Archive for the ‘Republican Insanity’ Category

Quote of the Day: Modern Conservatism Via:- Mario Piperni No More Mister Nice Blog: …the unreported story of our times is that birtherism isn’t an isolated example of paranoid lunacy taking hold of a disturbingly large segment of the population — in fact, modern conservatism is driven by multiple lunatic theories that are precisely as [...]

Republican Dominated Indiana State Senate Committee Votes for Creationism in Schools Yes, it never dies By freetoken Creationism, that zombie of the American political scene, rises again — this time in Indiana: An Indiana Senate committee on Wednesday endorsed teaching creationism in public schools, despite pleas from scientists and religious leaders to keep religion out of [...]

Rick Perry Joins the Heartless Anti-Choice Fanatics Via Charles Johnson It’s horrifying to hear almost all the GOP presidential candidates proudly saying that victims of rape or incest should be forced to give birth to an attacker’s child. There’s nothing that makes the utter heartlessness of this fanatical agenda more evident, and now Rick Perry [...]

The Republicans’ war on science and reason  By  Katrina vanden Heuvel, Published: October 25 Last month, Washington Post columnist Steve Pearlstein wrote that if you wanted to come up with a bumper sticker that defined the Republican Party’s platform it would be this: “Repeal the 20th century. Vote GOP.” With their unrelenting attempts to slash [...]

Right Wing fruitcake Sean Hannity attempted to elevate poor persecuted Sarah from bullied school into a saint Joan of Arc martyr effigy! You would think these pair of hypocritical liars and loons were beyond parody; but John Stewart proves that wrong! Petty Woman – The Daily Show with Jon Stewart –…, posted with vodpod  

Rep. Steve Cohen Not Backing Down on Comparing GOP ‘Government Takeover’ Lie to Goebbels’ Propaganda  By Heather Despite some brow-beating from CNN’s John King, Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen didn’t back down or apologize for his statements on the House floor that the lie by Republicans that the Affordable Care Act is a “government takeover” of [...]

Glenn Beck And Sean Hannity Dropped From Philadelphia Radio Station Yesterday, hate radio hosts Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity had their nationally syndicated radio shows dropped from WPHT in Philadelphia, which is the second radio station to drop both of the conservative commentators. The moves were scheduled back in November 2010, and Marc Rayfield, market [...]

John Pilger‘s Investigation Into the War on WikiLeaks and His Interview With Julian Assange Friday 14 January 2011 by: John Pilger Founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange. (Photo: Ben Bryant / Flickr) The attacks on WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, are a response to an information revolution that threatens old power orders in politics and [...]

The Wrath of Fools: An Open Letter to the Far Right Monday 10 January 2011 by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed (Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t) To:       Palin-lovers, Fox “News,” the “mainstream” media, and the Far Right, [...]

At Talk to Action, the veteran watcher of white supremacist and anti-semitic groups Chip Berlet writes, The Becking of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. An excerpt: From a moral viewpoint Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is the victim of demagogues such as Glenn Beck and his allies at Fox News and in the Tea Party Movement. This is not [...]

The coming war on women by Kaili Joy Gray A war is coming. Congressional Republicans have already made clear that their top priority, once they take control of Congress in the next session, is to make sure President Obama is a one-term president. But there is a second priority that many Republicans in Congress, and [...]