Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:18:07 pm
Republican John Raese is running for the late Robert Byrd’s Senate seat in West Virginia, spewing anti-science nonsense like almost every other Republican candidate. Raese's Democratic opponent is Gov. Joe Manchin, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee has released an ad attacking Manchin, shot in Philadelphia using actors chosen for ...

Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:29:03 am
Robert Spencer gets torn a new nether orifice by Reza Aslan in this segment of the CNN "town hall" meeting on Islam. Aslan quite correctly identifies Spencer's group "Stop the Islamization of America" as a branch of the European hate franchise "Stop the Islamisation of Europe," and points out that ...

Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 11:48:03 am
Frank Rich makes some excellent points about Christine O'Donnell's value to the GOP good old boy network, cynically using the teabaggers to sleaze their way back into power: The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine O’Donnell. The more O’Donnell is vilified, the bigger the star she becomes, and the more she ...

Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 2:57:29 pm
The weirdest story of the day comes from Florida (where else?), where one of Gov. Charlie Crist's biggest financial backers is trying to use his political pull to gain access to scores of the state's sealed immunization records -- records that include Social Security numbers and home addresses. The guy who's ...

Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:03:34 pm
Running for the late Robert Byrd's Senate seat in West Virginia, GOP nominee John Raese is yet another anti-science far right Republican candidate, spouting pseudo-scientific gobbledegook about volcanoes to argue that he has "zero trust" in human-caused global warming. Even as he joked that the tea party movement was "a ...

Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:02:20 am
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is changing the name of "Confederate History Month" to "Civil War in Virginia" month, after his pandering to neo-Confederate extremists was revealed: Va. governor: 'Confederate' month no more. NORFOLK - Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell announced Friday that he will declare next April "Civil War in ...

Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:03:26 pm
John Avlon has a piece on the growing acceptance in the GOP of the cruelest and most extreme positions on abortion: The Palin abortion standard makes GOP inroads. Call it the Palin Standard, the new normal creeping into Republican abortion politics—opposition even in cases of rape and incest. When Sarah Palin ...

Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:21:44 pm
Bad news from Sweden, where the xenophobic far right Sweden Democrats have made big gains in Sunday's election: Eurofascists Break the Back of Scandinavian Tolerance. Also see: Friends of Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer: Sweden Democrats Xenophobic Swedish Party's Video: An Army of Burqas Sweden Democrats Lying About Neo-Nazi Connections? The History of the Sweden ...

Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:37:43 am
One of the European allies of American anti-Muslim demagogues Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer is a political party called the "Sweden Democrats" -- a party with roots in outright Nazism. Last week a Sweden Democrats politician was forced to quit after posting an ugly racist rant at his blog, claiming that ...

Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:06:40 pm
I haven't seen the kookosphere this riled up in quite some time; I guess the wingnuts are all puffed up from their big wins in Delaware and New York, because the hate mail is pouring in today. Here's the stand-out email of the day, from a reader in Yonkers, New York, ...

Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:17:20 am
Here are some interviews with the people who attended Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's anti-Muslim rally last weekend. [Video]

Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:05:23 pm
Here's another photo from Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's anti-Islam rally last weekend, showing one of their English Defense League allies standing with two representatives of "Youth for Western Civilization" -- a thinly veiled white nationalist student group that often promotes alliances with Eurofascists such as the EDL. Youth for Western ...

Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:18:12 pm
From Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's hate rally last weekend, at which the audience ignored Geller's edict against signs. (Credit: Jens Schott Knudsen.)

Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:17:48 am
One of the English Defense League thugs who was planning to attend Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's hate rally last weekend was refused entry into the US. I’ve picked up a rumour this morning that EDL leader 'Tommy Robinson' has been refused entry into the United States where he was ...

Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:01:03 am
I always love waking up and seeing another stupid fecal storm created by the right wing blogosphere over something I wrote. This time they've caught me red-handed! editing an old post about Imam Feisal Rauf to remove the description "Islamic supremacist." Apparently this proves I was trying to "hide" something, or ...

Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 7:58:30 pm
Uh oh. Citing a recent Forbes article by Dinesh D’Souza, former House speaker Newt Gingrich tells National Review Online that President Obama may follow “Kenyan, anti-colonial” worldview. Gingrich says that D’Souza has made a “stunning insight” into Obama’s behavior — the “most profound insight I have read in the last six ...

Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 6:20:51 pm
According to the Associated Press, attendance at Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's international hate rally was less than 1,000: The Associated Press: Dueling demonstrations begin after 9/11 memorial. After the ceremony, around 1,000 activists rallied about five blocks from the site of the 2001 attacks to support the proposed Islamic ...

Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 2:41:35 pm
Also seen today in lower Manhattan for Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's hate rally:

Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 11:58:08 am
The audience for Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's hate rally is really starting to get warmed up for the big event: Man burns Koran pages near Ground Zero. A hate-filled protester was escorted away from the Ground Zero mosque site this morning after tearing apart a Koran and burning some ...

Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 11:38:19 am
The hate rally sponsored by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's "Stop Islamization of America" is set to begin at 3 pm Eastern time, and their fans are beginning to arrive. (From Diaper's Photostream on Flickr.) Just call him Mr. Sunshine. The skinhead thugs of the English Defense League are getting their signs ...

Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:30:19 pm
Jihad Watch "director" Robert Spencer must be getting pumped up for the big day of rabble rousing tomorrow; usually he's more careful with his rhetoric. He just posted a link to an article arguing that Jesus would have burned Qurans just like psycho preacher Terry Jones. Yes, really: Furnish: The Unforgettable ...

Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:52:48 pm
Hate preacher Terry Jones has decided he's calling off "Burn a Quran Day." But of course, he can't cancel his bigotfest without putting a deranged spin on it. Saying he got a "sign from God," the fanatical Florida pastor who whipped up international fury by threatening a Koran burning called it ...

Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:23:42 am
Here's another anti-Muslim hate crime that Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and the Bigot Brigade can claim they have nothing to do with -- this time on the hallowed ground of Hudson, in upstate New York. HUDSON -- City detectives are searching for the vandals who spray-painted a racial slur ...

Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 2:42:06 pm
US Commander in Afghanistan Gen. David Petraeus points out the obvious: Quran-burning could endanger troops, Petraeus warns. (CNN) -- The U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Monday criticized a Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Quran on September 11, warning that the demonstration "could cause significant problems" for American ...

Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 12:30:28 pm
Here's another anti-Muslim hate crime that Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and the Bigot Brigade can claim they have nothing to do with -- this time on the hallowed ground of San Antonio, Texas: San Antonio mosque vandalized amid national tensions over NYC mosque. A San Antonio mosque has been ...