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Conservative Christians Claim They Should be Able to Spew Hate Without Consequence
Conservative Christians want to be able to spew hate and lies but for nobody to have the right to disagree with or refute them
Tagged Right Wing Theocracy
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The Republican Party and the un-Founding of America
Republicans claim to be the defenders of the Constitution; this while wishing to do away with every amendment save the Second and the Tenth- narrowing Republican goals to guns and secession.
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Grandmother Says She is Persecuted if She is Not Allowed to Convert Grandson
Visiting Grandma should not carry with it the prerequisite of conversion
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Mitt Romney Pops Up In Virginia and Proves America Dodged a Crazy Bullet in 2012
Quoting a Psalm embraced by the extremely patriarchal Quiverfull movement this past weekend, Mitt Romney revealed the source of his beliefs about women.
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Buster Wilson Wakes Up to Discover He’s a Hate Monger
Buster Wilson complains that if he believes what he says the Bible says about homosexuality, he is a hate monger
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NBA Player Jason Collins Comes Out – Religious Right Apoplectic
NBA player Jason Collins says he’s gay; the religious right says he is immoral and aberrant and so are we for supporting him
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The Bush Presidential Library, Museum and Think Tank. Think Tank?
Thursday marks the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, not to mention a think tank. What a waste of money.
Bryan Fischer Says Liberals Hate America and Christianity
Bryan Fischer dishonestly says liberals hate America and Christianity because they want to replace America as it was founded
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The GOP’s Boston-inspired Insanity
The GOP: Sodomizing our shared reality – and you
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Kansas Republican Tim Huelskamp Put the Fool in April Fool’s Day
Kansas Republican Tim Huelskamp says marriage equality is unpatriotic and will destroy the family and motherhood – and even your apple pie
The Republican Party’s Bad Character-Guy Culture
The NFL hates ’em, the GOP loves ’em: bad character guys. Who needs Nazis and the KKK? We already have the Republican Party.
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When One Receives a Political Email Full of Pure BS, You Know It Came From a Republican
There’s a national email movement to demand the defunding of ACA. It’s spearheaded by Heritage Action for America (HAA), an offshoot of the Heritage Foundation.
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Pat Robertson Says You Have Demons in Your Underpants
Pat Robertson thinks there are demons in your underpantsr, so be sure to rebuke them before heading out of the house
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80 Republicans Sign Supreme Court Brief in Support of Marriage Equality
More than 80 Republicans have signed a brief which will be submitted to the Supreme Court in support of Marriage Equality
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America’s Capitalism Has Embraced White Slaves as Well as Black
American capitalism supported white indentured servitude before and alongside black slavery and relinquished it only reluctantly.
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World Net Daily to PoliticusUSA: Facts are anti-Semitic
Reality-challenged Joseph Farah of World Net Daily feels that inconvenient and uncongenial facts about ancient Israel are anti-Semitic.
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Republicans Love to Regulate When it Benefits Their Wealthy Friends
A long-time and oft-repeated Republican criticism of Democrats is the tendency to regulation. But, so do Republicans, especially for friends.
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Conservatives Convince Themselves Obama Would be in Jail if He Wasn’t President
Conservatives have convinced themselves that though Obama SHOULD be in jail even as president, he would certainly BE in jail if he were not.
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Joseph Farah Says America Needs Ten Commandments – Wants Money
Joseph Farah is putting up 10 Commandment billboards in “Sin City” – Las Vegas – and he wants your dollars to do it
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Buster Wilson Claims Obama Wants to Declare Christians to be Mentally Ill and Lock Them Up
Buster Wilson lets go of his meat long enough to claim Obama thinks he’s crazy and wants to lock him up.
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Ralph Reed Invokes MLK’s Fight for Freedom in Defense of his Fight to Oppress
So Ralph Reed of the misnamed Faith and Freedom Coalition, took exception to my findings yesterday, that the Bible is irrelevant as a determinant of United States immigration policy reform. He thinks he’s pretty clever and like any good conservative these days, goes right to invoking MLK: “So MLK was wrong to invoke the BIble &…
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Right Wing Bigots Claim Immigration Reform Path to Citizenship Violates the Bible
Ralph Reed, mistaking the Bible for the US Constitution, believes his holy book should govern US immigration policy
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Bryan Fischer Condemns Interfaith Prayer and Counterfeit Gods
Some have realized that people might be praying to the same god or gods and that mixing it up isn’t a bad thing. Not Bryan Fischer
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Glenn Beck Fears for Humanity’s Future and He Wants You to be Afraid Too
Glenn Beck reacts with his usual hysteria to the idea of the Singularity and humankind’s next leap forward: the Singularity.
