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Unprecedented in the Annals of Crazy

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How I gained respect for the Tea-baggers

I’ve long wondered how conservative tea-baggers can scream and yell about our government and socialism, while at the same time taking pretty much everything that Fox News tells them on faith, even when it is a blatant lie and goes against real conservative values. A recent survey says that 74% of Republican-leaning Americans say that [...]

Mature Political Movement

© Joel Pett
Actually, I think the Tea Party movement has been taken over by Republican political operatives. You know things are crazy when Ron Paul — the person who held the first modern “tea party” and more than any politician represents the ideals of small government and fiscal responsibility — has three “tea [...]

Only Conservatives Allowed to Run Advocacy Ads During the Superbowl

Two years ago, CBS refused to run ads created by Moveon.org during the Superbowl, claiming that “the spot violated the network’s policy against running issue advocacy advertising”. They also refused to run an ad from PETA, the animal rights group, because they do not accept advertisements on “controversial issues of public importance.” This year CBS [...]

Conservatives Win 11 to 6

My two favorite political fact checking organizations are PolitiFact Truth-O-Meter (run by the St. Petersburg Times) and FactCheck (run by the Annenberg Foundation).
PolitiFact recently picked their “Lie of the Year” and to the surprise of hardly anyone, it was Sarah Palin’s numerous claims of Obama’s “death panels”. This lie wasn’t just the choice of the [...]

Conservatives, The Next Generation

For several reasons, I found this post on National Review to be completely ironic and hilarious:
Congratulations to Captain Picard! [Mike Potemra]
Palace sources say Patrick Stewart is about to be knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. It turns out he is an avid supporter of Britain’s Labour party; his support must be especially welcome in this, one [...]

Conservatives Remaking God In Their Own Image

Conservatives Republicans have decided that the world must be remade to match their ideology. First they proposed a “purity test” — a ten-point checklist of conservative positions. In order for a candidate to receive funding from the national Republican Party, they must be able to prove that they support at least eight items on the [...]

Right or Wrong?

Two days ago, conservative blogger Charles Johnson posted “Why I Parted Ways With The Right” — a concise explanation of why he “won’t be going over the cliff” with the American right-wing-nuts. He names names, including a list of fascists, racists, bigots, white supremacists, homophobes, misogynists, anti-science luddites, anti-govermnent lunatics, conspiracy theorists, and promoters [...]

Terrorists Cannot Be Brought to Justice?

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Another Failure

© Mike Luckovich
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The conservative movement has the emotional maturity of a bratty 13 year old

Republicans are fond of claiming that they have nothing against Obama personally (what, me racist?), it is just they don’t like his policies.
So it is interesting to see that the right can’t contain their glee that Obama failed to get the 2016 Olympics in Chicago:

The newsroom of the Weekly Standard burst into applause.
Rush Limbaugh admitted [...]

Lifestyles of the White and Suggestible

Video from the 9/12 tea party in Washington:

Even more stunning video:

UPDATE: I find it amazing to watch these videos. I mean, these people went to a lot of trouble to go protest, so I don’t doubt that they feel strongly. But when you ask them the simplest questions they seem to have little idea of [...]