Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 10:39:12 am
Mother Jones has obtained a copy of a secret recording of a private meeting with Mitch McConnell and his aides, brainstorming ways they could smear actor/activist Ashley Judd if she chose to run against McConnell -- and it's just as creepy as you might imagine: Secret Tape: McConnell and Aides ...

Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:56:42 am
Breitbart.com, the site dedicated to unrelentingly dishonest right wing attacks on President Obama, today has a hit piece by former Washington Times writer Kerry Picket, who just can't stop doing that ol' Benghazi Boogaloo: 700 Retired Military Special Ops Tell Congress to Form Select Committee on Benghazi. And being Breitbart.com, they're ...

Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 10:37:28 am
In what has to be the most direct, broad-ranging attack yet on women's right to a safe, legal abortion, Kansas right wing lunatics have now passed a measure that would effectively criminalize all abortion, and requires doctors to lie to women about a nonexistent link between abortion and breast cancer. ...

Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:42:22 am
As soon as I saw this moronic headline at Breitbart.com today, I knew I was in for some seriously delusional right wing turnspeak: SALON MAGAZINE SMEARS PAMELA GELLER!!! On April 2, Salon magazine carried a column by Chris Stedman accusing Pamela Geller of trying to drive a wedge between gays ...

Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:50:46 am
Clements was the latest victim of increasingly active violent right-wing extremists. While American politicians and the U.S. public continue to focus on the threat from jihadist extremists, there seems to be too little awareness that this domestic form of political violence is a growing problem at home. From 2002 to ...

Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:10:04 pm
Here they go with the animal-fucking again. The wingnut imagination is obsessed with bestiality for some weird reason, and quack "researcher" Paul Cameron of the rabidly anti-gay Family Research Institute (who was tossed out of the American Psychological Association for faking and misrepresenting his work) told the National Press Club ...

Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:22:10 pm
Road sign via Shutterstock It's an explicit violation of the First Amendment of the US Constitution, and will certainly be struck down in court if they actually pass this mind-numbingly stupid bill, but nonetheless Republicans in North Carolina are trying to declare Christianity the official state religion. The word for this is ...

Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:52:49 pm
Pat Robertson, the nutty uncle of the evangelist right, neatly sums up the problem with America in this clip from Right Wing Watch: Americans have too much book learnin', and it keeps them from seeing miracles all the time like they do in Africa, where they're "simple and humble." I think ...

Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 7:32:12 pm
So, everyone knows that Dr. Ben Carson, the right wing's latest hero, is a young earth creationist, right? A May 2012 article at the Washington Post has the details: An unusual controversy has erupted at Emory University over the choice of famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson to deliver this year's commencement ...

Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 10:21:25 am
Sen. James Inhofe may be the leading Republican anti-science climate change-denying religious fanatic, and he's proud of it. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) sees criticism of him in a recent documentary about climate change as a badge of honor. He's among the targets in "Greedy Lying Bastards," a recent film that claims ...

Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:37:23 am
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments on California's Proposition 8 anti-gay marriage law today, and SCOTUS Blog's Tom Goldstein thinks it's likely that the court is not going to strike down the Ninth Circuit's ruling -- which would mean gay marriage would remain legal in California. Justice Kennedy seemed very ...

Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 5:52:34 pm
FunnyOrDie Video Related: Jim Carrey spoofs anti-gun control advocates in "Funny or Die" sketch UPDATE at 3/25/13 6:39:54 pm Greg Gutfeld loses it:

Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:53:04 am
Former South Carolina GOP executive director Todd Kincannon shows his support for the US military in a tweet about Iraq War veteran and anti-war activist Mike Prysner, demonstrating once again that special mean-spirited hatefulness so beloved of the American right wing: .@mikeprysner You are an Iraq veteran? Shame you didn't come ...

Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:51:01 am
Road sign via Shutterstock Right wing religious spokesmen are raising hell over the RNC "rebranding" scam, apparently too dim to understand that they're supposed to lay low for a while: Religious Right Could Be Left Behind by New Republican Plan. Some leaders of the religious right are openly worried this week ...

Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:35:22 am
The next giant right wing freak-out is on the horizon, approaching fast, as President Obama prepares to make good on his promise to act alone in the face of Republican anti-science craziness: Obama Will Use Nixon-Era Law to Fight Climate Change. President Barack Obama is preparing to tell all federal ...

Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:15:59 pm
DERPAt CPAC, the incredibly dense Jim Hoft won the "Accuracy in Media" award, and today he's demonstrating the peerless skill that led to this honor with a post desperately trying to spin away the embarrassing little white supremacist incident at yesterday's festivities: BUSTED: Supposed 'Racist Event' at CPAC 2013 a Big ...

Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:45:15 am
Scott Terry Today, Twitter and the internet were abuzz about some questions and comments delivered by a participant at CPAC during a session sponsored by Tea Party Patriots called "Trump The Race Card: Are You Sick And Tired Of Being Called A Racist When You Know You're Not One?" Talking Points Memo ...

Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:22:00 am
Video Mitt Romney is scheduled to speak at 1:00 pm Eastern, but it looks like they're about 30 minutes behind schedule at this point. It's going to be very interesting to see how the audience reacts to the man whose total absorption in the right wing echo chamber blinded him to ...

Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:24:12 am
Readers may or may not remember Eric Allen Bell--he's the filmmaker and former "Kos Kid" who, back in 2010, was supportive of the construction of the Murfreesboro mosque, which had become one of the lightning rods of the anti-mosque hysteria that began sweeping the nation that summer. Eric Allen Bell ...

Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:00:22 am
Ten Things to End Rape Culture Walter Mosley's piece is an excellent, excellent takedown of victim-blaming and is a sensible, well-written article with practical take-aways. I encourage you all to read it and to spread it. We have far, far, far too much rape in our society. Women in ...

Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 2:34:34 pm
In another case of poor reading comprehension or blind rage and willful ignorance, Breitbart.com and Gateway Pundit, aka "Dim" Jim Hoft, have led their readership in yet another bout of outrageous outrage. It appears that Gabby Gifford's husband, Captain Mark Kelly has purchased an AR-15 and a 45 to make ...

Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 10:18:35 am
During the current "monstrous" feeding frenzy of misogynist and racist attacks against Zerlina Maxwell after her appearance on the Sean Hannity show, we find Adam Baldwin of Breitbart and "Full Metal Jacket" fame in agreement that "forcing all men to go through 'do not rape' classes would be as bad ...

Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:19:05 am
Vice President Joe Biden swears in CIA Director John Brennan in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, March 8, 2013. Members of Brennan's family stand with him. Brennan was sworn in with his hand on an original draft of the Constitution, dating from 1787, which has George Washington's personal ...

Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:53:52 pm
President Obama's picks to head the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy are already provoking howls of outrage from the right wing and the energy industry shills who feed them talking points; they're especially worked up about Gina McCarthy. Gina McCarthyWASHINGTON -- President Obama on Monday named two ...

Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:59:48 pm
DERPWhoever's posting the links at Drudge Report really seems to enjoy the work of the Dumbest Man on the Internet, Jim Hoft, because the estimable Gateway Pundit receives another Drudge benefaction today, for another long-debunked right wing paranoid fantasy: Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion ...