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Ann Coulter Says Immigrants Will Rape and Impregnate Your Little Girls
Apparently, women are not already sexually abused in Ann Coulter’s America. Maybe she needs to get out more.
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Ann Coulter’s Appalling Demographic Engineering
Ann Coulter thinks it’s “Adios America” unless we can keep out overweight women, the physically disabled, and the visually impaired
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Yale Instructor David Brooks Says “Campus Crusaders” Are Moral Zealots, Anti-Free Speech
In a post-9/11 world, self-styled “moderate” conservative and New York Times Op-Ed columnist David Brooks has carved out a cottage industry conflating morality with anti-liberal politics. To be fair to Brooks, this has been a good business opportunity afforded by the “Do as I say, not as I do” public hypocrisy of the modern conservative…
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Reject the Absolute Moral Corruption of the Republican Cult
The GOP is nothing more than a modern, reactionary cult designed to give religious justification for willful ignorance,bigotry, and bad behavior
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Lindsey Graham Says Rand Paul Nomination Would Put Him Into a Coma
With an almost comedic and absolute lack of self-awareness, Lindsey Graham claims Rand Paul is the GOP’s looming disaster
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Scott Walker Self-Destructs By Suggesting That Ultrasounds Are Like Selfies
While trying to justify his 2013 law that forces women to undergo a medically unnecessary and costly ultrasound before they can exercise their constitutionally-protected freedom, Walker compared ultrasounds to selfies.
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Limbaugh is Wrong: Gay Activists Didn’t Kill Christianity – Christianity Did
Rush Limbaugh blames gay activists for Christianity’s demise even while he is one of the people driving Americans away from organized religion
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White Religious Conservatives Feel Persecuted But They’re Not the Ones Found Hanging from Trees
We need to call out the appalling in our midst. And we should never, ever, apologize for telling the truth about them
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Jeb Bush Calls President Obama Intolerant On Religious Freedom
Speaking at Liberty University, Jeb Bush accused President Obama of being small-minded and intolerant on issues of “religious freedom.”
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Boehner and McConnell Balance Their Budget on the Backs of the American People
Republicans are making much of their “balanced” budget but this “work harder for less” budget is not really balanced at all
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Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert Latches Onto Loopy Jade Helm Conspiracy Theory
Texas GOP Congressman Louie Gohmert issued a statement on May 5, 2015, that gives voice to the bizarre Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theory.
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Muslim-Hating Pamela Geller Exploits Texas Shooting To Spread Her Toxic Ideology
The shooting just became a great recruiting tool for expanding Geller’s intolerant army of Muslim-hating Americans.
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Sarah Palin Says President Obama is Flirting With the Devil
Sarah Palin warns that in his dealings with Iran that Obama is flirting with the devil…but wait…isn’t Obama the devil?
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Senate No-Show Cruz Criticizes Evangelicals Who Didn’t Show in 2008 and 2012
2016 may be the Year the mainstream media is surprised to discover there are actual Christians out there – and they don’t vote Republican.
Pat Robertson Says if We Keep Mocking Him, God Will Smack Us Down
There are a whole bunch of fundamentalists who are upset we don’t take them seriously, which means, of course, that I will keep mocking them
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Scott Walker Talks Up GOP Common Sense While Proving He Has None in NH Speech
Walker throws facts and history to the wind as he talks up a fantasy GOP with common sense that nowhere exists and has no chance of existing
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Up Close And Personal: Why Democrats Keep Losing The South
Southern Republican candidates have nothing to fear from the Southern Democratic electorate if my recent, highly distasteful experience, is a harbinger of things to come.
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Sean Hannity Helps Rand Paul Find Excuses For the Things He Used to Believe
Ah, the comforting embrace of Sean Hannity, where “that was then” is answer enough to questions about issues that affect millions
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Religious Right: GOP Will Never Win Presidency if They Soften Gay Rights Stance
The Religious Right thinks, despite all the evidence, that doubling down on anti-gay bigotry will have better results than Indiana
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Ted Cruz Will Run First Campaign Ads During “Killing Jesus” Program On Easter Weekend
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz will launch his first Campaign ads for the 2016 presidential campaign during Easter Weekend.
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Conservative Defense of Indiana’s Hateful RFRA is Awash in a Sea of Lies
Republican and Religious Right damage-control over Indiana’s RFRA is chaotic and entertaining, and as dishonest as the day is long
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GOP Presidential Contenders Kowtow To Religious Right, Support Discriminatory Indiana Law
Republican presidential contenders are lining up to defend Indiana’s discriminatory “religious freedom” law.
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Ben Carson Knows Nothing About Foreign Policy, Unaware Baltic States Part Of NATO
America needs a diplomat on the world stage, not a myopic neurosurgeon whose eyes glaze over when you show him a map of Europe.
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Extremist Conservatives Echo The Dangerous Movements of Decades Past
There is a gross misconception among the people and pundits alike that extremism in the Republican Party is limited to one wing of the conservative movement.
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Conservatives Tarnish Their Brand Further By Putting Duck Dynasty Clown On Stage At CPAC
In his long speech, Robertson warned that America was becoming sick from STDs and that wherever Jesus is missing, murder follows.
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Republican Congressman Peter King Slams Self-Righteous Delusional Wing Of His Party
Appearing on Luke Russert’s online MSNBC TV program, Shift, New York Congressman Peter King (R) slammed fellow House Republicans for not simply banding together to pass a clean funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. King made it clear that he was fed up with Tea Party Republicans playing politics with Homeland Security funding….
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Marco Rubio Flip Flops On Immigration Reform, Recasts Himself As Border Hawk At CPAC
Friday morning, at CPAC, Senator Rubio told an audience that he had learned that his previous support for immigration reform was a mistake.
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CPAC: Icky Brown People Are Destroying our Country
Republicans have sold their souls, assuming they have any, to white nationalists who believe mixing races is rebellion against God
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While GOP Candidates Pander To The Right At CPAC, Hillary Still Leads All 2016 Matchups
A PPP poll, released on the eve of CPAC, shows Hillary Clinton leading the entire GOP field by margins of 7 to 10 percentage points.
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Jon Stewart Goes To Town On Fox News For Being “Chronically Angry” About Liberalism
During Wednesday night’s broadcast of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart lit into longtime nemesis Fox News for waging a “chronically angry war for ideological purity.”
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57% Of Republicans Say Dismantle Constitution And Make Christianity National Religion
A PPP poll found that 57 percent of Republicans want to dismantle the Constitution and establish Christianity as the national religion
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Trapped Rat Bill O’Reilly Completely Cracks Up As He Threatens New York Times Reporter
In an interview with the New York Times Monday evening, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly personally threatened a reporter over the paper’s coverage of the controversy surrounding O’Reilly’s claims that he was in a war zone when he covered protests in Buenos Aires in 1982.
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After Scott Walker Flubs Easy Questions, Conservative Pundit Claims Walker Is Doing Just Fine
Neoconservative pundit and Iraq War apologist Bill Kristol appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Monday morning to take part in a panel discussion on a number of issues, including potential GOP Presidential candidate Scott Walker’s recent flubs of easy questions surrounding President Obama’s patriotism and the theory of evolution.
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Bill O’Reilly Scandal Grows As 8th Former Colleague Calls His War Coverage Claims Absurd
Yet another of Bill O’Reilly’s former colleagues from CBS News disputes his active war zone claims. Even back then, his colleagues thought he was “grandstanding” and called his description of his reporting “absurd.”
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The Mainstream Media Sides With Fox News By Refusing To Investigate Bill O’Reilly’s War Lies
The media is doing their best to avoid examining Bill O’Reilly’s claims that he was on the ground in combat in a war zone when he was actually in Buenos Aires.
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Bill O’Reilly’s Call for Holy War Just Articulates What the Right Has Been Doing All Along
We’ve been victims of holy war for decades. This just turns attention from our own women, children and poor to Muslim women, children and poor
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Marco Rubio Laughingly Accuses Obama’s Policies of Being Bad for the Nation
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) tried to walk a finer line when asked to respond to Giuliani’s remarks. He demonstrated how to be weak and spineless while playing more subtly with Palin fire.
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Why We Can’t Let Jeb Bush Pretend His Brother’s Wars Never Happened
Jeb doesn’t realize how critical it is he convince us he is not his brother, because the more you listen to him, the more alike they sound
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Nothing Says Patriotism Like Celebrating Lincoln’s Assassination
The League of the South “thanks Mr. Booth for his service to the South and to humanity” for his “execution of the tyrant Abraham Lincoln”
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The Kochs Plan to Buy the 2016 Election for $889 Million
The Kochs are ready to outspend the Republican Party in putting forth candidates THEY approve of in 2016, like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz
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Sarah Palin Knows How to Beat Hillary – Accuse Her of a Bunch of Stuff!
