President Trump, we should know by now, is the master of distraction, making it hard for the news cycle to keep up with his endless string of controversy-inspiring tweets and incendiary behaviors. As the media gets caught up in dissecting the language and meaning of one text, he is on to something else. It is…
The First Amendment says “there is no…infringing on the freedom of the press.” Not by Donald Trump. Not even by God.
How can Islam be the problem when there are just over 3 million Muslims in the United States, but over 5 million assault rifles?
Trump says “I do want somebody that’s political, because I want to get lots of great legislation we all want passed.”
Republican campaign craziness reaches new lows as their race to the top office becomes a scream-filled race to the bottom of the sewer
If he was aiming for Planned Parenthood, God nailed the wrong country, and besides, things aren’t looking so bad this morning, say experts
Take a look at these people: the whole edifice of conservative Christianity is rotten, and that therefore all its fruits will be rotten
Rubio talks about being globally competitive, but does hating gays more than Putin’s Russia make us globally competitive, too?
2016 may be the Year the mainstream media is surprised to discover there are actual Christians out there – and they don’t vote Republican.
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
Since the RFRA was revised, the Religious Right has gone full-tilt crazy with threats to “rise up” against their left-wing oppressors
Ben Carson thinks Obamacare is unconstitutional because it doesn’t help everybody. The only problem with that is that it DOES help everybody
The problem with Halloween isn’t kids walking around in scary costumes and falling prey to Satanic influences; Jesus has identified a far more dangerous group – the rich
“You can give them Gospel tracts and tell the story of how every ghost, goblin, witch and demon was trounced the day Jesus rose from the grave”
One student was told that failing to stand is disrespectful to members of the U.S. military; another was told the law required him to stand
The sad truth is that Iraq is in the shape it is today in because of what the US has already done. How, we must ask ourselves now, is doing it again going to undo it?
They will reduce working class Americans to serfs, put our children to work, rape our wives, sisters, and daughters, and let us die when we get too sick to be of any further use for them.
Fischer said, “Now, our Elijah today, confronting the prophets of Baal, is Ted Cruz and last night was his ‘show down’ on Mt. Carmel.”
Ron Paul joined Pat Robertson on the 700 Club to show his Religious Right bona fides and his new homeschool indoctrination program
Republican opponents of the Murfreesboro, TN mosque have upped the ante while sinking to a new low, and want the government to seize the mosque
William Owens’ anti-gay crusade is not about championing civil rights; therefore there can be no valid comparison of the two.
According to Republicans, Satan fills the emptiness yoga creates, allowing Satan into your soul
Pat Robertson thinks there are demons in your underpantsr, so be sure to rebuke them before heading out of the house
When West Point hosted its first gay marriage this past weekend, the Religious Right went bananas, talking about moral cliffs and decadence
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.
Ralph Reed, the 90’s Evangelical Wunderkind, once disgraced, is back again mobilizing the vote he once said was mythical, for Mitt Romney
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
Mitt Romney has never been very specific about what he would do as president to “fix” things. He just says he’d fix this and he’d fix that. The “how” is vague. Instead of specifics, we get emotion: God. Apparently, Romney will fix America’s problems by not taking “God out of the public square.” That’s what…
I blame the First Amendment. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not making excuses for bad behavior by Islamic fundamentalists or any other fundamentalists. And the First Amendment is great. It’s my favorite amendment. It’s why I can do what I do here. It’s why I can read what I read and believe what I believe…
The portrayal of Romney as a well-meaning guy who’s just misguided, misinformed, and in over his head needs to come to an end.
The unsavory ingredients that go into making a Republican politician create a perfect storm for America and the world in 2012
Christian Fundamentalism represents less a coherent religion than a collection of excuses and justifications for bigotry and hatred
According to Pat Robertson, god led Wade Michael Page to the Sikh temple and killed the church-goer because atheists hate god.
The more Rick Santorum pushes for an American theocracy the more the Christian Right accuses liberals of plotting an atheist dictatorship
Pat Robertson warned viewers today that watching Twilight invites the Demonic in. Funny though, ALEC shares many of the characteristics of Robertson’s Twilight demons.
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
At his daily briefing, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about Pat Robertson’s comments that Haiti was cursed, because they had made a pact with the devil. He said, “It never ceases to amaze that in times of human suffering somebody could say something so utterly stupid.”
In response to Pat Robertson’s claims today that Haiti has made a pact with the devil, Fox News’ Shepard Smith said, “700 miles east of Miami hundreds of thousands of desperate human beings need our help, our support, our money, and our love, and they don’t need that.”
Today on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) tried to blame President Obama for the bank bailouts last fall. The Rev. Pat Robertson and Dick Cheney have also recently made the same claim, but by their definition of socialism, if Obama is a Socialist, so is George W. Bush, but this little fact hasn’t stopped the GOP from revising bailout history.
I am not sure if this is a good or bad thing, but former Bush attorney general Alberto Gonzales was on CNN’s The Situation Room, where he said that that there is no doubt that Sonia Sotomayor is qualified for the Supreme Court. I don’t know if being endorsed by Gonzales helps or hurts her cause, but he did speak well of her.
Today, in response to a caller asking about the “slippery slope of gay marriage,” Glenn Beck claimed that gay marriage laws would result in incest, because siblings would be allowed to get married as long as they got fixed, and didn’t have children because they would make mutants.
It’s Thursday, the last day of the Republican National Convention. So far, they haven’t offered much substance. They’d better seize the day and pull this one out.
Well, it has been about two weeks since I contributed the first part of my comprehensive look at the Presidential candidates that have fallen by the wayside. I do apologize for the delay, but apparently I forgot about Opening Day in St. Louis, which was last week.
