Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:19:13 pm
The #2 man in the Obama administration issued a pretty solid defense of Israel today, as the rest of the world continued freaking out: Biden solidifies defense of Israel: ‘What’s the big deal here?’ “I think Israel has an absolute right to deal with its security interest. I put all ...

Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:55:36 am
Wingnut blogger Pamela “Shrieking Harpy” Geller is working herself up into a fine lather today over reports of a confrontation between Secret Service and Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam bodyguards. In Geller’s out-of-control imagination, this is proof that President Obama actually went to Chicago because he needed to meet with ...

Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:55:10 am
Rand Paul’s getting all the media attention for his ludicrous comments about the Civil Rights Act and the BP oil spill, but he is actually far from the most extreme Republican nominated last week. Meet Arthur Robinson, who won the GOP nomination for Oregon’s 4th Congressional District. Mr. Robinson is so full ...

Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:43:39 am
Today the social conservatives, creationists and religious fanatics who dominate the Texas State Board of Education are continuing their deadly serious effort to redefine the Constitution as an explicitly Christian document and stop teaching children one of the key concepts behind the United States — the separation of church and ...

Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:41:44 pm
Miami New Times writers Penn Bullock and Brandon K. Thorp have a new article on Baptist minister George “Rent Boy” Rekers and his bizarre “Feminine Boy Project.” In 1974, Rekers, a leading thinker in the so-called ex-gay movement, was presented with a 4-year-old “effeminate boy” named Kraig, whose parents had ...

Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:22:24 pm
Apparently, Hamas is having trouble getting Barack Obama to return their calls. Gaza City - Ismail Haniya, the head of the Islamist Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, has written twice to US President Barack Obama but has not received a reply, a Hamas spokesperson said on Sunday. Taher al-Nunu said ...

Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:56:24 am
OK, here’s the “Wow!” moment of the day, as the Republican Party of Maine adopts a new party platform straight from the loony bin. The official platform for the Republican Party of Maine is now a mix of right-wing fringe policies, libertarian buzzwords and outright conspiracy theories. The document calls for ...

Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:20:04 am
The longest-serving Roman Catholic bishop in Belgium has resigned after admitting he sexually abused “a young man in my close entourage.” In a statement issued by the Vatican on Friday, Roger Vangheluwe, 73, the bishop of Bruges since 1984, said that the abuse had occurred “when I was still a ...

Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:08:01 am
On his radio show today, noted rodeo clown Glenn Beck told his audience that the US government is “a child molester … raping our wallets [and] destroying our families.” [Video]

Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:22:33 pm
There’s a bill currently making its way through Connecticut’s legislature that would remove the statute of limitations for child sex abuse cases. Connecticut bishops are mobilizing to fight against it. The proposed change to the law would put “all Church institutions, including your parish, at risk,” says the letter, which was ...

Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:39:21 am
The Associated Press has obtained a 1985 letter signed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict), in which he resisted defrocking a pedophile priest because of the effect it would have on “the good of the universal church.”

Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:38:07 pm
Bad craziness is on the march in Wisconsin, where Juneau County District Attorney Scott Southworth is threatening to arrest teachers who follow a new law requiring them to instruct students on the use of contraceptives. Yes, you read that right. This district attorney is planning to prosecute teachers for obeying the ...

Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:10:54 pm
Yes, it’s another case of child abuse covered up by the Catholic Church: Vatican Declined to Pursue Accused Priest. A Catholic priest charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl in Minnesota has been allowed to continue working at a Catholic diocese in southern India despite warnings from an American bishop ...

Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:58:52 pm
Here are still more cases in which the Catholic Church allegedly refused to take action against priests who were molesting children, even after being warned repeatedly about what these monsters were doing. The abuse cases of two priests in Arizona have cast further doubt on the Catholic church’s insistence that ...

Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 6:44:52 pm
Remember when the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz labeled LGF commenters as “vile,” suggesting that blog comments need better policing? Well, now the shoe is on the other foot, as the Washington Post’s ombudsman Andrew Alexander tries to explain how the Post is handling the Internet lunatics that infest their comments: Online ...

Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 3:23:00 pm
Or so insists Italian exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, who says the Devil is inspiring all this media coverage of Catholic Church child abuse: Satan behind media attacks on the Pope, asserts Italian exorcist. Rome, Italy, Mar 31, 2010 / 11:47 am (CNA).- Noted Italian exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, commented this ...

Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:02:23 am
Jon Stewart rips CNN for hiring right wing blogger Erick Erickson; apparently, calling a Supreme Court justice a “goat-f*cking child molester” is now a good thing to have on your media resumé: CNN Hires Erick Erickson. [Video]

Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:47:44 am
Bill Donohue, head of the Catholic League, is always ready to jump in and defend the indefensible. This time it’s especially repellent as Donohue argues that since “the vast majority of the victims [of abuse by Catholic priests] were post-pubescent,” the problem is not pedophilia — but homosexuality. In some ...

Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:52:15 pm
Every day seems to bring ever more horrifying new revelations about the German Catholic school child abuse scandal. Today we learned that the German archdiocese headed by Josef Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) ignored a psychiatrist’s repeated warnings about a priest accused of molesting children, and simply let the priest ...

Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:50:32 pm
The investigations into child abuse in Germany’s Catholic schools are continuing to widen, now getting close to Pope Benedict himself, as his brother Georg Ratzinger has been implicated in covering up the systemic child abuse (with the now well-known Catholic Church practice of moving priests around to different parishes) — ...

Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 6:12:26 pm
White nationalist Richard Spencer has launched a new site to promote his “academic” brand of racism: Alternative Right - An Online Magazine of Radical Traditionalism. We’re not talking Stormfront here, with neo-Nazi troglodytes tossing around the ‘N’ word with abandon. Spencer and his cohorts are slicker than that. Their twisted breed ...

Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:41:11 pm
A Catholic preschool in Boulder Colorado has refused to admit a child with gay parents. What can you even say about an appalling story like this? Punishing the innocent doesn’t seem like something Jesus would have approved of. BOULDER, Colo. — A preschooler is caught in the middle of a fight ...

Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 1:52:32 pm
Does this qualify as a mild form of child abuse: teaching children to distrust science and believe lies? I think it does. I don’t believe it’s appropriate to try to stop these parents (through legislation) from destroying their children’s ability to think critically, but it’s not hard to make a case ...

Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 6:02:51 pm
Here we go again, with yet another horrifying child sex abuse scandal involving the Catholic Church — this time in Germany: German Catholic schools at center of abuse scandal. The first accusers came forward a month ago in Berlin. Since then, the list of schools and victims who say they ...

Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:56:50 pm
Reports of the death of Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (aka Satan’s Browser) may have been greatly exaggerated. Today was supposed to be a great day for the Web. As of March 1, 2010, Google will no longer support Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 browser—a decade-old dinosaur engineered to navigate the Web ...