“You know, reverse them. It is they who point a finger who don’t realize they have triple that number of fingers pointing right back at them”
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Obama’s Brilliant State of the Union Wasted On Stupid Anti-Government Americans
For the past seven years President Barack Obama has delivered prescient State of the Union speeches that should appeal to the majority of Americans regardless of their party affiliation except for one small detail; he represents the federal government.
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The Incomprehensibly Stupid Things Said by Republicans in 2014
Shubhranshu Choudhary says “Journalism has to become everyone’s business,” but Fox News says journalism is nobody’s business, including, especially, their own
CNN Suddenly Seems to Notice Republican Reliance on Religious Right
CNN is reporting that the GOP moves early to court conservative Christians. We are told that, “The first votes of the 2016 campaign won’t be cast for another year but there’s already a race well underway: The Christian primary.” Republicans are actively courting white evangelical and born again Christian voters, knowing they will be crucial…
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More Heartache Around the Corner for God’s Own Party in 2016
Where once three-quarters had been Protestants alone, now barely three quarters are even Christian, and the numbers continue to drop
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Thanks, Obama! Economy Surges Forward As GDP Growth Fastest In More Than A Decade
The federal government reported Friday that real GDP growth rose by 5.0% for the third quarter of 2014, marking the fastest growth in any quarter since 2003.
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Media Matters Names George F. Will Misinformer of the Year
Will’s most egregious sin may have been his “attacking and dismissing rape victims” but climate denialism and ethical lapses also dogged him
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Ben Carson’s Embarrassingly Stupid Attack on Obamacare
Ben Carson thinks Obamacare is unconstitutional because it doesn’t help everybody. The only problem with that is that it DOES help everybody
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Drudge Suggests Obama Blackmailed Boehner to Get Funding Bill Passed
Because he can’t admit to the most likely explanation, insanity in his own party, Matt Drudge tweets the least likely explanation, blackmail
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RNC Allies with Christian Nationalist Who Calls U.S. Constitution “the Wrong Train”
David Lane, never mentioned by the MSM, is a big supporter of Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry, Mike Pence, and Ted Cruz
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No Texas Messiah: A Requiem for Rick Perry
Rick Perry is another in a growing collection of GOP banditti. In the old days, the Texas Rangers would have been hunting him down. In today’s Texas, he was their boss
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Mama We’re All Crazy Now – A Michele Bachmann Retrospective
Bachmann’s flight from Dana Bash is a metaphor for an endless flight from reality, which pretty much describes her entire time in Congress
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Republican Staffer Elizabeth Lauten Loses Her Job After Attacking Obama’s Daughters
GOP staffer and former RNC media director Elizabeth Lauten lost her job after an ugly rant against the Obama daughters.
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Blame Reagan For America’s Persecution Complex, Victim Mentality and Decline
Conservatives in the 21st Century, from Republicans to Koch-libertarians have embraced, perpetuated, and transformed Reagan’s extremist language into party policy to great success with their claims that America is destined for a “thousand years of darkness” unless conservatives destroy government tyranny.
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Rick Perry Getting Ready to Inflict Himself on America in 2016
Rick Perry is putting together a 2016 run that is certain to fail as spectacularly as his ill-fated 2012 run
The Cloyingly Sweet Rot of Nationalism
Love of country should never be fueled hate. It should be sufficient unto itself, desirable for its own sake. It should be its own end, not an excuse
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Pat Buchanan Says Democrats Have Forced GOP to Become Party of White People
Pat Buchanan presents an America where Republicans are the black voter’s best friend and where whites are forced to be Republicans by racist leftist politics
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The Mainstream Media is Culpable in the Murder of American Democracy
Democrats are now people who can have our heads held under water until we stop breathing, who can be “made to squeal,” not like pigs and the media will remain silent
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Sarah Palin Puts McConnell On Notice And Places Republicans On The Path To Destruction
With an eye on a two year gravy train, Palin put the GOP on notice; she’ll be trolling them for the next two years.
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You Are Voting for Democracy or Theocracy in the 2014 Midterms
Jody Hice’s new “Big Idea” is that state-sponsored religion, forbidden by the First Amendment, will put an end to government tyranny.
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Nondisparagement Clauses and the Path to GOP Corporatist Tyranny
If our elected government is replaced by a board of directors, is it far-fetched to think corporate nondisparagement clauses might trump our freedom of speech?
