Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:11:16 am
The Southern Poverty Law Center has updated its list of anti-gay hate groups, and if you've been reading LGF you'll recognize the names of many of these organizations: 18 Anti-Gay Groups and Their Propaganda. Even as some well-known anti-gay groups like Focus on the Family moderate their views, a hard ...

Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 6:36:28 pm
At Religion Dispatches, Julie Ingersoll has an excellent post on the extreme fundamentalist sect known as "Christian Reconstructionism" and its influence on the modern libertarian movement's call to destroy the Federal Reserve: Better Dead Than ‘Fed’: Behind Palin’s Dig at ‘Unbiblical’ Fed. While Ron Paul’s anti-Fed crusade is widely thought ...

Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:04:54 am
Q: How can you tell which Republican politicians are not global warming deniers? A: They're the ones who aren't in office. Former Republican Representative from New York Sherwood Boehlert had an excellent piece in the Washington Post this Friday about the issue: Can the party of Reagan accept the science of climate ...

Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:16:58 am
A new study shows that Arizona's anti-immigrant law has so far cost the state more than $140 million in lost revenue. A boycott of Arizona in the wake of a controversial immigration law has cost the state more than $140 million in lost meeting and convention business, a new report ...

Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:26:59 pm
Andrew Sullivan notes that an anti-Obama rant currently posted at Rush Limbaugh's site contains this lovely image: A quote from the accompanying text: This guy is an utter wrecking ball all by himself on the world stage to the point now of getting embarrassing. This presidency of Obama's, it doesn't take ...

Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:41:52 am
Tea Party Republican Andy Harris wants his government health care and he wants it now. He's special, you see; not like the rest of the American population. A conservative Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-Obamacare platform surprised fellow freshmen at a Monday orientation session by demanding to know ...

Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:52:14 am
It was only a few years ago that Republicans were screaming "traitor!" at anyone who tried to undermine the office of the Presidency in such a blatant manner: Rep. Eric Cantor Tells Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu: New GOP Majority Will 'Serve As A Check On The Administration'. NEW YORK -- Rep. ...

Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 3:16:56 pm
Since Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed the anti-evolution "Louisiana Science Education Act," the sponsors of this law have been oddly silent; but now the other shoes are starting to drop, as a group of citizens backed by the Christian Louisiana Family Forum (there's that "family" word again) are attacking the ...

Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:24:23 am
Ladies and gentlemen, meet the man who has a very good chance of becoming head of the House Energy and Commerce Committee: Illinois Republican John Shimkus, a religious fanatic who believes we don't need to worry about global warming because the Bible says the Earth won't be destroyed by a ...

Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:57:24 pm
Glenn Beck has been on a really over the top hate campaign against George Soros this week, and today the Anti-Defamation League weighed in on Beck's false claims about Soros's childhood: Glenn Beck's Remarks About Soros And The Holocaust 'Completely Inappropriate and Offensive'. New York, NY, November 11, 2010 ... ...

Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:07:10 am
As I've noted many times at LGF, anti-Muslim bloggers Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer are both big boosters of the violent British xenophobic gang called the English Defence League. One of their often-repeated excuses for supporting this group is that they are "pro-Israel." They rely on Americans' general ignorance of UK ...

Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 3:14:05 pm
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie joins the rest of the Republican Party in promoting anti-science ignorance: Gov. Christie says he's skeptical that global warming is caused by humans. TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie says he's skeptical that humans are responsible for global warming. .. Asked by a man attending the event ...

Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:27:28 pm
A federal judge in Oklahoma City has issued a temporary restraining order against the Republican-sponsored measure to ban shariah. The order stays in effect until a hearing on November 22. This news isn't really a surprise; as we noted yesterday this constitutional amendment is riddled with logical problems and overly broad. ...

Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:35:56 pm
I wonder what brand of champagne they're drinking tonight at John Birch Society headquarters? They really are the comeback story of the last two years. Not long ago, associations with the Birchers would have been the political kiss of death. Now they're everywhere in the GOP. The resurrection of the John Birch ...

Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:59:10 pm
In the non-stop deluge of Obama Derangement Syndrome that pours daily out of the right wing blogosphere, one site regularly stands out for its excessive, extravagant dim-wittedness. One blog is a beacon of stupidity, a shining symbol of what can be achieved by an illiterate religious fanatic boiling with crazed ...

Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:06:20 am
Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller was picked as one of Forward Magazine's 50 men and women who made an impact on the "Jewish story" in the past year, and the Forward editors correctly identify her as a bigot, a liar, and a raving kook: Forward 50 — The 2010 List. In ...

Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:37:36 pm
The Republican Party's attack on the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment has gone into high gear in this election. All the GOP candidates are sounding like Pat Robertson. Now anti-wanking candidate Christine O'Donnell's campaign manager, Jonathon Moseley, is offering a $1000 "bounty" to anyone who can find the exact phrase ...

Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:09:22 pm
The story behind the murder of Dr. George Tiller is chilling indeed, perhaps mainly for what it reveals of the extensive support network of anti-abortion extremists who enable these religiously motivated acts of terrorism. [Video]

Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:28:50 pm
The New York Times' John M. Broder points out that climate change "doubt" (it's actually categorical denial) is a Tea Party article of faith. It's true, of course, but it's only one ingredient in the potpourri of bad craziness that is the Tea Party. At bottom, climate change denialism is part ...

Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:48:05 pm
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Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:04:04 pm
I nearly resorted to four letter words to describe the sheer blinding idiocy of Glenn Beck's moronic rant against evolution. Deliberately ignorant anti-science boneheaded throwback stupidity, from the Fox News raving freakazoid nut sandwich. Video I don't know why it's unreasonable to say this. I'm not God so I don't know how ...

Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:43:12 am
At Salon, Alex Pareene points out that anti-wanking GOP candidate Christine O'Donnell is proudly touting the endorsement of one of the craziest and most bigoted right wing bloggers: Christine O'Donnell advertises endorsement from bigot blogger Pamela Geller. Pamela Geller, the main instigator in this summer's anti-mosque frenzy, is a bigoted ...

Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:13:40 am
Yesterday, in a debate at Widener University Law School before an audience of legal scholars and law students, Christine O'Donnell reiterated her position that local public schools should teach young earth creationism in science classes. Which is bad enough. But in trying to support her ludicrous anti-science position, O'Donnell revealed her shocking ...

Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:13:46 pm
Anti-choice fanatic right wingers in Colorado are promoting the bizarre misogynistic "personhood" bill that would grant full human rights to zygotes. They see it as the first step to complete criminalization of abortion in the United States. Here's the latest video ad produced by these throwbacks, full of lies and fear ...

Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:03:53 am
If you've read anything by Robert Spencer, you already know that he will blatantly lie when cornered. Today he responds to my piece for the Guardian, with a ridiculous article that calls Pamela Geller a defamed freedom fighter. Spencer leaves out all the childish insults that he normally posts at his ...