Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 9:50:44 am
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has apparently decided he's not going down without murdering a lot of people. Snipers shot protesters, artillery and helicopter gunships were used against crowds of demonstrators, and thugs armed with hammers and swords attacked families in their homes as the Libyan regime sought to crush the uprising. "Dozens ...

Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:32:50 pm
It used to be that only the most extreme Operation Rescue types would advocate forcing raped women to bear their attackers' babies, or denying women abortions even if it endangers their lives. Now it's standard Fox News propaganda, brought to you by anti-abortion wacko Lila Rose and raving freakazoid Glenn Beck, ...

Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:51:10 am
Salon's Joan Walsh points out that while left-wing journalist Nir Rosen was correctly denounced by everyone for his crude comments about assaulted reporter Lara Logan (and he then apologized and resigned from his job at NYU), right wing bloggers like Jim Hoft, Pamela Geller, and Robert Stacy McCain are getting ...

Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:17:25 pm
Here's a review of Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's crude anti-Muslim movie “The Ground Zero Mosque: Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks,” at the SPLC blog: Pamela Geller’s New Film: The Next Wave of Anti-Muslim Propaganda. The “seminal, ground-breaking” film (as described on SIOA’s website) is intended to cast the ...

Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:39:52 pm
After several major conservative groups bailed out of CPAC 2011 over the inclusion of gay conservative group GOProud, it looks like CPAC's organizers have learned their lesson: New CPAC Chair says no to groups that support DADT repeal or gay marriage.

Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:48:30 am
In Wisconsin, Republican Governor Scott Walker's bill that would strip public employees of collective bargaining rights is due for a vote today by the full legislature, and large crowds have turned out to protest. I'm so glad to see the GOP focusing on the real problems in America: teacher's unions. The latest ...

Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:55:22 pm
The doctor who was supposed to be a replacement for the murdered Dr. George Tiller has backed out of providing abortion services in Wichita, Kansas, following a campaign of legal harassment, intimidation, and implied threats by the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue: Faced with lawsuit, Dr. Mila Means won't offer abortions ...

Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:50:48 am
The reaction of some right wing bloggers to the assault suffered by CBS News reporter Lara Logan is utterly repulsive. Some of these people are actually gloating over the attack. DERPJim "Dim" Hoft leads the pack with a stupidly offensive and ugly post that manages to pack bigotry, misogyny, and general ...

Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:23:02 am
It was bad enough when they tried to redefine rape, and worse when they tried to let pregnant women die rather than have abortions, but now the Republican Party in South Dakota is actually trying to pass a law that would legalize killing abortion providers. A law under consideration in ...

Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:31:14 pm
In June 2009 we first picked up on the story of Arizona anti-immigrant "activist" Shawna Forde, who was accused of leading a murderous home invasion gang that killed a man and his 9-year old daughter, and wounded the man's wife. Forde ran a group called Minutemen American Defense, whose website ...

Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:59:58 am
Years ago, I renounced the so-called "anti-jihad" blogosphere when it became obvious that the bigots were taking over, and that some people who'd been masquerading as rational critics of extremist Islam were in fact harboring an extremist agenda of their own -- giving lip service to the idea that not ...

Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 5:01:36 pm
See -- this is why conservatives can't have nice things. "It's a sad day in American history when a one-time conservative/libertarian stalwart has fallen more out of touch with America's needs for national security then our current socialist presidential regime," said the group's national director Jordan Marks. The dispute between Paul ...

Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:21:07 am
C-SPAN has a live video feed from CPAC; today's schedule includes creationist Republican Tim Pawlenty at 3 pm Eastern, followed by creationist libertarian Ron Paul at 3:30. At 4 pm, creationist Republican Rick Perry will speak, followed by creationist libertarian Herman Cain at 4:30. Also at 3 pm, anti-Muslim bloggers Robert ...

Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:22:41 am
The Republican Party put anti-Federal Reserve wingnut libertarian Ron Paul in charge of overseeing the Federal Reserve, and today, for his first hearing as chairman, he called one of his friends as a witness -- neo-Confederate slavery apologist Thomas J. DiLorenzo. Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul, one of the most ...

Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:29:10 am
LGF author freetoken has an excellent Page on Republican Presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty, the smiling, affable face of the extreme religious right, as he endorses the positions of yet another rabid anti-gay hate group with "family" in its name, The Family Leader: Pawlenty Boasts His Creationist, Anti-Gay Credentials In Iowa ...

Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:03:02 pm
Two more fronts have opened up in the Republican Party's open war on women's rights: In Ohio, a GOP Representative is introducing a bill that would redefine human life to begin as soon as a heartbeat is audible. State Rep. Lynn Wachtmann is planning to unveil the "Heartbeat Bill" and a ...

Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:58:01 am
Gail Collins has a good piece in the New York Times about the latest smears perpetrated by Lila Rose (and hyped by fraudster Andrew Breitbart) against Planned Parenthood. “Planned Parenthood aids and abets the sexual abuse and prostitution of minors,” announced Lila Rose, the beautiful anti-abortion activist who led the ...

Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:21:54 am
When the GOP made big gains in the 2010 midterm election, I predicted that we were going to see a full-out onslaught against women's rights -- and today we learned of the latest front in this misogynist war, as the religious right tries to redefine the word "preventive" in order ...

Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:13:22 am
It was bad enough when they tried to redefine rape, but a new bill introduced by Republican Congressman Joe Pitts with the Orwellian title "Protect Life Act" is truly obscene. This bill changes the requirement that emergency room doctors must try to save every patient, by creating a special exception for ...

Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 8:37:49 am
CBS News reports that Hosni Mubarak has resigned from Egypt's ruling party. CAIRO - State TV reports that President Hosni Mubarak has resigned from Egypt's ruling party. His son, Gamal Mubarak, and the National Democratic Party's secretary-general, Safwat el-Sharif, have also resigned, in a new gesture to protesters carrying out ...

Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:05:56 pm
Lately, the Wingnut TV Brigade has been working overtime. Earlier this week we had wacko anti-choice fanatic Lila Rose and her fake 'sting' video of Planned Parenthood - released after Planned Parenthood officials had already reported to the FBI that they suspected they were being set up by Rose and ...

Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:23:00 pm
Republican Thomas A. Anderson has introduced a bill to the New Mexico House of Representatives that will shield teachers who indoctrinate children with creationism and climate change denial. House Bill 302, as it’s called, states that public school teachers who want to teach “scientific weaknesses” about “controversial scientific topics” including ...

Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:50:46 pm
Signs of anti-government unrest are appearing throughout the Middle East, in places like Algeria, Yemen, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. This is an amazing moment in history.

Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:35:34 am
House Republicans were caught red-handed last week in a misogynistic plan to quietly redefine what qualifies as rape, in order to deny women federal funds for abortions. Now that they've been exposed for the heartless bastards they are, they're backing down. House Republicans plan to sidestep a charged debate over the ...

Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:59:51 pm
At fraudster Andrew Breitbart's "Big Government" tabloid site, the redoubtable Kristinn Taylor and Andrea Shea King come up with the looniest post yet on the situation in Egypt, a dimwitted conspiracy theory leading back, inevitably, as all wingnut conspiracy theories must, to Barack Obama: Did Muslim Brotherhood Learn ‘Day of ...