GOP Women Still Embracing Mama Grizzly Chic
I am afraid, Mama Grizzly Chic is still the rage in the GOP’s harem culture, where conservative women are real women and just being mama grizzlies you betcha
I am afraid, Mama Grizzly Chic is still the rage in the GOP’s harem culture, where conservative women are real women and just being mama grizzlies you betcha
Mississippi Gov Phil Bryant says if liberals really cared about women’s health issues, we’d join him in stripping women of the right to make their own healthcare decisions
Monotheism is built not just on the rejection but the ejection of the constructed other. If we live in the end times they are the end times of religious liberty
Bill Dallas of Champion the Vote is upset that he has to explain about gays to his little daughter. His solution is to get out the vote to vote the gay away
In a world where saying “Happy Holidays!” makes you guilty of waging a war on Christmas, telling the truth about media bias means you’re anti-Christian!
The Catholic Church has sicced the Inquisition on the nuns of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious: Buggery be damned: these women are getting uppity!
The Republican Party is eager to legislate on women’s use of their reproductive systems; they have so far shown no willingness at all to legislate use of their own
Matthew Continetti, founder of the Washington Free Beacon, thinks the Republican war on women is a joke without victims or perpetrators
House Speaker John Boehner spins his tired old talking points, a more than metaphorical raspberry to any real discussion of either problems or possible solutions
After spending 1500 years relentlessly persecuting every alternative to itself, the Catholic Church has the audacity to claim it is the persecuted party
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat claims that America’s problems stem from bad religion – heresy – without looking at the problems caused by orthodoxy
The Republican Party has staked its claim to women’s vaginas, as should be obvious by now to all
It’s not enough to vote for the President and leave the trench work unattended. You have the power to change to change the Castle Doctrine. Do something. Now.
It is time to define gateway sexual activities and to determine whether or not they can be considered a spectator sport
If Lugar is a centrist than the true centrist position is an extreme left position just as Republicans insist and everything the left of that is beyond the pale
According to a couple of Republican women writing for CNN, the left is afraid of Ann Romney because she is somehow every woman.
Vision Forum Ministries takes an exception to the rule of every man for himself and turns it into a mythical Christian principal of women and children first
You live in a modern world only because you have insisted on living in a modern world, not because the Church has ever agreed to or condoned it, but simply because since the Enlightenment they haven’t been able to do anything about it
David Barton wants to pretend Christians were being burned at the stake by the government but doesn’t mention it was a CHRISTIAN government
The Republican Party has gone to war with the Girl Scouts, accusing them training girls to be radicalized, anti-religious baby-killing feminazis
A visit to the National Mall leaves you with the impression that it was “We the People” and not “the Lord thy God” which inspired our government
On the basis of GOP legislation since 2010, it is an inescapable conclusion that Republican governance is bad governance as it consistently violates the democratic process
Two young black men were recently killed in South Carolina. They were preparing to illegally break into an apartment, but the owner wasn’t in the apartment, and no break in had occurred
Easter isn’t just about Jesus but a Heathen fertility goddess named Eostre and the bunnies aren’t about resurrection but fertility, the ancient gospel of spring
You would think a dictatorship would be the biggest threat to Internet privacy and freedom of speech but the real enemy is the USA
Mitt Romney has exposed himself to the American people; the question heading toward Election Day is have the American people noticed?
WND says those nasty Palestinians are re-writing the Passover story. The problem is that the Qur’an says that Moses led Muslims (like himself) out of Egypt, and therefore are not re-writing anything
The GOP wants us to believe that we must all collectively and individually do as their God wants or suffer the consequences, but how to know what God wants when the Bible was written and what we are supposed to believe decided by fallible humans?
The conservative justices want to kill the ACA. If they do, it will mark the beginning of the end for anything meaningful to emerge as long as Republicans have a majority in any branch of government.
The Republican assault on American liberties has continued in 2012 with continued emphasis on the reproductive rights of women and women’s health
After putting words in George Washington’s mouth, Bryan FIscher produces bullshit from his and claims “the Ten Commandments of secular Sharia law” is taking over the land
It’s just possible that Sarah Louise Palin, born a stone’s throw from Randy Weaver’s infamous Ruby Ridge, Idaho could be Mitt Romney’s 2012 running mate?
The U.S. is catawampus; in short the country is a mess driven by a right-wing Supreme Court and the gun-nut red states.
Two minutes in the life of Pontius Pilate decided world history for the next 2000 years, two minutes in which Jesus could have been pardoned – and forgotten by history
Republican women claim to be against abortions, but statistics don’t support this hypocritical stance. It’s possible that conservative women have just as many abortions as liberal women.
