"Simply put, the church members had the right to be where they were." Chief Justice John Roberts defending the First Amendment rights of the Westboro Baptist Church in Snyder v Phelps The Court ruled...
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Worst Persons in the World
The police state of Florida for this. The story is a year old, but dovetails with the current battle in the Republican war against women. Last year, a Florida doctor forced a pregnant woman to be...
Morning Awesome
National Parks week continues with "Hawaii's Volcanoes" from Ken Burns' The National Parks: America's Best Idea.
I Can't Believe This is Still a Thing
It's really quite remarkable that wingnuts are still milking the Birther Muslim thing. Seriously, it's been since 2007 and it continues on and on and on. It speaks volumes about the Republican race...
Republicans Aren't Fiscal Conservatives
Don't believe the lie. The Republicans aren't fiscal conservatives or deficit hawks or whatever nonsense bumper-sticker word they're tossing around these days. Case in point, the House Republicans...
Badge of Honor
Remember the other day when I wrote that Pam Gellar and her Islamophobic racist group would regard their classification as a "hate group" by the SPLC as a "badge of honor?" Here's Pam Gellar...
Morning Awesome
National Parks week continues with "Just Americans" by Robert Sterling Yard from The National Parks: America's Best Idea. Later this morning, you'll learn about how the Republicans voted continue...
Huckabee Goes Full Birther
Oy. Everyone knows you never go full Birther. HUCKABEE: I would love to know more. What I know is troubling enough. And one thing that I do know is his having grown up in Kenya, his view of the...
Scott Walker is 'Un-American'
And who said that? Joe Scarborough, of all people. "I'm going to get so killed for saying this ... I'm going to get killed for saying this. I don't understand. It seems -- I'm going to get so killed...
Whoever Wins, We Lose
Jon Cohn raises a sobering point: But if the political future isn't clear to me, the policy future is. And it doesn't look bright. One way or another, federal spending both for the rest of 2011 and...
Super Stupid
Via the Angry Black Lady, it appears as if tea party people and Palin superfans have organized what could be the most ridiculous protest in the history of ridiculous protests. Yes, on 3/13/11...
Crazy Quote of the Day
"The answer is yes." Governor Mitch Daniels (R-Indiana) when asked, "Are budget cuts -- government budget cuts -- worth it, even if they end up seriously costing a lot of jobs right now?" This is...
Morning Awesome
National Parks theme week continues with an extended look at Ken Burns' documentary series. Again, the Republicans -- and even the Obama administration -- are attempting to slash the budgets for the...
Worst Persons in the World
The driver who's responsible for this massacre. That's right, a driver in Brazil took out 40 bike riders in a single rampage. GRAPHIC VIDEO AFTER THE JUMP. For those of you who are ambivalent or even...
Republican Sabotage
The Republicans have calculated that if they rig the budget in such a way that economic growth backslides by two percent or so, and 700,000 to two million jobs are lost, people will blame the...
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“I have one dollar in my wallet. That’s more than the combined income tax liability of GE, ExxonMobil, Citibank, and the Bank of America. That means somebody is gaming the system.” Carl Gibson, the...
Your Liberal Media
A recap of the guests from yesterday's Sunday shows. Fox News Sunday: Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN), former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) CBS Face the Nation: Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) NBC Meet the Press:...
Republicans Sabotaging Economic Growth
From an obviously liberal source: In a recent report, economists at Goldman Sachs estimated that the House cuts would reduce economic growth by 1.5 percentage points to 2 percentage points in the...
Morning Awesome
The House Republicans voted to cut $51 million in funding for the National Park Service. So this week, I'll be featuring scenes from Ken Burns' brilliant The National Parks: America's Best Idea...
Hate Group Status Equals Big Publicity
While her group is awful and racist, this was a bad idea: Manhattan blogger Pamela Geller and her posse of anti-Islamic protesters have been branded a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center...