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7/23/14 @ 1:40pm
Today, “The 700 Club” ran a report about how “modesty is hot,” specifically profiling the work of the groups Secret Keeper Girl and Modest Is Hottest, whose founder does workshops on how girls can avoid looking like a “hoochie momma momma.” While the main theme of... MORE
7/23/14 @ 5:35pm
Tim Murphy @ Mother Jones: Glenn Beck Tells Common Core Activists They Shouldn't Mention His Name. Luke Brinker @ Equality Matters: National Review Online Editor Endorses “Ex-Gay” Therapy. Tom Kludt @ TPM: National Review Writer Blasts Dem Support Of Jim Crow, Ignores Maga... MORE
7/23/14 @ 5:31pm
Ben Carson is "starting to think" about running for president. In even better news, Michele Bachmann is insisting "there's a chance" that she might make another run for the White House. The downing of a Malaysian jet over Ukraine last week is a sign that America h... MORE
7/23/14 @ 4:52pm
In an attempt to woo social conservatives in advance of a possible presidential bid, Sen. Marco Rubio delivered a speech at Catholic University today, where he attempted to come across as a uniter on social issues like marriage equality and abortion rights while assuring his party’s right flan... MORE
7/23/14 @ 4:02pm
A few months ago, Glenn Beck was invited to speak at Liberty University where, in addition to presenting himself as a prophet of God, he set off a bit of controversy by preaching Mormon theology from the stage while repeatedly insisting that Mormonism is simply a "different denomination" o... MORE
7/23/14 @ 3:15pm
After lecturing liberals on why they are wrong to fault the United States for slavery, former Southern Baptist Convention official Richard Land drew a connection between the rise of gay rights and Nazi Germany.
While guest-hosting yesterday’s edition of “Washington Watch,” Land spo... MORE
7/23/14 @ 2:25pm
Another WorldNetDaily pundit is demanding Republicans vote to impeach President Obama. On Monday the outlet republished a commentary from blogger J.B. Williams, who claims “only impeachment can save the Republican Party or the Constitutional Republic of the United States of America at this poi... MORE
7/23/14 @ 2:10pm
The far-right outlet BarbWire published an excerpt today of a blog post by conservative activist Evan Sayet titled, “Another Take On Why Jews Vote Democrat,” in which he warns that Jewish voters have mistakenly backed Democratic candidates, like President Obama, whom he believes promote... MORE
7/23/14 @ 1:05pm
Tea Party Update, a conservative “news” outlet whose mission is to “further the cause of the Tea Party, convert more people to our cause,” and elect “liberty-minded Tea Party candidates,” emailed members today with a sponsored message from CompleteSurvivalSystem.c... MORE
7/23/14 @ 12:25pm
Sandy Rios told listeners of her radio show yesterday that President Obama is “no friend to Israel,” and even went so far as to suggest that the president is trying to cut off aid to the country while “sending aid to their enemies, the people they are fighting.”
While speakin... MORE
7/23/14 @ 12:12pm
Earlier this month, India's Supreme Court ruled that fatwas issued by Sharia courts carried no legal power and could not be enforced by the government or against the will of those who refuse to abide by them.
Gordon Klingenschmitt was quite pleased with this decision because, as he said on today... MORE
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7/21/14 @ 4:35pm
A senior policy analyst for the Center for Immigration Studies, which bills itself as the think tank of the anti-immigrant Right, told a Florida-based Tea Party group last week that President Obama not only deserves impeachment, but that “being hung, drawn and quartered is probably too good fo... MORE
7/21/14 @ 12:45pm
For weeks now, anti-immigrant groups have been hyping a “National Day of Protesting Against Immigration Reform, Amnesty & Border Surge,” meant to be two days of protests in cities across the country in reaction to the Central American children who are coming to the southern border to... MORE
7/3/14 @ 12:18pm
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito ended this Supreme Court session with a bang, writing the majority opinion in two cases that gave for-profit corporations the right to make religious liberty claims to evade government regulation and set the stage for the fulfillment of a central goal of the right-wing political movement: the destruction of public employee unions. MORE