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We're all familiar with the shenanigans of Westboro Baptist Church.  From protesting outside soldier's funerals holding signs that say "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" to protesting outside the Obama children's private school to running a disgusting website that I won't link you to because I like you too much, this guy is the very definition of an out of control extremist prick.  He believes that the Iraq war is God's punishment for America's tolerance of...

Nine members of Hutaree, an screwy extremist Christianity-based militia group in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana were arrested this weekend after the ATF broke a plot to kill a law enforcement officer, then detonate an explosive device under a vehicle at the funeral.  Yes, use WMD in the United States, not Iraq or Afghanistan.  On Hutaree's website, their motto is:"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down is life for his friends"Right. ...

UPDATED: I'm listening to Joe Scarborough right now and his mantra of "We never hear about threats or violence if it's a Republican" and "We have these people on both sides," referring to the rash of violence and threats against Democratic representatives after the health care vote on Sunday.  Ed Schultz got into a shouting match last night with former right wing congressman and now radio talker Ernie Istook when Istook also falsely claimed that...

I don't have the words to express my disgust with this attack on Department of Justice lawyers from the Liz Cheney-led group that goes by the name of Keep America Safe, more aptly named Keep America Scared. Shameful, despicable, and contemptible aren't strong enough. Adam Serwer at The American Prospect appropriately called it "The New McCarthyism." For those who may not have seen it, here's the video:So now lawyers who defend people accused of being...

At CPAC yesterday, editor of lie-filled Human Events, Jeb Babbin, injected a little "humor" while introducing Grover Norquist, one of the chief architects of the "starve the beast" strategy adopted by the Bush II administration and espoused by most rock rib conservatives.  He thought it would be funny to crack a joke about domestic terrorist and murderer, Joe Stack, drawing parallels with Norquist's hate of the IRS.  It's a real knee slapper.  Here ya' go...

Just as the right scrambles to blame yesterday's plane crash into a building in Austin, TX as a left wing nutjob, about 600 people as of the time of this publication have joined a group called "the Philosophy of Joe Stack" on Facebook. The discussions on the page paint Stack as some kind of "hero" for committing an act of terrorism that " is no different than what was going on in this same land...

President Obama, in the name of the Nobel Peace Prize, put a stop to this, NOW:"MARJA, Afghanistan -- An errant American rocket strike on Sunday hit a compound crowded with Afghan civilians in the last Taliban stronghold in Helmand Province, killing at least 10 people [the number now stands at 12], including 5 children, military officials said....The strike came after American Marines and Afghan soldiers had been taking intense small-arms fire from a mud-walled compound...

We've heard the cries that "it's time to stop being politically correct and start profiling Muslims at airports!" I contend that it would be an ineffective practice that would make us less safe from terror attacks. When we go through security checkpoints at the airport, every single passenger passes through a metal detector. Shoes are removed and x-rayed. Belongings are scrutinized with x-ray technology by trained security personell. Those that look suspicious, those that...

It's no secret by now that I've been disappointed in some of the actions of the Obama administration. None more so than their continuation of the Bush/Cheney policies of dealing with those accused of terrorist activities. I expected much better from a president who professed to be something of a Constitutional scholar, and the administration bowing to pressure over the weekend from those who are against trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 4 others in New...

Tonight, in what will probably go down as the most shocking upset so far in 21st century politics, supposed shoo in, Martha Coakley, lost to right wing Republican and nude model, Scott Brown, tonight.  Fingers were pointing way before the polls closed, with Coakley's campaign (worst since Walter Mondale) blaming the DNC, and everyone else blaming Coakley.  While she vacationed in the Carribean in December sitting on a 15 point lead, Brown wore out shoe...