Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 9:18:20 am
WASHINGTON -- A pair of House Republicans have a new bill that would spare the military from sequestration by cutting the Social Security benefits of many Americans who already experience painful federal budget cuts. Reps. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) and Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) are introducing the Provide for the Common Defense ...

Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 12:32:59 pm
Republicans on the Texas State Board of Education have been fighting a desperate last ditch battle to shoehorn their superstitious creationism and climate change denial into public school science textbooks, but in the good news of the day, the board voted this morning to adopt the textbooks without compromising the ...

Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 11:27:29 am
Media Matters Rush Limbaugh invoked a rape analogy on Friday to criticize President Obama's move to support filibuster reform. On Thursday, Obama expressed his support for Senate Democrats voting to require just 51 votes -- as opposed to 60 -- approve judicial and executive nominees. Limbaugh compared them to a group ...

Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:43:39 am
Today President Obama announced a proposal to allow Americans whose health insurance was scheduled to be cancelled to keep their plans for another year. Most of this Politico article is dedicated to a barrage of negativity, which is how the entire US media is playing this story today. So let's skip ...

Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 4:33:43 pm
If you post LGF Pages, you may notice that your LGF Pages posting window is nagging you to install yet another update for the bookmarklet. This isn't a bug fix or anything urgent, just some internal code improvements that will further refine the "separate loader and function library" design of ...

Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:03:32 am
Already shaping up to be one of the closest races in state history, a last-minute rule change is stirring up the recount to decide who will become Virginia's next attorney general. The Daily Press of Newport News, Va. reported Friday that Republican candidate Mark Obenshain had an unofficial lead of ...

Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 10:18:32 am
Oops! A bug crept into the new LGF Pages bookmarklet code last night, affecting Firefox and Chrome users; the window would pop open but get stuck at the "Loading" screen. The problem is now fixed, and it was something very simple -- when testing a variable with "typeof," the keyword "undefined" ...

Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:23:17 am
Ars Technica is reporting that a Distributed Denial of Service application called "Destroy Obama Care!" has turned up in the wild. While there's no evidence that this has significantly contributed to the Healthcare.Gov problems, similar "by hand" tricks -- simply reloading the page over and over again -- have been talked ...

Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:09:52 pm
Yes, you read that correctly: puppy bombs. If you saw the headline and actually believed it for a second, then your bullshit detector is probably in serious need of a tune-up. Think about it for a minute--the Muslim Brotherhood soaked puppies in gasoline so they could lob them at the ...

Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:21:16 am
With the technical issues of the federal health insurance exchange being acknowledged and worked on with all due haste, the attention of the Affordable Care Act's critics has turned to "rate shock," the argument that an increasing number of insurance policy holders who said they were "happy" with their insurance ...

Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:08:25 pm
This article is several days old, but I just recently happened upon it. I am struck by the desperate and totally cynical tone. Andrew McCarthy is saying in effect; Republicans can not win national elections. It is impossible. They have no choice but to shutdown government and hold the ...

Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 4:38:26 pm
Image via Shutterstock There's a new version of the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet tonight with a very nice new feature: you no longer need to turn off popup blocking in your browser's settings in order to use the bookmarklet. This is probably the most common cause of confusion for new LGF users ...

Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 6:09:43 pm
Some good news from the Republican War on Science: the major publishers are resisting pressure from creationists on the Texas State Board of Education to include religious right nonsense about climate change and evolution in science textbooks: We have now had our first look at changes publishers have submitted in ...

Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:57:57 pm
Authorities in Utah are considering criminal charges against a group of men who gleefully shoved a boulder off its perch in a state park -- and disturbed a rock formation that park officials say is 170 million years old. The men, identified by The Salt Lake Tribune as Boy Scout ...

Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:27:46 am
In underlined red letters on the front page of their website: The political agenda put forth by a local organizer in Washington DC was not in alignment with our message. We feel disheartened that some would seek to hijack the narrative for political gain. The core principle is about ...

Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 7:46:26 am
As investigators continue to delve into the weeks and months prior to Snowden's defection with thousands of classified documents, a lot of critics of government contractors have argued that Booz Allen failed to pay attention to some very troubling warning signs when they hired him. It seems that the ...

Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 12:51:10 pm
The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll shows the public is not falling for the GOP's attempts to blame their own extortionary actions on President Obama; no less than 70% of Americans disapprove of the GOP's tactics. Seventy percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll disapprove of how the Republicans ...

Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 10:36:37 am
A year ago, Yoho was a large-animal veterinarian in north Florida who had never held elected office. Today, he is part of one of the most influential voting blocs in the House of Representatives, the hard-line conservatives who pushed their own leadership into a risky showdown over President Obama's ...

Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 6:16:39 pm
The right wing's disturbing obsession with controlling women has actually had an effect on the crazy House Republican spending bill charade -- the GOP has added a "conscience clause" that would let employers and insurers deny birth control coverage on "religious grounds." Washington (CNN) - House Republicans have added a ...

Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:28:26 am
Here we go again in Kansas, where Republicans are trying to use the "religious freedom" ploy to get their creationist nonsense into public school science classes: Anti-Evolution Group Sues to Block Kansas School Science Standards. This is the Republican Party in 2013: ignorant, reactionary anti-science religious fanatics, and proud of it. ...

Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 9:49:51 am
This post originally appeared at NationalMemo.com. Senator Ted Cruz's (R-TX) fake filibuster is over. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) opposes the letting the junior senator actually filibuster the bill before the Senate, as does Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX). That means the junior senator got a lot of attention, ...

Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:54:14 pm
The whole YouTube (and Blogger) commenting system will shift to be powered exclusively by Google+. All comments must be tied to an account. HELPING USERS... For users, this change will likely be wonderful. First, it should banish some of the trolls spewing racism, sexism and homophobia. The anonymity of a one-off ...

Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 5:09:41 pm
A politically motivated, decades-long war on expertise has eroded the popular consensus on a wide variety of scientifically validated topics. Everything, from evolution to the origins of climate change, is mistakenly up for grabs again. Scientific certainty is just another thing for two people to "debate" on television. And ...

Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:02:40 pm
Four years ago, the modern tea party seemed to emerge from nowhere, leaving journalists bewildered and the public with few reference points to understand seemingly spontaneous rallies by middle-class people seeking lower tax rates. A search for the phrase "tea party" in connection with "politics" in major newspapers yielded ...

Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 9:34:21 am
Youtube Video We're seeing an onslaught of misinformation on climate in the build up to the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change release later this week. Here's some truth to push back.