Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 5:33:58 pm
Michele Bachmann and her husband Marcus have been vehemently denying that they endorse the view that homosexuality can be "cured," but now evidence has emerged that Marcus Bachmann's clinics are deeply involved in the pseudo-science of "ex-gay therapy:" ‘God Has Created You for Heterosexuality’: Clinics Owned by Michele Bachmann’s ...

Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:11:54 pm
Here's a thread to discuss the latest reports on the debt ceiling talks, as President Obama reportedly offers to make cuts in Social Security. As part of his pitch, Obama is proposing significant reductions in Medicare spending and for the first time is offering to tackle the rising cost of ...

Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:52:49 am
Lately, the right wing Power Line blog has been angling for a position as one of the prime sources of climate change denial in the blogosphere. They have a lot of competition, because denying the science of climate change is absolutely universal in the right wing blogosphere. But today they make ...

Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:53:08 am
Pamela Geller has released a ludicrous attempt to distance herself from the extreme right wing English Defence League, the violent gang of racists and neo-Nazis that she's been defending as "true patriots:" EDL Shake-up - Atlas Shrugs I was an early supporter of the EDL. I liked who they were ...

Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:26:10 am
The Republican Party is deliberately lying to the American public about the dangers of climate change, and presidential contender Tim Pawlenty proved it when he appeared on Fox News and claimed that "science indicates" that global warming is due to natural causes. "I denounced it for a number of reasons, ...

Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:44:02 am
In the past couple of weeks, right wing media and blogs have been gleefully trumpeting the latest absurd climate change denial claim -- that the Sun is entering a period of low activity, and this will trigger a "mini-ice age." I haven't checked all of them, but every right wing ...

Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:25:40 pm
Al Gore's piece for Rolling Stone has already provoked a chorus of ignorant derision from the bleachers, but I recommend it as a call to action while we still have time, in the face of the Republican Party and the right wing's Climate of Denial. ... Scientists have been warning ...

Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:52:48 am
If you watched the version of Jon Stewart's interview with Chris Wallace that aired on Fox News, there were several very obvious cuts, and today Stewart is accusing Fox of editing the interview to make him seem like he was having "a nervous breakdown." Jon Stewart wants everyone to know ...

Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:47:03 am
You almost have to feel a little bit sorry for Mitt Romney. In the past, he would have been a shoe-in for the Republican presidential nomination; he's from old money, has a pretty solid record of mainstream conservative positions, and was next in line after John McCain. In the natural ...

Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:10:32 pm
Michele Bachmann (R-Mars), rising star of the 2012 GOP presidential contest, absolutely epitomizes the anti-science, theocratic wing of today's Republican Party. Not only does she totally reject the voluminous scientific evidence for climate change, she's also an open, unapologetic creationist. And she doesn't just want to teach creationism to her Quiverfull ...

Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:25:26 pm
Here's a classic example of the bizarre reality-denying cognitive dissonance of right wing climate change deniers. In the Minnesota State Senate, one of the loudest voices against accepting the scientific reality of climate change is Michael Jungbauer, who's known for making grand pronouncements about "not being convinced" by the science, and ...

Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:03:06 am
Pew Research has a new survey out today that shows a precipitous drop in the number of Republicans who support "global engagement:" In Shift from Bush Era, More Conservatives Say 'Come Home, America'. In the Pew Research Center's political typology survey, released May 4, majorities in every partisan group -- ...

Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:44:22 pm
I agree with Al Gore, and congratulate Mitt Romney on his refusal to be an ignorant jackass (like every other Republican candidate) on the vitally important issue of climate change: Al's Journal : Good for Mitt Romney -- though we've long passed the point where weak lip-service is enough on ...

Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:30:29 am
It's become both an article of faith and a litmus test for conservatives to claim that global warming is a "hoax," presumably staged by evil scientists bent on world domination. This incredibly dangerous ostrich-like thinking is nearly universal on the right wing and in the Republican Party, and yesterday we ...

Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:54:41 pm
Today at UCLA, a group of high profile climate change deniers are featured at a conference titled: "Big Footprint: Is Green the New Tyranny?" By itself this is nothing special; climate "skeptics" are always having these echo chamber conferences, to keep the deluded masses fully stocked up with hooey. But this ...

Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:28:58 pm
For a change of pace from the nasty details of Anthony Weiner's creepy "sexting" and Andrew Breitbart's creepy lies, here's a simply gorgeous video released today by NASA, shot by astronauts aboard a Soyuz spacecraft that had just undocked from the International Space Station. Looks so nice and clean up there. ...

Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:01:10 pm
You may recall our story from last year about fundamentalist Christian leader George Rekers, who founded the politically active and virulently anti-gay Family Research Council with Dr. James Dobson -- and then was caught on vacation with a "rent boy." It wasn't the first case of an anti-gay preacher busted doing ...

Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:55:56 pm
Rep. Anthony Weiner has scheduled a press conference at 4pm ET in New York, presumably to address the latest accusations from Andrew Breitbart. So here's a thread to discuss as it happens; we shall see what we shall see. On Twitter, I've been getting attacked like crazy all morning; apparently I've ...

Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:40:01 pm
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? -- John Maynard Keynes

Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 2:09:49 pm
In Australia, climate scientists are being targeted with a rabid hate mail campaign and death threats. The Australian National University has confirmed it moved several high-profile climate scientists, economists and policy researchers into more secure buildings, following explicit threats to their personal safety. Scientists at universities in NSW and Queensland have ...

Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:00:01 pm
"Muslims killed themselves in Yugoslavia" Remember when Muslim-hating demagogue Robert Spencer wrote a totally dishonest piece for the Guardian to run interference for his crony Pamela Geller, claiming (among numerous other lies and evasions) that she doesn't support murderous war criminals like Slobodan Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic? Today, Pamela Geller crossed ...

Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:23:33 pm
A fatuous post by the anonymous blogger "Allahpundit" full of debunked right wing tropes (Climategate? he must be kidding) leads to a deluge of stunningly ignorant, hateful comments directed toward Mitt Romney for stating that he accepts the science of climate change: Romney: Sure, I believe in man-made global warming ...

Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:18:33 pm
What a shame. After all that pandering to the far right by fear mongering about the "end of the free market economy" and "Obama's apology tour," Mitt Romney has to ruin it all by believing in science. His run for President as a Republican is now officially over: The world is ...

Sun, May 29, 2011 at 5:13:48 pm
Steve Silberman has an excellent piece on Why the GOP Hates the National Science Foundation. The truth is, the current incarnation of the GOP, frozen in its pose of perpetually indignant outrage, doesn’t want additional perspective, more data and nuance, and — Heaven forbid — dissenting voices. The impulse to ...

Fri, May 27, 2011 at 5:19:26 pm
DERPIn a congressional hearing this week titled "UN Climate Talks and Power Politics — It's Not About the Temperature," Rep. Dana Rohrabacher came up with one of the more bizarre right wing climate change denial fantasies in recent memory; Rohrabacher says scientists need to start addressing the greenhouse gases emitted ...