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Conservatives Release the Propaganda Hounds in Defense of Religious Bigotry
A collection of WTF Boy Scout moments, brought to you by the party that hasn’t read the Bible they’re using to beat us over the head
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Fundamentalist Says Refrigeration Removes Sin. Tough Luck Gays and Lesbians!
Oklahoma Pastor James Taylor says if you can refrigerate something (like shellfish) it isn’t an abomination anymore
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The Right Claims Liberals Have a Dull-Witted, Self-Defeating, Abjectly Wicked Worldview
Conservatives seem completely confused and befuddled by reality, as evidenced by Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber and his recent scree
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Misremembering is the Conservative Way of Treating Martin Luther King
As our nation celebrates Martin Luther King Jr, conservatives choose NOT to remember him, but to misremember him as a conservative
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Gun Nuts to Build 2,000 Acre Citadel in Idaho’s American Redoubt
How do America’s most extreme gun enthusiasts want to live? You’ll soon get to find out as they build their own city in the mountains of Idaho
Michele Bachmann Refuses to Pay Employees Unless They Promise to Hide Illegal Activities
Americans should be asking themselves this weekend why Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is refusing to pay five of her staffers for the work they did helping her try to win the presidential nomination.
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Right Wing Insanity Boils Over With Claim Marriage Equality Caused Noah’s Flood
Right wing Pastor Scott Lively hit a new level of crazy even for the far right by claiming that same sex marriage caused Noah’s Flood.
A Desperate Religious Right Renews the War on Marriage Equality
With growing desperation, the Religious Right tries to stem the liberal tide of toleration, equality, and genuine religious liberty
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The GOP Needs to Shed its God Problem Before it’s Too Late
The Republican Party needs to shed its God problem before its unhealthy obsession destroys America
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Opposition to Chuck Hagel is a No-Win Scenario for the GOP
There is no conceivable outcome in which GOP opposition to Chuck Hagel ends happily for Republicans
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Its the End of the World as You Know It
Joseph Farah wants you to believe an angry God is about to snuff us out, but first we have to survive the Republicans
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When Your Doctor Offers to Pray for You
We go to medical doctors for medical care based on the most recent medical science, not for prayers
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The Republicans Have Quit on America; It’s Time for Americans to Quit on Them
Republicans have quit on America. They’re putting forth no effort, and most importantly at all, they haven’t even bothered to show up for the past two years.
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Things to Like About 2012
We had some rough times in 2012 but there are things to like about the year just past. Here are a few of them.
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Piers Morgan Says Flawed Bible Must be Amended
Piers Morgan, already being attacked for his stance on guns, has truly thrown caution to the wind by proclaiming that the Bible is flawed and must be amended.
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This Holiday Season Do Your Own Thing and Damn the Critics
Conservative Christians despise atheism as being a subjective form of morality, ignoring the history of their own subjective belief system
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The Religious Right Wants You Dead in God’s Name
The endless chorus from the Religious Right that all that plagues our society is the result of divine wrath has grown tiresome…and then some.
Why do Fundamentalists Feel the Need to Prove Jesus Was Resurrected?
What happened to belief? Aren’t fundamentalists who try to prove the resurrection as bad as the atheists they decry for demanding that proof?
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David Barton Says We’ve Got to Have the Same Guns the Government Has
David Barton says the Founding Fathers would want us armed with the same weapons available to the government – because the Bible says so
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Sanity Prevails in New Orleans as Revisionist Texas Textbooks Banished
Six schools have been saved for science in New Orleans, where humans will never walk with dinosaurs and Noah’s flood did not create the Grand Canyon
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James Dobson Says Sandy Hook is God’s Judgment on America
James Dobson says America has turned its back on God and Sandy Hook is God’s response: the murder of our children in retaliation.
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Religious Right: God Will Kill Our Children Until We Turn Schools Into Churches
Fundies are determined to scare you into allowing school sponsored prayer back into our public schools: God will kill your kids if you don’t
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The vicious red states are engaging in an attack on the public school system
South Carolina is a prime example of right-wing attempts to destroy the public school system and replace it with private school profiteers
Bryan Fischer Claims Homosexuality is a Birth Defect
The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer misrepresents a scientific study to claim that homosexuality is a birth defect
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Federal Judge Says North Carolina’s Choose Life License Plates are Unconstitutional
A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina cannot offer choose life plates without also offering pro-choice plates
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Why Progressives Can Make My Head Explode
Progressivism, like conservatism, is about regulating our lives. But I’m a liberal; I’m all about liberty, so leave my choices alone
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The Demographics of Progress and the Demise of the America of Conservative Dreams
The numbers don’t lie: they didn’t lie on Election Night, and they do not lie in the longer run when they prove that America is becoming more, not less progressive.