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For the Love of America, Ignore Republican Fear-Mongering and Vote
Not believing in reality doesn’t make you immune to it. Republicans will just blame the nearest Democrat, but all of us will have to deal with the fall-out
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The Support of Sarah Palin and the Koch Brothers Backfires and Brings Down Joni Ernst
By more than 2-1, the Koch Brothers affiliation hurts Joni Ernst with voters in Iowa. They are equally unimpressed by Sarah Palin’s support for the Republican.
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After Doing Nothing for Six Years, Republicans Claim We Need More…Republicans
We are supposed to believe that “Republicans are working to create jobs for Americans. Democrats are working to save their own.”
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Pat Roberts of Kansas Goes All Tea Party and Warns of National Socialism
Losing at the polls in Kansas to independent candidate and X-Factor Chad Orman, incumbent Republican Sen. Pat Roberts is pulling out all stops. That means campaigning with 91-year-old former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole at Dodge City event in what Philip Rucker of the Washington Post styled a “geriatric rescue mission” – and if that…
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Fumbling Toward War: The GOP’s Foreign Policy of Hate
Republican foreign policy is a tortured and terrifying admixture of religious dogmatism, political ideology, and corporate thirst for profit
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Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly Doubles Down On His Claim That White Privilege Is A ‘Big Lie’
Tuesday night, Bill O’Reilly decided he needed to whitesplain to everybody, but especially blacks, why white privilege does not exist and how too many African-Americans are using it as an excuse to not take any responsibility for their lives.
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Rick Perry Takes a Break from Bullying Texans to Attack Obama
At a Republican gathering in New Hampshire, Perry took time to attack Obama for the economy his party destroyed and has done nothing to fix
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Republicans Embrace Bizarre Conspiracy That Obama Is Behind Immigrant Surge
During the Thursday broadcast of his radio show, right-wing mouthpiece Rush Limbaugh discussed the possibility that President Obama is responsible for the surge of immigrants coming in from Central America in recent months.
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Ahead Of Midterm Elections, GOP’s Message Appears To Be One Of Racism And Hatred
Two recent events have brought out the Republican Party’s inner racist demon — the GOP’s Senate primary runoff election in Mississippi and the current crisis at the border involving migrant children from Central America.
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Sarah Palin Wants President Obama Impeached For Following A Law Passed By Republicans
In an ‘exclusive’ article for Breitbart.com, the former half-term Governor of Alaska wrote that the President needs to be removed from office due to the crisis at the border involving tens of thousands of refugees, most of them children, who are trying to escape violent conditions in Central America.
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Chris McDaniel Insists Thad Cochran Abandoned Christian Values by Appealing to Black Voters
It’s not Christian, McDaniels whines, to remind black people that he hates them. It’s not Christian to reach out to black voters.
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Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly Claims A Liberal SCOTUS Will Lead To Slavery And Loss Of Freedom
During Monday night’s broadcast of Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly discussed the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision with fellow Fox News host Megyn Kelly.
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Warmongering Neocon Bill Kristol Gets Raked Over The Coals Regarding His Iraq Stance
During Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Bill Kristol was absolutely destroyed over his opinion that the United States needs to deploy thousands of troops to Iraq and re-engage in a combat mission.
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The Reality Is That There Is No Difference Between Republican and Tea Party Candidates
One would be hard-pressed to find any difference whatsoever between Republicans and their teabagger cohort except their willingness to openly state their goals.
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Fox News’ Lauren Ashburn Says It’s Not Fair to Blame Fox News for Misinformation
Lauren Ashburn says it’s not Fox News that spread misinformation but paid contributors and that Fox News is therefore free of blame
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Much To Fox News’ Chagrin, Majority Of Republican Voters Support Immigration Reform
A poll released Tuesday by the Public Religion Research Institute shows that a large majority of Americans support a path to citizenship for immigrants who are in the United States illegally.
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Thomas B. Edsall Gives Voice to Rare Breed: GOP Defectors
For years now, we’ve watched the Republican Party degrade from a once viable conservative response to liberal philosophy, into an apocalyptic crazy town where thinking and humanity go to die.
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The Unhinged Conservative Reaction to Obama’s Foreign Policy Speech at West Point
Diplomacy may not be as profitable as war (Cheney’s Haliburton made $39.5 billion off the Iraq war alone), but our lives should not be seen as playthings of the 1 percent
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Allegations of Divine Kickbacks as Tom DeLay Takes up God’s Cause
DeLay has convinced himself that we are sick of “same-sex marriage and abortion” and fed up with politicians who have “pushed God out of the public sphere.”
