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12/6/13 @ 3:48pm
Yesterday, we took a look at South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham’s top-polling Tea Party primary challenger, state Sen. Lee Bright, who thinks the income tax is something out of Nazi Germany and is concerned about women with nice nails and pocketbooks getting food assistance.
It turns out th... MORE
12/6/13 @ 5:32pm
Arturo Garcia @ Raw Story: Louie Gohmert: Atheists should encourage prayer to boost national security. Joe.My.God.: GOP Candidate For Gov Issues Pledge To Block Marriage Benefits. Timothy Johnson @ Media Matters: NRA President Pushes Conspiracy Theory That Obama Will Use Medicare To Creat... MORE
12/6/13 @ 5:29pm
Rick Santorum is the gift that keeps on giving, as he's now comparing the fight against Obamacare to Nelson Mandela's fight against apartheid. Is Sarah Palin really penning Christmas messages for the radicals over at The Oak Initiative? Peter LaBarbera is upset "to see House... MORE
12/6/13 @ 5:10pm
American Family Association head Tim Wildmon joined AFA radio host Sandy Rios today to discuss a USA Today article about how “Not all Christians believe there is a ‘War on Christmas.’” Wildmon spent most of the interview complaining that any Christian would dare criticize the... MORE
12/6/13 @ 4:35pm
Sarah Palin seems to be under the impression that Thomas Jefferson would stand with her and the folks at Fox News and Liberty University in protesting the non-existent “War on Christmas” and set straight “those who would want to try to abort Christ from Christianity.”
But Pal... MORE
12/6/13 @ 4:19pm
On his radio broadcast today, Bryan Fischer agreed with a caller who demanded that Republicans in the House of Representatives "take a stand" and impeach President Obama even if he won't be convicted and removed by the Senate.
Fischer readily agreed, saying that even though there is no... MORE
12/6/13 @ 3:10pm
Conservative radio host Janet Mefferd has decided to pull her report on plagiarism by Christian Right megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll, but not for the reasons you might think. The evidence is quite clear that Driscoll repeatedly engaged in plagiarism, but Mefferd has decided to pull incrim... MORE
12/6/13 @ 1:50pm
RWW's Paranoia-Rama takes a look at five of the week’s most absurd conspiracy theories from the Right.
Did you know that gay people seek to use the government to steal the children of conservative parents and kill Christians? Or that a commonsense, bipartisan bill to ban undetectable guns... MORE
12/6/13 @ 12:54pm
Over the last several months, Glenn Beck has veered back and forth between despondant cries that America is utterly doomed and joyous proclamations that the future is brighter than it has ever been.
While one week he is screaming that America has gone insane and been engulfed by darkness, the next h... MORE
12/6/13 @ 12:10pm
Pamela Geller is once again calling for Congress to reject a resolution condemning the persecution of Burma’s Rohingya minority. As we noted on Wednesday, the Rohingya minority in Burma is facing a campaign of persecution that many human rights groups describe as ethnic cleansing. But since th... MORE
12/6/13 @ 11:45am
Although we keep hearing from far-right activists that the Constitution is a Bible-based document that belongs solely to the Tea Party, today WorldNetDaily tells us that the nation’s founders were wrong to replace the Articles of Confederation (1781-1789) with the Constitution. WND columnist I... MORE
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12/5/13 @ 5:45pm
The news today of Nelson Mandela’s passing is also time to reflect on the complicated relationship between Mandela and his anti-apartheid African National Congress (ANC) with the US, which did not always support the anti-apartheid struggle. In fact, American conservatives lobbied the federal g... MORE
11/19/13 @ 4:40pm
America Needs Fatima, a project of the right-wing American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property, is linking the tornadoes that hit Illinois this weekend to the state’s recent approval of a marriage equality bill. Robert Ritchie, the group’s executive director, is ju... MORE
11/19/13 @ 12:00pm
Larry Klayman predicted that his rally calling for the overthrow of President Obama would draw “millions to occupy Washington D.C.” and that those millions would “occupy parks, sidewalks, public areas” until the president leaves office. In the end, no more than a hundred peop... MORE