Jesus explains that his ministry was for the poor and oppressed, not against them, and that the rich and powerful serve Satan and the demonic powers in control of the earth
Chinese wages have risen marginally and those same corporations are looking to return to the U.S. now that unions have been all but destroyed by the Republicans, driving down wages.
David Barton has little to do with actual Christianity and even less to do with first century Judaism, as Jesus explains in this exclusive interview
When you closely examine the Zimmerman’s version of the events that led up to the death of Trayvon Martin, his account and some witness accounts don’t match.
Children like LaKay Roberts have the same right to an education every other child in America has; to make special rules to restrict those rights is dehumanizing and wrong
A misleading headline about Harry Reid provides the perfect demonstration of just how far right wing newspapers or conservative editors are willing to go to poison the well.
For the Roman world, Augustus was a messiah, and the cities were eager to proclaim his “good news” (evangelion) even before Jesus was born
The imminent threat from Iran that Republicans like to fear monger about has existed since Ronald Reagan, and the surest way to blow up the world is to allow the GOP to bomb Iran.
If ever a win was meaningless, it’s Rick Santorum’s expected Louisiana runaway. The Deep South is the only sure thing that the flaming heterosexual has left.
And Jesus so loved the rich he gave his life for them. Or so you’d think. Jesus’ evolution into a plutocratic champion of the ultra-wealthy beggars belief. That is certainly the outlook of prosperity gospel, the idea that Jesus will make you rich.
Native Americans were dispatched with the same unfeeling inhumanity then that killed African-American Trayvon Martin, and now they are nearing extinction.
Alaska legislation proves that state-sponsored sexual servitude is alive and well. So much for the First Amendment, because all this is 100% religiously based
With the endorsement of Republican ‘Golden Boy’ Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney has locked up the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Democrats are cautioned to start playing defensive politics and pay special attention to the very real possibility of rigging voting machines.
Roger Goodell, commissioner of the NFL, sent a very strong message of accountability not only to players, but to coaches and management on Wednesday, proving that nobody is bigger than the NFL
The media is slowly becoming wise to the fact that Rick Santorum’s campaign is fueled by religion, not the economy. His stance on issues is religious, his rhetoric is religious and his appeal is not to fiscal conservatives but to social conservatives, to those on the religious right who menace our democracy with the specter of theocracy.
It was a predictable win for Mitt Romney in Illinois. Rich Santorum finished a 12-point second with but 8 of the 49 available delegates. Meanwhile, Santorum pines for PA and Texas.
Republicans don’t want to take back our country; they want to take our country back, back to a time before the United States, before the Constitution to the unworkable Articles of Confederation, to pre-Constitutional religious intolerance and oppression of minorities and of women.
When a judge hates President Obama because he is black, you better believe he was a Bush appointee.
Republicans go through life trying to find excuses to avoid the responsibility of shared humanity and citizenship. Ms. Sobchak, like many other women both here and in Russia, demonstrates the ability to not only embrace that shared humanity, but by doing so to become a better human being, and a better citizen
The GOOP primary process moves to Missouri, Illinois and Louisiana as final results would appear to be a wash with no real advantage to anybody.
Rick Santorum is fast setting new lows in his disdain for honesty, choosing instead the path of deceit, expressing hatred to sow hatred of our president and of us
It is no surprise that Talibangelicals can compare women to livestock, as State Rep. Terry England did recently in Georgia. Livestock can’t control their own bodies, so why should women? It’s how God wants it, after all.
The Koch Brothers and their tea party want tax exempt status from the IRS as a social welfare organization that does not influence elections.
There is nothing new or original in Genesis so claiming science proves Genesis has an effect fundamentalists won’t tell you: it actually proves every creation myth
The Republican Party is out to ‘get’ Barack Obama, and they are using Eric Holder and a bogus Fast & Furious investigation to do so.
With typical Republican ignorance of the U.S. Constitution, Rick Santorum tells Puerto Ricans they have to speak English to achieve statehood
Rick Santorum won in Alabama and Mississippi because Evangelical right-wingers constituted the overwhelming majority of Tuesday’s Deep South voters. And they voted race no matter what they tell you.
The grim calculus of conservatism’s so-called rights of conscience is this: I don’t believe so you can’t… Their religious freedoms are your slave chains.
Perhaps we have been too dismissive of the strategy that currently prevails both in Congress, the current Tea/Republican primaries and in the Presidential campaign warm ups. Surely within the halls of the Grand Old Party there had to be someone who doesn’t look and sound like the caricature of a clown from a bad comedy. …
It’s easy to see why Robison likes the city on a hill imagery because the only freedom will be that of Talibangelicals like Robison to force the rest of us to toe the religious line.
