Don’t expect Obama/Romney part deux Biden is one tough cookie
Joe Biden debates Paul Ryan in the only Vice Presidential nominee debate. Biden is expert in Foreign Affairs and very learned domestically.
Joe Biden debates Paul Ryan in the only Vice Presidential nominee debate. Biden is expert in Foreign Affairs and very learned domestically.
Republicans reacted with cries of media bias when they saw this photo, but they conveniently forgot how they laughed at a 2009 Obama photo
Kirk Cameron has been stoning gays and lesbians but wants to present himself as the victim because people dared criticize his hate speech
The GOP has surrendered its platform to the most extremist elements within the Religious Right and offers a candidate who has done the same
Republicans have shown they are willing to overlook almost anything, to believe almost any lie, if it means getting rid of Barack Obama
Jack Welch caused a stir this week when he launched a conspiracy theory aimed at President Obama. Yesterday, he admitted he has no evidence
Fundamentalists are forever looking for a working equation to make same-sex attraction unnatural but the only thing unnatural is their logic
The mainstream media was quick to proclaim a Romney victory afer last night’s debate, but who really won remains to be seen
A judge ruled that Pennsylvania’s voter suppression law not be enforced this election, that those without photo IDs must be allowed to vote
Harry Jackson said he cursed the Washington Blade, a gay newspaper, out of existence. But the Blade is still there. Am I missing something?
Mitt Romney heads into the first debate at a disadvantage with the middle class according to the results of the latest USA TodayGallup poll
Joseph Farah just can’t wrap his mind around a Christianity that includes its Christ, and attacks Jim Wallis for getting Jesus right
You would think that in 2012 we’d be in a position to say goodbye to patriarchy but instead it has become the focus of the Republican Party
Innocent misunderstanding or more? A young Mormon woman says she works for the County Clerk and is only registering Romney voters
I ask David Niose, author of Nonbeliever Nation, a few questions about his book and about recent events in both America and around the world
David Niose’s timely book is not another look at the Religious Right; this call to arms is written for Secular Americans about secularism
80% of prescription medication ingredients are made overseas, mostly in China and India, yet inspection of those factories has been alarmingly inadequate.
Ralph Reed, the 90’s Evangelical Wunderkind, once disgraced, is back again mobilizing the vote he once said was mythical, for Mitt Romney
Pamela Geller disengenuously claims she does not hate all Arabs and Muslims despite paraphrasing an Ayn Rand quote which does exactly that
Mormon David Twede asked if President Romney would answer to the Mormon prophet; David Twede was interrogated and now faces excommunication
Mitt Romney wants to convince Ameicans that Obama has quit on them, perhaps to cover up the fact that he himself isn’t even really trying
In a breathtaking revision of history, we are being told that President Bush gave the Middle East ten years of peace
It’s probably needed but Obama is not going to do it, and why are we even talking about something like blasphemy? It’s so sixteenth century
It is un-American to have as a president a man who preaches religious intolerance and who promotes the idea of state-sponsored religion
Mitt Romney has never been very specific about what he would do as president to “fix” things. He just says he’d fix this and he’d fix that. The “how” is vague. Instead of specifics, we get emotion: God. Apparently, Romney will fix America’s problems by not taking “God out of the public square.” That’s what…
The fundamentalists got themselves covered now, so don’t even try to argue: if Obama wins, it’s God’s will. If Romney wins, it’s God’s will.
I blame the First Amendment. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not making excuses for bad behavior by Islamic fundamentalists or any other fundamentalists. And the First Amendment is great. It’s my favorite amendment. It’s why I can do what I do here. It’s why I can read what I read and believe what I believe…
Republicans love the socialism in National Socialism but as Hitler explained to his fellow Nazis, socialists were just “salon Bolsheviks”
The unsavory ingredients that go into making a Republican politician create a perfect storm for America and the world in 2012
Tea Party hero Joe Walsh told a diner full of old white folks that Sandra Fluke needs to get a job, equating healthcare with’entitlement
Maryland delegate Emmett Burns wrote the Baltimore Ravens demanding they silence their player, marriage equality advocate Brendon Ayanbadejo
It’s no secret the Republicans want to take us back and that Democrats want to take us forward, but isn’t Genesis a little unrealistic?
