Why Progressives Can Make My Head Explode
Progressivism, like conservatism, is about regulating our lives. But I’m a liberal; I’m all about liberty, so leave my choices alone
Progressivism, like conservatism, is about regulating our lives. But I’m a liberal; I’m all about liberty, so leave my choices alone
The numbers don’t lie: they didn’t lie on Election Night, and they do not lie in the longer run when they prove that America is becoming more, not less progressive.
Conservatives are dreaming of a ‘white’ Christmas, and that is all Christmas really is to them: a means to an end that has no role for Jesus
Gary Bray, Republican Party chairman in Washington County, Oregon, called liberalism an ‘atheistic cult’ which seeks ‘utopian enslavement’
A federal district judge has issued a temporary injunction against a new California law banning gay conversion therapy, while a second federal judge has refused to block the ban.
When West Point hosted its first gay marriage this past weekend, the Religious Right went bananas, talking about moral cliffs and decadence
Even when compared to 2012’s other conservative ranters and spewers, a sour-faced lot if there ever was one, Muslim-baiter Pamela Geller stands out.
In India, you can apparently be charged with blasphemy for pointing out that a statue of Jesus is not, in fact, crying.
Glenn Beck takes the new Egyptian Constitution as an opportunity to push his UN conspiracy and to predict a US dictator within 5 years
“All I want for Christmas is to kill it,” seems to be the song conservatives think liberals sing each and every holiday season. Fox News has made a lucrative living pushing a nonexistent war on Christmas, seizing on every example of religious pluralism in this country – that is, the right of people to believe…
Conservatives have convinced themselves of libearlism’s illigitimacy; now they have convinced themselves liberalism will fail
It is that season again – and no, I am not talking about Christmas. I am talking about the War on Christmas, which is a far more important season to religious conservatives.
Even in troubled times, there are a great many things to be grateful for. Here are a few of mine.
Conservatives insist that economic prosperity is impossible without their God but America wil prosper just as well with 20 gods or no gods
The Religious Right says some laughable things, but there is nothing laughable about their money, power – or influence on American politics
Longtime foe of multiculturalism, William J. Bennett, says Republicans lost culture war and accuses Democrats of playing identity politics
Victor Hugo wrote Les Misérables in 1862, addressing themes of social injustice that are still embraced today in the Republican Party
The Religious Right took a black eye in 2012 but they are far from powerless and will be back to attack the Constitution in 2016
Paul Ryan says Obama’s path compromises some non-existent values; the real problem is that Obama stands between Ryan and the Constitution
Not only has God decided Mormonism is not a cult, but that former heretic Mitt Romney is his last true hope: vote Mitt or burn in hell!
The GOP is headed into Election Day as the Party of Rape, a group of white fratboys who never grew up
Bryan Fischer appeared on CNN this week to share his hateful and dishonest spew but ran into a host who was having none of it
Paul Broun and Todd Akin, both serving on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, deny evolution and embrace superstition
Paul Ryan made clear last night that he wants his religious beliefs to inform our decisions, while claiming it is his that are under attack
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
Joseph Farah just can’t wrap his mind around a Christianity that includes its Christ, and attacks Jim Wallis for getting Jesus right
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
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
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
Watching House Republicans high five after defeating a battle pay increase was too much for military mom Maria Meacham, who shouted, ‘Pay the soldiers or bring them home,’ and was promptly arrested.
It is un-American to have as a president a man who preaches religious intolerance and who promotes the idea of state-sponsored religion
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.
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
The Democrats missed an opportunity to take a step forward for the Founders’ vision of a secular government by putting God in their platform
The Democratic National Convention in Charlotte is being targeted by fundies as Ground Zero for acts of martyrdom and cries of persecution
Personhood fell victim to its own dishonesty yesterday in Colorado, even as the Romney campaign called the abortion debate a distraction
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
There are 20 churches in Prague, OK, and one high school valedictorian who was denied her diploma for saying hell.
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
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?
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
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
CBS’ Charlie Rose asked Cantor how his views on tolerance squared with Bachmann’s attack on Huma Abedin. Cantor’s response was illuminating
The National Organization of Marriage accuses General Mills of hypocrisy but hypocritically supports Chick-Fill-A and condemns General Mills
A Kentucky court has silenced a teenage rape victim, who now faces contempt of court charges for tweeting the names of her convicted rapists.
