The Republican presidential race appears to have shifted from debating the economy to discussing social issues - same-sex marriage, abortion and, amazingly enough, birth control. The year is 2012 and ...
Mitt Romney believes that his best line of attack is making the claim that he has not spent a moment as a D.C. politician while his two main opponents, Newt ...
No two ways about it, Rick Santorum had a good night. Not only did he sweep Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri but he also got off the best line of the ...
Few would argue the fact that Citizens United has been a major player in the Republican primary...and many if not most would concede that none of it has been healthy ...
As if you needed another reason to not vote Romney.
Celebrity business magnate Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president Thursday, telling reporters he will not mount an independent campaign if ...
In a perfect world, the Republican contest to find a nominee to face Barack Obama would go on forever...or at least until August. You cannot attach a number to the ...
I suspect there are a ton of conservatives secretly agreeing with Begala and while it's too early in the game for Dems to get cocky, it's difficult to not smile ...
Quotes don't get much better than this one by Bob Dole.
"Why do people take such an instant dislike to me?" asked a perplexed Gingrich, to whom Dole bluntly ...
After the beating Gingrich took last night, it's hard to imagine under what scenario he can make a comeback. Florida is going to Romney and for Gingrich to regain the ...
There's a lot out there on the President's SOTU, so I'll keep my thoughts short and sweet.
The speech did what it had to do which was target liberals and independents ...
The highlights from last night's debate.
- Newt Gingrich can't wait to become president so he can revisit the early 60s and overthrow Castro in Cuba. War, baby, war.
- Santorum, who ...
It appears that the South Carolina verdict is forcing Romney to start taking Gingrich seriously.
“We’re not choosing a talk show host, we’re choosing a leader,” Romney said, saying that their ...
Mike Huckabee offers advice to Mitt Romney concerning his unreleased tax returns.
Let him [Romney] make this challenge: "I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and ...
Via Political Humor...
"Mitt Romney is coming under fire because even though he is a multimillionaire, he only paid 15 percent in taxes. That's not a tax, that's barely a tip." ...
Good line.
My guess is that after Romney fails to beat Obama in the general, Huntsman will be back in 2016. The most electable guy in the field and he could ...
I found this pretty funny...and accurate. It comes from a reader over at Balloon Juice.
So, let’s review. The contenders for the GOP nomination are
A vulture capitalist who believes that any ...
Lively little debate going on at one of last week's posts with Libertarianism put under the microscope.
ocLiberal:
I know I am in sketchy territory here, (start the indignant shouting now) but ...
In the contest to determine the winner of the Far-Right Politics gold medal, rack up a few more points for Newt Gingrich.
“I think an intelligent conservative wants the right federal ...
Via Political Humor...
"Congratulations to Mitt Romney. He won the New Hampshire primary last night. See, this is proof that even the multimillionaire son of a multimillionaire can beat the odds ...
You literally could not make this stuff up. Conservapedia, the online encyclopedia of choice for idiots, bigots, religious fanatics and just about anyone who loves their misinformation served in tin foil packaging, has found a way to associate Einstein’s theory of relativity with the evils of liberalism.
The theory of relativity is a mathematical system that allows no exceptions. It is heavily promoted by liberals who like its encouragement of relativism and its tendency to mislead people in how they view the world.[1]
[1]See, e.g., historian Paul Johnson’s book about the 20th century, and the article written by liberal law professor Laurence Tribe as allegedly assisted by Barack Obama. Virtually no one who is taught and believes relativity continues to read the Bible, a book that outsells New York Times bestsellers by a hundred-fold.
Lovely. If one believes in Einstein’s theory of relativity then according to the kook who penned this Conservapedia entry, they are less likely to read the Bible which of course then gives loons the right to call it a liberal plot. Not only that but they found a way to link it somehow to President Obama. Beck would be so proud.
If the mindset and level of intellect which now prevails in the conservative movement ever takes full control of the levers of power for any extended length of time, you can expect the U.S. to become a backwards, knuckle-dragging banana republic within fifty years.
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I thought at first that this encyclopedia was tongue-in-cheek until I realized that it is simply another form of dumbing down the dummies. On another message board I have seen people seriously quoting this encyclopedia website. There are some scary people out there
This is an issue that I have been complaining about more and more. It is like we are going through a reverse Renaissance. Ideology is one thing – but the concept that being a conservative means you have to return to the 13th century scares the hell out of me.
Ten years ago we were arguing economic policy with conservatives. Now it is coming down to whether people were riding dinosaurs 4000 years ago. I realize that there has always been a faction of the far right with these beliefs, but now due mostly to the internet (which they never would have invented) the fringe is able to avoid any rational discourse and dose themselves exclusively on idiotic crap.
I left my comment on Digg. This is too funny. Good catch Mario,I only wish I had blogged it first. I’m just too slow! I may just hijack it from you later. ;-)
Yet another example of willful ignorance. I once read a story about a US soldier who was attached to the Red Army during WWII. When he complained about the fact that his Russian rifle kept jamming, his Soviet commander told him that “…weapons produced under a soviet system of production did not jam.”
Present-day US conservatives are no less bound by doublethink than that (probably mythical) Russian officer. Ideology (or perhaps it should be called idiotology) is being given the upper hand over reality – was it only eight years ago, when an unnamed White House aide told journalist Ron Suskind, “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
Unfortunately, Conservapedia is not a joke (but it is proof that real satire cannot match the acts of the wingnuts). The man who wrote that article, Andy Schlafly, is the embodiment of willful ignorance.
I thought at first that this encyclopedia was tongue-in-cheek until I realized that it is simply another form of dumbing down the dummies. On another message board I have seen people seriously quoting this encyclopedia website. There are some scary people out there
Scary and STOOPID!
This is an issue that I have been complaining about more and more. It is like we are going through a reverse Renaissance. Ideology is one thing – but the concept that being a conservative means you have to return to the 13th century scares the hell out of me.
Ten years ago we were arguing economic policy with conservatives. Now it is coming down to whether people were riding dinosaurs 4000 years ago. I realize that there has always been a faction of the far right with these beliefs, but now due mostly to the internet (which they never would have invented) the fringe is able to avoid any rational discourse and dose themselves exclusively on idiotic crap.
This is getting worse and I am worried.
“a reverse Renaissance” Well put, OC.
I guess Conservapedia will be the go-to resource for Texas school kids.
I left my comment on Digg. This is too funny. Good catch Mario,I only wish I had blogged it first. I’m just too slow! I may just hijack it from you later. ;-)
@Anomaly Feel free to hijack at will.
Every little thing is a liberal plot these days
Yet another example of willful ignorance. I once read a story about a US soldier who was attached to the Red Army during WWII. When he complained about the fact that his Russian rifle kept jamming, his Soviet commander told him that “…weapons produced under a soviet system of production did not jam.”
Present-day US conservatives are no less bound by doublethink than that (probably mythical) Russian officer. Ideology (or perhaps it should be called idiotology) is being given the upper hand over reality – was it only eight years ago, when an unnamed White House aide told journalist Ron Suskind, “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
Unfortunately, Conservapedia is not a joke (but it is proof that real satire cannot match the acts of the wingnuts). The man who wrote that article, Andy Schlafly, is the embodiment of willful ignorance.