Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:24:36 pm
I don't even know what to say about this sickening story: Idaho Woman Charged For Unlawful Abortion, Turned In By Anti-Choice Advocate. Unable to afford the doctors visits and medical bills associated with an actual medical abortion, Jennie L. McCormack of Idaho instead had her sister purchase drugs online to ...

Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:46:40 pm
Here's the real reason why the right wing knives are looking for Rep. Anthony Weiner's scalp: Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife received $150,000 from anti-health care reform group. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas released his new financial disclosure form on Friday under pressure from Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) and others. Mother Jones ...

Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:41:36 am
War criminal Ratko Mladic was arrested yesterday in Serbia, where he was hiding from justice under an assumed name. Time's Mark Benjamin has this excerpt from Mladic's indictment, with horrifying details of his massacre of thousands of Muslim prisoners. Between 12 July and about 20 July 1995, thousands of Bosnian ...

Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:12:19 am
Yes, it's beginning to look like the icon of modern conservatism (intellectually incurious, anti-science, fanatically religious, and terminally xenophobic) is going to run for President after all. Damn the polls -- full speed ahead!

Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:42:30 am
The GOP's war on women's reproductive rights is the story at LGF today; here's another piece of disturbing news, as House Republicans pass a bill that will ban the use of federal funds to train health professionals in abortion-related services: Lawmakers Inject Anti-Abortion Politics into Yet Another Bill. Nancy Keenan, ...

Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:52:02 am
In one of the most glaring examples of Republican Party cognitive dissonance, the GOP is positioning itself as the only true American friend of Israel -- but at the same time, moving more and more toward the pseudo-libertarian anti-Israel politics of Ron Paul and his son Rand, who strongly advocate ...

Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:54:43 am
What the hell is wrong with these people? Kansas GOP legislator (and associate pastor) Pete DeGraaf, while arguing in favor of yet another insanely restrictive anti-abortion bill and against allowing abortions for rape victims, actually compared getting pregnant from rape to getting a flat tire. Rep. Pete DeGraaf, a Mulvane Republican ...

Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:23:57 am
He's rabidly anti-gay, a climate change denier, and is in favor of letting schools teach creationism as science, and Tim Pawlenty announced today that he's running for President in the Republican Party. He'll fit right in. Meanwhile, in what may be a subtle commentary, his hometown newspaper ran the story of ...

Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:00:10 am
DERPThe densest right wing blogger on the web, Jim "Dim" Hoft, keeps finding new ways to excel at his chosen pastime of making a complete fool of himself in public. Today he live-hateblogged the President's address to AIPAC: OBAMA BOOED AT AIPAC (Video) | The Gateway Pundit They just introduced Barack ...

Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:57:01 pm
A USA Today editorial makes an excellent point about the Republican Party's default anti-science stance, comparing climate change deniers to Birthers. Late last week, the nation's pre-eminent scientific advisory group, the National Research Council arm of the National Academy of Sciences, issued a report called "America's Climate Choices." As scientific ...

Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:21:42 pm
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is suddenly dodging the question of whether he's a creationist. And the reason is no mystery. If he's considering a run for the GOP nomination and he doesn't personally believe the Earth is 6,000 years old, it's vital for him to avoid the question -- because ...

Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:14:49 am
Sure, half-governor Sarah Palin is jumping on the mind-bogglingly stupid right wing bandwagon and taking shots at the White House for inviting rapper Common to last night's poetry event. Did you think she wouldn't? But she wants us all to know that she's down with the kids and their raps, homey-G. ...

Sun, May 8, 2011 at 11:14:21 am
Florida governor Rick Scott has a full plate of far right legislation to sign; the Tea Party is taking Florida as far back as they can, while they've got a dedicated loon in office. In addition to drug testing welfare recipients, Scott is also expected to sign a bill that will ...

Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:59:15 pm
Politifact notes that by hunting down and killing Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, President Obama was fulfilling one of his controversial campaign promises: The Obameter: We will kill bin Laden - Promise kept. During the 2008 campaign, then candidate Barack Obama pledged several times that he would act to capture ...

Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:29:45 am
At FrumForum, Noah Kristula-Green and Tim Mak ask the poignant question: Why is Pawlenty On Stage With These Crazy People? Their premise is that Tim Pawlenty is the only really electable candidate out of the extremist loons who participated in last night's GOP debate. Which is just ludicrous, of course, because Pawlenty's ...

Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:27:20 pm
A New York Daily News anti-Obama article is spreading rapidly across the right wing blog echo chamber: Bush feels Obama ignoring ex-president's role in Osama Bin Laden strike for 'victory lap': source. The article by Thomas DeFrank quotes an unnamed "highly placed source" who says President Bush feels Obama is ...

Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:04:51 pm
Andrew Breitbart's "Big Peace" is his anti-Islam site, run by Frank "Sharia Is Taking Over America" Gaffney and featuring an all-star cast of far right Muslim-hating loons. And today, they're getting out in front of the news by demanding proof that Osama bin Laden is dead: Display Bin Laden’s Body At ...

Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:03:03 am
In Oklahoma, Republicans in the House of Representatives have passed a proposed constitutional amendment that eliminates affirmative action in state government, a move that's completely typical for today's GOP, where the bad old racists are coming out of the shadows everywhere. Republican Sally Kern explained the reasoning behind this amendment: ‘Blacks’ ...

Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:32:56 am
MEGA DERPOf all the right wing conspiracy loons who promote the Birther garbage, few are as persistently idiotic and ridiculous as Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller. For a while Birtherism actually vied with anti-Muslim bigotry for space at her site, which shows you how important it is to her. In countless posts, ...

Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:03:51 pm
The completely fake "Obama Hates Easter" wingnut meme is really starting to catch on! The latest eager promoter of this idiocy is the American Family Association, home of the deranged Bryan Fischer, where they never let a good anti-Christian persecution-mongering story go to waste, especially when it can be mixed ...

Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:19:02 am
The top-priced law firm retained by the Republican Party and John Boehner to defend the religious right's anti-gay "Defense of Marriage Act" is bailing out. King and Spalding Chairman Robert D. Hays, Jr., whose partner Paul Clement was to lead the defense, said in a statement through a spokesman, Les ...

Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 3:11:38 pm
Franklin Graham, who's notorious for his anti-Muslim bigotry (recently he said that Barack Obama was tainted by "the seed of Islam"), told Christiane Amanpour today that Donald Trump might be his candidate of choice. The Rev. Franklin Graham, whose family has served as spiritual advisers to numerous prominent political figures, ...

Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:45:03 pm
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Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:26:32 am
President Obama kicked the right wing hornet's nest again today, with a long overdue jab at 'climate change deniers'. "There are climate change deniers in Congress and when the economy gets tough, sometimes environmental issues drop from people’s radar screens,” Obama continued, speaking at the home of Salesforce.com CEO Marc ...

Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:13:37 am
To prop up the religious right's homophobic "Defense of Marriage Act," House Speaker John Boehner has retained one of the most expensive law firms in the country: REVEALED: Boehner’s High-Priced Lawyer Is Charging the American Taxpayer $520 Per Hour. This is the Republican idea of fiscal responsibility. No amount of money ...