Tag: Wingnuttery

So Why Is DE State House Giving Official Tributes to Known Christian Dominionists?

Filed in National by on February 2, 2012 29 Comments

On January 19, 2012, one C. Peter Wagner was awarded an official tribute from the Delaware House of Representatives, sponsored by Representative Daniel Short and officially signed off by Speaker Gilligan. The House awards tons of these, but this one is spectacularly different.

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How the World Sees Us

Filed in National by on February 5, 2011 2 Comments

…at least via our right wingnut crazies.

This hit my mailbox ALOT over the past few days, and I cringed every time I saw it: Middle East unrest according to Glenn Beck and friends. The Guardian rounds up a the crazy, the stupid and the dangerous of the Wingnut-o-Sphere, and you should go over there to see it all.

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Wingnut Alert: Obama Golfs More Than Bush

Filed in National by on October 26, 2009 25 Comments
Wingnut Alert: Obama Golfs More Than Bush

Yesterday, President Obama went out golfing. Two things made this news worthy. This outing was the first time as Presdient that Obama has golfed with a woman reports The Washington Post. The second item, and the most scandalous from the wingnut point of view (sadly I know), President Obama has now tied President George W. […]

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Calls for Book Banning and Book Burning in Wisconsin

Filed in National by on July 25, 2009 9 Comments
Calls for Book Banning and Book Burning in Wisconsin

Another fight started by more folks who want the government to control the media available to you. This is Wisconsin, not the Swot Valley, mind you:

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It Would Be Like Putting Me In Charge Of The NRA

Filed in National by on July 10, 2009 13 Comments

Meet Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s possible choice to head the state’s Board of education – Cynthia Dunbar. […] In a book published last year, Dunbar argued the country’s founding fathers created “an emphatically Christian government” and that government should be guided by a “biblical litmus test.” She endorses a belief system that requires “any person […]

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More Tales from the Lunatic Fringe

Filed in National by on April 29, 2009 5 Comments

Two more stories you couldn’t make up even on days when you took acid by mistake. From the Moonie (aka Washington) Times: RNC to Vote on Resolution Labeling Democrats ‘Socialists’ The funding fight comes on the heels of another open challenge to Mr. Steele’s authority. Unhappy RNC conservatives secured the signatures to force the committee […]

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Rant of the Week, Perhaps of the Year

Filed in National by on April 11, 2009 9 Comments

El Somnambulo is more likely to show up at Easter services (he’s Jewish) than to tune into ‘Conservative Talk Radio’. However, when a ‘conservative talk radio’ host, John Batchelor, goes all Howard Beale on the GOP and pronounces it dead, the Beast Who Slumbers collapses into a paroxysm of pleasure (not that that is an […]

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