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May 2012

May 18, 2012

How the Courts Have Undermined Gitmo Rulings

I interviewed Daphne Eviatar for my radio show this week. Daphne is a former AINN...

May 18, 2012

Another Man Must Hide from Iranian Barbarism

Apparently Salman Rushdie's novels aren't the only thing that makes the Iranian ayatollahs into a...

May 18, 2012

Bachmann Lies to Raise Money

Michele Bachmann is running for reelection to her seat in Congress and she's telling a...

May 18, 2012

Wingnut on Wingnut Crime: Geller vs O’Reilly

Pop the popcorn kids, it's wingnut on wingnut crime time again. This time it's uber-wingnut...

May 18, 2012

VA Bigots Block Gay Judge

You remember Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall, don't you? He's the wingnut who threw a fit...

May 18, 2012

Barton Passes on Myth at Capitol Prayer Meeting

A group of serious wingnuts recently held a prayer rally in Statuary Hall in the...

May 18, 2012

Michele Bachmann’s Even Crazier Mentor

Mother Jones has an article about Allen Quist, the guy who gave Michele Bachmann her...

May 18, 2012

Heartland Loses More Corporate Donors

It seems that the Heartland Institute's monumentally idiotic and slanderous billboard campaign comparing global warming...

May 18, 2012

Would Romney Be Better on Medical Marijuana?

Scott Morgan has an article in the Huffington Post about Obama's terrible record on medical...

May 18, 2012

One of Romney’s Many Positions on Marriage Equality

As with every other issue, Mitt Romney has been all over the map on marriage...

May 18, 2012

Texas Being Taken Over by Sharia Law!

Itamar Gelbman is a Republican candidate for Congress from Texas and he's been talking loud...

May 18, 2012

Cameron Goes Full Bigot

Paul Cameron has always been the most extreme kind of anti-gay nut. In fact, he's...

May 17, 2012

Three Cheers for the Grand Rapids Mayor

Grand Rapids may be known as the epicenter of the religious right -- and it...

May 17, 2012

Religious Frauds Don’t Get More Brazen Than This

On Tuesday I received an email to my freethoughtblogs.com email address from The Prayer Connection....

May 17, 2012

Romney Advisers Leak to the Times

David Sanger of the New York Times published an article over the weekend that must...

May 17, 2012

Asset Forfeiture Madness in Tennessee

I've written for years about the astonishing abuses brought on by the civil asset forfeiture...

May 17, 2012

Farah: God’s Gonna Get Us!

There are few things more amusing to me than when wingnuts declare that God is...

May 17, 2012

Star Parker Flames Out

You've probably heard of Star Parker before. She was a walking symbol of everything the...

May 17, 2012

Appeals Court Allows Private Contractor Suit to Continue

In a very important ruling, an en banc panel of the 4th Circuit Court of...

May 17, 2012

Ron Paul Ends Campaign

The last remaining active campaign for the Republican presidential nomination is closing up shop. Ron...

May 17, 2012

Catholicism and Marriage Equality

Andrew Sullivan, himself a gay Catholic, notes that a new Gallup poll has some interesting...

May 17, 2012

Did Obama Push Romney to the Right?

Another interesting side effect of President Obama's tepid support for marriage equality is that it...

May 17, 2012

Whitehead on Voter ID Laws

Another example of why, despite some disturbing positions in cases like the Freshwater situation, I...

May 17, 2012

Kansas Passes Anti-Sharia Bill

The Kansas state Senate passed SB 79, one of the many anti-Sharia and anti-foreign law...

May 16, 2012

Derbyshire Goes Full White Supremacist

Having finally been ejected by the National Review, John Derbyshire has moved into new digs...

May 16, 2012

Mikey Gets Email. Again.

I've reprinted lots of email messages sent to Mikey Weinstein over the last couple years,...

May 16, 2012

Kenyan Muslims Unhappy With Obama

If wingnuts had any ability to recognize their own contradictions, this article would cause some...

May 16, 2012

USCIRF Criticizes Kuwait’s New Blasphemy Bill

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a statement strongly criticizing a bill passed...

May 16, 2012

How Michigan’s Emergency Manager Law Guarantees Corruption

One of the arguments raised by people like me against Michigan's authoritarian and anti-democratic emergency...

May 16, 2012

Santorum: Romney Should Obsess Over Sex Like Me

Rick Santorum has some advice for Mitt Romney. Unsurprisingly, that advice is that Romney should...

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