Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:39:45 pm
Just coming across the news sites now -- a suspect has been arrested in Houston in connection with the arson attack against an Islamic center. Houston arson investigators have made an arrest in the early morning fire Friday at an Islamic center on the city's southeast side, fire department officials ...

Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:10:22 am
Right wing media are already taking President Obama's comments at this morning's prayer breakfast out of context in order to play into the hateful attack that our President is a terrorist sympathizer who hates Christians. Hot Air accused the President of comparing Christianity to ISIS: Drudge went with the single out ...

Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 6:47:45 pm
YouTube Right wing loons are always demanding that Muslims renounce terrorism and show their loyalty to the United States. And this is what happens when they do. Texas Muslim Capitol Day, which began in 2003, is organized by the Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and brings members of Muslim ...

Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 6:57:50 pm
Steve Emerson, who claims to be an Islam expert, was on Fox News spouting off bogus statistics about Muslims living in the UK. He claimed that Birmingham and other cities are majority Muslim and that non-Muslims can't go there (no-go zones). Steven Emerson, an American whose website describes him ...

Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:21:07 am
A major embarrassment for the Pentagon today, as apparent ISIS supporters took over the YouTube and Twitter accounts of CENTCOM. A group describing themselves as the "CyberCaliphate" apparently gained control of the official Twitter and YouTube pages of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on Monday and began posting messages supportive of ...

Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 1:24:23 pm
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo terror attack, anti-Muslim ranting at right wing blogs has reached an insane feverish pitch, totally out of control, and not a single blogger or commenter is denouncing it. It's off the scale; I've never seen it worse than this. For example, at Breitbart "News," ...

Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:18:17 am
As of this posting, there are at least two separate hostage standoff situations near Paris. One is at a kosher market (I've heard it referred to as a supermarket, deli, or grocery) on Ave Porte de Vincennes in the 13th Arr (that'd be Southeastern Paris). The other is near Charles ...

Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 5:30:46 pm
At the Washington Post, Erik Wemple reports that Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner is seeking the aid of Columbia Journalism School to do an independent audit of their botched story about rape at the University of Virginia: Rolling Stone Farms Out Review of U-Va. Rape Story to Columbia Journalism School. ...

Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:34:06 pm
Pope Francis is more pro-science and anti-superstition than most Republicans: Pope Francis Takes a Stand for Evolution, Against 'Magic Wands'. Social conservatives in the United States who've been unhappy with Pope Francis' moderation today have one more reason to be upset. Daniel Berger reported this afternoon: Pope Francis broke with Catholic ...

Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:43:12 am
The National Review brings us our absolutely vile right wing article of the day, as David Horowitz says, "Thank You, ISIS," for beheading people and posting the video --because according to Horowitz this will wake up Americans, make them truly hate all Muslims, and get us ready to kill, kill, ...

Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:45:31 am
DERPDutifully passing on some fear-mongering propaganda he picked up from (where else?) Fox News by way of Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter, the legendary Dumbest Man on the Internet, Jim Hoft, yells: US Lawmaker: Ten ISIS Fighters Have Been Apprehended Coming Across Southern Border (Video) | the Gateway Pundit Hoft thought this was ...

Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 5:49:36 pm
GOP Rep. Tom Cotton is running for the Senate in Arkansas, and he's the latest Republican to try to mash all the various right wing fear memes together into a hellish brew of paranoia. Immigration, terrorism, ISIS, human trafficking -- all that's missing is a chupacabra with Ebola: Tom Cotton: ...

Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 2:17:44 pm
The always disgusting hate group leader Pamela Geller has suffered a setback in her campaign to demonize all Muslims, as the family of James Foley (one of the journalists murdered by ISIS) strongly objects to Geller's use of their son's image in her ugly NYC subway advertisements, forcing her to ...

Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 1:20:29 pm
The entire right wing blogosphere is in a frenzy of anti-Muslim bigotry over this awful story out of Oklahoma: Suspect in Co-Worker's Beheading Was Recently Released From Probation. A 2010 booking photo of Alton Nolen from the Logan County Sheriff's Office in Oklahoma.A man suspected of beheading a woman he ...

Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 9:57:57 am
It's bizarre to watch the right wing news sites trying to settle on a way to spin President Obama's action against ISIS inside Syria; they alternate from hand-wringing fear that Obama isn't doin' it right, to attacking Obama for doin' it at all, to completely ignoring the fact that Obama ...

Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 7:40:25 pm
The US is reportedly launching airstrikes inside Syria tonight. Republicans are on vacation. Enjoy your time off. Hey, it sure looks like President Obama did have a strategy after all. Imagine that. — Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 23, 2014 Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the UAE are participating in the airsrikes in Syria. — Charles ...

Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:41:17 pm
The St. Louis County and Municipal Police Academy has responded to the uproar over their course on how to handle media after an officer-involved shooting, and the instructor says he's "outraged" that anyone would "read between the lines." Police Academy spokesman Brian Schellman sort of apologizes in the usual non-apology "if ...

Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 4:40:35 pm
Sometimes you get a glimpse into a separate subculture that shows you how incredibly removed from the ordinary person's experience its members are; for example, this new course being offered by the St. Louis County and Municipal Police Academy in the aftermath of the Michael Brown shooting, which promises to ...

Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:51:26 pm
YouTube Yes, folks, it's yet another ridiculous trumped up fake outrage, spreading like wildfire through right wing blogs and news sites. You can probably expect to see this on Fox News any minute if it hasn't shown up there already. This time the idiots are freaking out at the chairman of the ...

Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:37:44 am
SoundCloud On his radio show today,Family Research Council head Tony Perkins argued that separation of church and state has left the US without a "creedal vision," and if we want to prevail against Islamic extremist group ISIS we need to be more like them -- but the Christian version. Where there ...

Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:24:09 pm
Here's some common ground between America's religious right and the jihadis of ISIS: ISIS Bans Teaching Evolution in Schools. The new Mosul curriculum, allegedly issued by al-Baghdadi himself, stresses that any reference to the republics of Iraq or Syria must be replaced with "Islamic State." Pictures that violate its ultra-conservative ...

Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:03:33 pm
Gerald F. Seib. Photo from freshfiction.com The author of this column, published September 9th on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, is an award-winning journalist and author. Therefore I cannot attribute his writing here to sloppiness or factual cluelessness. I do not care to research his past work to ...

Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 6:54:08 am
I've written essentially the same opening each of the past few years. It's still appropriate to remember today, as it was when I first wrote this: September 11, 2001. New Yorkers were heading to the polls to vote in primary elections to determine the next mayor of the city. It ...

Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:07:29 am
This is wrong and just pisses me off, I can't watch it again. YouTube St. Paul Cops Allegedly Taser and Arrest Black Male for Sitting in Public Space | Twin Cities Daily Planet A video showing the arrest of a black St. Paul man for allegedly sitting in a public space and ...

Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:07:42 am
Over the weekend, President Obama issued the following press release on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, at the close of Ramadan: As Muslims throughout the United States and around the world celebrate Eid-al-Fitr, Michelle and I extend our warmest wishes to them and their families. This last month has been ...