Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:28:19 am
During the 2008 Presidential election one of my main concerns about Barack Obama was that he would take a soft line toward the Hamas terrorist gang. And there were reasons to be concerned; to name just a couple, Obama was closely acquainted with several well-known Palestinian advocates in the US, ...

Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:26:24 am
Orly Taitz, queen bee of the Birther movement at the Nashville Tea Party Convention, uncorks some classic paranoid fantasies in this video clip; Obama has 39 Social Security numbers, according to Taitz, one of them issued to a man born over 100 years ago. “So what,” you might say. “Any random ...

Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 12:07:55 pm
There are reports that the Tea Party Convention organizers are planning a press conference today to denounce Birtherism, after Joseph Farah’s speech last night. It seems a little late to start worrying about it, the day after the keynote speaker unleashed a full-on paranoid Birther rant to a cheering audience and ...

Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 6:40:55 pm
Joseph Farah of World Net Daily gives us a preview of his speech to the First National Tea Party Convention: What I’ll say today at 1st Tea Party Convention. Here’s a sneak peak at what I will be talking about in my keynote address to the first National Tea Party ...

Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:34:48 am
Andrew Breitbart has turned his “Big Journalism” website into an amazingly lengthy tirade demanding “retractions” from practically every media organization in America, for writing about the Max Blumenthal-One People’s Project report that claimed ACORN sting filmmaker James O’Keefe was photographed at a “white supremacist forum” in 2006. There have been some ...

Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:38:08 am
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has changed his opinion on allowing gays to serve openly in the military, and said today that he favors repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ “In the almost 17 years since the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ legislation was passed, attitudes and circumstances have changed,” ...

Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:45:14 pm
One of the world’s foremost right wing climate change deniers, Marc Morano, appears on the radio show of one of the world’s foremost raving conspiracy kooks, 9/11 Truther Alex Jones — and it’s exactly where he belongs. Marc Morano on Alex Jones Tv 1/4: NASA Scientist Demands End to Industrial Society! Also ...

Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:29:49 pm
Redstate.com, home to some of the most extreme far right bloggers on the web, the site whose CEO infamously called Justice Souter a “goat-f*cking child molester,” has announced that they will be in charge of vetting and approving the bloggers for this year’s CPAC, which seems completely appropriate: We’ve got ...

Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:31:41 am
Former TV weatherman Anthony Watts has been engaged in an ongoing attack on the reliability of the US network of surface weather stations, claiming that poor placement of the stations has resulted in data that’s biased toward the warm side. Watts set up the website SurfaceStations.org to coordinate photographic evidence ...

Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:38:41 pm
In many ways I have an enormous amount of respect for Dennis Prager; unlike some of his fellow talk radio hosts, he gets deep into the issues, and for the most part refrains from demagoguery. And he and I have many things in common, particularly an understanding of the danger ...

Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:08:17 am
The Hatewatch blog has a report on this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), probably the most extreme right wing version of the event ever held, featuring creationists, Birthers, nativists, militias, Glenn Beck, the re-ascendant wackos of the John Birch Society — and many top Republican politicians: Conspiracy Central: Beck, ...

Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:59:52 pm
It’s odd reading all these articles about me, all of a sudden, and even odder to read the blog posts. Kind of like seeing movies about yourself written from hundreds of different viewpoints, some of them taking the angle that you’re the most despicable creature to walk the earth since ...

Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:07:56 pm
If you’re a twofisted, spineless progressive (a mighty fashionable stance nowadays) Offissa Pupp, who forcefully asserts the will of socalled society, becomes a cosmic angel; while Ignatz Mouse, who forcefully defies society’s socalled will by asserting his authentic own, becomes a demon of anarchy and a fiend of chaos. But ...

Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:53:16 am
We haven’t heard from former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad for a while, but he’s back in the news today with a whacked out pronouncement to a pro-Palestinian conference that equals or surpasses his other freakazoid statements: If US Could Create ‘Avatar’, It Could Fake 9/11 Attacks. Malaysia’s former premier ...

Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:04:21 pm
In today’s outrageous outrage, tu quoque specialists everywhere are faking outrageous outrage over remarks made by leftist actor Danny Glover in a phone interview. The screaming was so high-pitched I was motivated to check out the video recording: [Video] This is the section being pulled out of context: The threat of what ...

Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:10:24 pm
A stunning image of the sand dunes near the North Pole of Mars, from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera: Phil Plait explains what you’re seeing: But what are those weird tendril thingies? In the Martian winter, carbon dioxide freezes out of the air (and you thought it was cold where you ...

Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:01:08 am
A great piece at the New York Times by Dennis Overbye looks at the latest research from the Hubble Space Telescope’s new Wide Field Camera 3, which is recording images from a time ever closer to the beginning of the universe itself: With Updated Hubble Telescope, Reaching Farther Back in ...

Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:02:25 am
The Port of Morehead City in North Carolina has been evacuated, and evacuation warnings have gone out to residents in downtown Morehead City after containers full of the powerful explosive PETN (the same explosive allegedly carried by the Christmas Day attacker) were punctured: UPDATE 1-East US port shut, evacuated in ...

Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:57:49 am
At True/Slant, Barrett Brown has been getting into it with wingnut blogger Donald Douglas, and the story of Douglas’s latest attempt to defend the white supremacist connections of Robert Stacy McCain has some amusing turns. Brown has put up two posts that should be read in order for the full effect: Seven ...

Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:27:21 pm
Or, “Why I parted ways with the right, exhibit J for ‘John Birch Society.’” 2009 JBS.org Year in Review. There’s good news and there’s bad news as we review our online progress during 2009. But the good news borders on “great,” so why not start there? The great news is that it’s ...

Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 10:11:18 am
Muslims, Arabs, and Nigerians in the Detroit area held a demonstration yesterday outside the courthouse where Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was arraigned, to speak out against terrorism. Major LGF kudos to them. Detroit — Muslims, Arab-Americans and Nigerian-Americans stood together Friday outside the federal courthouse downtown to speak out against terrorism ...

Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:34:00 pm
Chris Cillizza has a bit about Sarah Palin’s decision to attend the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, but not CPAC 2010, at The Fix: Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s decision to attend — and speak at — the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans in April transforms ...

Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:51:40 pm
Hi everyone! Sarah here… Ya know, isn’t it just great how awesome Americans are taking charge of schools this way? This is a great movement in America, and it just makes me so proud to be a Conservative American! You know, lots of left-wing stuff gets taught to our kids at school ...

Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:33:18 pm
In his new radio ads for the US Senate campaign in Arizona, John McCain is using the kind of language he spoke out against in 2008, and pretty obviously making an appeal to the tea party crowd. “President Obama is leading an extreme left-wing crusade to bankrupt America. I stand ...

Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:50:14 am
He spreads End Times craziness and has guests who suggest Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the Antichrist. He constantly predicts that the end of America is imminent. He asserts that President Obama is a “racist with a deep-seated hatred of white culture.” He says President Obama is part of a decades long ...