Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 12:47:26 pm
A couple of days ago Indiana's Department of Health exonerated Planned Parenthood of the spurious right wing charge that they profit from the sale of "baby parts." (To use the deliberately grotesque phrase being endlessly repeated by anti-choice fanatics.) And Planned Parenthood has also been exonerated of these false charges in ...

Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 3:46:41 pm
Today the National Abortion Foundation filed suit against the anti-choice fanatics behind the Orwellian "Center for Medical Progress," seeking a temporary restraining order and injunction to prevent them from releasing any video of NAF meetings. The lawsuit names CMP as a defendant as well as BioMax Procurement Services, the fake ...

Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 12:48:21 pm
Republicans are making noises that they're going to shut down the government again, this time over defunding Planned Parenthood (something they've been trying to do for many years). But today White House press secretary Josh Earnest made it very clear that the President will veto any budget bill containing a ...

Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 10:32:22 am
SoundCloud The Gohmert hosted the Family Research Council's "Washington Watch" program last night, and got a call from someone who was very concerned President Obama would go ahead with the Iran deal even if Congress rejected it. This crazed caller wanted to know if the Gohmert would lead a charge to ...

Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 1:50:07 pm
Photo via ctrouper/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Right wing rhetoric is getting more and more insane as people realize the Center for Medical Progress is a gang of dishonest religious fanatics, and their "sting" videos are blatantly deceptive attempts to make perfectly legal activities seem nefarious and sinister. You can always tell ...

Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:03:31 am
AP reports today that the Los Angeles Superior Court has issued a restraining order preventing the anti-choice group calling itself the "Center for Medical Progress" from releasing any videos targeting Stem Express, a California company that provides human and fetal tissue to medical researchers. Apparently the Center for Medical Progress was ...

Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:59:14 am
SoundCloud If you've been wondering whether Donald Trump was going to join the rest of the anti-science conservative world and deny the existence of climate change, despite the mountains of evidence and overwhelming scientific consensus, well yes, he is. "The real climate change is going to be nuclear climate change if ...

Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 8:45:05 pm
http://www.bobcesca.com/podcast/072815 /BCS_072815.mp3 It's true. As the subtitle says, Donald Trump is such a YOOOGE admirer of Sarah Palin he wants to appoint her to his cabinet when he's elected President of the United States. In this episode we also learn that Alex Jones sidekick Dan Bidondi is open to being convinced the ...

Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 5:51:47 pm
Image via Shutterstock Sharona Coutts and Sofia Resnick of RH Reality Check have been investigating the far right fanatics behind the deceptive Planned Parenthood "sting" videos, and they've discovered some very interesting information. The operatives at the Orwellian "Center for Medical Progress" and their fake company "Biomax" may have violated a ...

Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 12:28:45 pm
After serving 30 years in prison for a life sentence, convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard will be paroled in November. WASHINGTON--A federal panel has granted parole to Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, with a planned release in November, his attorneys said Tuesday. The announcement said the decision by the parole commission was ...

Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 6:01:17 pm
Hold on to your hats, or whatever's on top of your head, because tonight the Daily Beast published a possibly serious blow to Donald Trump's political aspirations. It seems The Donald's ex-wife once accused him of raping her. Yep, really. Not only does the current front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination ...

Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 1:35:17 pm
Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com What a great idea former Gov. Rick Perry has! He points out that if everyone in a movie theater were armed to the teeth and ready to blaze away in the dark as soon as a "mentally impacted" person starts shooting, everyone would be so much safer! Just ...

Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 11:19:10 am
Rich Koele / Shutterstock.com Rand Paul likes to present himself as a civil libertarian, but his stance on reproductive rights is straight from the darkest, most regressive part of the Republican Party's war on women. He's currently pushing to defund Planned Parenthood with an amendment to a mass transit funding bill, ...

Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 1:44:40 pm
Juli Hansen / Shutterstock.com As Donald Trump steals all the oxygen from the Republican presidential campaign, you can expect the other candidates to get more and more extreme to try to compete with Trump's xenophobic hate speech. For example, Mike Huckabee, the "aw shucks" theocrat; he gave an interview to Breitbart "News" ...

Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 11:59:28 am
Right wing bloggers are some of the biggest crybabies in America, and over at Breitbart "News," editor John Nolte is still whining about the encounter between Ben Shapiro and helicopter pilot Zoey Tur. In case you missed the grossly insulting comments Shapiro made to Tur, and her response, here's what happened: ...

Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 7:04:17 pm
In the wake of the deceptive videos pushed out by the Orwellian "Center for Medical Progress," another fanatical anti-choice group called "Americans United for Life" is now working with ALEC to get legislation passed that would require "fetal death certificates" -- for miscarriages. Yes, really. And their proposed legislation would also ...

Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 1:27:03 pm
Good grief, not Pat Buchanan again. What does it take to get this raving, Nazi-sympathizing, bigoted paleocon caveman off our television screens for good? He was fired from MSNBC for his crazed bigotry, but here comes Chuck Todd to his rescue: Why Is NBC Bringing Anti-Gay Xenophobe Pat Buchanan Back to ...

Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:12:44 am
http://www.bobcesca.com/podcast/072315 /BCS_072315.mp3 I'm so old I remember when Alex Jones was trying to cash in by exploiting left wing memes, but now he's obviously realized it's much easier to fleece the right. So now he eagerly promotes every conservative talking point as soon as it comes down from the noise machine; for ...

Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 6:06:09 pm
Image Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI The colors in this image of Pluto from the New Horizons spacecraft aren't simulated or enhanced; they're the real deal. Very close to what a human eye would see if that person was flying past Pluto at 36,000 miles per hour. They were captured by Ball Aerospace's Ralph ...

Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 2:07:12 pm
Image via Shutterstock OK, let's dissect another ubiquitous right wing claim about the Lafayette theater shootings, shall we? If you go to any right wing site right now, you'll see them all ranting in unison about the theater being a "gun-free zone," and babbling about how much safer everyone would have been ...

Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 11:15:31 am
Jim Hoft poses with anti-Muslim hate group leader Pamela Geller You just knew Jim Hoft, the fabled Stupidest Man on the Internet, would do this, didn't you? We predicted earlier that he'd be the first out of the gate with a claim that Lafayette shooter John Russell Houser was a "leftist:" Which right ...

Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 6:00:06 pm
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Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 2:03:12 pm
Today I saw this tweet go by on Twitter, from a writer for conservative site The Federalist, blaming Hillary Clinton "minions" for launching the Birther conspiracy theory that now dominates so much of the right wing: Weird, I don't recall you condemning Hillary's minions for *starting* the birther nonsense https://t.co/Hy7o4qNbw4 http://t.co/8gIb700RIq — ...

Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:23:35 am
Finally, Democrats are pushing back against the evil lies about Planned Parenthood being spread by right wing groups like Operation Rescue and the Orwellian "Center for Medical Progress:" Pelosi Urges DOJ Probe Into Group Targeting Planned Parenthood. "Let's have an investigation of those people who were trying to ensnare Planned ...

Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 5:14:26 pm
If you've read Little Green Footballs much, you know I'm no fan of former Texas Governor Rick Perry and his brand of "aw shucks" reactionary conservatism. He's a creationist, he's a religious fanatic, he's rabidly anti-choice, he spews anti-Muslim bigotry on cue like most Republicans. In short, he's a prototypical ...