, intolerant, stubborn, angry, full of fits and furies. That I may have spoken well at times, is not natural. A wonder is what it is. -- Wendell Berry

Rick Perry's 'Miracle' That Isn't

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 ...

Pamela Geller's New Book's Top 10 Tags

Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 5:15:18 pm
Since a bunch of crazy right wing bloggers have been trying to attack me by saying I "organized a campaign to silence Pamela Geller" when I pointed out the Amazon page for her new hateful screed, "Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance," and noted that ...

Senate Kills Reid Bill, New Obama/McConnell Bill Appears

Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:26:55 am
The mind-numbing, soul-killing deficit battle continues. TPM has the latest news; it looks like the Republicans have managed to push the negotiations completely away from increasing revenue.

Huge Crowd Demonstrates in Oslo

Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:36:20 am
In Olso today, more than a hundred thousand people turned out to honor the victims of Oslo "counter-jihad" terrorist Anders Behring Breivik. Here's a photo of one of the crowds: Photo from Reuters Pictures. In other developments, the entire blog for the hate group "Stop the Islamisation of Europe" has been ...

NYT: US 'Counter-Jihad' Bloggers Heavily Influenced Oslo Terrorist

Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:53:13 am
In the New York Times, Scott Shane looks at the undeniable influence of people like Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller on the Oslo terrorist: Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S. In the document he posted online, Anders Behring Breivik, who is accused of bombing government buildings and killing ...

Darrell Issa Was Briefed on 'Fast and Furious' in April 2010, But Raised No Objections

Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:16:03 pm
I'm still waiting to see if the "Fast and Furious" scandal, in which ATF agents reportedly allowed guns to be transported across the border into Mexico, is a real scandal or yet another fake right wing outrage, but I'm currently leaning toward the latter option. And here's one reason why. Last ...

Rand Paul Will Filibuster Over Debt Ceiling

Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 10:09:09 am
Pseudo-libertarian kook Rand Paul has announced that he's planning a filibuster over the debt ceiling. On Newsmakers, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said he will hold up the Senate’s business next week to force a debate on the debt limit. The Senate canceled its Fourth of July break to ensure discussions ...

Gov. Jindal Says, 'Don't Hate Obama,' Fox Nation Commenters Spew Hatred

Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 2:31:00 pm
I have big differences with Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, but kudos to him for at least saying this much, at a time when most GOP politicians are full-on demonizers: Bobby Jindal warns against 'hating' Barack Obama. It's not exactly an olive branch, of course, because he followed it up with ... ...

It's Palin Email Dump Day

Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:12:56 am
More than 24,000 emails from Sarah Palin's time as governor of Alaska are being released today -- on paper, for some odd reason. ProPublica is going to make a full searchable archive available online as soon as possible: A Reader’s Guide to the (Still Coming) Sarah Palin Emails. What should ...

Jim 'Dim' Hoft: Sarah Pets Lobster

Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:33:51 am
DERP DEE DERPJim "Dim" Hoft cements his reputation as the single dumbest wingnut blogger in the universe with this absolutely hilarious post: Sarah Palin Bashes Obama’s Job-Killing Fishing Regulations While She Pets Lobster in New Hampshire | The Gateway Pundit. This is why they hate her... She can bash Obama’s job-killing ...

Breaking: WI Man Arrested for Plotting to Kill Abortion Doctor

Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:47:01 pm
Just coming across the wires from Madison, Wisconsin: Feds: Wis. man planned to kill abortion doctor. MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Marshfield man who planned to kill abortion providers in Madison this week was thwarted on the eve of the intended attack when his gun accidentally fired in a motel room, ...

Newt Gingrich is One Sorry Philandering Panderer

Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:50:02 am
Newt Gingrich is on an apology tour of the Republican Tea Party, after his accurate description of the Ryan Medicare-killing plan as "right wing social engineering" drove the entire GOP into a frenzy: Newt Apologizes To Paul Ryan, Begs Democrats Not To Use His Own Quotes In Ads. Newt Gingrich's ...

In Which I Eat Some Crow

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 ...

Pamela Geller: A Military Coup Forced Obama to Act

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 ...

Christopher Hitchens: Now What About Pakistan?

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, ...

Wingnut Fail Continues: Power Line Insists GW Bush Issued 'Easter Proclamations'

Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:29:43 am
Yesterday we pointed out that despite the right wing's hysterical ranting that President Obama had dealt Christians a grievous insult by not issuing an "Easter proclamation," the fact is that neither Ronald Reagan nor George W. Bush (or any other President since 1980, the farthest back I checked) ever issued ...

Pat Robertson's Murky Lesbian Fantasy

Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:27:33 pm
Pat Robertson has figured out why the left is so "livid" about killing babies: because they want to make straight women more like lesbians. I'm not making this up. Meeuwsen: There are lots of government-funded agencies in this country. Why do you think the President picked that one above all else ...

American Family Association's Bryan Fischer: Liberals 'Haven't Taken to Killing People' Yet

Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:18:13 am
Bryan Fischer, the religious right fanatic who's connected to many top GOP politicians (Michele Bachmann, Mike Huckabee, Tim Pawlenty, Haley Barbour, and Newt Gingrich have all appeared on his webcast), came out with a masterpiece of incoherent projection yesterday. Fischer says "liberals" hate freedom of speech, America, and God, and the ...

The Right Wing View of Climate Change: Don't Worry, God's in Charge

Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:20:06 pm
When the vast majority of the world's scientists agree that climate change caused by human activity is a deadly serious, increasingly imminent threat that must be addressed before it's too late, what could possibly be driving the right wing's suicidal rejection and denial? Here's a letter to the editor of Virginia's ...

Wingnut Fail of the Day: Bill Ayers 'Admits' He Wrote Obama's Autobiography

Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:40:21 am
Here's the flat-out hilarious wingnut blogosphere story of the day: World Net Daily wackos Jack Cashill and Jerome Corsi are once again trying to float the brain-dead conspiracy theory that left wing professor Bill Ayers wrote Barack Obama's autobiography, Dreams from my Father. Corsi and Cashill seem to be having a ...

Tsunami Updates: US West Coast Hit, Japanese Reactors Damaged

Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:24:44 pm
Click to enlarge The tsunami from Japan's enormous earthquake struck the west coast of the United States this morning, damaging boats and killing at least one man who was swept out to sea when he tried to photograph the incoming wave. There is great concern about the nuclear power plants damaged in ...

The Decline of Glenn Beck

Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:37:58 am
At the New York Times, David Carr says raving freakazoid Glenn Beck's days at Fox News may be numbered. A funny thing happened on the way from the revolution. Since last August, when he summoned more than 100,000 followers to the Washington mall for the “Restoring Honor” rally, Mr. Beck ...

Pro-Life Republicans Vote to Kill Poison Control Centers

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 ...

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