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Category Archives: Right Wing Politics
Bigoted Americans
March 5, 2011 – 10:23 amThis is some powerfully hateful hypocritical harassment and stupidity right here. It creeps me out to see the American flag, which I love in a deep way, look like a fascist symbol in these nativistic, jingoistic, authoritarian, theocratically Christian Americans’ hands: The YouTube description sums up the context of the above: (ANAHEIM, CA, 3/2/11) — [...]
Is it Too Risky to Debate Morality’s Foundations in the Public Square?
February 28, 2011 – 10:50 amJean Kazez argues that the public square is not the place for atheists to be arguing that science and religion are incompatible. I strongly reject her position on this point because not only do I believe that ordinary people are quite capable of handling a vigorous, no-holds-barred debate about religion but because I believe the [...]
Joe Scarborough Denounces Glenn Beck
February 27, 2011 – 12:17 pmVisit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Thanks to The Radula for calling attention to this. If only more people on the right would be as unequivocal in saying their movement should have no place for an ideological leader who is a complete and total conspiracy theorist nutcase. Your Thoughts?
Shepard Smith Insists Wisconsin Is About Union-Busting
February 26, 2011 – 11:43 pmThe one fair and balanced guy on FOX News speaks up again: Your Thoughts?
The Executive Branch WILL Continue Enforcing DOMA, Just Will Not DEFEND It In Court
February 26, 2011 – 4:13 pmGet ready for the deceptive meme to come flying your way that the Obama administration is abnegating its responsibilities to enforce law by not enforcing the Defense of Marriage Act. The administration will continue to enforce the unconscionable law, it will only not defend it from legal challenges in court. Others, starting with the House [...]
‘Nuff Said Award Winner: Holden Mirror On Tea Party Legislative Priorities
February 26, 2011 – 3:21 pmToday’s ‘Nuff Said Award comes not from a Camels With Hammers commenter but a Huffington Post one named Holden Mirror: Between union busting and uterus busting, are you Baggers ever going to do any work on jobs? ‘Nuff Said. Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: Republicans Confuse Reagan For Eisenhower
February 25, 2011 – 10:28 pmThe Onion reports on the blunder: WASHINGTON—At a press conference Monday, visibly embarrassed leaders of the Republican National Committee acknowledged that their nonstop, effusive praise of Ronald Reagan has been wholly unintentional, admitting they somehow managed to confuse him with Dwight D. Eisenhower for years. The GOP’s humiliating blunder was discovered last weekend by RNC [...]
Campaign Promises, Democracy, And What Fair Warning Requires
February 23, 2011 – 12:22 pmAndrew Sullivan points out and documents that even though Governor Scott Walker campaigned on the promise to cut public sector salaries, as he claims, and has an arguable democratic mandate therefore to propose some of the cuts he has (and which unions have conceded to), he did not during the campaign advocate ending unions’ collective [...]
The Religious Conservative’s False Choice: “Big Brother” Or “Heavenly Father”
February 23, 2011 – 10:00 amIn an e-mail to me, Caroline proposes thought provoking reasons for non-believers to encourage (or at least to not actively discourage) religious beliefs: It would also be nice if people would carry out actions in good conscience of just being decent human beings rather than in fear of reprisal in the afterlife, but as there [...]
Defending The Apparent Truth Of Evolution’s Mindlessness
February 21, 2011 – 8:57 pmLast Christmas Eve, I argued that the belief that God “guided evolution” was not a rationally respectable way to reconcile science with faith but rather it was essentially an effective denial of the theory of natural selection, in its scientifically explanatory sense. Part of the revolutionary character of the discovery of evolution by natural selection [...]
Chris Christie On Seriousness About Entitlement Reform
February 21, 2011 – 3:37 pmIs it possible to both be appalled at what Scott Walker is doing in Wisconsin where there was no budget crisis before he introduced tax breaks the state could not afford earlier this year and yet still be sympathetic to Chris Christie’s gutsy approach to achieving fiscal solvency in a state otherwise headed for an [...]
