Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:22:41 pm
In today's episode of Disgusting Things Republicans Do, Karoli at Crooks and Liars picked up on a flier about health insurance being mailed out by the California Assembly Republican Caucus, advising people to go to a fake version of California's CoveredCA.com health exchange site. The fake site is packed with anti-ACA ...

Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 5:06:43 pm
Political map of Africa (2012) courtesy of UT Perry-Castañeda LibraryYes, Angola again. I know you might be tired of hearing about it by now, but I despise yellow journalism, so I tend to be like a dog with a bone when ridiculous fake stories make the rounds on the internet. ...

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 ...

Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:54:10 pm
I've taken a bit of a break from mocking the right wing idiots at Breitbart.com lately, but this self-beclownment is so monumental it rivals Ben Shapiro's hilarious "Friends of Hamas" smear against Chuck Hagel, as Larry O'Connor gets the vapors over President Obama's recitation of an early version of the ...

Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:15:49 am
The legality of government collection of telephone metadata has been settled for a long time, so it isn't really surprising that the Supreme Court turned down a direct review of FISA today. The type of review requested (a "mandamus" review) is rarely granted. The Supreme Court on Monday passed up an ...

Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:13:43 am
Here's some great news: Democrats in the House and Senate are finally starting to fight back against the hideous barrage of anti-choice laws sponsored by fanatical religious right Republicans: Historic Pro-Choice Bill to Be Introduced in Congress. Following an unprecedented three-year wave of state legislative attacks on abortion and family ...

Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 6:36:37 am
This really alarmed us this morning. Just one reminder that getting an abortion in Texas can be very dangerous. pic.twitter.com/bdHCZ3F3lM — Fund Texas Women (@FundTexasWomen) November 10, 2013 Should the FBI become involved?

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 3:12:48 pm
According to multiple sources, the suspect in the LAX shootings has been identified as 23-year old Paul Anthony Ciancia, from Pennsville, New Jersey. RT @LukeRussert: . @PeteWilliamsNBC reports LAX shooting suspect 23 yr old Paul Anthony Ciancia, apparently had strong anti-government views — Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 1, 2013 Ciancia was shot ...

Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:45:12 pm
Vimeo 11 min I Fantasy/Horror I México/Canada "Shhh" is a dark fairytale about a young boy, Guillermo, who uses his imagination to overcome his monstrous bully at night. Tired of being scared, Guillermo eventually takes matters into his own hands. Inspired by the lucid dreams of director Guillermo del Toro during ...

Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:14:53 am
For your perusal: a thin film of anecdote married to a standard derp armature of fake quotes, and argument from questionable authority: Suzanne Somers: The Affordable Care Act Is a Socialist Ponzi Scheme. My sister-in-law had to wait two months to get a General Practitioner. During this period she spent ...

Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 6:52:01 pm
Yes folks, the anti-choice religious right really is this sick in the head. For the logic-impaired liberal gal: Sorry; NOT your body. NOT your choice. Abortion is murder #prolife pic.twitter.com/IkJMxZRsVT — Matt Barber (@jmattbarber) October 27, 2013 (h/t: Vicious B.)

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 ...

Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:30:57 pm
Citing "clear and convincing evidence" of professional misconduct, the Kansas Supreme Court on Friday indefinitely suspended the law license of former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline. The court found that Kline violated 11 rules governing the professional conduct of attorneys during his tenure as the state's highest law enforcement officer ...

Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:51:29 pm
Reuters has some new information on the investigation into Edward Snowden's theft of top secret NSA documents: Exclusive: NSA Delayed Anti-Leak Software at Base Where Snowden Worked -Officials. (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency failed to install the most up-to-date anti-leak software at a site in Hawaii before contractor ...

Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:54:28 pm
Pat Buchanan shows what he is really all about: In a column fittingly titled "Republicans, Stand Up - Polls Be Damned!," Pat Buchanan calls on Republicans in Congress not to give up on the push to derail Obamacare, even if it means the collapse of the Republican Party. If the ...

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 2:48:02 pm
Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman wrote Monday that the president had been indicted Sept. 18 by a citizens grand jury in Ocala, Fla., and convicted by a people's court of defrauding voters by using a false birth certificate to prove his eligibility for office. Klayman said Obama waived his right ...

Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:37:09 am
YouTube The Republican Party just keeps getting stranger and more dysfunctional. Today's freakishly bizarre train wreck is a video funded by the Koch Brothers that attempts to convince young women to "opt out" of the Affordable Care Act by scaring them with a creepy giant puppet-headed speculum-wielding Uncle Sam, getting all ...

Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:05:54 am
This post originally appeared at NationalMemo.com. All signs continue to point to a House GOP crackup that will either lead to a government shutdown or -- even worse -- a default on America's debt. Republican leaders had hoped that the situation in Syria would give them cover, allowing them to somehow keep ...

Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 11:26:36 am
But disappear is exactly what she did next. Andrew "weev" Auernheimer, a well-known provocateur, hacker, and anti-Semite, circulated her home address and Social Security number online. He also made false statements about her being a battered wife and a former prostitute. Not only did Sierra find herself a target ...

Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:05:07 pm
Here we go again in Texas, where reactionary Republican religious fanatics are trying once more to insert nutty creationist falsehoods into high school science textbooks. (And climate change denial too; they often go hand in hand.) AUSTIN -- Religious conservatives serving on state textbook review panels have criticized several proposed ...

Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:08:28 pm
Activist Glenn Greenwald posted this today on Twitter, hyping a pro-Edward Snowden advertisement featured at Reason.com: A coalition of current and former military, police, and other public officials place huge pro-Snowden ad in Metro http://t.co/zcqTb0IBJ3 — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 11, 2013 Who is this "coalition of current and former military, police, ...

Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 11:20:43 am
Out of nowhere this morning, I find the following tweet from character actor Nick Searcy: Has there really ever been a more complete collapse of a human being than what has happened to Charles Johnson? @Green_Footballs — Yes, Nick Searcy! (@yesnicksearcy) September 7, 2013 Since I've never interacted with Mr. Searcy before, ...

Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 11:09:19 am
John McCain was raked over the coals by his own constituents in Arizona yesterday, for his support of military intervention in Syria. Witness the amazing phenomenon of Republicans opposed to military action: Video McCain, one of the most vocal proponents for military action in Syria, was berated at two events held in ...