Fear Factor: The Conservative Christian Crusade Against Mormonism
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
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
Rush Limbaugh claimed to be speaking for black America on his show, saying that African Americans feel Obama has abandoned them and Romney will win if Obama loses the “black vote”.
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
Ted Nugent believes we’d be better off if the South had won the Civil War, completely ignoring that states rights was all about slavery
It can’t be proven that Nero persecuted Christians because while Rome had a large Jewish population, there is no evidence for a multitude of Christians to be persecuted.
After underwhelming Houston, Iowa, South Carolina and Florida, The Response is bringing its brand of extremist Christianity to Kansas City just before Election Day
Pepco spent years ignoring aging equipment and tree-trimming and focused instead of increasing profits leaving a million people to suffer in record heat
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
Nothing is more liberal than a revolution; the best conservatism can manage is counter-revolution to restore the status quo lost to liberals
Conservative columnist, Mona Charen recently wrote that the suggestion that women are paid less than men for the same work is fiction. Nope!
Many state legislatures will be asked by corporate interests to nullify the recent Supreme Court health care decision, and ALEC written model legislation is at the ready.
I’m sure glad anthropogenic global warming is a myth because after a couple of days in the wake of storm-induced power-outages and going on the third day of +100 heat indexes including record breaking temperatures yesterday (set in 1968) I hate to think what the temperature would be like if we had global warming to…
Americans are all about community in so many different ways, so why when it comes to healthcare is everyone supposed to tough it out alone?
Homophobes Peter LaBarbera and Judy Meissner like the term aberrosexual but only because of their own aberrochristian religious beliefs
Yesterday was a bad day for the GOP but we should remember they’ve had many bad days recently and that its fun to watch their heads explode
So what we have is a majority republican committee and a republican house holding the Attorney General in Contempt of Congress under false pretenses.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TRP), a secretive trade agreement, could criminalize your use of the Internet or even terminate it
A fundamentalist Christian textbook used in a Louisiana school insists that because the Loch Ness Monster is real, evolution must not be
There are a spate of new bills in the house that were probably written by the oil companies. Everything Exxon wants, Exxon gets
This is a huge reason for the stubborn unemployment! President Obama doesn’t have the benefit of adding public workers to the payroll, like Reagan did.
Every time Bryan Fischer sits down to blog a homophobic rant, he ought to give thanks for Alan Turing, the gay genius who gave us computers
A brave liberal correspondent ventures into an unpublicized town hall meeting rife with right wing propaganda and Fast and Furious paranoia hand delivered to the crowd by two House Republicans.
Republicans Allen West and Grover Norquist have proved an old truth of totalitarianism, that dickishness is next to thuggishness
When bad news piles on bad news, how does a person carry on, and how far can positive thinking carry you in the face of insurmountable odds?
Republicans must talk about vaginas given the laws they’ve been making but they’re not about to extend Democrats the same privilege
I like PFAW and the work they do; I do not like getting fundraising letters accusing me of supporting Mitt Romney if I don’t give them money
Citizens may think the ultra right tea party has all the power in the U.S. In truth, they have almost none. A few people control America.
You’d expect an interview with a climate scientist; you get an interview with a political scientist instead, one well paid by the denialists
Odd foreign investments, sleazy family businesses, and questionable blind trust funding sources are just three of the disturbing elements found in Mitt Romney’s 2010 tax return.
Conservatives in Michigan and across the country seek to regulate women’s bodies and their relationships with medical profession, but women are pushing back.
Ryan Tate, president of a Christian-based Oklahoma publishing company which claims to obey Jesus’ words, first insulted then fired employees
By banning science, by banning any discussion at all of climate change in North Carolina, the anti-regulation Republicans are regulating scientific thought.
Contrary to what Republicans say, only 30% of small businesses want the healthcare law overturned while 50% want it to stand with minor or no changes.
The conservative mind is focused on a sense of privilege and possession of rights nobody else gets to enjoy, whatever the Constitution says
It is always claimed that Christianity has been persecuted ever since Nero but it can be argued that this is the biggest non-event in history
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
David Barton’s deputy Rick Green and the ACLJ’s David French claim that criticism of David Barton proves that Barton is telling the truth
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
Tuesday, June 12, I worked as a Poll Manager for the South Carolina Primary Election. It was an enlightening experience for a deep south dem
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.
All of the sudden extreme videos of preachers denouncing gays have gone viral, and it is all party of the mixture of extreme religion and conservatism that Republicans want America to become.
Your children aren’t safe at school; there are spiritual predators prowling our nation’s elementary schools, preying on the innocent.
Rather than let scientists accurately project sea level rise, the business-friendly North Carolina GOP would make it illegal to tell the truth
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
Chuck Norris takes to WND to display comedic talents in support of Scott Walker, and badly misrepresenting Ronald Reagan in the process
Republicans are fighting light bulb socialism, trying to save the old fashioned light bulb without mentioning a single relevant fact
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)
Hate group president Brian Carmenker says that Elizabeth Warren is a communist because she supports everything conservatives hate
Mitt Romney prefers right wing casino dollars to voters, and Donald Trump’s bad haired birtherism to gay haired high school kids.