Romney, running on the same Republican policies as Bush, the same policies as McCain, hypocritically accuses Obama of having no new ideas
The Democrats missed an opportunity to take a step forward for the Founders’ vision of a secular government by putting God in their platform
Deval Patrick issued a fiery call to Democrats to rally around Obama, implying that Romney is more interested in having the job than doing it
Mitt Romney celebrated the college football season with lies about the economy and job creation and Obama told Ohioans to punt his plan away
The Republican Party wants approbation for its plutocratic principles; the Obama team counters with an America built by teamwork
The Democratic National Convention in Charlotte is being targeted by fundies as Ground Zero for acts of martyrdom and cries of persecution
Odd as Eastwood’s “Eastwooding” performance was, Mitt Romney was back stage laughing and Eastwood was praised for hitting key talking points
The Republican National Convention set new records – and lows – for blatant dishonesty and the mainstream media makes it all possible
Personhood fell victim to its own dishonesty yesterday in Colorado, even as the Romney campaign called the abortion debate a distraction
Ann Romney targeted women voters with a speech that was a mix of pure corn syrup, and blatant lies.
The Republican Dream apparently being one where children will be forced into life by Big Patriarchy but allowed to die in poverty after that
John Stemberger tosses facts aside to claim that only Christianity could create the American experience and only Christianity can save it
Most of us like a little reality in our diet, but the Republican Convention seems to be focused more on how to mainstream the crazy
We have had it drilled into us that storms are not storms – I think it’s quite obvious that Isaac is God’s answer to the Republican platform
An South Carolina Democratic Luncheon meeting attendee challenging the presence of a Republican spy, triggers a DINO defense of Republicans.
Warren says he canceled his planned forum with Obama and Romney because of incivility but the real reason was neither man was interested
Bryan Fischer is upset that his word isn’t good enough; that his Christian male voice does not invalidate a woman’s experience and science
The insincerity of GOP Akin-rebukes have become apparent with the revelation that Romney accepted the endorsement of the doctor behind Todd Akin
Last Friday, Ohio’s Secretary of State Jon Husted took the unprecedented step to preserve his block the black vote directive.
Todd Akin is running out of friends. Even an anti-abortion group wants him to quit. But his biggest loss will be Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS
Missouri Republican Todd Akin says that women who are legitimately raped don’t get pregnant and that abortion punishes the child, not the rapist
Christian end time fantasies are not limited to the world of fiction; these people get elected to office and influence, even control policy
David Barton’s Christian publisher may have dropped his book of lies and who better to save lies about a Founding Father than Glenn Beck?
Brian Fischer thinks if somebody hates a hate group that the hate group is magically no longer a hate group and wants SPLC to agree with him
Fischer strikes out monumentally when he claims Jesus was a capitalist’s capitalist with capitalism in his DNA: read the Gospels, Bryan!
Ross Douthat removes the details from the picture so he can clarify it, getting rid of all those pesky, distracting facts
Barton can’t win an argument on merits so he attempts to delegitimize critics instead by assigning them to the category of constructed “other”
Rachel Maddow shows us what a monumental mistake the Romney Campaign made in selecting the Kill Medicare Guy as his running mate
Christian Fundamentalism represents less a coherent religion than a collection of excuses and justifications for bigotry and hatred
For years we’ve been told Obama’s Christianity matters but where Romney’s Mormonism comes in, will expediency win out over dogma in 2012?
Mitt Romney is hurting in the polls, has insulted nearly everyone he’s met, and now plans to take to the road to show his blue-collar cred
David Barton found himself without a publisher Friday when Thomas Nelson pulled his books from the shelves and canceled its publication
Rather than reaching out to the Sikhs with love for love’s sake, the Southern Baptists have chosen to use love as a means of conversion
Michael Salman claims he was holding small bible studies in his home but he built a 2,000 square foot church in his backyard for 80 people
Fischer claims the the neo-Nazi Sikh temple shooter was a liberal because he was a Nazi but a glance at the rhetoric tells a different story
The issue here is hate and what it leads to. Hate kills. It is graphically and tragically that simple.
