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12/9/14 @ 12:00pm
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus insists that the GOP’s opposition to marriage equality must be “draped in the concepts of grace, love and respect” … and what better way to show it than partnering with two radical anti-gay groups to send 168 RNC members... MORE
1/28/15 @ 5:32pm
John Tomasic @ The Colorado Independent: Dr. Chaps says he has filed paperwork, charity is in good standing, but questions remain. Ben Dimiero & Eric Hananoki @ Media Matters: Reagan's "Secret Cancer Cure" And Other Scams From Erick Erickson's Email List. John Wright... MORE
1/28/15 @ 5:30pm
BarbWire's Gina Miller laughably defends the American Family Association as a "peaceful Christian organization" that is being smeared with "damnable lies." Newsbusters also tries valiantly to distract from Bryan Fischer's well-documented history of unmitigated bigo... MORE
1/28/15 @ 5:00pm
Last Wednesday, likely Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson appeared on “The Andy Parks Show” to discuss a recent meeting he had with the leader of the New York Police Department Sergeants Benevolent Association.
Carson told Parks that NYPD officers have completely lost faith wit... MORE
1/28/15 @ 4:59pm
The Senate Judiciary Committee held its first hearing today on Loretta Lynch’s nomination to be U.S. attorney general, which Senate Republicans mostly used as an opportunity to attack current Attorney General Eric Holder and to try to extract promises from Lynch that she would break course fro... MORE
1/28/15 @ 4:15pm
On her radio program today, the American Family Association’s Sandy Rios raised the prospect that someone in high places may be blackmailing Sen. Robert Menendez, the New Jersey Democrat who recently agreed to delay a vote on an Iran sanctions bill he is cosponsoring as nuclear negotiations co... MORE
1/28/15 @ 3:35pm
On his radio broadcast today, Bryan Fischer sought to "clarify" the remarks he made on Monday when he asserted that gay activists are driven by "the unvarnished energy of Satan himself."
Laughably insisting that his liberal critics "cherry-pick" quotes from him which ar... MORE
1/28/15 @ 3:20pm
Iowa Religious Right group The Family Leader, a key player in the GOP’s first-in-the-nation caucus, has a new plan to encourage legislators in Iowa to “do what God has asked them to do.”
The group is soliciting funds to purchase $100 leather-bound copies of “The Founders Bibl... MORE
1/28/15 @ 3:00pm
Bill Federer, a conservative “historian” who has shared a stage with the likes of Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz, appeared on the conspiracy theory radio show “Trunews” this week to share his predictions about the future of America. Federer is notorious for wildly speculatin... MORE
1/28/15 @ 1:57pm
On "WallBuilders Live" today, Rick Green and David Barton interviewed Mark Gonzales, the founder of the United States Hispanic Prayer Network, about the successful effort by anti-gay activists to overturn a nondiscrimination ordinance in Fayetteville, Arkansas, last year.
Gonzales, who con... MORE
1/28/15 @ 1:20pm
This is the fourth post in a RWW series on the reemergence of the fetal personhood movement and what it means for the future of abortion rights in the U.S.
Part 1: The Personhood Movement: Where It Comes From And What It Means For The Future Of Choice
Part 2: The Personhood Movement: Internal Bat... MORE