Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:42:19 pm
On his front page today, Rush Limbaugh has a prominent link to “Prison Planet,” the website of whacked out conspiracy freakazoid Alex Jones, titled: Algore Photoshops Fake Earth. And possibly even more ridiculous, Limbaugh says his “official climatologist” is Dr. Roy Spencer — a notorious climate change denier and creationist, who ...

Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:10:50 am
Sarah “I didn’t come from no monkey” Palin gets the ultimate soft ball interview from Rich Lowry at National Review: The Rogue, on the Record. When Lowry asks about her absurd fear-mongering “death panels” statement, she compares herself to … Ronald Reagan. You remember how Reagan called the Soviet Union the ...

Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:38:10 pm
Washington Times editor Wesley Pruden sums up Barack Obama in racially charged language, saying Obama has no “blood impulse” to be an American. This kind of stuff is becoming more and more open in “conservative” media. It’s no fault of the president that he has no natural instinct or blood impulse ...

Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:06:12 am
The Anti-Defamation League has released a detailed report on the increasing anger and hostility among the right wing, singling out many of the same personalities and issues on which LGF has been focusing recently. This is the index page with summaries of the main points: Rage Grows in America: Anti-Government ...

Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:50:57 am
On his first visit to Japan, one of America’s most valued allies, President Obama greets Emperor Akihito with a traditional bow and the right wing blogosphere completely loses it. Some of this stuff is blatantly racist too. A commenter at Hot Air gives his perspective: Someone needs to give this half white ...

Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:27:37 pm
The Obama administration is making more than symbolic moves to pressure Iran, as federal prosecutors file complaints to seize 4 mosques and a New York skyscraper owned by an Iranian front group. NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors Thursday took steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue ...

Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:38:05 am
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) has told the press there’s evidence that alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan may have wired money to Pakistan. WASHINGTON – Authorities have been examining whether Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasan wired money to Pakistan in recent months, an action that one senior ...

Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:38:02 am
As information comes out that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the accused Fort Hood shooter, was possibly trying to make contact with Al Qaeda, the real question becomes: how did the military miss all the warning signs Hasan was emitting? Fort Hood Shooter Tried to Contact al Qaeda Terrorists, Officials Say. ...

Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 3:23:42 pm
If you were wondering what Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s been up to lately, the Dutch flower bulb sector just named a tulip after her: Tulip named after activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. NEW YORK, November 6, 2009: In a ceremony on November 4 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art the Dutch flower bulb ...

Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:44:33 pm
A very interesting open letter from Conor Friedersdorf to Jonah Goldberg. I’m writing this letter as a fan – I’ve tremendous respect for the pioneering work you did at National Review Online, your attempts to inject humor into political writing, and the enjoyable debates you’ve done with Peter Beinart. But ...

Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:10:11 pm
Hot Air may have put me in their “Left Channels,” but Think Progress still categorizes me as a “conservative” blogger: Think Progress » Doug Hoffman Praises Glenn Beck As His ‘Mentor’. Conservative blogger Charles Johnson of the site Little Green Footballs reported yesterday that Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate ...

Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:37:14 am
The New York Daily News is reporting disturbances at some polling stations, apparently from anti-abortion “activists” who support Doug Hoffman: Police Called To NY-23 Polling Sites. I just got off the phone with former state Democratic Chairwoman June O’Neill, who informed me the police had been called to at least ...

Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:10:55 am
This is the Associated Press video report on an FBI raid in the Detroit area that resulted in a shootout, in which the leader of an extremist Sunni group was killed. [Video] UPDATE at 10/29/09 9:44:34 am: A more detailed video from CNN: Hearing set for suspects tied to group seeking Islamic state. [Video] UPDATE ...

Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:54:26 pm
The Obama administration, through Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, came out strongly today against the Organization of the Islamic Conference’s efforts to get the UN Human Rights Council to adopt resolutions barring the defamation of religion. By “religion,” the OIC means “Islam.” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized on ...

Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:47:10 pm
All I can say is, “Yikes.” It’s secession and revolution time (not necessarily in that order) in the Hot Air commentspace tonight, in a thread about Harry Reid’s push for the “public option:” Texas can opt out by seceding. […] And the rest of the sane states […] If they do, I’m so there. […] That’s ...

Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:33:56 pm
Here’s an interesting contrast between the GOP, which spent $1.4 million on a buggy, incomplete website redesign, and the Democratic White House, where they just launched a redesign of the site using the open source Content Management System (CMS), Drupal. (And it looks great.) Publisher Tim O’Reilly has a good piece ...

Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:18:01 am
One of the common talking points of people who try to make excuses for European fascist parties like the Belgian Vlaams Belang is that they can’t be fascist, because they’re pro-Israel. Some of these groups even have Jewish members, to give themselves extra ideological protection. But the British National Party’s “legal ...

Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 9:19:16 am
Barrett Brown has another funny (because it’s true!) piece at True/Slant about his adventures in the netherworld of Internet stalkerdom, and the deranged characters who’ve dedicated their shabby lives and shabbier blogs to posting weird childish smears of yours truly: In Which I Try My Hand at Cartooning and Subsequently ...

Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:32:45 am
The discovery of a new fossil in Egypt that appears to be a younger relative of the “Ida” fossil announced a few months ago (with great fanfare and publicity) has cast considerable doubt on whether Ida is an ancestor of human beings: New Primate Fossil Poses Further Challenge to Ida. ...

Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:46:18 pm
Yesterday, the leaders of 18 major American scientific organizations — some of the most reputable and respected organizations in the world — sent the following letter to the US Senate, strongly urging Senators to address the issue of human-caused climate change and offering their help to become better informed. October ...

Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:15:58 pm
There’s a huge row going on in Britain over the leader of the fascist, white supremacist British National Party, Nick Griffin, appearing on the BBC’s venerable “Question Time” political analysis show. Now Griffin is gloating that his appearance has enabled the BNP to set a record in telephone donations: BNP: ...

Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:10:53 am
Following up on Glenn Beck’s latest attempt to warn the country, or to put it another way, Glenn Beck’s latest bugeyed freakout, here’s a little reminder that this diabolical commie plot to encourage volunteerism didn’t start with Barack Obama. Oh no, my friends! For the origin of this truly monstrous scheme ...

Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:25:53 am
There’s very bad news for the Republican Party in a new Washington Post/ABC News poll: the GOP seems to have almost totally lost the confidence of the American public. Republicans in Washington can barely contain their glee at the turn of President Obama’s political fortunes in the first nine months ...

Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:45:05 pm
Sergey Romanov, a contributor to a blog called “Holocaust Controversies” that normally focuses on debunking Holocaust deniers, has a scathing post about white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain (who also writes for Pajamas Media and Hot Air’s Green Room), with examples from the messages posted by McCain on Usenet: Meet ...

Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:58:32 pm
Two county chairmen of the South Carolina Republican Party, Edwin O. Merwin Jr. and James S. Ulmer Jr., have an editorial in yesterday’s edition of the Times and Democrat newspaper defending Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC). But with an antisemitic defense like Merwin and Ullmer’s, who needs critics? DeMint watches out for all ...