My fellow leftoids may rage against FOXNews, but I appreciate the service they provide: putting all the right-wing crazy into one predictable package. Really, I don’t need Media Matters to cherry-pick the offensive and stupid, when all I have to do is look for the FOXNews byline on my Google News reader, and I know [...]

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Roger Ebert on Glenn Beck’s latest, um, crusade? What are the words “social justice” code for? Why, Nazism and Communism, says Beck: “Social justice was the rallying cry–economic justice and social justice–the rallying cry on both the communist front and the fascist front.” Beck even went so far as to cite Jesus Christ, saying, and [...]

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The Supreme Court refused yesterday to hear a case brought by a student Bible study group against their school district, which refused to charter them as a school club. The school refused to let the group be chartered as a school club. They cited the group’s name, the fact that students would have to pledge [...]

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If you want to annoy an anarchist, say something like this: “Anarchist organization? Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?” And then scoff dismissively. Certainly puts a twitch in my bomb-throwing arm. But the recent movement of atheist churches has provoked thoughts similar to that anti-anarchist canard. Isn’t an atheist religion kinda, I dunno, a contradiction [...]

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I am so glad I signed up for the OneNewsNow daily newsletter. It’s like getting a daily chuckle in my e-mail, only from your crazy right-wing religious uncle who fears Muslims, Arabs and Teh Gayz. And he’s not at all in on the joke. For example, take this headline: ‘God’ – the new four-letter word [...]

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