Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:06:07 am
YouTube The Republican presidential race is off to a smashing start, as one of the current frontrunners, creationist neurosurgeon Ben Carson, goes on CNN and says homosexuality is a choice. How does he know this? Because look at all those people who go into prison, and come out gay. Oh brother. "A ...

Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 12:04:12 pm
You may have heard that one of the moderators for the Republican presidential debates will be right wing talk radio host Hugh Hewitt, which makes total sense from the GOP's point of view -- because he's guaranteed not to ask any questions that might be embarrassing. For example, whether ...

Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 6:21:39 pm
Russian Liberal politician Boris Nemtsov was assassinated across the street from the Kremlin today: He was shot four times late on Friday night, not far from the Kremlin in the center of Moscow. Police cars blocked the street where he was shot. An ambulance was also nearby. "Nemtsov B.E. died at ...

Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:26:36 pm
SoundCloud In other news, Ron Paul is still a racist: Ron Paul: Black Caucus Only Against War Because They Want That Money for Food Stamps. "I was always annoyed with it in Congress because we had an anti-war unofficial group, a few libertarian Republicans and generally the Black Caucus and others ...

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. ...

Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:24:47 am
I was going to start this post by wishing everyone a Happy Darwin Day (it's Charles Darwin's birthday), but unfortunately it's not a very happy occasion -- because this country still has far too many religious fanatics who refuse to accept the fact of evolution through natural selection: On Darwin ...

Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:51:59 am
This is horrible - the victims seem like they were all just really good people. The suspected shooter's facebook page has a lot of anti-religion postings, and he describes himself as an anti-theist. See the update tweet below, it appears that this could boil down to a parking dispute, or ...

Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 6:39:05 pm
"Only a short time ago... their [black] ancestors roamed the jungles of Africa in absolute savagery...[Y]ou do not know where the beast is among them. Somewhere in that black mass of people is the man who would outrage your wife or your child, and every man who lives in the ...

Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:42:11 am
YouTube The anti-vaccination movement is incredibly self-destructive and flat out stupid, but as John Oliver points out in this excellent segment from Last Week Tonight, the pharmacology industry is not always sane or ethical, either.

Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:49:43 pm
YouTube Brandon Wall of the Chicago Sun-Times dug up the full video of that Barack Obama campaign appearance in Pennsylvania in 2008, and it's fascinating to see the complete context of his remarks about autism and vaccines -- because it makes it extremely clear that he was not saying the "science ...

Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:58:32 pm
You may have heard that loony right wing creationist neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson came out yesterday with a pretty strong statement in support of vaccinations. Well, that was yesterday, and yesterday's gone. Today Carson has gotten his xenophobic marching orders, and he's blaming the measles outbreak on immigrants. "These are things ...

Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:08:28 pm
And now Ted Cruz weighs in with what's obviously going to be the GOP's talking point on vaccines: Cruz: Parents With 'Religious Convictions' Should Get a Pass on Vaccines. That's right. "Religious freedom" is now going to include the freedom to put your own children -- and other people's children -- ...

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 ...

Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 10:09:46 am
Now that President Obama has strongly urged parents to have their children vaccinated, you can expect the right wing to go full-on anti-vaccination and pro-measles. And the first out of the gate with this dangerous pandering is none other than Chris Christie. Mr. Christie, when asked about the connection between the ...

Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 9:04:33 pm
This was the week the CDC started to push back against the insanely self-destructive anti-vaccination movement. A top official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday said the country's anti-vaccine movement has been a major factor in this year's measles outbreak, a trend that she called ...

Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 11:47:20 am
*drops microphone* #antivax #vaccineswork #VaccinateYourKids pic.twitter.com/1Nysbfkh7N — Doc Bastard (@DocBastard) February 1, 2015

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 ...

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, ...

Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 6:47:45 pm
YouTube Right wing loons are always demanding that Muslims renounce terrorism and show their loyalty to the United States. And this is what happens when they do. Texas Muslim Capitol Day, which began in 2003, is organized by the Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and brings members of Muslim ...

Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:13:55 pm
MP3 Audio The Mormon church has apparently learned a lesson from the Catholics and Protestants who've been redefining "religious freedom" as a free pass for bigotry, because they announced this week that they'll support LGBT anti-discrimination laws -- with one catch. They want to be immune from criticism when they continue ...

Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:41:46 pm
In a followup to the American Family Association's "repudiation" of raving hate-monger Bryan Fischer, the Southern Poverty Law Center reports that they received a letter from the AFA trying to distance themselves from Fischer's racist and anti-gay statements. The SPLC isn't buying it, and neither should anyone else. The AFA is ...

Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 1:01:14 pm
MSNBC Creationist Gov. Booby Jindal is hosting a prayer rally in Louisiana today, co-sponsored by the homophobic hate group known as the American Family Association. Yes, that's loony Bryan Fischer's gang of religious right wackos. Jindal is trying to stake out a position as the most fanatical far right Christian in ...

Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:11:45 pm
Barrett Brown, who occasionally posted in our LGF Pages section a few years ago, was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for transmitting threats, being an accessory to hacking charges, and interfering with a search warrant. There's already an outcry against this from the libertarian "hacktivist" community, who are trying ...

Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 6:12:38 pm
The fanatical Republican men in the House of Representatives faced a revolt from their own female members today, and backed down on a horrible Personhood-inspired anti-abortion bill at the last minute. House Republican leaders abruptly dropped plans late Wednesday to hold votes on an anti-abortion bill amid a revolt by ...

Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 10:59:00 am
YouTube I started to write "unbelievable," but this is sadly all too believable -- and horrifyingly emblematic of a political party that is quite literally denying reality: Republicans Post Doctored Version of State of the Union, Censor Facts on Climate Change. (The video above is set to start right before the clumsy ...