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Chris Christie Wants a More Aggressive Foreign Policy in Very Messy, Difficult Places
Acting as though he would know right from wrong, Christie said America is “the strongest moral power for what is good and what is right in the world.”
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Media Laughably Calls Sarah Palin’s Thinly Veiled Obama Hate Foreign Policy Criticism
Media reported on Sarah Palin’s ugly mocking of the Michelle Obama and the Obama administration for using “‘hashtagging tweets’ as foreign policy”.
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Tea Party’s Latest Plan To Get Millions To March On Washington Will Be A Comedic Failure
This weekend, a far-right, anti-government group calling itself Patriots For America, plans to organize a ‘huge’ march on Washington, D.C. The march is supposed the be the first phase of a plan they are calling Operation American Spring.
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Right Wingers Rebel Against Fox News And Demand A New Tea Party Driven Network
On Tuesday, Lord Christopher Monckton, a contributor for World Net Daily, penned an article for the far-right website complaining about the mainstream media and how it is too far to the left. He suggests a new far-right network.
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Clarence Thomas Says Race Was Less of an Issue in Jim Crow Georgia
Clarence Thomas claims that the issue of race did not come up much in 1960s Georgia, and that today people are too sensitive about race.
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Did God Harden Barack Obama’s Heart or Did He Make Joseph Farah Stupid?
What Farah demands from Obama is that the president set aside the United States Constitution and embrace an imaginary Bible in its place
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Republican Denialism and the Ugly Truth About Income Inequality
“The widening divide in incomes between the poor and rich poses the most likely threat to the global economy over the next decade” according to the World Economic Forum
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No, Conservatives, Bullies are Not the Victims
Isn’t it a wee bit hypocritical to cry for tolerance of your own intolerance?
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The Religious Right Champions Moral Relativism in Defense of Phil Robertson
All this fuss about Phil Robertson comes down to the Religious Right’s insistence that they have a right to say nobody else has rights
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Don’t Miss Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day Tomorrow
“The purpose of this event is to spark a campus-wide discussion about the issue of illegal immigration, and how it affects our everyday lives”
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Ted Cruz is Attending David Barton’s Conference for State Legislators
Barton is not a scientist. He is not a historian. He pretends to be a constitutional scholar but has no law degree. So why is Ted Cruz listening to him?
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Sarah Palin Sees Angry Atheists Armed with Attorneys but Can She See Russia?
“The war on Christmas is just the tip of the spear in a larger battle to marginalize expressions of faith and make America’s true religious freedom just a thing of the past,”
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Tea Party Insists that Extremist Ken Cuccinelli Not Extreme Enough
The Richmond Tea Party says Cuccinelli hasn’t taken a sufficient stand against “Obamacare, immigration, and moral decline.”
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Glenn Beck Vows to Destroy Muslim-Lover Grover Norquist
Beck says he will reveal the “background and workings” of Norquist and this is “just the beginning.” Oooooh. Beckian ominous with icing on top
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Alex Castellanos Accuses Democrats of Being the Extremists
Republican strategist Alex Castellanos took to a CNN op-ed to accuse the Democrats of extremism, asking “Are Democrats more extreme than the GOP?” The answer seems obvious. No. But Castellanos seems to think refusing to bow to the demands of extortionists and economic terrorists makes you an extremist. That’s funny, because when the U.S. stands…
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The Tea Party Adds the GOP to its List of Enemies to be Destroyed
The Heritage Foundation’s Tim Chapman says, “We have an opportunity to take over the party and it will be in the next election.”
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Castro Wannabe Ted Cruz Wins Valueless Voters Straw Poll
Ted Cruz was the winner of the yearly “theogasm,” being nominated the man best equipped to destroy America’s experiment in democracy
Hate Spewing Family Research Council Asks, Why So Angry, Bro?
After years of conservatives demonizing liberalism and progressivism, atheists, Muslims, environmentalists, Pagans, moderate Christians, and, especially, members of the LGBT community, the Family Research Council is acting like they don’t understand why people are so angry. Senior Vice President Rob Schwarzwalder seems to be asking, “Why so angry, bro?” when he writes: So, the Left…
As Shutdown Continues, a Traitors’ Bromance is in the Air
Tony Perkins said, ‘I think they are acting heroic, I think they are heroes. They are along the lines of the patriots who founded this nation’
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Left-Leaning American Majority Sees Views Consistently Ignored
The mistakes legislators make tend to fall in one direction, giving U.S. politics a rightward tilt compared to what most voters say they want
