Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:10:19 am
Pamela Geller’s appearance last night on the Joy Behar show with Ron Reagan and Stephanie Miller perfectly demonstrates why Geller has become known on the Internet as the “shrieking harpy.” Geller actually seems to think she came off well on this show, in which she tells Ron Reagan what his own ...

Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:24:41 am
Imagine my surprise that linking to a piece about a disturbing Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll of Republicans prompted several hyper-emotional meltdowns in our comments, and three hate mails so far today. Apart from the insult-spewers, though, many readers wanted to know exactly which questions were asked, and where the samples came ...

Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:56:04 pm
Shrieking harpy said what? “He’s a traitor, a turncoat, a plant. We may not know for years what actually happened.” Insert sigh. I have a few significant disagreements with the angle taken by Jonathan Dee in his profile for the New York Times, most of all his willingness to accept unverifiable anecdotal ...

Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:40:45 am
Last seen at LGF with a strange op-ed arguing that if “Mother Mary” had Obamacare she would have aborted God, Chuck Norris is back with an even more whacked out sequel for World Net Daily: Obama’s secret vault. Yes, that’s right. Chuck thinks the dreaded Executive Order 12425 will give Interpol ...

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 ...

Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:14:33 pm
Here’s a great little animated video posted at Vimeo.com, created by students in the BAA Animation program at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. [Video]

Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:52:28 am
Ryan Mauro claims that I called him a racist — I didn’t — and posts yet another one of those straw man attacks for which the right wing has become infamous: Darnit! Charles Johnson Catches Me Being a Racist! Whatever Shall I Do? Oddly, he includes no link to LGF in ...

Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 7:43:19 am
Yesterday in Denmark, a Somali armed with an axe and a knife was shot after trying to break into the home of the cartoonist who drew the infamous cartoon of Mohammed with a bomb for a turban: Somali shot after allegedly attempting to attack Danish cartoonist. (CNN) — A Somali ...

Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:54:45 am
Again, Christopher Hitchens cuts through the nonsense: The truth about airplane security measures. Why do we fail to detect or defeat the guilty, and why do we do so well at collective punishment of the innocent? The answer to the first question is: Because we can’t—or won’t. The answer to ...

Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:14:37 pm
Illinois Republican Senate candidate Andy Martin tries to get the GOP base on his side by accusing his primary opponent of the dreaded ghey. Here’s the transcript of Martin’s ad: I’m Andy Martin, Republican candidate for United States Senator. I approved this message because Illinois Republicans deserve the truth about their ...

Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:59:01 am
Gossip site TMZ ran a story today about a photo of John F. Kennedy on a yacht with several naked women, and headlined it: The JFK Photo That Could Have Changed History. In their article, TMZ cited “multiple experts” and quoted a “forensic analyst” who vouched for the authenticity of the ...

Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:51:59 pm
An air strike by Yemeni forces has killed at least 30 Al Qaeda terrorists, possibly including the radical Islamic cleric linked to Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. (CNN) — Yemeni jets launched an aerial assault Thursday against suspected senior al Qaeda operatives meeting in a remote location, and about ...

Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:46:16 am
Since I made a public break with the rabid right, wingnut blogs all over the web have been sending love (read: vicious attacks) my way, which isn’t surprising since one of the reasons I listed for my departure was the vicious hate speech found everywhere on wingnut blogs. And one ...

Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:31:16 pm
Michelle Malkin rants again: Public school lunacy of the day: A second-grader in Taunton, MA was kicked out of school, suspended, and ordered to undergo a mental evaluation for… …drawing a picture of Jesus Christ on the cross. (Hat tip: Michael Graham) One picture of Jesus gets a kid booted from the classroom. But ...

Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:14:57 pm
Here’s the latest episode in the ongoing trainwreck known as the GOP website. Would somebody please sit the GOP’s web designers down and give them a good lesson on how these Intraweb thingies actually work? Pranksters Make Short Work of GOP’s URL Shortener for Conservatives. The Republican party took down its ...

Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:01:38 pm
Usually I just ignore this kind of nonsense, but sometimes the smears my admirers post on their blogs are so egregiously dishonest that they need to be pointed out. Today’s example is at “Weasel Zippers,” a raving anti-Muslim blog that stole its name from one of our random sayings that appear ...

Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 10:45:37 am
Iran is erupting in demonstrations again, after state television repeatedly broadcast video of people burning pictures of the Ayatollah Khomeini and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Police surrounded the campus of Tehran University on Sunday, trapping hundreds of students protesting what they said were fabricated government images of the burning of a photo ...

Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:13:53 am
Five Muslims apparently from the Washington DC area have been arrested in Pakistan: Breaking News: Pakistan Reportedly Detains Five D.C.-Area Muslims on Suspicion of Terror. A Pakistani newspaper reports the arrest of five foreign nationals after a raid in a town called Sargodha. The raid took place at the home ...

Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:20:36 am
According to DHS head Janet Napolitano, the danger of Islamic extremism in the United States is increasing, due largely to online propaganda: U.S. sees homegrown Muslim extremism as rising threat. Last week, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano issued her strongest public comments yet on the homegrown threat. “We’ve seen an increased ...

Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:02:06 pm
An outside review of ACORN has found “serious” problems with management, but no evidence of illegal activity. An outside review of the beleaguered community group ACORN has found “serious management challenges,” but no pattern of illegal activity. The review, commissioned by ACORN in the wake of a hidden video expose that ...

Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:05:08 pm
A senior member of the IPCC is charging that Russia mounted a sophisticated operation to discredit the Copenhagen climate change summit: Was Russian secret service behind leak of climate-change emails? The news that a leaked set of emails appeared to show senior climate scientists had manipulated data was shocking enough. ...

Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:55:52 am
Anti-Muslim blogger Robert Spencer is at it again, with yet another rant about me, full of insults, vicious hatred, and completely dishonest claims: When libelblogger and CAIR tool Charles Johnson began to betray all his principles and sling wild false accusations at his former friends and associates, I knew it ...

Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:21:15 pm
Here we see a rally in Columbus Ohio, starring “anti-jihad” bloggers Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller, ostensibly supporting Rifqa Bary (the teenage girl they’re cynically using to promote their anti-Muslim agenda), at which many of the demonstrators were wearing T-shirts labeled: “ISLAM IS OF THE DEVIL.” These are the seriously insane ...

Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:43:31 pm
About a year and a half ago I reported on the collaboration between American creationist groups like the Discovery Institute and Islamist creationists, to spread their atavistic nonsense in Turkey: Audio: The Discovery Institute Collaborates with Turkish Creationists. I got a lot of hate mail over this one from creationists, ...

Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:40:44 pm
British Jewish advocacy group CST appeals to Jews not to take part in an upcoming demonstration by far right Eurofascists: Don’t be fooled by Islamophobia. A small Islamophobic group, called Stop Islamisation Of Europe (SIOE), has called for 1,000 Jews to attend its forthcoming demonstration at Harrow mosque; and for ...