In a move that makes me quite uncomfortable, the Supreme Court has granted cert (that is, agreed to hear an appeal) in a New York case involving the question of whether a legislative body, in this case a city council, can open its meetings with explicitly Christian prayers.
May 23 2013
SCOTUS Grants Cert in Legislative Prayer Case
May 23 2013
Markell: God May Destroy Minnesota Cities
Last week Minnesota became the 12th state to legalize same-sex marriage and the wingnuts continue to lose their minds over it. Jan Markell, who is from that state, is afraid that God may begin to destroy Minnesota cities and that the Christians there don’t know where to hide.
May 23 2013
Jones and Pratt, Together Again
Gary Pratt, the head of Gun Owners of America (a gun rights group so extreme that they think the NRA is a bunch of weak-kneed liberal appeasers), went on the Alex Jones show and together they ranted about Obama being a “full bore Marxist” who stole the 2012 election. Evidence? Silly rabbit. Evidence is for rational people.
May 23 2013
Wingnut: Obama Should Admit to Being First Gay President
(Former) Coach Dave Daubenmire, John Freshwater’s buddy who thinks that the job of a football coach at a public high school is to convert his players to Christianity, continues to pollute the world with his stupidity and bigotry. In this video, he demands that President Obama come out of the closet as the first gay president:
May 23 2013
Schlafly’s Ignorance of History
Phyllis Schlafly repeats the same xenophobia of earlier generations in her most recent column at the Eagle Forum website. She says that unlike the Jewish, Irish and Italian immigrants of the past, modern immigrants don’t really want to be Americans and be patriotic:
May 23 2013
Barton: AIDS is God’s Punishment
David Barton is reiterating what he has said many times before, that God sent AIDS and continues to send new diseases to punish people for sin, especially homosexuality. And yet it will not cost him one bit of the political influence has in the Republican party.
May 23 2013
E.W. Jackson: Vote for Me is a Vote for God
May 23 2013
Farah’s Prayer Rally Already Producing Miracles!
You gotta hand it to Joseph Farah and the Worldnutdaily. When he decides to focus on a story or an event, he can beat that horse until it’s so dead that even flies wouldn’t touch it. Take his 9/11 prayer and fasting rally, which his site is promoting with a new story nearly every day. Never mind that there’s nothing new to report. If some obscure figure says they like the idea — voila — a whole new article. Like this one, which suggests that the event is already producing “miracles.” What miracles, you ask? Good question.
May 23 2013
FBI Investigating Bachmann Now
Things just went from bad to worse for Rep. Michele Bachmann. In addition to the FEC and the Office of Congressional Ethics, the FBI has now joined the investigations into campaign finance violations during her failed 2012 presidential run.
May 23 2013
WTF, Ann Althouse?
We’re used to the true wingnuts saying batshit crazy things about Obama, but Ann Althouse is not some Tea Party crank, she’s a law professor at the University of Wisconsin. And she tries to turn this umbrella bullshit into some weird and vague emotional narrative about Obama. She does a search of Dreams From My Father for the word “umbrella” and quotes the one passage she finds:
May 23 2013
The 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
This weekend I continued my long love/hate affair with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the 2013 induction ceremony aired on HBO. There is much to hate, especially in the long list of bands that should have been inducted long ago. But I still love the inductions every year — especially this year with Rush finally getting the nod. But there were many other highlights as well
May 22 2013
Keyes: Obama Working With Terrorists
On Planet Wingnuttia, where no conspiracy theory is too crazy as long as it discredits Obama, Alan Keyes really should be elected the Grand Poobah or something. In his latest bit of stupid and crazy, he says that Obama is working with the terrorists to destroy America and impose martial law.
May 22 2013
Beck: IRS Scandal to Cover Up Benghazi
While most wingnuts are claiming that the IRS scandal is a horrible injustice for which Obama should be impeached, Glenn Beck says the opposite — that the administration deliberately sparked the IRS scandal in order to distract attention away from Benghazi. Hey, whatever works — it can be X and ~X at the same time on Planet Wingnuttia.
May 22 2013
Virginia’s All-Wingnut Gubernatorial Ticket
It’s frightening enough that Ken Cuccinelli won the Republican nomination for governor of Virginia, but the candidate for lt. governor, Bishop E.W. Jackson (not the same as Bishop Harry Jackson, but just as crazy) may be even worse. This may be the single craziest wingnut ticket ever put together. ThinkProgress has a list of some of his greatest hits:
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