There are plenty of things for all Americans to be thankful for, but sadly, a substantial segment of the population has little reason to be grateful on this official “day of thanksgiving.”
Conservative Christians want to be able to spew hate and lies but for nobody to have the right to disagree with or refute them
Ralph Nader is railing against the “imperial presidency” but has nothing to say about our runaway, do-nothing Congress. It makes no sense to rail against the one while ignoring the other.
Republicans claim to be the defenders of the Constitution; this while wishing to do away with every amendment save the Second and the Tenth- narrowing Republican goals to guns and secession.
The queen of the politics of emotion accuses President Obama of playing the politics of emotion
You probably didn’t know this but gun safety laws are “pagan” and it was prayer that defeated Manchin-Toomey
Visiting Grandma should not carry with it the prerequisite of conversion
Buster Wilson complains that if he believes what he says the Bible says about homosexuality, he is a hate monger
NBA player Jason Collins says he’s gay; the religious right says he is immoral and aberrant and so are we for supporting him
Apparently if you actually exercise your First Amendment rights to be something other than Christian, you’re dangerous.
Bryan Fischer dishonestly says liberals hate America and Christianity because they want to replace America as it was founded
Republicans want bombing suspect treated as enemy combatant but it’s liberals who want increased government control?
The GOP: Sodomizing our shared reality – and you
Tea Party Republicans like Rep. Tim Huelskamp are spewing more hate and intolerance by decrying Republican outreach to “so-called” Hispanic voters.
Kansas Republican Tim Huelskamp says marriage equality is unpatriotic and will destroy the family and motherhood – and even your apple pie
When Reshad Riddle gunned down his father at Church, he didn’t say his act was the will of atheism.
The NFL hates ’em, the GOP loves ’em: bad character guys. Who needs Nazis and the KKK? We already have the Republican Party.
Pat Robertson thinks there are demons in your underpantsr, so be sure to rebuke them before heading out of the house
More than 80 Republicans have signed a brief which will be submitted to the Supreme Court in support of Marriage Equality
American capitalism supported white indentured servitude before and alongside black slavery and relinquished it only reluctantly.
Reality-challenged Joseph Farah of World Net Daily feels that inconvenient and uncongenial facts about ancient Israel are anti-Semitic.
If any facet of the GOP’s war on America has grown to lunatic proportions, it is gun control. The more people die from gun violence, the more the GOP sinks into denial.
Conservatives have convinced themselves that though Obama SHOULD be in jail even as president, he would certainly BE in jail if he were not.
Joseph Farah is putting up 10 Commandment billboards in “Sin City” – Las Vegas – and he wants your dollars to do it
Buster Wilson lets go of his meat long enough to claim Obama thinks he’s crazy and wants to lock him up.
So Ralph Reed of the misnamed Faith and Freedom Coalition, took exception to my findings yesterday, that the Bible is irrelevant as a determinant of United States immigration policy reform. He thinks he’s pretty clever and like any good conservative these days, goes right to invoking MLK: “So MLK was wrong to invoke the BIble &…
Ralph Reed, mistaking the Bible for the US Constitution, believes his holy book should govern US immigration policy
Are you not entertained? Former action star Steven Seagal is training a criminal collection of deputies how to protect our school children
Some have realized that people might be praying to the same god or gods and that mixing it up isn’t a bad thing. Not Bryan Fischer
Glenn Beck reacts with his usual hysteria to the idea of the Singularity and humankind’s next leap forward: the Singularity.
A collection of WTF Boy Scout moments, brought to you by the party that hasn’t read the Bible they’re using to beat us over the head
Oklahoma Pastor James Taylor says if you can refrigerate something (like shellfish) it isn’t an abomination anymore
Conservatives seem completely confused and befuddled by reality, as evidenced by Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber and his recent scree
As our nation celebrates Martin Luther King Jr, conservatives choose NOT to remember him, but to misremember him as a conservative
What might an alien observer make of the seeming disease causing humans to shun science for superstition?
If you think a person is violating the Constitution, you don’t violate the constitution yourself as a remedy and expect anyone to take you seriously.
The Tea Party’s actions in Wisconsin and Michigan show them to owe their inspiration not to the Patriots of 1776 but to King George III
The Republican Party seems to think if Obama doesn’t do what they want him to do, he is violating the Constitution
Should we worry about Obama’s white male cabinet appointments? How about we wait and see what his cabinet looks like before we complain
According to GOP gun nut Larry Pratt, gun-control policies are Pagan, thus proving Piers Morgan’s accusation that he is unbelievably stupid
How do America’s most extreme gun enthusiasts want to live? You’ll soon get to find out as they build their own city in the mountains of Idaho
Americans should be asking themselves this weekend why Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is refusing to pay five of her staffers for the work they did helping her try to win the presidential nomination.
