Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:35:41 am
Sometimes it's amazing to see the horrendous writing, bad logic, and outright falsehoods that pass for "news" in the strange, closed universe of the right wing, and here's a perfect example by Chriss W. Street at Andrew Breitbart's Big Government website: Nature Journal of Science Discredits Man-made Global Warming - ...

Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:48:51 am
Michele Bachmann is still hammering away at Rick Perry's mandated HPV vaccinations, with another new video that sounds like it was recorded in a bathroom. If you listen carefully to what Bachmann is saying (and we all know how painful that can be), she's actually making two arguments: 1) that Rick ...

Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:43:44 am
TIME Magazine's Healthland blog tears apart Michele Bachmann's loony anti-vaccination nonsense: Vaccination Causes ‘Mental Retardation’? Fact-Checking Michele Bachmann’s Claim. Perhaps more disturbing are comments Bachmann made Tuesday morning about the safety of the HPV vaccine itself — and what they revealed about her utter misunderstanding of the science. Talking with Matt ...

Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:23:02 pm
From the Washington Post's blog: Attack Watch, new Obama campaign site to ‘fight smears,’ becomes laughing stock of conservatives. At Fox Nation, this devolves into: WaPo: Obama's New Site, AttackWatch.com, Becomes Laughing Stock of the Internet. You mean it's the whole Internet, not just the usual obsessed far right anti-Obama nutbags? The Fox ...

Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:14:50 am
Ron Paul's "let 'em die" health plan wasn't the only appalling moment in last night's debate. Not by a long shot. Here we see the audience booing Ron Paul for saying "the whole Muslim world" was not responsible for 9/11. (Preceded by the usual "they hate our American exceptionalism" incantations from ...

Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:14:23 am
For me, the most memorable moment of last night's debate was Rick Perry's comparison of himself to Galileo -- because Perry refuses to accept the science of climate change. The cynical deceptiveness of this comment is mind-boggling. Galileo fought for years to defend the scientific theory of heliocentrism, and the people ...

Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:56:49 pm
A victory for women over the misogynistic right wing throwbacks in Texas: Key Provisions Of Texas Sonogram Law Struck Down. A federal judge on Tuesday struck down key provision of Texas' new law requiring a doctor to perform a sonogram before an abortion, ruling that the measure violates the free ...

Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:11:13 am
I'm proud to share with you today a report that my friend Wajahat Ali has been working on for more than 6 months with the DC-based think tank, Center for American Progress, entitled 'Fear Inc., The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America.' The report can be downloaded from here: [Link: ...

Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:23:19 pm
In what's becoming a disturbingly common story, an unstable anti-Muslim bigot was arrested today in Oregon on charges of firebombing a mosque last November: Man accused of hate crime in Corvallis mosque arson. Cody Seth CrawfordCORVALLIS -- Federal law enforcement authorities arrested Cody Seth Crawford, 24, Wednesday night on a ...

Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:58:32 am
Remember the days when Mitt Romney was considered a moderate Republican, a rational guy who didn't follow the standard GOP anti-science line? A guy who accepted the science of both evolution and global warming? Well, those days are gone: Romney says would not put limits on emissions. (Reuters) - Presidential candidate ...

Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 1:30:48 pm
The National Science Foundation has concluded yet another investigation into the work of climate scientist Michael Mann (creator of the famous "hockey stick" temperature graph you see above), whose research and personal character have been targeted in a years-long, relentless smear campaign by energy industry front groups and the right ...

Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 9:59:39 am
Creationist Republican candidate Rick Perry's book "Fed Up" argues that nearly every federal social program is unconstitutional, and a month ago he was proudly signing copies and recommending that people read it. But suddenly, since entering the Presidential race, Perry is disavowing the whole book: Rick Perry Is Less 'Fed Up' ...

Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:24:04 pm
Here's a good piece by Frank Schaeffer, who has a former insider's perspective on the extreme religious ideology followed by Michele and Marcus Bachmann: Are Michele Bachmann's Views About 'Christian Submission' Even More Extreme Than She's Letting On? The issue of wifely submission is at the heart of the entire ...

Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 10:31:42 am
In an interview for ABC News, Jon Huntsman called out his Republican opponents for rejecting the science of evolution and climate change. Tapper asked, "Were you just being cheeky or do you think there's a serious problem with what Governor Perry said?" Huntsman's response: "I think there's a serious problem. ...

Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:00:11 pm
Here's a good piece by Dana Goldstein on the Republican Party's shift toward the anti-government, anti-education agenda epitomized by Michele Bachmann: The GOP'S New War on Schools. Bachmann stands at the forefront of the GOP's shifting allegiances on education. Like many female elected officials before her, she first got involved ...

Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:27:43 am
It's always fun when right wing bloggers encounter a story about scientists doing what scientists do, and promptly turn into a mob of shrieking monkeys flinging poo at something they don't understand. Today, nearly the entire right wing blogosphere is moronically piling onto a story from the Guardian about a research ...

Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:14:34 am
It's pathetic and sad (not to mention insane) that the default conservative position on the science of global warming is total denial of reality. But Texas Governor Rick Perry's taking the right wing anti-science meme even farther. Today in New Hampshire, Perry not only denied the existence of climate change, he ...

Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:40:00 pm
When anti-Muslim demagogues Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller want to make sure their explicit enemies list gets seen by as many borderline crazy right wingers as possible, they turn to Andrew Breitbart's "Big Government" website: The AFDI Threats to Freedom Index - Big Government. It's a list of almost every well-known ...

Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:54:34 am
(Credit: Gus 802.)At LGF we've been following the career of Texas Governor Rick Perry for years, often focusing on one of his "achievements" that has so far mostly eluded the mainstream media: Perry is undoubtedly the most determined, persistent, and outrageously overt creationist in the Republican Party, and arguably one ...

Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 7:24:11 pm
Anti-Muslim demagogue Pamela Geller paid close attention to the White House Ramadan dinner, because that's how the creeping shariah gets in. And she noticed that President Obama actually HONORED THE SACRIFICES THAT MUSLIM AMERICANS MADE ON 911!!!! The horror! Geller also notes: the Muslims killed in New York on 9/11/2001 were ...

Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:31:05 am
Republican Indiana state Rep. Phillip Hinkle recently voted for an amendment to the state constitution that would ban gay marriage. And now he's the latest in a long line of anti-gay Republican politicians who turn out to be gay. Emails shared with The Indianapolis Star suggest that state Rep. Phillip Hinkle ...

Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:24:42 am
Here's an excellent opinion piece by Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, calling on Americans to shout down the Sharia myth makers. NEW YORK (JTA) -- The threat of the infiltration of Sharia, or Islamic law, into the American court system is one of the more pernicious conspiracy theories to ...

Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:40:17 am
Shame on Whole Foods Markets for giving in to pressure from raving bigots like Debbie Schlussel, and canceling their promotion of Ramadan: Whole Foods: 'We Should Not Highlight Ramadan'. Under pressure from right-wing bloggers who blindly associate Ramadan and Muslims with terrorism and burqas, Whole Foods has sent an email ...

Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 3:24:15 pm
The Tea Party's activists in Congress aren't finished with America yet; their next target for destruction is the Environmental Protection Agency. Congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann doesn't want to wait for extinction, she advocates abolishing the EPA as soon as God puts the Tea Party in charge. She blames ...

Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:18:21 am
Yesterday in Iowa, fanatic Michele Bachmann attended a church service in which the pastor spewed hatred at gay people, and promoted the "ex-gay" therapy that Bachmann and her husband Marcus have been denying they support: Bachmann attends church service denouncing homosexuality. WAUKEE, IA –- Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann yesterday ...