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4/23/14 @ 11:20am
Pat Robertson told a 700 Club viewer today that he has “grounds for divorce” because his wife is not having sex with him regularly, speculating that she was “molested as a child” and needs serious psychological counseling.
The viewer told Robertson that he has “only bee... MORE
4/23/14 @ 5:33pm
Sarah Posner @ Religion Dispatches: Poor, Persecuted Dinesh D'Souza. Josh Feldman @ Mediaite: Glenn Beck Calls Romney ‘Man of Honor’ for Fessing Up About Gift Beck Sent Him. Jeremy Hooper: Robert Oscar Lopez says I perform 'psychological operations routine' on him... MORE
4/23/14 @ 5:30pm
Jerry Newcombe defends Jim DeMint's absurd claim that the federal government played no role in ending slavery, which makes sense given that DeMint made the claim while appearing on Newcombe's radio show. Beware! "Torquemada Invades America." "Can You Be Gay and Chri... MORE
Sandy Rios Explains God Will Allow More Terrorist Attacks Against America Because He's A 'Gentleman'
4/23/14 @ 4:20pm
Last week on her radio show, Sandy Rios of the American Family Association addressed criticism she received over her claim that the Boston Marathon bombing memorial opened up the country to more terrorist attacks.
She told one listener, Michael, that all Americans — not just Bostonians —... MORE
4/23/14 @ 3:00pm
The anti-gay group Liberty Counsel is afraid that it will “soon be taboo to be heterosexual in America.”
The article the group links to concerns recent elections for central committee posts in the Illinois Republican Party where “six of the seven officials who signed on to a lette... MORE
4/23/14 @ 2:24pm
Bryan Fischer has made no secret of the fact that he wants to see Russian-style anti-gay "propaganda" laws passed in the United States, going so far as to praise Vladimir Putin as "the lion of Christianity" for leading his nation's crackdown on gays.
On yesterday's radio... MORE
4/23/14 @ 2:10pm
WorldNetDaily super reporter Jerome Corsi is positively giddy about a court case in the UK in which a “self-proclaimed intelligence expert,” Michael Shrimpton, insists he will reveal proof that President Obama was born in Kenya and DNA evidence showing that Stanley Ann Dunham was not t... MORE
4/23/14 @ 1:44pm
Just last week, we were compelled to write a post explaining that Gun Owners of America – which bills itself as a less reasonable version of the NRA – remains an influential force in American politics despite being run by Larry Pratt, a racist conspiracy theoriest with ties to white sup... MORE
4/23/14 @ 1:40pm
In an interview with Texas radio host Chad Hasty yesterday, Sen. Ted Cruz said that the armed standoff between anti-government militias and the Bureau of Land Management at a Nevada ranch is the “unfortunate and tragic culmination of the path that President Obama has set the federal government... MORE
4/23/14 @ 1:40pm
As we reported yesterday, conservative activists are livid about a new bill to update a 1993 National Telecommunications and Information Administration report “on the current prevalence of hate crimes and hate speech in telecommunications,” which anti-Muslim activist Pamela Geller said... MORE
4/23/14 @ 12:50pm
Conservative talk show host Lisa Benson warned on Sunday that Somali refugees control the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and insisted that she will not ride in taxis with Somali drivers out of fears for her safety.
“There is an exclusive contract with the Somali community both for ja... MORE
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4/15/14 @ 10:24am
Phyllis Schlafly has never been a big fan of feminism or of efforts to promote equality between men and women in general. Schlafly is, after all, notorious for her stated belief that it is impossible for a husband to ever rape his wife because "when you get married you have consented to sex.... MORE
4/9/14 @ 11:45am
Heritage Foundation head Jim DeMint appeared on Vocal Point with Jerry Newcombe of Truth In Action Ministries last week, where he insisted that “no liberal is going to win a debate that big government freed the slaves.”
DeMint, a former US senator from South Carolina, told Newcombe that... MORE
4/11/14 @ 10:20am
Virginia GOP state delegate and congressional candidate Bob Marshall is standing by his claim that disabled children are God’s punishment for women who have an abortion.
“Nature takes its vengeance on subsequent children,” Marshall said in 2010. “It’s a special punishme... MORE