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Conservatives Are Dreaming of a ‘White’ Christmas
Conservatives are dreaming of a ‘white’ Christmas, and that is all Christmas really is to them: a means to an end that has no role for Jesus
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Conservatives Introduce Their New Fantasy: Barack the Destroyer
Bryan Fischer introduces Barack the Destroyer, the man who wants to destroy America and make Americans suffer because of their racism
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Conflict in the Courts as Federal Judges Issue Divergent Rulings on Gay Conversion Quackery
A federal district judge has issued a temporary injunction against a new California law banning gay conversion therapy, while a second federal judge has refused to block the ban.
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The Religious Right Freaks Out Over West Point’s First Same-Sex Marriage
When West Point hosted its first gay marriage this past weekend, the Religious Right went bananas, talking about moral cliffs and decadence
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Man Charged with Blasphemy for Pointing out Weeping Jesus Miracle was Plumbing Problem
In India, you can apparently be charged with blasphemy for pointing out that a statue of Jesus is not, in fact, crying.
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Glenn Beck’s Philosophical Belch – Agenda 21
Glenn Beck takes the new Egyptian Constitution as an opportunity to push his UN conspiracy and to predict a US dictator within 5 years
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Fox News Has a Holiday Wish List but Governor Chafee Can’t Have a Holiday Tree
“All I want for Christmas is to kill it,” seems to be the song conservatives think liberals sing each and every holiday season. Fox News has made a lucrative living pushing a nonexistent war on Christmas, seizing on every example of religious pluralism in this country – that is, the right of people to believe…
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Republicans Turn Charter School Officials Into the New Robber Barons
School privatization is the new Gold Rush. There is money to be made in them there hills. And charter schools are the the Republican hammer to be used to prise it out of our hands.
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Things I am Grateful for in 2012
Even in troubled times, there are a great many things to be grateful for. Here are a few of mine.
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America is a Christian Nation. If We Don’t Like it, We Should Get Out
Another one of the 24 percent tells the 76 percent to get out because America is THEIR country: white and Evangelical
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Fundamentalists Admit They Prayed for Obama’s Defeat and God Said No
James Dobson determined that Obama’s defeat means we are living in a time of judgment and that God can make use of Obama
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Sorry GOP: We Do Not Need Churches in order to Prosper Economically
Conservatives insist that economic prosperity is impossible without their God but America wil prosper just as well with 20 gods or no gods
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Let’s Not Give Right Wing Religious Idiots and Hypocrites the Last Laugh
The Religious Right says some laughable things, but there is nothing laughable about their money, power – or influence on American politics
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Red State Secession Would Be a Dream Come True for the Rest of America
Don’t tell me that some little part of you would not just like to say to Texas, or to another Southern state of your choice, ‘Fine. Go. We admit it. 1861 was a mistake and we are undoing it now.’
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Republicans Declare Defeat and Claim They Have Lost the Culture War
Longtime foe of multiculturalism, William J. Bennett, says Republicans lost culture war and accuses Democrats of playing identity politics
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Idiot Republican Says Conservatives Are the New N-words
We’ve seen some crazy conclusions drawn since Election Day, but Larry Klayman’s claim that conservatives are the new N-words is obscene.
Republicans are Blaming George Clooney for Mitt Romney’s Defeat
The braniacs at World Net Daily and the American Family Association have convinced themselves we voted for Obama because George Clooney did
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What Obama’s Victory Means to the Religious Right
The Religious Right took a black eye in 2012 but they are far from powerless and will be back to attack the Constitution in 2016
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Was Election Night a Mandate for the Status Quo?
America won four more years for President Obama, but did we issue a mandate for change or for the status quo?
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Ryan to Evangelicals: Obama’s Path Compromises Judeo-Christian Values
Paul Ryan says Obama’s path compromises some non-existent values; the real problem is that Obama stands between Ryan and the Constitution
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The GOP’s Vorpal Blade of Cognitive Dissonance Goes Snicker-Snack!
Reality is the ultimate enemy of Republican ideology, so Tom Tancredo picks up his vorpal blade and shows himself asylum-ready
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Election Day 2012 Boils Down Not to Fantasy But to Our Shared Reality
With Hurricane Sandy, Republican fantasy met the facts on the ground and lost; our shared reality is more potent than wishful thinking
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Franklin Graham Says Election Day 2012 is America’s Last Call
Not only has God decided Mormonism is not a cult, but that former heretic Mitt Romney is his last true hope: vote Mitt or burn in hell!
