Your Thoughts?
-
Intro Link and Graphics
-
Top Categories
-
Counter and Badges
Category Archives: Right Wing Politics
Sickening Hypocrisy: Tweets Wishing Violent Death Upon Sarah Palin
January 14, 2011 – 3:52 pmA tip for ending cycles of immorality: never let your moral condemnations themselves be morally condemnable. “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” Your Thoughts?
Indifference To The Facts Of The Case
January 12, 2011 – 1:40 pmRoss Douthat argues that normally an attempted political assassination would have political benefits for the party of the target because of a “rally-round-the-flag” effect but that the left is squandering any of that potential good will with its reaction: violence against elected officials tends to benefit whichever party seems to be targeted —except in cases [...]
Sullivan Sums Up Palin
January 12, 2011 – 12:54 pmI cannot resist reproducing Andrew Sullivan’s post in full, since it so well encapsulates my response to Palin’s speech this morning: The leader of the GOP base has told us a lot today. She has told us two things. She can see absolutely nothing awry in the inflammatory and violent rhetoric she and others have deployed [...]
Denouncing Political Rhetoric Which Is Indistinguishable From The Manifestos Of Paranoid Madmen
January 12, 2011 – 12:42 pmJon Stewart’s remarks about Tucson two nights ago were poignant, conciliatory, honest, humble, and insightful: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Arizona Shootings Reaction www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> The Daily Show on Facebook Here he hits the nail on the head: I do [...]
Sarah Speaks
January 12, 2011 – 11:05 amSarah Palin: “America’s Enduring Strength” from Sarah Palin on Vimeo. Your Thoughts?
Moral Luck, Sarah Palin, And The “Targeting” Of Gabrielle Giffords
January 10, 2011 – 3:29 pmContrary to first impressions, it does not seem at this point that Jared Lee Loughner’s shooting of Congresswoman Giffords and nineteen other people was directly inspired by the Tea Party movement or by Sarah Palin. What has dribbled out so far about Loughner’s ideas seems closest to anarchism in ideology and there are amateur diagnoses [...]
Sheriff Dupnik: “AZ Has Become The Mecca For Prejudice & Bigotry…The Tombstone of the U.S.”
January 10, 2011 – 12:49 pmSheriff Clarence Dupnik speaks out against violent rhetoric and ideologies: Your Thoughts?
Interview With Gabrielle Giffords On Prior Attack On Her Congressional Office
January 8, 2011 – 4:45 pmShe calmly and gracefully defended the value of the democratic process amidst a great deal of abuse from the Tea Party: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Your Thoughts?
May This Be The End Of Sarah Palin’s Cultural Influence
January 8, 2011 – 3:00 pmEven on the off-chance that the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords does not turn out to be at the hands of a right wing terrorist, can we now at least agree that Sarah Palin should be shamed out of politics by all on the left, center, and right for her disgraceful use of violent imagery and [...]
Daily Hilarity: Cranky Puppet John McCain
January 6, 2011 – 12:04 pmThe Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Let’s All Stand on John McCain’s Lawn www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> The Daily Show on Facebook Your Thoughts?
Pakistani Governor Murdered For Opposing Blasphemy Laws
January 4, 2011 – 4:41 pmEnraging news: Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — The governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province was assassinated by his own security guard Tuesday, according to Interior Minister Rehman Malik, apparently because he spoke out against the country’s controversial blasphemy law. The security guard was arrested, Malik said. The shooting occurred at Islamabad’s Kohsar Market, which is frequented by [...]
On The Uses And Abuses Of Religion In Art: The Lines Between Expression, Tolerance, Respect, Fear, and Torture
December 30, 2010 – 6:10 amGary Bauer thinks Christians aren’t treated as well as Muslims in America because there are greater quantities of art works which use Christian symbols in ways that offend Bauer’s sensibilities than there are ones that use Muslim symbols in ways that would offend Muslim sensibilities: in a variety of contexts, American Muslims are treated better [...]
The Tea Party And Social Conservatives
October 13, 2010 – 10:01 amSome data which demonstrates what should be obvious: Indeed, according to a recent survey by the Public Religion Research Institute, nearly half (47 percent) of Tea Party members consider themselves part of the Christian conservative movement, with that number jumping to 57 percent when confined to the 81 percent of Tea Partiers who identify as [...]
Carl Paladino: Homophobe
October 11, 2010 – 1:26 amVile stuff: Transcript of the vileness: We must stop pandering to the pornographers and the perverts who seek to target our children and destroy their lives. I didn’t march in the gay parade this year, the Gay Pride parade this year. My opponent did. And that’s not the example we should be showing our children, [...]
Xenophobia Distilled In Song Form
September 12, 2010 – 5:55 pmMaybe when Cartman communicates all these sentiments at once, the xenophobia and racism in them might become a little clearer for all those out there who like to insist that they are of course definitely not racist (how could anyone imply such a thing??) but just wish there were not so many minorities being alive, [...]
The Case For The Republican Party
September 12, 2010 – 3:29 pmIt’s pretty compelling: Your Thoughts?
King vs. Beck
August 30, 2010 – 5:27 amJust as Christian fundamentalists quote only very selectively from the Bible what is most useful for their rather peculiar contemporary interpretations of their religion, so does Glenn Beck only focus on narrow slivers of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ideas despite insisting that he and those in his movement are the true heirs of, and resumption [...]
Ken Mehlman, Former Bush Campaign Chief And RNC Chief, Comes Out Of The Closet
August 25, 2010 – 8:37 pmHe now wants to become an advocate for gay marriage. He explains: “It’s taken me 43 years to get comfortable with this part of my life,” said Mehlman, now an executive vice-president with the New York City-based private equity firm, KKR. “Everybody has their own path to travel, their own journey, and for me, over [...]
True Religion?
August 17, 2010 – 8:46 pmMany a religious person defending her own religious beliefs will argue that a given politically, morally, or intellectually unflattering interpretation of her faith is simply not a true representation of her faith. While the question of who has the right or the adequate means to decisively determine with any rational clarity which competing interpretation of any [...]
Hitchens On Crass Responses To The Proposed Ground Zero Islamic Center
August 12, 2010 – 9:49 amNoting the shadiness and creepiness of public remarks by Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam behind the plan to build a mosque blocks away from the former site of the Twin Towers, Christopher Hitchens is nonetheless repulsed by the tactics adopted by his opposition. Starting with Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, he writes: [...]
ZJ Condemns Treatment Of Anti-Gay Rights Activist, Calls For More Civilized Tactics
July 21, 2010 – 9:24 amIn response to the harrowing ordeal that an anti-gay rights activist endured recently (which I blogged about yesterday), ZJ is calling for introspection and a reconsideration of tactics from the gay community: Your Thoughts?
ProfMTH Pwns William Lane Craig Over Ignorant Demand For “Strict Constructionism”
July 14, 2010 – 10:42 pmYour Thoughts?
-