Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:57:53 am
Matt Taibbi's piece on the Tea Party does an excellent job of documenting the real forces behind this far right populist movement -- corporate interests and Republican insiders: Tea & Crackers. Early in his campaign, Dr. Paul, the son of the uncompromising libertarian hero Ron Paul, denounced Medicare as "socialized ...

Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:34:26 am
The decision by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to release hundreds of thousands of classified Iraq War documents has led to a series of high level resignations at Wikileaks, by staffers who believe the documents have not been properly redacted to remove the names of collaborators and informers: Unpublished Iraq War ...

Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 1:04:47 pm
The latest poll numbers for Christine O'Donnell are abysmal. And Delaware voters aren't very enamored with the Tea Party movement in general, either. A new FoxNews poll, conducted Sept. 18 and released Tuesday, shows Democratic Senate nominee Chris Coons leadng Republican Christine O’Donnell by 15 points, 54 percent to 39 ...

Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:59:37 pm
President Obama's speech on the drawdown of US troops in Iraq is about to start; Sarah Palin started attacking it before it began, with a hilariously illiterate reference to George Orwell: Sarah Palin. When asked, "Which book by George Orwell is your favorite?" Palin replied, "All of them!" Ahem. Anyway, here's live ...

Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:21:14 pm
The last official combat troops are now leaving Iraq. It's the end of a long, grueling mission for the US military, and we thank them sincerely for their service and their sacrifices. It remains to be seen whether the people of Iraq will be able to take advantage of the opportunity ...

Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:46:31 pm
The LA Times has the complete text of President Obama's long-overdue statement on freedom of religion, the US Constitution, and the tide of prejudice that has risen up against the Cordoba House project and other mosques across the nation. The White House posted the full video: Celebrating Ramadan at the White ...

Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 11:08:36 am
One of the main talking points used by opponents of the proposed Islamic community center in downtown Manhattan is that the term "Cordoba House" was deliberately chosen by the Muslim developers to symbolize the Muslim conquest of Spain. Apparently we're supposed to believe that Imam Feisal Rauf can hardly suppress ...

Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:17:55 pm
At New York's Governors Island this morning, Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave an impassioned speech about Park51, the planned Muslim community center two blocks from Ground Zero, and its importance as a test of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. Bloomberg even apparently choked up at one point; ...

Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:09:04 am
In today's news about the Park51 project in lower Manhattan, the right wing hate machine is running amok. The two most popular right wing talk radio ranters, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, were both spewing hatred and irrationality this morning to their angry hordes of listeners. Beck labeled the Park51 project ...

Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:21:25 pm
Here’s an email of a type I don’t get to feature too often; not a rant full of creepy insults or a smug gloat over some imagined right wing victory, but an actual email of support. Shocking, I know. I’ll admit that I veered away from LGF when the ...

Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:58:28 pm
Andrew Breitbart has posted ASTOUNDING VIDEO PROOF that the NAACP is a virulently racist organization, just like he threatened to do! Wow, this is powerful stuff. Let me sum it up; Breitbart has EARTH-SHATTERING video of Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development, speaking at the 2009 NAACP Freedom Fund ...

Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:54:25 am
The head wacko of the delusional right wing Birther movement is raging over a $20,000 sanction she was ordered to pay for filing one frivolous lawsuit after another; now she’s petitioning Clarence Thomas to block the sanction, with a rambling, paranoid 300-page brief she published on her website: Obama birth ...

Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 12:58:05 pm
Here’s a new book I’m very much looking forward to reading, reviewed by Larry Rohter in the New York Times Books section: Mark Twain’s Unexpurgated Autobiography. Twain’s autobiography has been previously published, but only after meddlesome editors removed some passages, ostensibly to protect Twain’s reputation. Versions of the autobiography have been ...

Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:07:01 pm
I’ve been out, so I just found out about Michael Steele’s self-inflicted foot wound: Michael Steele: Stanley McChrystal incident ‘comical’. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele found the dismissal of Gen. Stanley McChrystal “comical” because the “one thing” the United States should not be engaged in is a “land war ...

Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:20:46 am
Here’s some fascinating tech news from Israel, where researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a new type of organic electric battery made from boiled potatoes. Their findings have just been published in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, and detail uses of the batteries in the ...

Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:13:20 am
A disturbing report at the National Snow and Ice Data Center shows that the rate of decline in sea ice extent for the month of May 2010 was the fastest in the satellite record. Monthly May ice extent for 1979 to 2010 shows a decline of 2.4% per decade. Credit: National Snow ...

Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:42:59 am
You know that cargo that was so vitally important to deliver to the Palestinian people of Gaza? So important that peace activists put together a flotilla of Turkish ships and tried to run a blockade to get it there as soon as possible, before anyone else suffered and died waiting ...

Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:41:11 am
The Kansas City Star’s Jason Whitlock gets it exactly right in this commentary on Rand Paul’s Civil Rights Act dust-up: Commentary: Rand Paul’s calculated Civil Rights faux pas. Rand Paul is not as politically unsophisticated as the media, tea party organizers and Republican strategists would like you to believe. In the ...

Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:16:45 am
Well, Rand Paul really stepped deep into the muck yesterday with his painful waffling about the Civil Rights Act. The right wing blogosphere is in full-throated excuse-making mode this morning. Even Dave Weigel is desperately trying to spin this as being a “principled libertarian” stance, because as a libertarian himself ...

Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:45:13 pm
The John Birch Society is exuberant at Rand Paul’s victory; they see it as a vindication of their ideology: Rand Paul Victory. (Google cache link.) Conservative, libertarian, and constitutionalist grassroots activists, who have coalesced to form not one organization, but a collection of like-minded groups collectively called “The Tea Party,” ...

Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:08:15 pm
CNN is calling the Kentucky primary race for Rand Paul; Paul exploited the tea party connection for all it was worth, but the reality is that this is more of a victory for the Ron Paul populist movement and the resurgence of paranoid John Birch Society-influenced ideology. At this point, you ...

Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:13:19 am
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is running for the US Senate as a Democrat, even though he has a very poor long term memory. His memory retention skills are so bad that he actually forgot he never served in Vietnam. “We have learned something important since the days that I served ...

Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:25:43 am
One of the best indicators of the extremism that now dominates the Republican Party is the very likely nomination of Ron Paul’s son, Rand Paul, for the US Senate in Kentucky. Like his father Ron, Rand Paul is about as far to the right as it’s possible for a human ...

Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:22:24 pm
Apparently, Hamas is having trouble getting Barack Obama to return their calls. Gaza City - Ismail Haniya, the head of the Islamist Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, has written twice to US President Barack Obama but has not received a reply, a Hamas spokesperson said on Sunday. Taher al-Nunu said ...

Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:48:09 am
Like a paranoid old turtle pulling its head back into its shell and ignoring the rest of the world, the Republican Party is letting itself be taken over by the atavistic, extreme right wing forces of the tea party movement, as one of the most conservative Senators in Congress is ...