Rick Joyner gives us the crazy wingnut quote of the day: We were unquestionably founded on Judeo-Christian principles but there is an effort in America today to rob us of that identity, to take that away from us. If you want to see what can happen when you lose your identity all you have to …
Monthly Archive: May 2012
May 29 2012
West Doesn’t Like Early Voting
Rep. Allen West continues to make bizarre statements with no grounding in reality. He told a reporter for ThinkProgress that early voting, which has been reduced significantly in Florida, might be unconstitutional. He also makes a completely irrelevant comment about people thinking it’s an “entitlement.”
May 29 2012
Barton Still Wants to Throw Gay People in Jail
In this video, David Barton compares homosexuality to murder and other barbaric acts, and says that he doesn’t care what the Supreme Court says, being gay should be illegal in this country.
May 29 2012
Bauer Lies About Abortion Poll
Gary Bauer, like many wingnuts, is completely distorting the meaning of a recent Gallup poll on the subject of abortion. He writes:
May 28 2012
Fumento Leaves the Right Behind
To a list that includes Andrew Sullivan, Charles Johnson, Bruce Bartlett and a few others — conservatives who have fled from conservatism as practiced by today’s American right wing — add the name of Michael Fumento. He’s a longtime conservative writer who worked in the Reagan administration and has written for the National Review, the …
May 28 2012
It’s Not Drunk Driving When Cops Do It
Here’s yet another example of a police officer — a retired one this time — driving drunk, causing an accident and then not even having a breathalyzer or blood alcohol test administered by the officers who found him parked in the middle of the street, having just hit a telephone poll, reeking of alcohol.
May 28 2012
LA School Psychologist Spouts Racism Online
The New Orleans Times Picayune reports that a psychologist with the Jefferson Parish school district has been leaving racist comments in an online forum on that very newspaper’s website. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has an ongoing lawsuit against that district over treatment of black students, is calling attention to those comments as evidence …
May 28 2012
Federal Judge Blasts DOJ on Guantanamo Tapes
A federal judge is apparently fed up with the stonewalling from the Pentagon and the Department of Justice in a Freedom of Information Act case seeking video recordings of forced cell extractions at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay. Politico reports:
May 28 2012
Obama Stance Continues Shift on Marriage Equality
When President Obama announced his support for marriage equality, as tepid as it was, I said at the time that it would likely result in a shift of a few points in public opinion polls in favor of equality. And it has done exactly that, according to a new poll:
May 28 2012
How to Tell a Real Virgin Mary Apparition
The Catholic Church has released, for the first time in English, its rules for figuring out whether a claimed apparition of the Virgin Mary, or a message allegedly received from the Virgin Mary, is genuine or not. They’re pretty amusing, wasting a great deal of verbiage with little actual meaning.
May 28 2012
Joyner ‘Prophecies’ Martial Law
For the looney right, it seems, we are forever just on the verge of having martial law declared. This was standard John Birch Society rhetoric for decades and now wingnut preacher and “prophet” Rick Joyner says the Lord has revealed to him that the entire world economy is going to collapse and martial law will …
May 28 2012
New Database Tracks Wrongful Convictions
The University of Michigan Law School and the Northwestern University School of Law have joined forces to establish a database of major criminal exonerations around the country, initially finding about 2,000 of them, which only really begins to scratch the surface of the wrong convictions in our justice system.
May 27 2012
Crouch: God Kills People Who Oppose TBN
Trinity Broadcasting Network founder and first class con man Paul Crouch and his smarmy son, Matt, had a conversation that was captured for a TV show and put on Youtube. It was removed, but someone else had captured it and reuploaded it. In that conversation, they clearly implied that God would kill those who opposed …
May 27 2012
Police Misconduct Project Gets New Home
For the past couple years I’ve been on a mailing list for the National Police Misconduct Reporting Project, which was a one-man operation run by David Packman. This is how I’ve found many of the stories of police brutality that I regularly report on. The project just got to be too much for Packman, so …
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