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12/9/13 @ 11:37am
For the last month, we have been locked in a battle with "Dr. Chaps" Gordon Klingenschmitt stemming from a series of bogus claims that he filed against our YouTube channel, claiming that we had been stealing and misrepresenting his copyrighted content.
In early November, Klingenschmitt fil... MORE
12/9/13 @ 5:35pm
J. Lester Feder @ BuzzFeed: U.S., U.K. Activists Urge Jamaicans To Keep Same-Sex Intercourse Illegal. Zack Ford @ Think Progress: Rick Warren: Marriage Is Not ‘Equally Valid’ For Same-Sex Couples. Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Todd Starnes of Fox News Lies Again: A Texas Sc... MORE
12/9/13 @ 5:30pm
E.W. Jackson will do what every failed Republican candidate does: launch a political action committee.
Richard Viguerie went to Israel and found some government minister who doesn't trust President Obama and apparently that is news or something. The Sen. Ted Cruz
coloring book i... MORE
12/9/13 @ 5:27pm
As the movement for public and private divestment from apartheid South Africa grew throughout the United States in the 1980s, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) aggressively mobilized against South African divestment, stymying state and federal efforts to sanction, isolate, and divest... MORE
12/9/13 @ 4:51pm
On his radio broadcast today, Bryan Fischer spent the better part of one segment railing against the dangers of marijuana and saying that it should never be legalized because it's use violates the teachings of the Bible.
Citing Paul's admonition in Ephesians 5:18 that believers should "... MORE
12/9/13 @ 4:35pm
The white nationalists at VDARE have responded to the death of Nelson Mandela with a flurry of blog posts painting the former South African leader as a “monster” and “nasty individual” responsible for destroying “first-world South Africa.”
In an essay posted on... MORE
12/9/13 @ 4:00pm
On Friday, American Family Association radio host Sandy Rios lashed out at Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned for 27 years, and said that he deserved to be in jail because he was a violent criminal:
Nelson Mandela was placed in prison because of the violence that he did in the country of South Afr... MORE
12/9/13 @ 3:27pm
WND contributor Jack Cashill recently released a book entitled "'If I had a Son': Race, Guns, and the Railroading of George Zimmerman," in which he argues that Zimmerman is a hero who has been unfairly maligned by the media.
Last week, Cashill appeared on TheDoveTV to promote the b... MORE
12/9/13 @ 3:25pm
Tom Tancredo, the former Republican congressman and possible 2014 Colorado gubernatorial candidate, is angry that President Obama wants to compare himself to Nelson Mandela, even though Obama hasn’t done that. Tancredo writes in a WorldNetDaily column, “Mandela and Obama: Hero vs. Street... MORE
12/9/13 @ 3:15pm
WorldNetDaily’s magazine, WND Weekly, will dedicate its latest issue to smearing Nelson Mandela:
WND Weekly is run by Elizabeth Farah, the wife of WND editor Joseph Farah, who has denounced Mandela as a terrorist bent on anti-white genocide.
The day after Mandela’s death, the group poll... MORE
12/9/13 @ 2:42pm
For the last several months, spurred on by the publication of Mark Levin's "The Liberty Amendments," right-wing activists have been floating the idea of convening a "Convention of States" through which representatives of the individuals states would gather together for a conv... 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