Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:15:53 am
This new Washington Post-ABC News poll was taken during the timeframe when Sarah Palin blathered out her absurdly botched version of Paul Revere's ride; it's hard to know how much effect those comments (and her subsequent doubling down on stupid) had, but whatever the reason, Palin is even losing the ...

Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:06:10 pm
William Jacobson, one of the first wingnut bloggers to spread the ridiculous talking point that Sarah Palin got it exactly right with her absurd distortion of Paul Revere's ride, is now outraged -- outraged, I say! -- that I'm not going to apologize to Andrew Breitbart: Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Charles Johnson: ...

Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:24:43 pm
Right wingers across America are now totally convinced that Paul Revere rode through Boston ringin' bells and shootin' off guns to warn the British not to take away American firearms (it's already become an impenetrable article of faith on the right), so this won't make any difference to them. But ...

Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:23:05 am
Yesterday Sarah Palin blathered that she was ambushed by the "lamestream media" and their "gotcha questions" about Paul Revere. Today David Frum has discovered the outrageous ambush question that threw Palin for such a loop: "What have you seen so far today, and what are you going to take ...

Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:31:56 am
Jonathan Bernstein makes the pertinent point about Rick Santorum's announcement that he's running for President: Santorum’s 2012 launch is only the beginning of the craziness. So Rick Santorum has now kicked off his presidential run by claiming that Paul Ryan’s plan to end Medicare as we know it didn’t go ...

Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:00:57 am
Jeffrey Goldberg unearths the first draft of Longfellow's famous poem: Paul Revere's Ride. LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear    Of the early evening ride of Paul Revere,    On the twentieth, or twenty-first, of May, or possibly June, in Seventy-six, or maybe Seventy-seven;    Hardly a man is now alive    Who ...

Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 7:31:00 pm
Earlier today at Conservapedia (the bizarre right wing alternate universe version of Wikipedia), their post about Paul Revere disagreed with Sarah Palin, and actually got the history correct. Well, you knew that wouldn't last. In the last hour, someone has edited Conservapedia's page several times to try to match Sarah Palin's ...

Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:27:19 pm
Now posted at the discussion page for the Paul Revere entry at Wikipedia: Sarah Palin's Army Needs to Go Away. I would strongly suggest locking this page until the Palin controversy blows over and her supporters lose interest in trying to rewrite the page to conform with her erroneous version ...

Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:02:28 am
Man, you've gotta almost admire the sheer blind dedication of Sarah Palin's wingnut acolytes. Now they're trying like crazy to edit the Wikipedia page for "Paul Revere" to make it match Palin's botched version of history. Here's the Revision history of Paul Revere; check out the edits that are being reversed. Also ...

Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:50:30 am
So there she is, ridin' around the country in a bus decorated with the US flag and the Constitution and her name, and the flag, and stuff, and here comes that ol' lamestream media again with those "shout-out gotcha questions" -- like, "Hey Sarah, remember Paul Revere?" "Part of his ...

Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:05:31 am
Wow. Just ... wow. Sarah Palin went to Boston yesterday and utterly mangled the story of Paul Revere. Ultra-patriot Sarah Palin is ultra-ignorant about American history. Also see: Sarah Palin Tries on American History for Size: It Doesn’t Fit

Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:52:02 am
In one of the most glaring examples of Republican Party cognitive dissonance, the GOP is positioning itself as the only true American friend of Israel -- but at the same time, moving more and more toward the pseudo-libertarian anti-Israel politics of Ron Paul and his son Rand, who strongly advocate ...

Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:55:46 am
Former ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, often touted as the most "moderate" of the possible Republican presidential candidates, told George Stephanopoulos this morning that he's fully on board with the GOP's plan to kill Medicare. George Stephanopoulos: How about Congressman Paul Ryan and (the) budget? Former Speaker Gingrich had some ...

Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:50:02 am
Newt Gingrich is on an apology tour of the Republican Tea Party, after his accurate description of the Ryan Medicare-killing plan as "right wing social engineering" drove the entire GOP into a frenzy: Newt Apologizes To Paul Ryan, Begs Democrats Not To Use His Own Quotes In Ads. Newt Gingrich's ...

Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:26:28 am
The Republican Party is in the midst of glorious meltdown over Paul Ryan's bizarre, heartless plan to kill Medicare, as South Carolina Tea Party Governor Nikki Haley blasts Newt Gingrich over his criticism of Ryan's "budget." Dallas (CNN) - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich might not want to count on ...

Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:56:04 pm
Chris Matthews interviews a very defensive crazy uncle, and ties him in knots over his extreme libertarian positions. Video

Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:37:19 am
Here we go again. Fox Nation shrieks: School Tells Child to Take Down Drawing of American Flag! This leads to hundreds of raging right wing comments. For example: nam_vet6869 2 hours ago WAKE UP AMERICA, WE ARE BEING OVER RUN BY THE SOCIALIST AND THE PRESIDENT IS HOLDING THE DOOR OPEN. It's also ...

Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:21:05 pm
If nothing else, Ron Paul is certainly consistent, if by "consistent" you mean "fanatically dedicated to extreme right wing libertarian ideology:" Ron Paul Says He Wouldn't Have Ordered Bin Laden Raid. In an interview with Iowa radio station WHO, the likely GOP presidential candidate said "things could have been done ...

Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:21:31 am
Paul Ryan's crazed effort to destroy Medicare is apparently a bridge too far for Senate Republicans. Senate Republicans have decided to avoid jeopardizing their chances of capturing the upper chamber in next year’s elections and will not echo the House GOP’s call for a major overhaul of the popular health ...

Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:10:30 pm
The first Republican presidential debate of the 2012 election is now taking place on Fox News, featuring the C-list candidates, and here's a thread to live-blog it... UPDATE at 5/5/11 6:16:35 pm Live stream here.

Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:29:08 am
One of the partners in the law firm that just pulled out of the DOMA case, Paul Clement, has resigned, and will continue pursuing the case because he says lawyers should defend "unpopular causes." Which is indeed a noble principle, when applied to causes like ending slavery, for example, or fighting ...

Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:19:02 am
The top-priced law firm retained by the Republican Party and John Boehner to defend the religious right's anti-gay "Defense of Marriage Act" is bailing out. King and Spalding Chairman Robert D. Hays, Jr., whose partner Paul Clement was to lead the defense, said in a statement through a spokesman, Les ...

Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:30:50 am
Last night, an open microphone caught President Obama making some pretty forceful statements about the Republican agenda and Paul Ryan's ludicrous budget proposal: Obama tells Republicans: 'You think we're stupid?' Video I said (to Republicans), 'You want to repeal health care? Go at it. We'll have that debate. You're not going ...

Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:40:09 am
Donald Trump has correctly identified and is ferociously exploiting one of the real hot buttons in the Republican Party: Birtherism. And there's no doubt that it's working for him: CNN Poll: Trump tied for first in GOP horserace. Nineteen percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents questioned in the poll say ...

Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 8:03:07 pm
Crazy libertarian uncle Ron Paul would seem to be a poor fit with today's religious right-dominated Republican Party. But they're willing to overlook his anti-war isolationism and anarcho-capitalist economic lunacy, because Uncle Paul is just as eager to control women's bodies as the rest of the GOP: Ron Paul antes ...