Sun, May 6, 2012 at 1:45:28 pm
Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger calls out the ideological extremists who dominate today's Republican Party: California's GOP Should Take Down Its Small Tent. I've been writing my memoirs recently, and looking back at how I came to my political identity has reminded me that this election cycle marks my 44th ...

Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:34:51 am
The Right discovers an all new level of nutso creepiness: a new billboard campaign paid for by the Heartland Institute compares climate scientists to terrorists and mass murderers. No, I'm not making this up. They think this is an effective way to address the issue of global warming with the American public. ...

Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:27:41 am
The American Family Association's Bryan Fischer has been thrown into apoplectic rage by Mitt Romney's choice of the openly gay Richard Grenell as his foreign policy spokesman, and today he's posted a column with a list of demands for Romney: Bryan Fischer: Re: Richard Grenell: Romney Has Some 'Splaining to ...

Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 7:52:05 pm
We have a big change in the way our "Recent Pages" area works. That's the place in our right sidebar that shows the LGF Pages most recently posted by our writers. Previously, it would show all the recent Pages in order; but we've noticed that some of you are much more ...

Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:51:35 pm
A terrible thing happened recently to Daily Caller writer Mark Judge: someone stole his bicycle. The bike was a source of great joy and inspiration for Mark, so you can imagine how totally devastated he must have been. But as many negative experiences do, this terrible theft had its bright side: ...

Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:47:00 pm
In the wake of John Derbyshire's racist article at Taki's magazine and subsequent dismissal from National Review, I have just learned (via @silviobreckman) that another National Review writer, Robert Weissberg, appeared at the annual American Renaissance gathering alongside white supremacist and Political Cesspool radio host, James Edwards. Robert Weissberg (left) alongside ...

Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 8:13:34 pm
YouTube Video The Republican Party and their religious right puppetmasters have been waging an all-out war on women's rights -- and now we're starting to see the results: Swing States Poll: A Shift by Women Puts Obama in Lead. MILWAUKEE – President Obama has opened the first significant lead of the ...

Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:54:15 am
The heirs of Andrew at Breitbart.com are working overtime to advance their bizarre racial talking points about the Trayvon Martin case; here's another post from mini-Breit William Bigelow explaining that people of Hispanic or Latino heritage will never be considered "white" by the right wing: Boston Globe Columnist Perpetuates 'White' ...

Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 2:52:44 pm
YouTube Video A truly horrifying story from California: California Muslim Mother Beaten to Death, Left With Note Saying 'Go Back to Your Country'. I'm sure some will disagree with me, but I have no doubt that the climate of deranged xenophobia and anti-Muslim hatred built and fed by people like Newt Gingrich, ...

Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:03:50 am
I always love it when the first thing I see on Twitter in the morning is a gaggle of wingnuts, all retweeting gleefully that I've been "beclowned." Apparently Breitbart.com "editor" Larry O'Connor has a devastating reply to my post pointing out that they've broken every single existing link to their ...

Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:33:45 am
Video Would you believe that when I helped launch Pajamas Media, one of the goals was to create a site that would transcend left-right politics, promote environmentalism and science, and allow free discussion of ideas without ideological blinders? I know, it's almost impossible to believe, if you look at the pure right ...

Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:21:04 pm
Rachel Maddow's interview with leading Republican climate change denier Sen. James Inhofe is a real jaw-dropper. Inhofe tells an amazing amount of lies about climate science and global warming, but perhaps the most outrageous claim he makes is that science curriculum in public schools should be determined not by scientists, ...

Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:28:13 pm
Again, religious fanatic, creationist, and climate change denier Rick Santorum provides the best measure of the dangerously irresponsible disconnect between the American right wing and reality. "The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is," said Rick Santorum. Santorum is sneering at a physical ...

Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:00:51 pm
YouTube Video Here's one of the reasons why the brain-dead, racist Birther conspiracy theory continues to be appallingly popular on the right -- because leading Republican politicians encourage it: Rep. Stearns on Obama Birth's Certificate: 'The Question Is, Is It Legitimate?' STEARNS: All I can tell you is that the general ...

Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:24:19 pm
Worried penguins via Shutterstock Right Wing Watch posted this last week, and I should have mentioned it before because it really is remarkable. One of the main Republican spokespersons for the anti-science climate change denial movement, Sen. James Inhofe, pretty much came right out and admitted that the reason why he ...

Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 5:19:08 pm
In yet another humiliating attempt to catch the Obama campaign in a hidden video conspiratorial outrageous outrage, the heirs of Andrew at Breitbart.com have creatively edited a video of a lecture by Harvard Law School Prof. Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., to make it look like he was admitting hiding a ...

Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:05:53 pm
YouTube Video Buzzfeed has posted video of Barack Obama from 1991, when he was president of the Harvard Law Review, speaking at Professor Derrick Bell's protest for diversity. Andrew Kaczynski explains the context of this clip: At Harvard, Obama Dived Into Diversity Fight. It was perhaps Barack Obama's most intense immersion ...

Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:27:13 pm
Image via Shutterstock This could be huge: N.Korea Agrees to Nuclear Moratorium, IAEA Inspections. WASHINGTON, Feb 29 (Reuters) - North Korea agreed on Wednesday to stop nuclear tests, uranium enrichment and long-range missile launches, and to allow checks by nuclear inspectors, in an apparent policy shift that paves the way for ...

Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:31:02 am
As recently revealed in the leaked documents from the Heartland Institute, the climate change denial front group (with financial aid from energy industries) is producing a "global warming curriculum" for public schools, to indoctrinate children with the false notion that climate science isn't settled, and that there's nothing to worry ...

Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:41:15 pm
Here's a second live-snarking thread for the CNN Republican Party debate, as they approach the last few minutes with a deluge of xenophobia and atavism, but not a single question about science education, evolution, or climate change...

Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:46:22 pm
Environmentalist Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, has an article at the Huffington Post in which he admits he is the source of the leaked Heartland Institute documents -- but Gleick denies making changes to any documents: The Origin of the Heartland Documents. This explains why the timestamp on the ...

Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:49:43 pm
Here's the email forwarded to me today by Jim Lakely, the Heartland Institute's director of communications, threatening me with legal action because I wrote a post about the leaked Heartland documents: February 18, 2012 Mr. Charles Johnson Editor Little Green Footballs Re: Stolen and Faked Heartland Documents [Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...] Dear Mr. Johnson: It has come to our ...

Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:00:31 pm
Next target on the Republican Party's hit list: the Voting Rights Act that guarantees minorities access to the ballot box. In a political system where even the most trivial issues trigger partisan rancor, the Voting Rights Act has stood for several decades as a rare point of bipartisan consensus. Until now. An ...

Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:08:38 pm
Here we see CNN contributor and Andrew Breitbart editor Dana Loesch defending recently-fired MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan, saying that Buchanan's First Amendment rights have been violated by a "progressive" conspiracy to silence "diversity of thought:" Controversial Pat Buchanan Forced Off of MSNBC by Van Jones, Media Matters - Big Journalism. "Diversity ...

Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:43:19 pm
It wasn't clear whether Pat Buchanan had actually been fired from MSNBC or not, but tonight the grizzled old racist confirms it in a monumentally whiny article titled: The New Blacklist. My days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come to an end. After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, ...