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October 2013

October 25, 2013

Badass Quote of the Day

I love the first paragraph of this editorial from the Salt Lake Tribune about a...

October 25, 2013

Russell Moore’s Bad Arguments on Legislative Prayer

Russell Moore is the guy who replaced Richard Land as the head of the Southern...

October 25, 2013

‘Psychic’ Bus Driver Fired After ‘Premonitions’

A bus driver in Scotland who thought he was psychic has been fired for refusing...

October 25, 2013

Adelson Wants to Nuke Iran Now

Sheldon Adelson, the multi-billionaire casino magnate who spent more than $100 million in 2012 supporting...

October 25, 2013

Cuccinelli Loves Him Some Gun Owners of America

With Ken Cuccinelli running a consistent 8-10 points down in the polling in his race...

October 25, 2013

Garrow: Obama Killed Breitbart, Hastings, Clancy

The right wing ecosystem is teeming with all sorts of weird life forms. The fever...

October 25, 2013

Swanson: Hillary Clinton Destroying African Families

Kevin Swanson of Generations Radio seems intent on topping his own staggering record of stupidity...

October 25, 2013

Camenker Brings the Stupid

Brian Camenker of MassResistance is, even by Christian right standards, a ridiculously ignorant and bigoted...

October 25, 2013

Schlafly Freaks Out About Kids Thinking

You can always count on Phyllis Schlafly to have a hysterical overreaction to nearly everything,...

October 25, 2013

Apparently, Marriage and Family Are Gone in Maine

The Illinois Family Institute is working overtime to prevent the state legislature from passing a...

October 25, 2013

Gordo Runs for Office

Our old friend Gordon Klingenschmitt is running for public office! He announced that he is...

October 24, 2013

Syria Chemical Weapons Deal Proceeding Well

I think President Obama got pretty lucky in Syria when his saber rattling ended up...

October 24, 2013

Another Poll Full of Bad News for the GOP

Now that the shutdown is over, at least for a few months, the polling data...

October 24, 2013

Another Stansberry Con Job

Frank Porter Stansberry, the get-rich-quick con man who sometimes writes for the Worldnetdaily and offers...

October 24, 2013

Schneier on the NSA’s Absurd Rationalizations

The Obama administration's argument for why it's okay to collect everyone's electronic communications (like the...

October 24, 2013

Wingnut on Wingnut Crime: DeMar vs Norquist

One of the most persistent narratives the far right likes to push is the notion...

October 24, 2013

Billy Graham: It’s the End Times All Over Again

Billy Graham, the vastly overpraised evangelist and world-class bigot (listen to him call Jews the...

October 24, 2013

MO Bigot Throws Fit Over GSA T-Shirt

Nixa, Missouri, a suburb of Springfield, where Skepticon is held each year, is home to...

October 24, 2013

Why Coming Out Matters

In the wake of Oprah's ignorant comments about atheists not having awe and wonder about...

October 24, 2013

Bryan Fischer Can’t Do Math

You have to watch the video below. I promise you, it's hilarious. A caller to...

October 24, 2013

Robertson: Liberalism Leads to Nazis

Pat Robertson delivered on of his standard-issue diatribes against liberalism and humanism, which of course...

October 24, 2013

Rod Parsley on Satan and Abraham’s Holy Sperm

Rod Parsley cracks me up. Always has, since the first time I saw him nearly...

October 24, 2013

The Essential Emptiness of ‘Judicial Activism’

This is an edited reposting of something I wrote in 2006 about the concept of...

October 23, 2013

Religion in the NY Times Letters to the Editor

The New York Times recently published a piece by Tracy Luhrmann, a Stanford anthropologist, entitled...

October 23, 2013

Swanson, Buehner Rail Against…Girl Scout Cookies

Kevin Swanson and Dave Buehner, two of the fringiest and most extreme voices -- okay,...

October 23, 2013

TX Judge Switches Parties With Eloquent Statement

Judge Carlo Key, presiding judge of the Bexar, Texas County Criminal Court, ran for his...

October 23, 2013

Former Kansas AG Suspended by Court

You may vaguely remember Phillip Kline as the former Kansas attorney general who was absolutely...

October 23, 2013

Wiles: House Stenographer a Prophet

The husband of House stenographer Dianne Reidy, Dan, is making the rounds of the wingnut...

October 23, 2013

Ted Cruz’ 2016 Campaign Bus

It appears that Ted Cruz has already ordered the campaign bus for 2016:

October 23, 2013

Seriously, Inhofe?

Every day I write about this stuff, but I still find it astonishing how brazenly...

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