Chris Rock On Obama-Era Hatred: Racism’s One Last Temper Tantrum Before It Goes To Sleep
February 17, 2011 – 1:12 pmFrom an Esquire interview online now: SR: Like many nice Caucasians, I cried the night Barack Obama was elected. It was one of the high points in American history. And all that’s happened since the election is just a shitstorm of hatred. You want to weigh in on that? CR: I actually like it, in [...]
“To The Victims Of This Tragedy We Send Our Thoughts And Prayers” By Roy Zimmerman
February 17, 2011 – 12:24 pmA satirization of Sarah Palin and what she represents: Of course, as it turned out there were no direct connections between Sarah Palin and Jared Lee Loughner. Nonetheless this is entirely valid criticism of the completely reckless conflation of guns with politics, self-righteous apocalyptic theocratic jingoistic religion, loose talk about revolution, and hyperbolic associations of [...]
Birther Madness In The Republican Party
February 16, 2011 – 10:00 amAnderson Cooper interviews Montana State Representative Bob Wagner who refuses to admit that he knows either that President Obama was born in America or even that being born in America makes someone a citizen: Stupefyingly, Representative Wagner is representative of more than 50% of likely Republican primary voters: Birthers make a majority among those voters [...]
Fear Of Middle Eastern Democracy
February 13, 2011 – 4:00 pmWatching this video, I’m starting to fear those who have seemingly no belief in either the intrinsic value or potential effectiveness of democracy as much as I fear Islamism: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Your Thoughts?
Republican Legislator In Wyoming Recounts Circumstances Of Her Abortion
February 9, 2011 – 12:01 amRachel Maddow covers the remarkable story about Wyoming State Representatives Lisa Shepperson and Sue Wallis making a small government conservatism argument against a paternalistic proposed abortion law: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Wallis is the mother of 7 and the grandmother of 1. More about her can be [...]
Real vs. Fake Democratic Revolutions: A Pictorial Representation
February 2, 2011 – 12:45 pmvia The Daily Dish (whose Egypt coverage all-day, everyday is must read) and whatstherumpus.) Your Thoughts?
Should We Fear An Influential Muslim Brotherhood Would Push Authoritarian Islamic Policies?
February 2, 2011 – 12:42 pmNathan Brown is a political science professor at George Washington University and director of the school’s Institute for Middle East Studies. He gives an overview of the Muslim Brotherhood’s evolution from their found through to today, explains how their renunciation of violent means came to pass decades ago, why al-Qaeda sees them as sell outs, [...]
Just How Much Control Over Their Children’s Thought Are Parents Entitled To?
January 31, 2011 – 10:39 amIn reply to yesterday’s open philosophical question whether a Swedish law banning any school, even private ones, from indoctrinating students by teaching their religious tenets as truths (with the ulterior motive of undermining Islamic schools’ abilities to radicalize their students), Mary Young makes a rigorous and eloquent case against such bans well worth highlighting (and [...]
Rachel Maddow Demonstrates How Far To The Right The Country Has Moved In The Last 50 Years
January 30, 2011 – 4:08 pmRachel doing what she does best, the night after Obama’s State of the Union speech last week: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Your Thoughts?
‘Nuff Said Award Winner: Mary Young
January 30, 2011 – 12:35 amIt’s been well over a year since I’ve felt inclined to give out a ’nuff said award to a commentator, but Mary’s reply to my post on charity, religion, and conservatism definitely qualifies as a comment which deserves its own blog post and needs no further comment from me: The driving force behind what calls [...]
TOP Q: Where Are The Lines Between Peaceable Death Penalty Advocacy And Criminal Incitement?
January 29, 2011 – 3:54 pmLast week a heinous, conscience-shocking injustice occurred when the brave, openly gay, Ugandan gay rights campaigner David Kato (pictured above) was murdered shortly after a Ugandan newspaper featured him on the cover with the headline: “100 PIctures of Uganda’s Top Homos Leak” and the words “Hang Them” next to it. The AP photo of the newspaper [...]
Hitchens Brings The Most Eloquent Takedown Of The Tea Party Ever
January 29, 2011 – 2:46 pmEvery time I see him speak of late, he only becomes better. It’s almost like the cancer only makes him stronger: Your Thoughts?
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