Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:32:33 pm
Here's a live video feed of the anti-Muslim hate rally, as Geert Wilders takes the stage: NOS Nieuws - Live - Politiek 24. UPDATE at 9/11/10 12:38:40 pm: Oops ... the live video went black as soon as I posted this. UPDATE at 9/11/10 12:39:19 pm: There we go. It's back. UPDATE at 9/11/10 1:01:43 ...

Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:40:25 am
Jeffrey Goldberg scored a journalistic coup on a recent visit to Havana -- an interview with Castro himself. And Fidel had a surprising message for Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Fidel to Ahmadinejad: 'Stop Slandering the Jews'. Over the course of this first, five-hour discussion, Castro repeatedly returned to his excoriation of ...

Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:12:59 am
Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and the anti-mosque movement are the Taliban's best friends. Taliban officials know it’s sacrilegious to hope a mosque will not be built, but that’s exactly what they’re wishing for: the success of the fiery campaign to block the proposed Islamic cultural center and prayer room near ...

Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:26:45 pm
Interviews with participants of Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally. Good grief. [Video]

Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:11:12 pm
Will Bunch says it all with his headline: It takes Beck just 55 hours to start cashing in on 'restoring honor' to America. Glenn Beck's original "I Have a Scheme" idea for his Washington rally that he announced in late 2009 was clearly one that was highly focused on a ...

Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:46:21 am
At the SPLC's Hatewatch blog, Heidi Beirich has a detailed report on hate monger Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller, and the very receptive audience she has found at neo-Nazi and white nationalist websites: White Supremacists Find Common Cause with Pam Geller’s Anti-Islam Campaign. Geller’s Muslim-bashing has resonated with certain conservatives, several ...

Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 5:36:32 pm
Since Newt Gingrich announced very clearly yesterday that he isn't going to be a guest of honor at the Bigot Brigade's anti-Muslim rally on September 11, either in person or on video, shouldn't Pamela Geller remove his name from the promotional articles still posted prominently on the SIOA front page? ...

Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:28:01 am
The nation's dumbest right wing hero continues inciting the populist wave of hatred against Muslims, with a really loathsome comment on Twitter: 9/11 mosque=act of fitna, "equivalent to bldg Serbian Orthodox church@Srebrenica killing fields where Muslims were slaughtered" - Raza&Fatah

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 ...

Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:25:27 pm
More than 40 prominent American religious leaders have released a joint statement strongly supporting the Cordoba House project and condemning the fear-mongers: Top Religious Leaders Denounce Growing Anti-Muslim Sentiment; Express Support for NY Mosque, Community Center: As Catholic, evangelical, mainline Protestant, Jewish and Muslim leaders and scholars committed to religious ...

Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:01:23 pm
The must-read for the day: The Story Behind the 1965 Killing of Sherrod’s Dad. Her dad was named Hosie Miller, and he was a deacon at Thankful Baptist Church in Newton, Ga., toward the southwest corner of the state. He was also a farmer who, according to CNN, grew corn, ...

Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:27:51 pm
Demonstrating once again the finely nuanced political analysis that got him hired as a commentator by CNN, Redstate.com CEO Erick Erickson says the Republican Party should capitalize heavily on the latest right wing outrageous outrage, and turn the head of the New Black Panther Party into “2010’s Willie Horton.” In ...

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 ...

Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 5:02:21 pm
Marc Cooper ruefully tells the tale, the tale of a fateful trip: Pajamas Media Drops Trou. And speaking of Pajamas Media and environmentalism (in the early days of PJM we discussed ways to make science and environmentalism more attractive to conservatives — a goal obviously long forgotten), this is the kind ...

Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:47:03 pm
Now the truth is coming out about the Mavi Marmara incident. Apparently, the first four Israeli marines who rappelled onto the ship were savagely beaten and overwhelmed. You can see this taking place in the video released by the IDF. And then, the “peace activists” dragged these four injured soldiers belowdecks and ...

Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:02:26 am
Amanda Robb at Ms Magazine points out a simple fact about anti-abortion murderer Scott Roeder: he did not act alone. He had an extensive support network of Christian anti-abortion extremists, many of whom are quite open about their belief that murdering abortion doctors is “justifiable homicide.” Roeder wasn’t the first ...

Sun, May 23, 2010 at 9:41:23 pm
Sarah Palin holds a pity party, with Rand Paul as the guest of honor: Rand Paul is Learning What It’s Like to Be Me, Says Sarah Palin. Palin said that Paul is seeing firsthand how “gotcha” politics work after the libertarian-leaning Republican spent days on defense spelling out his support ...

Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 6:45:53 pm
It’s 1994, and who do we find shilling for the tobacco industry’s last ditch efforts to cast doubt on the scientific evidence that tobacco smoke is killing people? Michelle Malkin’s 1994 Big Tobacco Recruitment Drive.

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 ...

Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:30:25 am
Here’s a disturbing article by Frank Schaeffer on the extreme apocalyptic ideology that drives groups like the “Hutaree” militia; keep in mind as you read that Schaeffer was once part of the inner circle of the religious right, and knew many of these people personally: The Evangelical ‘Mainstream’ Insanity Behind ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:57:43 am
Britain has expelled an Israeli diplomat said to be a “a senior Mossad official,” as a response to the use of forged British passports by the hit team that assassinated Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai. Foreign secretary David Miliband also directly accused Israel of carrying out the killing, saying ...

Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:59:09 am
Texas State Board of Education member Mary Helen Berlanga walked out of the meeting today, in protest over the Republican religious fanatics’ attempts to turn sociology into a “whites only” course. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A longtime State Board of Education member accused her colleagues of “whitewashing” curriculum standards Thursday ...

Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:15:13 am
Here’s a surprise from the Middle East: the son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef spied for Israel for more than ten years. The son of one of Hamas’s founding members was a spy in the service of Israel for more than a decade, helping prevent dozens of Islamist suicide ...