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Mourdock Loses Ground in Senate Race But GOP Party of Rape Not Even Close to Getting It
The GOP is headed into Election Day as the Party of Rape, a group of white fratboys who never grew up
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Texas Declares War on UN Vote Monitors
Texas says to hell with international treaties and has threatened legal action against OCSE observers if they watch Texas suppress the vote
Romney’s Endorsement of Rape Enthusiast Richard Mourdock
Mitt Romney wants Richard Mourdock, who thinks rape pregnancies are a gift from God, changing things in Washington, D.C.
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Bryan Fischer, Kicked off CNN for Lying, Reacts like Childish Buffoon
Bryan Fischer appeared on CNN this week to share his hateful and dishonest spew but ran into a host who was having none of it
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Billy Graham’s Debate Day Present to Romney – You’re not a Cultist
Billy Graham was clear about what constituted a cult. But for the sake of theocracy in 2012, Billy Graham sold his soul to Satan
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Failure to Teach Christianity in Public Schools is Mental Molestation
Fundies claim failure to teach Christianity in public schools is mental molestation – say it ought to be punished like physical molestation
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The Lies Used to Portray Obama as an anti-Constitutionalist
Matt Barber calls quotes anti-Constitutionalist Patrick Henry to defend the Constitution and to portray Obama as the anti-Constitutionalist
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GOP Congressman – Evolution a Lie Straight from the Pit of Hell
Paul Broun and Todd Akin, both serving on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, deny evolution and embrace superstition
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What Last Night’s Debate Tells us About How Team Romney Sees Women
Paul Ryan made clear last night that he wants his religious beliefs to inform our decisions, while claiming it is his that are under attack
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Kirk Cameron Throws Stones at Gays But Says He is the Stoning Victim
Kirk Cameron has been stoning gays and lesbians but wants to present himself as the victim because people dared criticize his hate speech
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The GOP’s Blatant Support for Theocracy
The GOP has surrendered its platform to the most extremist elements within the Religious Right and offers a candidate who has done the same
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If a Straight Man Can Resist Polygamy a Gay Man Can Resist Other Men?
Fundamentalists are forever looking for a working equation to make same-sex attraction unnatural but the only thing unnatural is their logic
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Can Reality Be Prayed Away? Fundamentalists Say Yes
Harry Jackson said he cursed the Washington Blade, a gay newspaper, out of existence. But the Blade is still there. Am I missing something?
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Biblically Clueless Joseph Farah Attacks the Left’s Biblical Literacy
Joseph Farah just can’t wrap his mind around a Christianity that includes its Christ, and attacks Jim Wallis for getting Jesus right
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I Would Like to Say Goodbye to Patriarchy
You would think that in 2012 we’d be in a position to say goodbye to patriarchy but instead it has become the focus of the Republican Party
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An Interview with Nonbeliever Nation’s Author, David Niose
I ask David Niose, author of Nonbeliever Nation, a few questions about his book and about recent events in both America and around the world
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Nonbeliever Nation by David Niose is a Secular Manifesto
David Niose’s timely book is not another look at the Religious Right; this call to arms is written for Secular Americans about secularism
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Ralph Reed Tries Some Hocus Pocus for a Bush Redux in 2012
Ralph Reed, the 90’s Evangelical Wunderkind, once disgraced, is back again mobilizing the vote he once said was mythical, for Mitt Romney
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Pamela Geller’s New Ad Campaign Calls Muslims Savages
Pamela Geller disengenuously claims she does not hate all Arabs and Muslims despite paraphrasing an Ayn Rand quote which does exactly that
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As President, Would Mitt Romney Obey his Prophet or the Constitution?
Mormon David Twede asked if President Romney would answer to the Mormon prophet; David Twede was interrogated and now faces excommunication
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Romney and Ryan – The Haters in Chief
It is un-American to have as a president a man who preaches religious intolerance and who promotes the idea of state-sponsored religion
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Romney Throws Details out Window, Turns to God
Mitt Romney has never been very specific about what he would do as president to “fix” things. He just says he’d fix this and he’d fix that. The “how” is vague. Instead of specifics, we get emotion: God. Apparently, Romney will fix America’s problems by not taking “God out of the public square.” That’s what…
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Fake Jew Says Obama Victory Would be God’s Judgment on America
The fundamentalists got themselves covered now, so don’t even try to argue: if Obama wins, it’s God’s will. If Romney wins, it’s God’s will.
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The Recipe for a Republican Politician
The unsavory ingredients that go into making a Republican politician create a perfect storm for America and the world in 2012