The GOP finds itself in trouble as Obama’s popularity soars and their own plummets, and Obama’s second term only promises more of the same
Right wing Pastor Scott Lively hit a new level of crazy even for the far right by claiming that same sex marriage caused Noah’s Flood.
With growing desperation, the Religious Right tries to stem the liberal tide of toleration, equality, and genuine religious liberty
The Republican Party needs to shed its God problem before its unhealthy obsession destroys America
There is no conceivable outcome in which GOP opposition to Chuck Hagel ends happily for Republicans
Joseph Farah wants you to believe an angry God is about to snuff us out, but first we have to survive the Republicans
Two Republicans have scammed the state of Oregon out of $17 million in a charter school scam.
We go to medical doctors for medical care based on the most recent medical science, not for prayers
Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp told AFA Director of Issues Analysis Bryan Fischer that he saw no real need for disaster relief for Hurricane Sandy victims.
John Boehner, back to the wall, has come out swinging a middle finger, offering an F-bomb to Harry Reid and to the victims of Hurricane Sandy
Grover Norquist tried to defend his pet congressmen and women while simultaneously branding President Obama as an enemy of liberty
Republicans have quit on America. They’re putting forth no effort, and most importantly at all, they haven’t even bothered to show up for the past two years.
We had some rough times in 2012 but there are things to like about the year just past. Here are a few of them.
If the Republicans fell all over themselves in 2012 to sound stupid, the Democrats were happy to help them along, as this list demonstrates
It was not easy to pare down to ten a list from literally hundreds of dumb Republican quote candidates, but out of patriotism and love of country I have decided to take on the challenge.
In Why America Needs a Left, Eli Zaretsky makes a case for a ‘hard’ left, something beyond either progressivism or liberalism
Piers Morgan, already being attacked for his stance on guns, has truly thrown caution to the wind by proclaiming that the Bible is flawed and must be amended.
Tea Partiers indulge in wild fantasies of sending President Obama to prison since they haven’t managed to impeach him for Benghazi
Conservative Christians despise atheism as being a subjective form of morality, ignoring the history of their own subjective belief system
The endless chorus from the Religious Right that all that plagues our society is the result of divine wrath has grown tiresome…and then some.
What happened to belief? Aren’t fundamentalists who try to prove the resurrection as bad as the atheists they decry for demanding that proof?
David Barton says the Founding Fathers would want us armed with the same weapons available to the government – because the Bible says so
Six schools have been saved for science in New Orleans, where humans will never walk with dinosaurs and Noah’s flood did not create the Grand Canyon
Hilary Clinton, felled by a concussion, is under attack by Republicans for depriving them of an opportunity to subject her to the Inquisition
James Dobson says America has turned its back on God and Sandy Hook is God’s response: the murder of our children in retaliation.
Fundies are determined to scare you into allowing school sponsored prayer back into our public schools: God will kill your kids if you don’t
The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer misrepresents a scientific study to claim that homosexuality is a birth defect
A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina cannot offer choose life plates without also offering pro-choice plates
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
Bryan Fischer introduces Barack the Destroyer, the man who wants to destroy America and make Americans suffer because of their racism
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
Facts crash into belief where Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system is concerned. How could Obama have paid for it when he hates Israel?
Apparently, to Grover Norquist an agreement with him is as legally binding as a mortgage, at least in his own self-important, inflated head.
The Republican Party’s doldrums are likely to continue until they acknowledge reality, but there are no signs of that happening soon
School privatization is the new Gold Rush. There is money to be made in them there hills. And charter schools are the the Republican hammer to be used to prise it out of our hands.
Cracks begin to appear in the no new taxes wall as Saxby Chambliss signals a willingness to rethink the question of revenue
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.
Another one of the 24 percent tells the 76 percent to get out because America is THEIR country: white and Evangelical
Israel could not have attacked Gaza without the tacit consent of the American government, which persists in seeing Israel as the victim
James Dobson determined that Obama’s defeat means we are living in a time of judgment and that God can make use of Obama
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
Don’t tell me that some little part of you would not just like to say to Texas, or to another Southern state of your choice, ‘Fine. Go. We admit it. 1861 was a mistake and we are undoing it now.’
Longtime foe of multiculturalism, William J. Bennett, says Republicans lost culture war and accuses Democrats of playing identity politics
We’ve seen some crazy conclusions drawn since Election Day, but Larry Klayman’s claim that conservatives are the new N-words is obscene.
Victor Hugo wrote Les Misérables in 1862, addressing themes of social injustice that are still embraced today in the Republican Party
2012’s weather is a terrifying foretaste of the future of ourworld with Global Warming. Watch 24 Hours of Reality, the Dirty Weather Report
Republicans, in appraising the causes for the Republican defeat in 2012, shy away from the real reasons for that defeat: the culture war