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Rachel Maddow Interview with Former Evangelist Frank Schaeffer: Christian Right Is 'Trolling for Assassins'

"There is a crazy fringe [receiving] messages that have been pouring out of FOX News ... talking about doing away with Obama, asking God to kill him."

Global Warming to Get Worse Sooner Than Expected?

A new study predicts that global warming will increase far faster over the next five years than previous predictions due to increased solar activity and the El Nino southern hemisphere oscillation cycle:

Behind Sarah Palin's Wacky Pentecostal Faith

When God is treated like "on-demand cable," the most fervent believers will have trouble adhering to basic rules of propriety, let alone values.

Racism Is the Prime Cause for Debunked Obama Birth Certificate Conspiracy Theory

The "birther" conspiracy has been utterly debunked, yet more GOP establishment figures have embraced the transparently racist cause.

How the Ultra-Rich Are Trying to Kill Health Reform

The wealthiest 1-percent have deployed an army to destroy an initiative that would tax the super rich to help pay for health care.

Bush Era Horrors Will Haunt Us Until We Truly Face Them

We can't just "move forward." We need to face who we've been and just how badly we've acted, if we care to become something better.

Bill Moyers: Dangerous Alliance of Health Industry and Right-Wingers Will Stop at Nothing to Derail Progressive Reforms

As Republicans fire away on health reform, big business is stepping up attacks too, lobbying and advertising guns blazing.

Right-Wing Pundits Lying Their Asses Off About Health Reform

Interestingly, after all these years I'm still capable of being shocked by truly willful, egregious lies in our public discourse. Spin -- even really bad, dishonest spin -- is one thing, but what you'll see in the video to your right is something else altogether.

More Outlandish Rhetoric From GOP "Birthers"

Ever eager to push paranoia, G. Gordon Liddy unleashes some unfounded accusations. Post Tools G.

Crazy "Birther" Conspiracy Theories Get Boost in Mainstream Media

The movement is a sinister attempt to paint Obama as illegitimate, foreign, and suspect. Why are pundits like Lou Dobbs taking it seriously?

North Korea and Hillary Clinton trade unusual insults

Today, a meeting of Asian leaders in Thailand turned into the set of "Mean Girls": North Korea called the Secretary of State a "funny lady" who "looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping." Ouch.

Limbaugh Calls for 'Slut' Tax

Here's Rushbo -- drug addict, likely third-world sex tourist and self-appointed guardian of America's moral virtues -- working a bit of gratuitous slut-shaming into the health care debate.

My Womb for God's Purposes: The Perils of Unassisted Childbirth in the Quiverfull Movement

Distrustful of experts, many Quiverfull followers are leaving childbirth to God. The recent death of a newborn, however, exposes a growing rift.

A Pew Survey First: U.S. President More Popular than Bin Laden in Most Muslim Nations

Finally, in what is at once a remarkable and depressing statistic, for the first time in the Pew survey, an American president is more popular than Osama bin Laden in most Muslim nations.

America's racism runs deeper than a Philly pool

When a suburban Philadelphia swim club kicked out a group of black and Latino kids on June 29 because of their skin color, the incident generated much outrage throughout the country. But it would be a mistake to think that such incidents and attitudes are a rare exception.

The Wingnut Manifesto

The founder of "Free Republic" wants to overthrow the government. Here's his wingnut manifesto. An excerpt:

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Air Force Crew Chiefs

This will not make sense to many of you... but if you ever crewed an aicraft, you'll be delighted. It may have some interest for other military maintenance types as well - but bears no relation to NASCAR

More Racist Ugliness From the Lunatic Fringe

There is a significant chunk of Idiot America that continues to believe that the country is going to hell in a handbasket because of minorities. As I wrote in many posts over the years, this is not your grandfather's bigotry: 1955 - They are an inferior race

Intelligent Design's Latest Sneaky Assault on Science

Meyer, despite his thin scientific coating, is trafficking the half-baked, over-motivated arguments that have always been peddled by creationists for as long since Darwin developed his theory of evolution. Meyer's focus on the mystery of DNA is just a distraction.

Obama and Church-State Separation

At The Nation, Sarah Posner has an important and troubling article about President Barack Obama's faith-based initiatives, and whether or not they conform with our First Amendment guarantee of church-state separation:

U.S. and India Agree: It's Easier to Blow Up the Planet Than Save It

The U.S. and India had a much easier time negotiating a multi-billion dollar arms deal than determining an agreement to protect the environment. As usual, it's much easier to blow up the planet than save it.

My Son Was Taught to Believe in Jesus by His Mother -- How Do I Help Him Become a Free Thinker?

Nonetheless, the sight of Elijah reading the Bible that morning did leave me with an uneasy feeling. Of course it was wonderful to see him reading. And the Bible is, in any case, a seminal world-historical text: familiarity with it is an essential form of cultural knowledge.

What Palin Should Do Next

...some thoughts on what I think she could do over the next year or so to increase her chances in the 2012 primary.

Why Republicans (Thinking ones anyway) turned on Palin

The conservative opinion elite is divided—irreconcilably so—about Sarah Palin's decision to quit the Alaska governorship.

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