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Searched LGF articles for: robert stacy mccain (626 matches, in 26 pages)

Tom Cotton Tries to Sabotage Obama's Iran Deal, Then Calls for Massive Defense Spending

Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 6:14:49 pm
Sen. Tom Cotton, fresh from his disturbing attempt to subvert President Obama's negotiations with Iran, took to the Senate floor today and advocated immense defense spending increases. The Republican Party really, really wants another war, because they know they and their corporate masters will be the ones to reap the profits ...

DOJ Preparing Corruption Charges Against Sen. Bob Menendez, Chuck C. Johnson Starts Boasting

Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 12:20:06 pm
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez will be facing criminal corruption charges, according to CNN: Washington (CNN)The Justice Department is preparing to bring criminal corruption charges against New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez, a Democrat, alleging he used his Senate office to push the business interests of a Democratic donor and friend in ...

Arkansas State GOP Lawmaker Gives Adopted Daughter to Pedophile

Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:35:05 pm
Possibly the most horrifying story you'll read this week: The Harrises had adopted the girl and her 3-year-old sister through the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS). The couple also has three biological sons who are older than the girls. Pictures of the girls appeared on Justin Harris' social media ...

Merchants of Doubt: What Climate Deniers Learned From Big Tobacco

Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 7:34:37 am
"Doubt is our product" Peter Sinclair from the Yale Climate Forum reviews a documentary that details how marketing doubt about science became profitable for multiple industries and their shills. YouTube In March 2015, Robert Kenner, the Director of "Food Inc" and other acclaimed documentaries, will debut his newest, "Merchants of Doubt". ...

On Lemmings and Cliffs

Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 7:34:47 pm
I am a child of the Midwest. Around these parts, the default constructor for people is "wingnut". I was raised in the proud tradition of the Assemblies of God - a name many of you may recognize as associated with some of the derpiest hardcore creationist/Dominionist names out there. ...

Awful Right Wing Statement of the Day: Rudy Giuliani Says Obama Doesn't Love America

Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:39:20 am
Today's example of a barely masked racist comment comes from former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who obviously knew he was about to say something disgusting but since he was among Republican friends, went ahead and said it anyway. "I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible ...

Vox Misrepresents Obama's 2008 Vaccination Stance

Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:08:24 pm
Today we find "explanatory journalism" site Vox digging up a quote by Barack Obama from 2008 and using it to argue that Obama Supports Vaccines Now -- but Pandered to Anti-Vaxxers in 2008. Chris Christie has come under fire for remarks suggesting that parents should have a choice in which ...

Death and The Anti-Vaxxer

Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:30:22 pm
Death and The Anti-Vaxxer This is one blog post I've held off writing because it angers me beyond bearing, and scares me to death. rawstory.com 15 years ago, Andrew Wakefield, then a doctor, presented a paper to the famous medical journal The Lancet. In it he claimed there was a link between autism ...

Dallas Morning News Editorial: Anti-Muslim Yokels Brought Shame on Texas

Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 10:45:16 am
A Dallas Morning News editorial on that absolutely disgraceful display of anti-Muslim hatred at the Texas Capitol pulls no punches: Editorial: Capitol Spectacle Brings Shame on Texas. It was Texas Muslim Capitol Day in Austin, an annual event for visitors of that faith to visit the seat of state government, ...

John Boehner's Bartender Thought Boehner Was the Devil and Planned to Poison Him

Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:37:24 pm
At first I thought this was from one of those fake news sites, but no -- it appears to be legitimate; John Boehner's long-time bartender at a West Chester country club planned to poison him. Michael Robert HoytMichael Robert Hoyt, 44, was indicted Jan. 7 on charges of threatening to ...

New Artist Watch: Jon Henry - I Still Got Your Back (Ft. Keisha, Kim, & Pam)

Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 6:02:38 pm
YouTube Jon Henry tweeted this video to me a few days ago and after careful consideration I must say I approve. Has a great message, a deep groove, creative production, steampunk props, and the kids are adorbs. Watch it, you'll like it. This is Jon Henry's cosplay-themed music video for "I ...

Nominee for Next Defense Secretary: Physicist Ashton Carter

Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:32:32 am
Ashton Carter It hasn't been officially announced yet, but numerous sources report that President Obama's nominee for the next Secretary of Defense will be Ashton Carter, a physicist with many years of experience in national security and defense. "Great, very highly qualified," said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the ...

Sarah Palin: Don't Shackle Us With Your Snobbish Shunning, Obama Needs to Be Spanked

Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 11:22:54 am
Sarah Palin's latest word salad is even more incoherent and ranty than usual -- a monumental wall of authentic wingnut gibberish. That nasty Obama guy is oppressing her again by suggesting women should have access to cheaper, better day care. (Do I even have to tell you that the Obama quote ...

