Alabama public TV execs fired for not airing dominionist propaganda

If you’re not sure who David Barton is, think of Ken Ham or Kent Hovind: Barton is to history what old fashioned young earth creationists are to science. He peddles books and DVD’s riddled with fake quotes and other inaccuracies pushing the idea that America’s founders were really all about a Christian theocracy. Which is why Alabama Public TV recently passed on a suggestion to air two of Barton’s fake documentaries. I just got wind of what happened next: [Read more…]

Only the “right kind” of Christians need apply inside

We already have a de facto requirement for politicians to be religious, as in Judeo-Christian, where Mormons-sorta-count as long as they’re ultra-wealthy conservatives running against non-conservatives. An Oklahoma company has taken it one pseudo-logical step further. Not only do you have to be a Christian to work there, you better be the right kind of born-again evangelical: [Read more…]

Nothing says small government quite like …

Nothing says the gubmint should stay the hell out of the people’s business quite like the State policing uteri in vitro. And nothing says jobs jobs and more jobs quite like restricting reproductive rights. Which helps explain why small government poser and spawn of Paul, aka Rand, has a critical addition to a routine bill on flood insurance: [Read more…]

God wants you to kill teh gay

We all know Republican Jesus and his father, the Master of the Universe, created teh gay so the pious would have someone to stone on those otherwise dull weekends in Babylon. But a Kansas preacher wants to bring it back, because nothing says limited government to a conservative nutcase like being dragged out of your house by the State and tortured to death for public amusement: [Read more…]

Rightwing nutjobs try to paint rightwing terrorist nutjob as a “lefty”

Mere mention that Obama ordered a successful hit on bin Laden is politics in the gutter. But pretending a rightwing neo-Nazi nutjob who gunned down an entire family including a toddler is really a closet lefty is above board. See, I know both those things are true because other rightwing nutjobs — with everything to lose if they’re not true — say they are: [Read more…]