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
Why should the federal deficit scare us compared to an uninhabitable planet? Aren’t mountains without tops more frightening than an IUD?
Conservative Christians love to talk about religious freedom, never quite getting that something isn’t freedom unless everyone enjoys it
When one scary religion tries to make another sound scary, it’s time to step back and take stock of the facts and remember the Constitution
The American Family Association is toying with the idea of boycotting Google because it supports LGBT rights. I say good luck with that.
Televangelist Bill Keller doesn’t like Mormons or Romney and he doesn’t like Obama so he says you should vote for Jesus on Election Day
After underwhelming Houston, Iowa, South Carolina and Florida, The Response is bringing its brand of extremist Christianity to Kansas City just before Election Day
Yet another Evangelical hater wants to kill gays like the Pilgrims did but he might want to stop and read his gay friendly Bible first
Republicans must talk about vaginas given the laws they’ve been making but they’re not about to extend Democrats the same privilege
Ryan Tate, president of a Christian-based Oklahoma publishing company which claims to obey Jesus’ words, first insulted then fired employees
The conservative mind is focused on a sense of privilege and possession of rights nobody else gets to enjoy, whatever the Constitution says
Brian Fischer complains liberals cannot reason or employ logic though his real problem is we won’t simply take his word for it and believe
The idea that we all enjoy equal rights under the law is abhorrent to the totalitarian mindset, as the FRC proves in an anti-rights tirade
Carrie Underwood came out in support of marriage equalitylast weekend, leaving fundies to misread the Bible and to confuse love with hate
Apparently, President Obama has ripped away from imaginary protective layer over the White House for which surface-to-air missiles are no substitute
Dr. James Dobson is an Obama-basher of long standing, and his behavior demonstrates why this country can never compromise the separation of church and state.
Your children aren’t safe at school; there are spiritual predators prowling our nation’s elementary schools, preying on the innocent.
David Barton attempts to prove we’d all be better off economically if we read our Bibles with a pedestrian attempt at developing a thesis
Pastor John Hagee’s hateful preaching is an example of why the GOP has become the party of choice for sociopaths and psychopaths
Thomas Jefferson once hoped to liberate us from being trapped by beliefs not our own but the GOP has made trapping us the basis of their platform
You have to wonder the degree to which conservatives are even aware any more of reality as they indulge in increasingly twisted fantasies
Today marks a new format in the Dirty Thirty, which will now include only updates (the entire updated list will be posted on its own page)
It’s an old right wing tactic that we should have long ago learned to recognize. When they can’t beat us in a democracy, they change the rules of that democracy.
There are many reasons to vote for Barack Obama in 2012, and very few to vote against him, given the alternatives
Most 21st century Americans deal with the world they see and give no thought to an underlying reality full of demons and demonic influences
Religious Freedom: a euphemism used by Christian groups who embrace subordination and a culture of suppression of other religious viewpoints
The Christian Right pretends to be champions of religious freedom; but the only freedom they care about is their freedom to ignore ours
Southern Poverty Law Center offers a list of 30 New Activists Heading Up the Radical Right, who represent the worst America has to offer
Ralph Reed wants to play Kingmaker like he did in 1994 and he has Mitt Romney lined up to slobber over his ring this year in Washington, DC
After failing to terrorize JC Penney into submission, One Million Moms threatens to do the same to GAP for showing two men in one t-shirt
Discredited psychologist and anti-gay “expert” Paul Cameron, claims that Obama is gay and that gays must be imprisoned before they kill kids
Sarah Jones says Republicans must evolve or die. Rand Paul chose a third option: third grade: “[he] wasn’t sure [Obama’s] views on marriage could get any gayer”
Three court cases and FEC complicity have left campaign financing in a high-dollar frenzy with the victor getting the spoils of a billion dollar election.
Theocracy is coming to with a GOP win in 2012: they have made their position clear enough and it becomes more pronounced with each new bill
Increasingly the GOP is talking about Second Amendment remedies and even armed insurrection if Obama wins in 2012, threatening the survival of our Constitution
Christian fundamentalists are engaging in paroxysms of verbal acrobatics to account for Mitt Romney’s Mormonism, donning a virtual condom to protect themselves