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.

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 ...

Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:59:58 am
Years ago, I renounced the so-called "anti-jihad" blogosphere when it became obvious that the bigots were taking over, and that some people who'd been masquerading as rational critics of extremist Islam were in fact harboring an extremist agenda of their own -- giving lip service to the idea that not ...

Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 5:01:36 pm
See -- this is why conservatives can't have nice things. "It's a sad day in American history when a one-time conservative/libertarian stalwart has fallen more out of touch with America's needs for national security then our current socialist presidential regime," said the group's national director Jordan Marks. The dispute between Paul ...

Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:21:07 am
C-SPAN has a live video feed from CPAC; today's schedule includes creationist Republican Tim Pawlenty at 3 pm Eastern, followed by creationist libertarian Ron Paul at 3:30. At 4 pm, creationist Republican Rick Perry will speak, followed by creationist libertarian Herman Cain at 4:30. Also at 3 pm, anti-Muslim bloggers Robert ...

Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:02:21 pm
You almost have to laugh, as Ron Paul's followers let the crazy hang out at CPAC.

Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:22:41 am
The Republican Party put anti-Federal Reserve wingnut libertarian Ron Paul in charge of overseeing the Federal Reserve, and today, for his first hearing as chairman, he called one of his friends as a witness -- neo-Confederate slavery apologist Thomas J. DiLorenzo. Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul, one of the most ...

Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 1:24:05 pm
The New York Times has some details from the federal complaint filed against Jared Lee Loughner, showing clear evidence of premeditation. In a search of Mr. Loughner's home, authorities found a note in a safe with a handwritten note saying, "I planned ahead," "My assassination," and "Giffords," as well as ...

Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:29:28 am
As expected, the Republican Party has placed Ron Paul, a pseudo-libertarian far right kook with an openly stated desire to destroy the Federal Reserve and return the US economy to the gold standard, in charge of overseeing the Federal Reserve. Also see: Ron Paul Wants to End the Fed, So the GOP ...

Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 6:36:28 pm
At Religion Dispatches, Julie Ingersoll has an excellent post on the extreme fundamentalist sect known as "Christian Reconstructionism" and its influence on the modern libertarian movement's call to destroy the Federal Reserve: Better Dead Than ‘Fed’: Behind Palin’s Dig at ‘Unbiblical’ Fed. While Ron Paul’s anti-Fed crusade is widely thought ...

Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:37:16 pm
For the past few years I've been watching Ron Paul's rise to power with a gut-wrenching sense of inevitability; despite his overtly racist newsletters, insane economic theories, and associations with extremists and conspiracy wackos of all kinds, from the John Birch Society to Alex Jones, his star just keeps rising ...

Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:57:53 am
Matt Taibbi's piece on the Tea Party does an excellent job of documenting the real forces behind this far right populist movement -- corporate interests and Republican insiders: Tea & Crackers. Early in his campaign, Dr. Paul, the son of the uncompromising libertarian hero Ron Paul, denounced Medicare as "socialized ...

Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:01:24 am
A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll has found that 71% of Republicans are Tea Party supporters, which should come as no surprise. The Tea Party "movement" has been largely an astroturf operation from the very beginning, a way to legitimize the far right of the GOP. And it's worked, as ...

Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:56:25 pm
The Louisville Courier-Journal reports that Rand Paul is a member of the totally whacked-out Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a group with an innocuous-sounding name that touts some really insane conspiracy theories: Rand Paul part of AAPS doctors’ group airing unusual views. Republican U.S. Senate nominee Rand Paul belongs ...

Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 12:19:27 pm
Alternet has a post about a ring of Tea Party conservatives on the very popular social media site Digg, who are systematically burying posts from progressive sites: Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered. I have no doubt that this is happening. But why wasn't Alternet or the left wing blogosphere equally concerned ...

Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:05:06 pm
Glenn Beck goes completely batshit crazy here, barking and ranting like a lunatic in the throes of a full-out psychotic break — and says the Obama administration is planning to murder Tea Partiers and Ron Paul supporters. Un. Freaking. Believable. Beck is crazy all the time, so you may not get it ...

Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:35:05 pm
I’ve occasionally had differences with the NAACP, but in this case they’re absolutely right — it’s long past time for Tea Party organizers to take a stand against the significant racist element in their movement: NAACP Passes Tea Party Racism Resolution. The resolution was approved in a vote by more ...

Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:49:43 am
The strange uneasy tea party coalition of Ron Paul paleo-libertarians and religious right conservatives is crumbling, as their irreconcilable differences on foreign policy emerge. (CNN) – Sarah Palin and Ron Paul are two darlings of the Tea Party movement, but their views on military spending could hardly be more different. Palin, ...

Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:48:24 am
Tea partiers and far right ideologues are angry at Rand Paul for taking GOP money. Rand Paul’s campaign manager Jesse Benton explains: The GOP primary was a battle for the direction of the party, and Paul won it with his platform of requiring balanced budgets and complete opposition to bailouts, said ...

Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:27:53 am
Here we go. In their desperation to do anything possible to obstruct financial regulatory reform, House Republicans are going to align themselves with the keynote speaker of the John Birch Society’s 50th anniversary convention — Ron Paul: GOPers To Push Fed Audit. House GOPers will make a push to audit ...

Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 6:21:22 pm
From PageOneKentucky.com, here’s a video of GOP candidate Rand Paul addressing a convention of Christian homeschoolers, and dodging a question about the age of the Earth. [Video] The questions asked by the homeschoolers in the video: 1) are you a Christian, 2) how old is the Earth, and 3) will you ...

Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:14:26 pm
Yes, this is the second post about Glenn “Manbaby” Beck today, because on his radio show he managed to top his hero-worship of Joe McCarthy, by saying that race relations went wrong “in the lead-up to the Civil War.” Because according to Beck, before that “we were moving on the right ...

Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:06:42 pm
Crazy Uncle Ron Paul continues demonstrating why his star is on the rise in the Republican Party — because he doesn’t care about the fallout. He’ll go right to the most extreme position every time, and leave the door open for the rest of the GOP to follow: Rep. Paul ...

Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:20:53 am
For some reason, New York Times writer Brian Stelter goes very easy on Judge Andrew Napolitano in this article about Napolitano’s new freakshow on Fox Business; for example, there’s no mention of the fact that Napolitano has featured conspiracy nutjob and 9/11 Truther Alex Jones as a guest on “Freedom ...