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, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:18:18 am
The more extreme anti-choice activists give themselves permission to do almost anything in the name of God. The latest example — an eBay auction of memorabilia from the violent fringe: Online auction to raise funds in Scott Roeder case. An Army of God manual. A prison cookbook compiled by a ...

Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:59:09 pm
Andrew Revkin comments on Rush Limbaugh’s ugly remark that Revkin should commit suicide because he brought up the subject of birth control: Thought Experiments on Birth and Death. As I put it in the Wilson event: “Should you get credit — if we’re going to become carbon-centric — for having ...

Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:09:42 am
Here’s a disturbing story from the Associated Press on the rise of Pentecostal-flavored fundamental Christianity in Africa, and the horrific consequences for some young children accused of witchcraft: Churches involved in torture, murder of thousands of African children denounced as witches. His family pastor had accused him of being a ...

Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 3:29:37 pm
As the apologists all over the right wing blogs continue to focus on one or two disputed quotes, here’s a lengthy collection of racist and/or race-baiting quotes from Saint Rush Limbaugh — all of them verified, cited and attributed: Limbaugh: My racial views? You mean, my belief in a colorblind ...

Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:32:24 pm
Another eruption of antisemitism from Turkey. JERUSALEM, Oct 15 (Reuters) - A Turkish television drama series which depicts an Israeli soldier shooting dead a Palestinian baby, strained already tense relations on Thursday between Israel and Turkey, a strategic Muslim ally. Previously close ties between the Jewish state and Turkey, a secular ...

Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:42:08 am
Today’s jaw-dropping, insanely over the top exercise in Rush Limbaugh idolization is from RedState.com: Tonight ... We Are All Rush Limbaugh. Includes the ubiquitous Martin Niemöller quote (no right wing rant is complete without it) because as we all know, dropping a super-rich race-baiting far right radio host from a ...

Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:50:05 pm
Here’s our latest installment of a new recurring feature — the most disgusting comments recently posted at Hot Air, and not deleted or even disapproved of by the “moderators.” There’s an endless stream of this kind of hate speech at Hot Air, and I don’t expect we’ll run out of ...

Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:54:47 pm
Today at Hot Air, calls for assassination, civil war, and “burning the GOP to the ground:” Hot Air » Blog Archive » Breaking: Snowe defects on committee vote. Can we shoot these idiots now or do we have to wait for them to totally screw us over first? Old Hippie Vet ...

Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:09:37 am
The rumors that President Obama would throw Israel under the bus appear to have been greatly exaggerated. Palestinian moderates say hope in President Obama has “evaporated.” That’ s the damning message contained in a memo circulated among the top leadership of the Palestinian faction Fatah, the faction which is led by the ...

Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:24:01 am
Here’s the latest Republican/Fox News attempt to scare people out of cooperating with the census: Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) says “tens of thousands” of census takers may be rapists and child molesters. [Video]

Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:09:29 pm
Dan “black kids fear me” Riehl is still continuing his obsessive campaign to smear murdered census worker Bill Sparkman. Now he’s latched onto a twisted fantasy that Sparkman was infected with teh ghey: Riehl World View: Bill ‘Fe Fe’ Sparkman Remembered For His Curls. What a pathetic, sick little human being ...

Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:26:13 pm
You know, I don’t think we have enough anti-science homophobic religious fanatic creationists in the running for the 2012 GOP nomination for President. We can always use another; for example: Rick Santorum. Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is well aware his forthcoming visit to Iowa will encourage presidential speculation, and ...

Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:23:22 am
Dan Riehl continues spinning off his weird, creepy fantasies about murdered census worker Bill Sparkman. He’s actually had an email exchange with a trained investigator who agrees with him that Sparkman just might have been a child predator — and may not even have been hanged at all: Riehl World View: ...

Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:30:14 am
Dan “black kids fear me” Riehl is speculating that Bill Sparkman, the census worker found murdered in Kentucky, was a child predator. Yes, really. His evidence? He don’t got to show you no steenking evidence! All he knows is that the murder wasn’t committed by anyone on his side — so why not ...

Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 3:24:58 pm
Some very disturbing information has come to light in the long-running scandal of child molestation in the Los Angeles diocese of the Roman Catholic Church. A former vicar has testified in a civil case that Cardinal Roger Mahony specifically instructed him not to report allegations of sexual misconduct by a ...

Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:53:54 am
In his speech to the United Nations this morning, President Obama reiterated his call for Israel to cease building settlements, and for the Palestinians to end incitement against Israel. I will also continue to seek a just and lasting peace between Israel, Palestine, and the Arab world. Yesterday, I had ...

Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:11:22 am
Frank Schaeffer, son of the late Calvinist preacher Francis Schaeffer, has some very interesting insights into the nature of the Christian far right — the extreme fundamentalists behind much of the home-schooling movement — and their almost total withdrawal from American culture: Glenn Beck and The 9/12 Marchers: Subversives From ...

Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:24:33 am
Here’s an excellent exposé at Salon by Alexander Zaitchik, on one of the main ideological sources for Glenn Beck’s extremist rhetoric — a paleo-right crank connected to the John Birch Society named Cleon Skousen, whose bizarre book (“The 5,000 Year Leap”) Glenn Beck has been relentlessly promoting: Meet the man ...

Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:08:55 pm
The anti-Islam blogs have been hyperventilating for months over the case of Rifqa Bary — a Muslim teenager who converted to Christianity, ran away from home, and found a new home with a radical fundamentalist Christian preacher, Blake Lorenz of the “Global Revolution Church.” People like Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer ...

Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:40:54 pm
The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally ...

Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:27:11 pm
The United Nations, for the first time, is planning to introduce lessons about the Nazi Holocaust to Palestinian students in Gaza. In the twisted world of Hamas, however, this amounts to a war crime. Hamas spiritual leader Younis al-Astal lashed out after hearing that the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, ...

Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 6:23:17 pm
A new blog is keeping an eye on the biased stories about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that continue to pour out of one of the world’s main sources of news: Reuters Middle East Watch.

Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:24:41 am
Even for someone like me who expects very little in the way of ethics from the astoundingly biased NGO Human Rights Watch, this report is a jawdropper. The author of the last HRW report accusing Israel of “war crimes” is a radical Marxist who has written in explicit support of terrorist ...

Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:12:42 am
There’s absolutely nobody to root for, as Hamas puts down a threat to their control of Gaza by invading a mosque and slaughtering more than 20 people. GAZA (Reuters) – Palestinian Islamists Hamas struck back at an al-Qaeda challenge to their grip on the Gaza Strip by storming a mosque ...