Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:47:20 pm
Concertina wire could be installed on the border fence to the east and west of downtown Nogales, much to the chagrin of the city council. The wire, made of razor-sharp blades attached to coiled metal strands, was installed on the fence separating San Diego and Tijuana five years ago and ...

Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:26:24 am
Perhaps you've been flooded with reports from across the Pond that the Royals have a new progeny. The media outlets have been 24/7 with coverage about Princess Kate being in labor and giving birth to a baby boy. But that's not nearly as newsworthy as what happened in a dusty and ...

Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:46:31 am
This came to my attention via Wonkette, so credit is due for that, and also for her explanation of sizzurp, which is something I'm clueless about. NB: I have included links for purpose of citation. I do not recommend going to any of them, except Wonkette. As per an article released ...

Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 3:58:39 pm
Twitter gossip, not earth-shaking but pretty revealing: as Glenn Greenwald was lashing out tonight at everyone who expressed even the mildest criticism, he reacted to a tweet from Daniel Serwer of peacefare.net in his customary way. @DanielSerwer @wikileaks Edward Snowden has done far more for the world in the last 2 ...

Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:33:04 am
You want to regulate our ovaries, uteri and order us to carry state-mandated children? Well, fine. We want to regulate your erectile dysfunction. That's the message of state Democratic Senator Nina Turner's erectile dysfunction bill in Ohio (SB307). The bill is meant to inflict the same sort of humiliation and ...

Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:18:48 pm
As we wait to find out whether the Texas Republican Party is going to pull a fast one and push through a vote against their own rules, here's an open thread to continue the discussion... Sen. Jane Nelson says her "heart is breaking" and she is ashamed of the display by ...

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 ...

Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 11:44:35 am
The former CIA employee who handed over NSA documents to Glenn Greenwald has outed himself. He's so concerned about the horrible United States that he fled... to China. On May 20, he boarded a flight to Hong Kong, where he has remained ever since. He chose the city because "they have ...

Sun, May 26, 2013 at 10:42:33 am
Yesterday, the Dumbest Man on the Internet, Jim "Gateway Pundit" Hoft, flew into a shrieking rage about a Democratic fundraising letter that said: DERP"At one Tea Party rally this week, mobs chanted "Waterboard Obama, Waterboard Hillary!" At another, radicals waved signs with Nazi symbols." Hoft posted two rants about this fundraising ...

Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:16:49 pm
Meanwhile, Breitbart.com just keeps churning out the outrage fodder for the conservative religionists, with this ridiculous distorted article entitled: PENTAGON MAY COURT MARTIAL SOLDIERS WHO SHARE CHRISTIAN FAITH!!! We notice that this silly piece of agit-prop is credited to a certain Ken Klukowski, whose name we haven't noticed at Breitbart "News" ...

Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:08:30 am
He's still in serious condition and unable to speak, but Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is providing investigators with a wealth of information about the plot already. The 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has told interrogators that the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan motivated him and his ...

Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:53:04 am
Former South Carolina GOP executive director Todd Kincannon shows his support for the US military in a tweet about Iraq War veteran and anti-war activist Mike Prysner, demonstrating once again that special mean-spirited hatefulness so beloved of the American right wing: .@mikeprysner You are an Iraq veteran? Shame you didn't come ...

Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:11:30 pm
Grievance-mongering is a huge part of Bill O'Reilly's (and Fox News's) snake oil sales pitch, and since the War on Christmas is now out of season, he's moving smoothly on to the next silly fake outrage: O'Reilly Declares Victory in 'War on Christmas,' Joins Fox's 'War on Easter'. O'REILLY: More ...

Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:00:29 pm
Michele Catalano used to have a blog named "A Small Victory," always one of my favorites back in the early days of LGF because of her excellent writing, and she's done a terrific piece for Medium.com on the "warbloggers" and her personal awakening that the Bush administration's rationale for the ...

Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:15:16 am
This week, conspiracy hounds of the internet were set alight by a rumor that President Obama has ordered "2,700 Light-Armored Tanks" for the Department of Homeland Security. Leading the charge was Jim Hoft who runs the blog Gateway Pundit: Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion ...

Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:54:09 pm
The legacy of George W. Bush's Iraq adventure continues to be a drag on the US economy, with very little to show for it: Too Much Money Spent in Iraq for Too Few Results. Ten years and $60 billion in American taxpayer funds later, Iraq is still so unstable and ...

Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 8:19:21 pm
Based on the book: Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War by David Corn and Michael Isikoff. MSNBC Video MSNBC Video MSNBC Video MSNBC Video MSNBC Video MSNBC Video

Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:06:00 am
Yes, the bigwigs of the GOP got together in Charlotte last week and decided that nothing's wrong, they just need to stop saying dumb things. Victory is within their grasp, if they can just find the right shoe polish. CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Republican Party honchos who huddled here for ...

Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:53:27 pm
I hadn't looked at Pamela Geller's site in a while, but I just did, and wow. She's always been a swivel-eyed loon, but the hate is just off the charts now. Non-stop rage and bigotry. Really ugly stuff. One of her latest crazed posts defends the leader of the fascist English ...

Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:53:13 am
This didn't take long; Cantor obviously had his attack ready to go: Eric Cantor: Hagel Is the Wrong Man for the Job. "I am profoundly concerned and disappointed by President Obama's nomination of former Senator Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense. Recent reporting has made clear that Senator Hagel's ...

Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:52:19 pm
American Family Association caveman Bryan Fischer is extremely upset today about the victory of Satan's demonic ideology. In other words, the usual. Take it away, Bryan.

Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:35:09 am
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Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 1:39:29 pm
Well, it's Monday, which means it's time for another huge outburst of hatred and anger from the weird world of wingnuts. Like any other day. This time it's kicked off by the always enraged Breitbart.com, where blogger Christian Toto is clutching his pearls over South Korean pop star Psy (of "Gangnam ...

Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:42:38 pm
Stuart Stevens was the Big Kahuna for the Mitt Romney campaign, and his opinion piece today in the Washington Post is a fitting epitaph, demonstrating again the absolutely tone deaf nature of Romney's pitch: Mitt Romney: A Good Man. the Right Fight. Stevens is mainly concerned with shoring up his reputation, ...

Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:52:49 pm
Of course it was already blazingly obvious, but today the Palm Beach Post reports that former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist says new early voting regulations were specifically designed by the Republican Party to suppress Democratic votes. A new Florida law that contributed to long voter lines and caused some to ...