Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 11:16:20 am
Reason magazine's editor Nick Gillespie has an article up wherein he addresses that 1976 "special edition" featuring Holocaust deniers and contributors to neo-Nazi magazines. Let's see how he acquits the publication: If you want a preview of just how lame ideological mud-slinging is going to get [...] take a look ...

Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 6:17:39 pm
Wow. I rarely begin a post that way, but here's something I never knew about Reason Magazine, the flagship journal of American libertarianism, and it's really, really awful. Mark Ames at Pando Daily has dug the whole thing up: As Reason's Editor Defends Its Racist History, Here's a Copy of ...

Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:33:03 am
In 2008, in an ill-advised fit of uncharacteristic empathy, George W. Bush signed a law that prevented children who enter the US from countries that do not border the US from being immediately deported. Today, the Republican Party is proposing a "plan" to deal with the current influx of migrant ...

Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:25:49 am
Media Matters Here's today's example of the absolutely horrible anti-science propaganda relentlessly pushed out there by right wing groups, as CNBC promotes an Exxon-funded physicist as an expert on climate change despite the fact that he has no demonstrated expertise on the subject, and he launches into a bizarre rant comparing ...

Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:06:52 am
When we last left Kentucky Sen. Brandon Smith, he was lecturing us about the "real facts" of climate change and how Mars is the same temperature as our own happy planet Earth. When called out on his dubious grasp of how things actually work in real life science, he was quick ...

Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:07:54 am
Hang on to your tricorne hat and pantaloons, because it's time for another EXCLUSIVE BREAKING BOMBSHELL word salad from the half-wit half-governor, brought to you by the crazed heirs of Andrew Breitbart: EXCLUSIVE--SARAH PALIN: 'IT'S TIME TO IMPEACH' PRESIDENT OBAMA. President Obama's rewarding of lawlessness, including his own, is the ...

Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 3:56:30 pm
As a native Kentuckian who has also lived in several states in this wonderful country and now happily resides in the backwoods of eastern Kentucky, I want to say right off the bat that I love Kentucky. However, I do despair over the intellectual capacity of our elected officials. While Kentucky ...

Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:26:32 am
Youtube Video It's difficult to understand why anyone would ever get the impression that anti-science lunacy runs rampant in the Republican Party. Louisiana state Rep. Lenar Whitney (R) is accusing liberals, such as former Vice President Al Gore, of advancing "the greatest deception in the history of mankind" -- man-made climate ...

Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 10:23:34 am
Dr. Ben Carson (Young Earth Creationist, Birther) recently cited a book called The Naked Communist by W. Cleon Skousen, in a speech against marriage equality: If you look at the writings of a lot of the neo-Marxists, when they talk about the New World Order, they say there's only one ...

Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 4:22:24 pm
YouTube Last night's Bill Maher show featured a panel with Paul Rieckhoff of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) and the Mighty Glenn Greenwald, who got into a very heated exchange beginning when Greenwald asserted that US troops in Iraq should be considered terrorists. It turned into a full-blown yelling match ...

Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 1:14:42 pm
Here's Senator Rand Paul speaking at the Republican Party of Texas state convention today, then proudly broadcasting his "joke" over Twitter. Because there's nothing funnier than sending Democrats to be killed by the Taliban, is there? I'm sure it brought the house down. "Mr. President, let's set up a new trade. ...

Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 9:53:48 am
YouTube Heres a video that graphically, horribly demonstrates the almost criminal anti-science attitudes that utterly dominate one of our two major political parties.

Thu, May 29, 2014 at 8:16:25 pm
YouTube Given the topic of the day, an appropriate song from the great John Hiatt: "Shredding the Document." Oh, what have you done with your life? Oh, please don't tell me Just shut up and go to work 'Cause you're interrupting me I won't represent the U.S. In the Summer Olympics My character's questionable My life is a ...

Thu, May 15, 2014 at 5:36:23 pm
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Wed, May 14, 2014 at 7:22:12 pm
Here's Marco Rubio, the one-man Republican rebranding effort, desperately trying to walk back his ignorant statement on climate change, and only managing to sound even more ignorant as he continues pandering to the Republican Party's lowest common denominator: Marco Rubio Attempts to Change Subject From Climate Change to Abortion. Marco ...

Tue, May 13, 2014 at 9:33:58 am
I agree with the Washington Post editorial board on this - no serious national stage campaign can hope to take this stance and succeed. Marco Rubio's managers have to know this so my assumption is that Rubio's campaign is all puffery to raise money through "Palinesque" posturing. He's going to ...

Mon, May 12, 2014 at 6:54:33 pm
YouTube When you hear a NASA climate scientist say, "This is really happening," you really should wake up and pay attention: Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans as Antarctic Ice Melts. These people aren't playin' around. The collapse of large parts of the ice sheet in West Antarctica appears to have begun and ...

Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:17:28 am
YouTube John Oliver beautifully illustrates the disparity between climate change "skeptics" and the scientific community, with help from a special guest.

Sun, May 11, 2014 at 10:43:49 am
Video Speaking today on ABC's This Week, Marco Rubio announced that he's "ready to be President," in between ranting about Benghazi, of course. And to prove what a marvelous leader he would be, Rubio says all those scientists are just wrong. Never mind the stupid eggheads, Rubio knows the truth: man-made ...

Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:42:24 pm
The National Climate Assessment is sobering reading -- and even more sobering when you realize the entire Republican Party will reject it out of hand, and fight tooth and nail to prevent us from doing anything about it. On the bright side, the website is very nicely designed.

Tue, May 6, 2014 at 11:33:24 am
The party that denies climate change and still refuses to accept the theory of evolution after more than a century is now planning to gut the National Science Foundation. Because of course they are. WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration and the scientific community at large are expressing serious alarm at ...

Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 6:04:14 pm
YouTube 1/25/14 Susan Hutchison & State Representative Liz Pike @ WA Mainstream Republicans' Roanoke Conference (Ocean Shores, WA) WA State GOP Chair Susan Hutchison: So I'd like to add to men; Please don't mention the word 'rape' in any way. Also, let's not talk about anything to do with women's reproductive ...

Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 5:55:58 pm
YouTube Bonded by war. United by hope. See the X-Men face their greatest challenge together in X-Men: Days of Future Past. The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. The beloved characters from the original "X-Men" ...

Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:45:56 pm
Our free high-powered blogging system for registered users has a new feature today! To make sharing your LGF Pages on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ more interesting and appealing, we now let you upload an image (called the "Meta Image" because you don't actually see it in the post here at ...

Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:04:27 pm
Image via Shutterstock The Sydney Morning Herald has a piece on the man who made a lot of Internet system administrators' lives miserable this week, the German programmer who introduced the Heartbleed bug into the OpenSSL code. There's been way too much embarrassing noobish speculation from some quarters of the journalistic arena ...