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October 11, 2013

Please Don’t Pass On Atwill’s Nonsense

My Facebook feed suddenly filled up on Wednesday with links to a press release saying...

October 11, 2013

Lane Demands Mandatory Prayer in Schools

David Lane, the Christian right kingmaker of the Republican party, sent an email to his...

October 11, 2013

The Blaze on Biblical Stoning

Glenn Beck's The Blaze website is trying its hand at Biblical exegesis, with predictable results....

October 11, 2013

Wiles: Shutdown is Racist Plot Against White People

Rick Wiles of TruNews has once again managed to rise above the din of the...

October 11, 2013

Ted Cruz: Greatest American Alive or Greatest Man Ever?

As Ted Cruz manages to make a fool of himself on the national stage (and...

October 11, 2013

Scalia and the Devil

One of the stranger exchanges during Justice Scalia's interview with Jennifer Senior in New York...

October 10, 2013

Robertson Gets Testy Over Question

The segment of the 700 Club when Pat Robertson answers questions from readers is usually...

October 10, 2013

The Myth of the Passive Conservative

Right wing frat boy superstar James O'Keefe, in an interview with Phyllis Schlafly's niece Anne...

October 10, 2013

Dear Gordon: Gays Don’t Want You Participating in Sex Life

Our old friend Gordon Klingenschmitt is seeing demonic spirits again, this time claiming that the...

October 10, 2013

ACLU Challenges Religious School Assembly in Maine

Here's yet another example of a school bringing in an outside group to put on...

October 10, 2013

More Hitler Comparisons

I've long said that, as bad as some of our federal legislators are, the dumbest,...

October 10, 2013

Those D-List Conservative Celebrities

The Worldnetdaily, already home to Chuck Norris, Pat Boone and Victoria Jackson, is positively giddy...

October 10, 2013

Dammit Wolf, I’m a Doctor Not a Rational Person

Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia, one of the most far-right House members who is now...

October 10, 2013

Corrupt Prosecutors Given Anonymity

Radley Balko continues his excellent reporting on our appalling criminal justice system with an article...

October 10, 2013

Shapiro Launches New Scam

Ben Shapiro, the reason-averse editor of Breitbart's zombie website and one of wingnuttia's boy wonders,...

October 10, 2013

Watch Out Canada, Glenn Beck Might be Coming

A warning to my Canadian friends: Glenn Beck, who thinks Obama is a "Marxist revolutionary"...

October 10, 2013

Scalia and the 9th Amendment

This is the second in a series of posts examining some of Justice Scalia's statements...

October 10, 2013

Glenn Beck’s ‘Progressive Dishwasher’

Glenn Beck, who absurdly claims to dismiss conspiracy theorists, is always on the lookout for...

October 09, 2013

Bachmann: Obama Bringing On the End Times

Michele Bachmann went on Jan Markell's radio show, which focuses on end times prophecies, and...

October 09, 2013

Yoho Thinks Default Would be Great

Rep. Ted Yoho is one of the new class of Tea Party Republicans in Congress...

October 09, 2013

Truckers Plan to Arrest Obama, Legislators

I knew that a bunch of truckers were planning to go to Washington, DC for...

October 09, 2013

Why the Tea Party Won’t Compromise

Ezra Klein has an interview with Christopher Parker, a political scientist and the author of...

October 09, 2013

State Judge Admonished for Refusing to Perform Gay Marriages

A state judge in Washington was admonished for refusing to perform same-sex weddings in his...

October 09, 2013

Scalia’s Convenient Originalism

Jennifer Senior has a fascinating interview with Justice Antonin Scalia in New York magazine. I...

October 09, 2013

Growing Up Bircher

Rick Perlstein has a fascinating article about Claire Conner, who grew up with parents who...

October 09, 2013

Cruz Still Serving Up the Koolaid

Public opinion may be strongly against him and even most of his Republican colleagues may...

October 09, 2013

NOM Continues to Delude Itself

The National Organization for Marriage has a real problem. Public opinion has shifted massively on...

October 09, 2013

Fischer: Obama Wants to Arrest WWII Veterans

Bryan Fischer turns the right wing demagoguery up to 11 by claiming that President Obama...

October 09, 2013

Beck: No Cursive Writing Enslaves Children

Glenn Beck's latest inane conspiracy theory is that if the schools don't teach cursive writing...

October 09, 2013

Spewing Creationist Nonsense Like It’s 1999

With the filing of a lawsuit to prevent the teaching of evolution in Kansas, I...

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