Breitbart "News" Sponsors "National Security Conference" With Crazed Survivalist Group

Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 4:27:01 pm
Coming this Monday, a must-see event in Washington DC sponsored by Breitbart "News" -- the "National Security Action Summit!" featuring some of America's foremost thinkfluencers and national security thought leaders, geniuses like Louie "Terror Babies" Gohmert, Michele "Crazy Eyes" Bachmann, Dr. Ben "The Earth is 6000 Years Old" Carson, Andy ...

Live Music: The 2014 Americana Music Honors & Awards

Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 5:35:52 pm
Video The 13th annual Americana Music Association Honors and Awards Show takes place on Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 8 p.m. ET, live from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn. You can watch the entire event, including more than 20 performances by some of Americana's biggest acts, live on NPR.org and ...

Amazing Scenes From a St. Louis County Council Meeting

Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 5:57:56 pm
#Ferguson protesters voice concerns at STL County Council meeting in Clayton. pic.twitter.com/F9p8sBfLJa — Robert Cohen (@kodacohen) September 16, 2014 The disruption earlier... "@AllisonBlood: Fighting erupting among citizens sitting in the audience. pic.twitter.com/PBMC92OKEj" — Antonio French (@AntonioFrench) September 16, 2014 "If Darren Wilson get off y'all better bring every army y'all got. Cause ...

St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch Denies Raising Money for Darren Wilson

Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 1:37:49 pm
We have an update on our post from last night about the fundraising effort that was apparently linked to an organization led by St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert P. McCulloch; Backstoppers Inc. now denies having anything to do with it. Leaders of The Backstoppers Inc., which raises money to ...

Is St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch Helping Raise Money for Ofc. Darren Wilson?

Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 4:46:09 pm
St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert P. McCullochIn what seems to be a serious conflict of interest, a T-shirt being sold to raise money for officer Darren Wilson, who gunned down unarmed teenager Michael Brown in a Ferguson street last month, appears to be associated with the St. Louis County ...

John McCain and James O'Keefe, Together at Last, Fear-Mongering About ISIS

Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:22:01 pm
The screaming headline at right wing propaganda outlet Washington Free Beacon is just the beginning of the misleading idiocy in this article: U.S. Confirms ISIL Planning Infiltration of U.S. Southern Border. Really? Infiltration of the US border with Mexico by ISIS is actually in the planning stages? Well, uh... no, not really. ...

Blogger Chuck C. Johnson Hypes Ugly Anti-Gay Article at White Nationalist Website

Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:15:39 am
You may recall that National Review columnist John Derbyshire was fired from the magazine in 2012 when he published an absolutely horrible racist article at a website called Takimag. Takimag is an overtly racist and often antisemitic publication, with a list of contributors that's a who's who of white nationalists and ...

The Troubling Treatment of Journalists During Ferguson Coverage

Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 7:13:19 am
The law enforcement response to the shooting death of Michael Brown at the hands of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson has been troubling in all aspects, but the local police (including Ferguson PD, St. Louis County Police, and other agencies) treatment of journalists is especially so. Journalists are being harassed at ...

Here Is Your "Big Romney Comeback" Story of The Week

Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 11:45:26 am
I first became aware of the "bring back Mitt" movement among establishment-type Republicans last month when Politico gave the world The Case for Mitt Romney in 2016. This was authored by definite partisan (a former Romney staffer and fellow private equity guy), but appeared in a not especially partisan ...

Update: As a Father Who Lost His Children in Gaza, I Call for an End to This Bloodshed

Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 11:58:53 am
The man in the photo below, Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, was born & raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza. He studied hard and received a scholarship to study medicine in Cairo, then went on to earn a diploma in Obstetrics and Gynecology from the University of London. He subsequently ...

Is the XKeyScore Code Released in Germany Faked?

Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 2:47:18 pm
Following up on our post about the wildly exaggerated claims made about the purported XKeyScore source code released in Germany this week by hacker Jacob Applebaum, here's a very interesting post by cybersecurity expert Robert Graham with evidence that the code may have been at least partly faked: Errata Security: ...

Tea Party Mounts Massive Effort to Support Crazy Neo-Confederate in Mississippi

Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:50:01 am
Here's a good lengthy article at the Washington Post on the Tea Party's all-out push in Mississippi to get out the vote for racist, homophobic neo-Confederate candidate Chris McDaniel: In Mississippi, Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots Try to Prove Their Worth. I think this is my favorite part of ...

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