Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 11:56:32 am
One of the most contentious and controversial policies of the Obama administration has been the use of drones against terror suspects in foreign countries, and today Secretary of State John Kerry said the US is planning to stop drone strikes in Pakistan. During a television interview Thursday, Secretary of State ...

Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:39:58 pm
Remember the last time the religious right in Texas tried to sneak Christian creationism into public school science classes? Well, they're back. Actually, they never went away, and the Republican anti-science religious fanatics on the State Board of Education are making another big play to influence the textbooks that teach American ...

Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:34:57 am
Pfc. Bradley Manning, who stole hundreds of thousands of classified documents and released them to Wikileaks, has been acquitted of "aiding the enemy" but convicted of multiple counts of espionage, and could still face an effective sentence of life in prison. Manning was convicted of 20 of the remaining 21 ...

Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 12:55:53 pm
On one level this is great news because everyone wants to see a resolution of some kind. But it's a bit difficult to get very hopeful after the last, oh, two decades or so: US Says Israeli-Palestinian Talks to Start Monday. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department says Israeli and ...

Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 10:40:14 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujYfbuK t22o Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said she was "banned" from certain talking points while running alongside Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on the Republican ticket in the 2008 election. Palin criticized the media for "ingratiating themselves with [Obama] and vice versa" and trying to "destroy these whistleblowers" who were talking ...

Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:54:56 pm
At LGF we've noted many times the curious phenomenon of the Unison Wingnut Chorus -- the almost instantaneous coordination of talking points throughout the right wing blogs and media. And of course, there's nothing spontaneous about it; like good little authoritarians, wingnut bloggers and journalists are following directions from a ...

Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:16:23 pm
My hometown, the city where I was born & raised, the region where I still live and work, has filed for bankruptcy. This is the first time that a major American city has fallen. Here is a sample of the celebration on Twitter of self-proclaimed "patriotic Americans." These wingnuts also do not ...

Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:19:26 pm
YouTube The Nation's George Zornick reports: Ugly Opposition to Immigration Reform Comes Back to Capitol Hill. Ken Crow, who used to be president of Tea Party of America until he bungled logistics of a Sarah Palin speech and is now affiliated with Tea Party Community, got up and started talking ...

Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 7:57:20 am
More: Rand Paul Stands by His 'Southern Avenger' WASHINGTON –- In an interview with The Huffington Post, Sen. Rand Paul stoutly defended an aide who, as a radio shock jock in South Carolina, praised John Wilkes Booth, heaped scorn on Abraham Lincoln and wore a ski mask emblazoned with the ...

Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:47:35 pm
She's part of a distraction from the fact that Secretary of State John Kerry was on his boat while the military coup ousting the Muslim Brotherhood from power in Egypt was taking place. Below, Glenn reveals the truth Barack Hussein Obama and his willing accomplices in the press don't want you ...

Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 12:54:44 pm
In a definite sign that it would be a very bad idea for the US to suspend aid to Egypt, John McCain calls for the US to suspend aid to Egypt. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) called the ouster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi a coup d'etat and pressed the Obama ...

Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 3:32:45 pm
Posted without comment: Statement From Edward Snowden in Moscow. One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others who ...

Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 2:20:17 pm
So this happened today: GOP Leaders Warn Pro Sports Leagues Not to Promote Obamacare. Senate Republican leaders have sent letters warning six professional sports leagues not to provide the Obama administration any assistance in promoting Obamacare. The letters, dated June 27, warn the chiefs of the National Football League, Major League ...

Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:27:17 am
The Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act on Tuesday, the provision of the landmark civil rights law that designates which parts of the country must have changes to their voting laws cleared by the federal government or in federal court. The 5-4 ruling, authored by ...

Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 11:03:10 am
YouTube Here's a great little encapsulation of the absurd counter-logical thinking of the Republican Party, as House Speaker John Boehner lets his anti-science freak flag fly and calls the President's climate change proposals "absolutely crazy." And his reason -- it will "destroy" jobs. We all know that the Republican Party is focused ...

Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 10:26:14 am
Throughout the ongoing NSA/PRISM scandal, one of the most incendiary accusations has been Glenn Greenwald's initial assertion that major tech companies such as Facebook, Apple, Google, and Microsoft were givng the US Government direct, unfiltered access to their servers. This access would allow the government to spy on people seemingly ...

Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:16:39 pm
At The New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin has a must-read piece on NSA leaker Edward Snowden and the misguided attempt to make him into a "hero:" Edward Snowden, the N.S.A. Leaker, Is No Hero. Edward Snowden, a twenty-nine-year-old former C.I.A. employee and current government contractor, has leaked news of National Security ...

Sat, May 25, 2013 at 6:58:35 pm
This week, the new Pope Francis raised quite a ruckus when he said: "The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone," the pope told worshipers at morning Mass on Wednesday. "'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. ...

Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:57:09 pm
We've got a new version of the LGF Pages bookmarklet today, with better browser compatibility and a new feature: when you open the bookmarklet on any page at the NPR website that has a "download" link for their MP3 audio, the bookmarklet will sense its presence and automatically create the ...

Sat, May 25, 2013 at 10:46:48 am
So what's the wingnut parrot's chorus freaking out about today? A quick look at the right wing echo chamber reveals that they're all lathered up about this idiotic story from Weekly Standard fake outrage peddler Daniel Halper: OBAMA FAILS TO SALUTE MARINE! | the Weekly Standard Under gray skies and intermittent ...

Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:17:34 am
Amid all the scandals and freak-outs this week, Republicans are curiously silent about the Justice Department's raid on Associated Press records. Republican senators who have long been critics of Attorney General Eric Holder were noticeably muted on Tuesday when asked to respond to the news of the Justice Department seizing ...

Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:51:31 am
Byron York interviews Jason Richwine, who resigned from the Heritage Foundation when his ties to white nationalists and racist writings surfaced, and it will serve very nicely as an example of how deeply entrenched this kind of racism is in the Republican Party: A Talk With Jason Richwine: 'I Do ...

Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:21:12 pm
Jason Richwine, the Heritage Foundation analyst who published articles on a white nationalist website and was a co-author of Heritage's recent study on the economic impact of immigration, has resigned. Richwine also suggested in his Harvard thesis that America should discourage immigration by non-whites because their IQs are lower. An ...

Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:20:19 am
ABC News jumps into the shark tank and panders to the right wing base (hey, eyeballs are eyeballs) with an overheated report on the Benghazi talking points that emerged in the immediate aftermath of the attack on the CIA's outpost: Exclusive: Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror ...

Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:26:59 pm
Heritage Foundation Analyst Jason Richwine, the co-author of a study claiming the immigration reform bill pending in the Senate would cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion, wrote two articles in 2010 for a website founded by Richard Spencer, a self-described "nationalist" who writes frequently about race and against "the abstract notion ...