Archive for the ‘Right Wing Culture Wars’ 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 [...]

Right Wing Fox News Harpy Claims Jews Worst Enemies of the Country Sandy Rios Says Secular Jews Have Been ‘The Worst Enemies of the Country’       Submitted by Brian Tashman on Mon, 03/05/2012 – 3:55pm The American Family Association recently hired Fox News contributor and former Concerned Women for America president Sandy Rios to host [...]

Santorum Exposes The Real Republican Party [Re-posted from earlier today.] What’s fascinating to me about Santorum‘s outburst yesterday was not its content, but its candor. In fact, one of Santorum’s advantages in this race, especially against Romney, is that we can see exactly where he stands. There can be no absolute separation of church and [...]

Jane Smiley Reviews “Republican Gomorrah” By Max Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley on Republican Gomorrah: “Terrific…but appalling.” Jane Smiley’s review, from the Huffington Post: About twenty years ago, I read an article about a death row inmate who had shot a clerk in a convenience store. The way the murder was presented by the man [...]

Anti-Muslim Bigot Robert Spencer Comes to the Defense of Genocidal Site “BareNakedIslam” Anders Breivik’s choice for the “Noble Peace Prize,” Robert Spencer Via:- Anti-Muslim Bigot Robert Spencer Comes to the Defense of Genocidal Site “BareNakedIslam” Extremist far right anti-Muslim, MEK-Terror linked, Terrorist Inspirer, and conservative Catholic apologist Robert Spencer‘s bigotry and hatred for Islam and [...]

In a perfect demonstration of the extremism that now defines the Republican Party, Newt Gingrich was savaged by the other candidates in last night’s debate for not hating immigrants enough. Ascendant Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich delivered an unapologetic defense of his views on immigration Tuesday night, declaring in a foreign policy debate that the [...]

Boykin: The Church Is Called To Occupy       Submitted by Brian Tashman Jerry Boykin last week sat down with Paul Crouch Jr. of the Trinity Broadcasting Network’s show First To Know to discuss a new movie based on his autobiography “Never Surrender.” Boykin, who earlier this month demanded that mosques be banned in America, told [...]

Make no mistake, Israel‘s existence is under threat TheDrum By ABC’s Ben Knight Updated September 24, 2011 12:17:39 Photo: Israel’s ultra-orthodox Jews don’t work, don’t pay taxes and don’t serve in the army. Not surprisingly, it’s a pretty sore point. Reuters: Gil Cohen Magen Map: Israel Let’s imagine for a moment that at this time next [...]

Harry Potter Teaching Kids Witchcraft Because America Bows To Pagan God by David Badash on September 16, 2011 Harry Potter is teaching kids witchcraft and America now bows to a Pagan god, warns Pastor John Hagee in his TV special, (apparently not from New York,) “Faith Under Fire.” And what is that “Pagan god?” Why, [...]

Bully pulpit? ‘Christian Nation’ advocate David Barton sues critics September 15, 2011 | Filed under: Barton, David,Christian Nation?,Court Battles,Persecuted Christian Majority,Views | Posted by: Rob Boston Pseudo-historian David Barton is on the attack again – this time in court. Barton, a prominent advocate of the discredited view that the United States was founded to be [...]

Fear, Inc. The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America Anti-Muslim graffiti defaces a Shi’ite mosque at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan. SOURCE: Getty Images/Bill Pugliano By Wajahat Ali, Eli Clifton, Matthew Duss, Lee Fang , Scott Keyes, Faiz Shakir |August 26, 2011 Download this report (pdf) Read the report in your [...]

Anders Breivik’s spider web of hate Anders Breivik’s manifesto reveals a subculture of nationalistic and Islamophobic websites that link the European and American far right in a paranoid alliance against Islam and is also rooted in some democratically elected parties. The Guardian has analysed the webpages he links to, and the pages that these in [...]

The Christian right‘s “dominionist” strategy By Sarah Posner Reuters/Richard Carson Rick Perry An article in the Texas Observer last month about Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s relationship with followers of a little-known neo-Pentecostal movement sparked a frenzied reaction from many commentators: Dominionism! Spiritual warfare! Strange prophecies! All the attention came in the weeks before and after [...]