Mitt Romney is as divorced from economic reality as a French aristocrat of the eighteenth century, and he is no more likely than they to become a darling of the people
Bill Maher attempted to defend Rush Limbaugh’s freedom of speech but attacked our right to be to be offended, our right to speak in response to hate
The Republican primary death march rolled through Kansas today where evangelical zombie Rick Santorum scooped up the hate vote and rolled to victory.
Bill Maher thinks we should accept Rush Limbaugh’s apology, but here’s why we must pursue Limbaugh to a point where he pays an actual price and everyone in the business knows it.
Rush Limbaugh basked in the attention that comes with calling a dignified and intelligent young woman a slut and a whore. It was probably the most erotic experience he has had in a very long time – at least until he started losing sponsors.
The new dominionist fantasy is the threat of Islam in Michigan where 3 percent of the population will somehow turn it into Michiganistan
Republicans insist we must fear the specter of an world Islamic Caliphate while ignoring the dangers of a Christian theocracy at home
As state and national elected officials battle for the most egregiously NRA-friendly legislation possible, bizarre shooting incidents are popping up around the country.
Here is a how to use a Freedom Of Information request to turn up the pressure on ALEC.
Jeffrey T. Kuhner of the Edmund Burke Institute, who last year accused President Obama of having “black nationalist sympathies” (whatever those are) wrote a column for the Washington Times on February 23, which he entitled Obama’s pseudo-religion, arguing that the “President’s secular moves†are “out of step with Judeo-Christian culture.†His claim is that “Mr. Obama is…
Rick Santorum accuses Dutch doctors of euthanizing patients involuntarily. He basis information on a radical Website and distorts truth.
During a 10-minute visit with SC Governor Haley, I probed for the depth of her connections with the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Why has my country become the laughingstock of the world? Well, look at the comments above: you need look no further than Rick Santorum
The more Rick Santorum pushes for an American theocracy the more the Christian Right accuses liberals of plotting an atheist dictatorship
As we enter 2012 the GOP’s campaign to save America from non-existent problems rather than to create jobs shows no signs of abating
The U.S. Constitution was written by 55 men and signed by 39, but Chris Christie says 121 men and women can’t give New Jersey a marriage law
Recent polls show Obama’s popularity on the rise, even among Independents and Republicans, while enthusiasm among the GOP base is falling.
It was inevitable, I suppose: The forces of theocracy accusing the so-called political left of trying to foist a theocracy upon the United States. And no, it’s not for the reason voiced by Ann Coulter that liberalism is a religion, but that Obama (gasp!) quotes scripture in defense of his policies. The accusation comes from…
Rick Santorum has something in common with the base: shared idiocy about an America that never was, and the culture war cred to go with it
Another day, another Republican caucus, another chance for conservatives to pick the candidate who will have the honor of losing to Obama.
Each year, CPAC brings you the most insane things Republican can think of saying. We present you here with a sampling of 2012’s offerings
Even though Rick Santorum will soon come crashing back to earth, it’s instructive to look at this darling of the wing-nut vote and has a puncher’s chance of being the Republican nominee.
Argentina is demanding the “return” of the Falkand Islands, which are British territory and inhabited by English-speaking British citizens.
Santorum surges in GOP races. My local newspaper headline pretty much captured the flavor of yesterday’s round of two Republican Presidential caucuses and one non-binding primary. It was definitely the flaming heterosexual’s day in the sun, though in the future there will be many more of those hotter than normal sunny days in all sections…
Rabbi Daniel Lapin generates a myth that the availability of oral contraception has somehow caused the collapse of American civilization
How time flies as the Republicans gift us with two more caucuses and a non-binding primary. The Missouri primary features presidential candidates from the two major parties and two minor ones. The votes count for the Democrats and the two little guys, but not for the Republicans. The Republican Party decided on a March 7th…
President Obama has been accused of having perverted the word of God and abusing scripture, but the real culprits are those who accuse him
Santorum says gays don’t deserve the right to get married because gay marriage doesn’t benefit society but Saint Paul says marriage and family distracts people from God
The problem with Republican voters is that they are ill-informed. Worse, this ignorance seems to be a self-imposed state since they have access to the same information as Democratic voters.
GOP politicians have not had much luck over the years finding inspiring music to play at their events because of their small tent politics
Fundamentalist Rick Joyner is again prophesying that God will smite America but his science is as believable as Jack Black’s in “Year One”
Kristi Watts, Pat Robertson’s co-host on the 700 Club wants to know why atheists don’t chop down all the trees since Wiccans “worship” trees
The mainstream media’s reluctance to talk about religion and politics with regard to America’s problems and possible solutions is troubling