Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 10:53:33 am
Marie Kanger Born / Shutterstock.com In the latest poll on the presidential candidates by respected research firm Latino Decisions, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have nearly identical favorability ratings: Clinton: Total favorable: 61% Total unfavorable: 32% Sanders: Total favorable: 61% Total unfavorable: 24% The difference in their unfavorable ratings is clearly due to the "No opinion" ...

Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 9:40:31 pm
Image credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/MESS Key Programme Supernova Remnant Team; NASA, ESA and Allison Loll/Jeff Hester (Arizona State University) NASA's Twitter account posted this image from the Hubble Space Telescope today, in honor of Prince. This image shows a composite view of the Crab nebula, an iconic supernova remnant in our Milky Way ...

Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 5:13:22 pm
National Review columnist Kevin D. Williamson In a recent article for National Review attempting to defend his grotesque statements about working class whites and attacking Donald Trump supporters (which I would normally be wholeheartedly in favor of, except this is National Review and they're every bit as bad as Donald Trump ...

Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:36:07 am
Northfoto / Shutterstock.com https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y Very sad news, as 2016 continues to be a very bad year for musicians. There aren't many details yet, but today Prince has died at the age of 57. Too soon.

Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 5:39:01 pm
Image via Shutterstock Today we have a nifty new feature for authors of LGF Pages: announcing ... fanfare please ... autosave! It's now almost impossible to accidentally lose a post, even if your power goes out or your computer crashes, because every post you start writing is now automatically saved to our ...

Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:39:33 am
lev radin / Shutterstock.com Yes, Donald Trump did it again yesterday; he retweeted a vile white supremacist, a guy he's retweeted at least five times previously despite being publicly called out for it by many news sources (and by LGF, of course). There's absolutely no way this can be a coincidence ...

Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 5:50:55 pm
The New York polls close at 9 pm Eastern, and as we anxiously await the results here's one of those open threads for our contributors to comment on what the heck is happening. On the Republican side, this is almost certain to be a sweep for Donald Trump, erasing all ...

Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:16:12 pm
a katz / Shutterstock.com Many people (including yours truly) have questioned the incredibly friendly -- one might almost say sycophantic -- relationship between the Donald Trump campaign and Breitbart "News," but today Rosie Gray at Buzzfeed reports that at least one Breitbart editor has actually been paid by the Trump campaign ...

Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 8:30:41 pm
As we noted back in December, discredited far right blogger Chuck C. Johnson (who is NOT ME) filed an amazingly ill-advised defamation lawsuit against Gawker in the Fresno Superior Court, submitting an almost exact copy of the document he filed in Missouri (for a case that was thrown out of ...

Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:42:48 am
Appearing on yet another one of those cookie-cutter right wing talk radio shows, Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski repeats the outright lie that Michelle Fields said she was "thrown to the ground." Lewandowski also says the fact that Trump backed him up and helped him evade prosecution shows that ...

Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 6:39:35 pm
Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski He got away with assaulting Michelle Fields and now he's once again denying he even touched her: Corey Lewandowski says he won't apologize to Michelle Fields. “Do you now acknowledge that you did touch Ms. Fields and that she is not delusional?” Wallace asked. “Well, no,” ...

Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 12:37:55 pm
Not for the first time, Donald Trump is dog whistling to his crazed followers about rioting at the GOP convention if the establishment tries to deny him the nomination. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Sunday that he hopes a contested Republican convention in July "doesn't involve ...

Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 12:56:04 pm
YouTube Creepy "pro-life" guru Mark Crutcher advised David Daleiden on how to create his fraudulent videos accusing Planned Parenthood of "selling baby parts" without actually breaking any laws, but last month at a conference in Cleveland Crutcher admitted openly that Daleiden "made some mistakes." Attorneys for David Daleiden, the activist who ...

Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:25:31 am
Since we last wrote about her Sarah Palin hasn't gotten any smarter, and now she's hooked up with one of the main attack dogs of the climate change denial gang, Marc Morano, a paid oil industry shill who's promoting a horrible movie called "Climate Hustle." One of the main targets of ...

Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 5:55:57 pm
Because whether you're ready or not, here it comes. CNN says they're webcasting it live here. According to the latest Marist poll, Clinton now leads Sanders for the April 19 New York primary by 17 points, so things aren't looking good for Bernie in the Big Apple. And there's another piece of ...

Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 4:25:14 pm
Anti-choice priest Frank Pavone Here's a very revealing interview with anti-choice Catholic priest Frank Pavone, talking about Donald Trump's statement that women who have abortions would need to be "punished" if and when abortion is outlawed (again). Pavone starts by parroting the standard vague anti-choice political deflection, that the women are ...

Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:13:11 pm
African-American attorney Carlos Moore has filed a federal lawsuit in Mississippi seeking to have the state flag declared unconstitutional, because it includes a Confederate battle emblem (shown above). Yesterday the judge in the case said the Confederate flag is "anti-American," a fact that's hard to deny since it's a ...

Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 12:29:30 pm
Anti-choice terrorist Robert Lewis Dear (El Paso County Sheriff's Office) Newly released court documents in the case of Robert Lewis Dear, who confessed to murdering three people at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood office last November, reveal that Dear wanted to emulate his hero -- Paul Hill, an anti-choice terrorist executed ...

Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 1:22:41 pm
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is well known for his anti-immigrant views and connections to far right white nationalist organizations, and in 2012 he tried to get President Obama removed from presidential election ballots in the state because, he said, there was evidence Obama's birth certificate was faked. ...

Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:50:12 am
DERP Let's kick off another week of batshit crazy politics with a typically hilarious post from the fabled Stupidest Man on the Internet, Jim "Dim" Hoft, who's crowing and preening about a Fox News poll that shows (according to the SMOTI) TRUMP DOMINATING with New York women! Take that, you Fox News ...

Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 7:57:34 pm
The next fake story about Hillary Clinton is now queued up. Tonight I'm seeing a lot of tweets linking to a Washington Examiner post with the absurd headline: Clinton team blasts reporters with noise machine during Hillary fundraising speech. OK, so let's go to the tweets this hysterical story is based upon. ...

Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:06:07 am
The Washington Post headline made a bold statement: Clinton questions whether Sanders is qualified to be president. We'll come back to that in a bit, but last night Bernie Sanders responded to the headline by attacking Clinton for her vote to authorize the Iraq War and saying she was not qualified ...

Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:53:58 am
David Daleiden prays for the destruction of women's reproductive rights As we noted last night, far right video fraudster David Daleiden's home in Orange County was raided yesterday by agents from the California Department of Justice, and his computers and hard drives were seized. Daleiden's deceptively edited videos, shot illegally at Planned ...

Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 9:46:59 pm
Center for Medical Progress head David Daleiden's dishonest scheme to destroy Planned Parenthood continues to fall apart; his home in Orange County was raided today and computers and hard drives were seized by the California Department of Justice. The National Abortion Federation, a professional organization for abortion providers that was ...

Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 2:33:26 pm
Media Matters Donald Trump ally Roger Stone, who was Trump's closest adviser until he was forced out after his disgusting racist comments came to light, is now threatening to reveal the hotels and room numbers of any anti-Trump delegates at the GOP convention in Cleveland. ROGER STONE: If Trump does not ...