Month: July 2011

The right is performing amazing contortions to simultaneously defend the beliefs of the Norway terrorist without condemning the violence, all while blaming someone — anyone else — for what happened: “The official story makes no sense,” Savage told WND. “This looks like a classic conspiracy.” “This has all the appearances of a cover-up,” Savage told […]

The titlte really does tell the whole story: A high school southeast of Little Rock would not let a black student be valedictorian though she had the highest grade-point average, and wouldn’t let her mom speak to the school board about it until graduation had passed, the graduate claims in Federal Court. Kymberly Wimberly, 18, […]

Radio and television blowhard Glenn Beck of course has to join the growing ranks of right-wing whackjobs who are trying to find that delicate balance between sympathetically explaining the nuanced motivations and “legitimate concern about genuine problems” of the Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik and all-out praise of his name as a “serious political thinker […]

There had been a trend I’ve noticed of some conservative opponents of gay marriage who have resolved themselves to accepting same-sex marriage when passed by a state legislature, as opposed to legalized through the courts. I guess their thinking is that if it’s done by the legislature, then it’s an expression of the will of […]

In the wake of the tragic bombing and shooting rampage in Norway, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence pointed out this morning that mass shootings are startlingly common in the U.S., with its much laxer gun laws. In a typical year, fewer than 10 people are killed by guns in Norway while 12,000 are […]

In an interview with PoliticsMo, Rep. Todd Akin (R-OH) called President Obama a “flaming socialist” who is incapable of negotiating with Republicans on raising the debt ceiling. The fact that Akin would deem Obama a hardcore socialist after the president has caved to nearly every Republican demand, agreeing to slash trillions in spending and cut […]