There are many reasons to vote for Barack Obama in 2012, and very few to vote against him, given the alternatives
Christopher Monckton tells many lies about his own credentials so its no surprise that he has jumped on Joe Arpaio’s birther bandwagon
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
Legal and illegal residents of the U.S. send billions of dollars to their home countries every year. Dollars that benefit foreign economies
Southern Poverty Law Center offers a list of 30 New Activists Heading Up the Radical Right, who represent the worst America has to offer
You get the idea that if we banned the word Satan we’d all be a lot happier but that fundamentalists wouldn’t have anything to talk about
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
Mitt Romney is a few votes short of making his Republican nomination for president official, but thanks to a lack of support from his own party, Romney’s teetering train may make a few more stops.
While attending the NATO summit in Chicago, President Obama kept up the pressure on Romney and his self-enrichment record at Bain Capital
Mitt Romney wants Americans to know what the first day of a Romney presidency would look like, based on his most recent position flip-flops
The NAACP has come out in support of President Barack Obama and marriage equality in a press release dated yesterday, May 19, 2012.
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
It wasn’t just what Nick Hanauer said that made his TED talk controversial, it was that he dared challenge conservative assumptions.
The GOP insists we obey the Bible but the Bible doesn’t define traditional marriage and it turns out God orders abortions with wild abandon
The GOP stance on abortion hinges on religious dogma, not on science and even when science does enter the picture it is 18th century science
Obama has a religion problem. His answer to that problem is a Faith Vote Director. He has already shown that the Bible is not the exclusive property of the GOP
The earth is intellectually flat in South Carolina. There are no objective curvatures of introspection, inquiry, sypmpathy or alternatives. It’s black and white when it comes to gunning down ‘bad’ guys.
Discredited psychologist and anti-gay “expert” Paul Cameron, claims that Obama is gay and that gays must be imprisoned before they kill kids
Ross Douthat, in an op-ed for the New York Times, paints President Obama as a culture warrior who ignores the economy to his own detriment
What Mitt Romney doesn’t want voters to know about his 2002 leadership of the Winter Olympics is that he spent 1.3 billion federal dollars with little long term positive economic consequences.
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”
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
The Republicans want to get into your vagina, and in this humorously mocking piece Kate Beckinsale and others make the arguments in favor of letting them in
Dick Lugar lost to his Tea Party opponent in Indiana’s GOP primary. Is this a victory for Tea Party extremism or is it an opportunity for Hoosier Democrats?
Another state has added its political voice of opposition to gay marriage. North Carolina approved an amendment forbidding same-sex marriage.
Christian fundamentalists are engaging in paroxysms of verbal acrobatics to account for Mitt Romney’s Mormonism, donning a virtual condom to protect themselves
Have you ever wondered why most polls reflect a decidedly liberal issue tilt and yet state and national elections fill seats with Republicans, and rather radical ones at that?
James Robison, once God’s Angry Young Man, now rationalizes love for Mormon Mitt Romney while spewing hate for all things liberal, Obama included
In a recent meeting with the media, a South Carolina sheriff and two investigators feigned ignorance of facts as they are determined to let vigilante double-killings stand with no charges filed.
Did you ever stop to wonder why Throckmorton and Coulter’s Getting Jefferson Right is being favorably reviewed at a liberal news site and not at the Blaze?
Two conservative Christian scholars team up to debunk Barton’s The Jefferson Lies, exposing Barton’s lies of commission and ommission and cherry picked evidence
While political attention is riveted on Washington, millions of dollars are flowing into state campaign coffers in preparation for a rebirth of the Articles of Confederation where states will function as their own bosses and to hell with Washington..
In the Jefferson Lies (2012), David Barton lets loose a barrage of lies and invents terms to turn Thomas Jefferson into a non-racist, clergy-loving Christian
The Secular Coalition for America, an atheist advocacy group, has hired Edwina Rogers, a female Republican strategist and atheist as its new executive director
David Barton’s fundamentalist culture war agenda colors all he does and all his attitudes and it is no surprise that historians are his ultimate bogeymen
Unsurprisingly, David Barton did not stand up well to Jon Stewart’s questioning, dodging issues, misrepresenting facts and when necessary, outright lying
Look at all the things wrong in America right now and then look at the GOP solutions since 2010. You will see they have no intention of fixing any real problems
Tomorrow is May Day and the day of Occupy protests from coast to coast and we are already being warned of the violence to come at the hands of leftist anarchists
Fundamentalists are crying oppression because the U.S. Air Force has decided that as of Oct 1 the Bible is not a required item at lodging facilities on its bases
Karl Rove, the Brothers Koch, ALEC and Romney put on just as fake a show as their ‘rasslin’ brethren, but unlike wrestling they’re not trying to entertain their fans (voters)…they’re using them.
David Barton claims that science won’t be able to cure AIDS because AIDS is a punishment for sin showing he is as ignorant of science as he is of history
The future looks bleak for John Edwards. It all started going downhill when he started an adulterous affair with a little known filmmaker, Rielle Hunter. He is now standing trial on federal charges.