Category Archives: wingnuts

Beck, Palin, Nugent, People of Tea Prepare to Descend on Washington for Some Reason

Add Glitter to your Photos “We are on the right side of history! We are on the side of individual freedoms and liberties and, dammit, we will reclaim the civil rights moment. We will take that movement — because we were the people who did it in the first place.” Glenn Beck -  May 26, [...]

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The Latest Right Wing Freakout: Terror Babies

Image by Homies In Heaven via Flickr Extreme tea baggers are afraid of a lot of things, but two things that really cause them to cower in fear are illegal aliens and terrorism. On the illegal immigration thing, they’re convinced that rather than securing the border and reforming immigration policy, the best way to end [...]

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Thomas Jefferson on the “Christian Nation” Myth

Image via Wikipedia Nice: “The bill for establishing religious freedom, I had drawn in all the latitude of reason and right. It still met with opposition; but with some mutilations in the preamble, it was finally passed; and a singular proposition proved that it’s protection of opinion was meant to be universal. Where the preamble [...]

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What Hath Darwin Wrought?

Image via Wikipedia Did you know that Charles Darwin is responsible for Nazi Germany, the eugenics movement, and abortion? Me neither. So that’s why I had to chuckle about this piece of American Family Association spam that hit my inbox: There have always been mad-men, but the 20th century was the bloodiest century in human [...]

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Image via Wikipedia Do Republicans really want to repeal the 14th Amendment? The crazy continues to reveal itself.

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Hitchens Confirms: Hugo Chavez is Nuts

Image via Wikipedia I recently traveled to Venezuela where I stayed with some friends who are completely opposed to the government of Hugo Chavez. Before I departed, they told me how crime-ridden their country is these days. I was advised to not speak to people on the flight to Caracas and that upon arrival, I [...]

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Confessions of a Tea Party Casualty

Image via Wikipedia Great article from David Corn of Mother Jones about GOP Representative Bob Inglis and his experience as a conservative Republican running for re-election being destroyed by the Tea Party people: It was the middle of a tough primary contest, and Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) had convened a small meeting with donors who [...]

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People of Tea

The term “tea-bagger” is obviously pejorative.  Calling them “tea partiers” makes little sense, as the people behind that movement seem to  have little interest in engaging in any activity that might involve a party. So what do we call the people who put teabags on their hats to protest budget deficits (that did not upset [...]

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Sarah Palin Expressing her Inner-8th Grade Cheater in Tea Interview?

I’m not sure, but take a look: What is written on Sarah’s hand? Why is she looking at the hand to answer a simple question about the three things that tea party people will do once they “take back” their country. I don’t know that she was acting like an 8th grader in that clip, [...]

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