Fundamentalists are adept at constructing arguments based on cherry-picked evidence and lies of commission and omission in pursuit of a goal
Fundamentalist Christians have invented a position for their God in defense of their religion-based bigotry, but God himself never said it
A falsified passage in the New Testament leads conservative Christians to believe they have the right and obligation to convert us all to their gospel
The verdict is in: based on fundamentalist Christian response to the Democratic Party’s marriage equality platform, God is a whiny little bitch
Michele Bachmann was spanked by her party leadership but got herself appointed to an Islamophobic law center and hauled in a cool million
Romney, who wanted Detroit to go bankrupt, is angry that some auto dealers went bankrupt even though a bankrupt Detroit would have meant bankruptcy for all auto dealers
Americans for Prosperity are hauling their boy Scott Walker to D.C. to do some public Koch-sucking and World Net Daily will live-stream it
Rather than fixing its troubled public school system, Louisiana will remove standards and replace modern science with Bronze Age belief
We like people who contribute to our society, people who build, who create goods and services, who create jobs. We have a word for people who suck the life’s blood out of others: vampires. Vampires are parasites. Vampires do not sparkle. We don’t like vampires. We want to protect ourselves from them. If private equity’s…
Many victims of the Colorado shootings are facing ruinous financial debt due to expensive surgeries and rehabilitation for their wounds.
CBS’ Charlie Rose asked Cantor how his views on tolerance squared with Bachmann’s attack on Huma Abedin. Cantor’s response was illuminating
Agriculture is being threatened by the worst drought in memory. Ranchers are selling their herds and still no effective climate change bills are being passed.
Romney’s parochial GOP attitudes seem to give him an almost childlike understanding of a world that represents the evils of globalization
Ezra Klein, filling in for Rachel Maddow, gave the GOP no respite as he labeled this Congress the “do less than the do-nothing Congress” of 1947
Mitt Romney has been given credit for his role in setting up a successful health care plan for Massachusetts while he was governor. Not true
The National Organization of Marriage accuses General Mills of hypocrisy but hypocritically supports Chick-Fill-A and condemns General Mills
Michele Bachmann’s anti-Muslim witch-hunt has backfired, drawing condemnation from fellow Republicans and mockery from the Muslim Brotherhood
The Romney Time Machine is amazing: you can now be exonerated retroactively, invaliding evidence that might appear later to the contrary
Less Than One Million Moms wants to boycott NBC’s The New Normal, which features two gay parents and a surrogate mother to give them a child
The AFA says people died because we’ve lost our fear of God; more accurately, they died because we insist on misreading the Second Amendment
Gregory Nathan Peterson, a Romney supporter who had hundreds of Utah’s GOP luminaries over for BBQ, is accused of being a serial date rapist
Neil Cavuto thinks if we drill our record heat will be a problem of the past and that while our economy is sucky the climate is just ducky
Republicans have discovered that the candidate they got is not the candidate they wanted, or needed. Nevada’s ballot offers a solution
Why should the federal deficit scare us compared to an uninhabitable planet? Aren’t mountains without tops more frightening than an IUD?
The Republicans are continuing their march toward total destruction of America. Democrats are enablers through not going to the polls.
Conservative Christians love to talk about religious freedom, never quite getting that something isn’t freedom unless everyone enjoys it
Barton’s The Jefferson Lies has been criticized by scholars, but Barton won’t argue history: he’s more interested in character assassination – and his own martyrdom
Lynn Parramore turns the BDSM novel Fifty Shades of Grey into a metaphor for capitalism without having read it, creating a straw man to bash
The AFA’s Buster Wilson said a Google boycott would put his meat to the test but it was MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell who really tested his meat