Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:19:33 am
Right wing bloggers and climate “skeptics” are ranting and fuming about “the global warming scandal of the century,” after the email server of one of the UK’s leading climate research centers was hacked, and thousands of emails were stolen and promptly posted all over the web. (Which is, of course, ...

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 ...

Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:50:35 am
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington DC has threatened to stop providing all social services unless the DC City Council drops plans for a gay marriage bill. Under the bill, headed for a council vote next month, religious organizations would not be required to perform or make space available for same-sex ...

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 ...

Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:59:55 pm
Donald Wildmon’s American Family Association has a blog, and on that blog they’re advocating: No More Muslims in the U.S. Military. The author, Bryan Fischer, AFA’s “Director of Issues Analysis,” seems to believe he’s in a religious war between Christianity and Islam. To Fischer, all Muslims are enemies, and that’s how ...

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 ...

Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 9:47:24 am
Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel condemned signs containing Holocaust imagery and antisemitic conspiracy theories, at Michele Bachmann’s “tea party” event last Thursday. One sign at the rally contained images of dead Holocaust victims at the Dachau concentration camp under the banner “National Socialist Health Care.” Another sign said that ...

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 ...

Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:32:00 pm
A classic Onionism: Obama’s Declaration Of Swine Flu Emergency Prompts Pro-Swine-Flu Republican Response. WASHINGTON—Claiming that the president was preying on the public’s fear of contracting a fatal disease last week when he declared the H1N1 virus a national emergency, Republican leaders announced Wednesday that they were officially endorsing the swine ...

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 ...

Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:08:36 am
It’s official — 61% of the US public agrees with President Obama that he doesn’t really deserve the Nobel Peace Prize: Americans’ Views on Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize. The poll breaks apart on partisan lines, of course. PRINCETON, NJ — The majority of Americans do not believe President Barack ...

Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:39:35 pm
A new survey from Public Policy Polling shows that the most popular Republican so far, when compared with Barack Obama, is far right theocrat Mike Huckabee: 2012 Poll: Huckabee Performs Best. Rather than facing each other in this poll, the Public Policy Polling survey (Oct. 16-19, 766 RV, MoE /- 3.5%) ...

Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:43:41 pm
The new Oklahoma law that blatantly violated state and federal constitutions, by requiring that detailed information about each woman who has an abortion be published on the state’s website, has been delayed by at least a month: Okla. Abortion Publicity Law Blocked by Court. To challenge the state constitutionality of ...

Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:00:16 am
Here’s NPR’s coverage of Rush Limbaugh’s ugly, distorted attack on New York Times climate change reporter Andrew Revkin: Innovative ‘Times’ Reporter Draws Limbaugh’s Ire. [Audio]

Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:53:42 am
The appearance of fascist BNP leader Nick Griffin on the BBC’s “Question Time” program is not going over well with some of the people who pay to subsidize the BBC — in other words, the British public. About 25 protesters stormed security and broke into the grounds of the BBC’s ...

Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:37:05 pm
Robert Bernstein, a former chairman of Human Rights Watch, had an extraordinary op-ed in the New York Times yesterday, blasting his former organization for its overwhelming bias against the state of Israel: Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast. AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for 20 ...

Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:43:34 am
Blogger “AJ Strata” takes a look at the writings of white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain, and is utterly repulsed (as any decent person should be): The Strata-Sphere » I Stand With Charles Johnson, And In Total Opposition To Robert Stacy McCain. I have seen the blog wars ongoing between ...

Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:00:10 am
In his latest excrescence at the right wing’s craziest “news” site, Pat “Hitler Wasn’t So Bad” Buchanan says “Traditional” Americans are losing their nation. And by “traditional,” Buchanan means “white.” It’s mind-boggling that a disgusting person like Pat Buchanan hasn’t been made a pariah by the right wing. No wonder the American ...

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 12:25:30 pm
At the Daily Beast, Conor Friedersdorf makes an excellent point about the well-documented racially charged comments of a certain right wing deity talk show host: Rush the Race-Baiter. I share a powerful distaste for characters like Al Sharpton, who deliberately play on the racial anxieties of Americans. As one of ...

Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:28:33 pm
Is this really Sarah Palin’s resumé? Sarah Palin - LinkedIn. It looks like it really is. Jaw meet floor. Sarah Palin’s Experience Governor State of Alaska (Government Agency; Government Administration industry) December 2006 — June 2009 (2 years 7 months) Vice Presidential Candidate 2008 Election (Government Administration industry) 2008 — 2008 (less than a year) Chairperson Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation ...

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 ...

Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 1:33:27 pm
The Las Vegas Review Journal’s Alan Maimon reports on the rise of a very disturbing movement fueled by conspiracy theories and anti-government bad craziness: READY TO REVOLT: Oath Keepers pledges to prevent dictatorship in United States. Launched in March by Las Vegan Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers bills itself as a ...