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No, that headline's not a typo, it's not supposed to be First Amendment. Sharron Angle said that entitlement programs are a violation of the First Commandment, as in Moses and the stone tablets, Old Testament, First Commandment. Jon Ralston of the Las Vegas Sun found the audio of an April 21 radio interview in which Angle said: "And these programs that you mentioned -- that Obama has going with Reid and Pelosi pushing them forward...

Three cheers for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for standing up against the religious bigots and fearmongers on the right yesterday. Those who use the inflammatory term "Ground Zero Mosque" even though the proposed Islamic Center in lower Manhattan is neither--it's 2 blocks from the former Trade Center site and it's not just a mosque. But the likes of Liz Cheney, Bill Kristol, Newt Gingrich, Peter King, and Rick Lazio, to name just a...

You just can't make this stuff up. On Fox News Sunday night Carl Cameron asked Sharron Angle about running away from reporters who were trying to ask her questions about her wacky positions like what she meant by "Second Amendment remedies": Cameron: There was a tremendous amount of discussion about Sharron Angle's taking the defensive posture. Angle: We needed to have the press be our friend. Cameron: Wait a minute! Hold on a second... to...

Fox News Sunday became the Theater of the Absurd yesterday. First, when host Chris Wallace asked Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner about evidence that the economy is slowing, and about leading economists calling for additional stimulus in response to those falling GDP numbers, Boehner said: "Well, I don't need to see GDP numbers or to listen to economists. All I need to do is listen to the American people, because they've been asking the...

From the Huffington Post:"Evangelical Christian minister Tim LaHaye says that the policy initiatives put forth by the Obama administration are bringing the country "closer to the apocalypse."LaHaye issued the dire warning in an appearance this week on Mike Huckabee's talk show on Fox News..."Our present president doesn't seem to get it," LaHaye explained. "He doesn't understand that some of the things he's introducing that many of us call 'raw socialism' -- it's a different name,...

This time it's a bill that extends medical care for first responders and victims of 9/11. Republicans oppose it because it "creates a massive new entitlement program"  and is paid for with a tax that would result in "potential job losses." Politico has the story: "The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2009, sponsored by New York City Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D), provides medical monitoring to those exposed to toxins at Ground...

Before House Republicans left Washington for their August recess yesterday, Rep. Mike Pence handed out his 22-page plan for how Republicans can disseminate their propaganda get their message out to voters over the break. "The recess document...lays out key topics to address in the dog days of August and early September: "Week One: Jobs. Week Two: Government Reform. Week Three: Spending. Week Four: National Security. Week Five: Healthcare. Week Six: JOBS."[...]Under the heading "Job Creation,"...

Nevada Republican Party to the Tea Party Express: Thanks a lot. In the June 8 Senate Republican primary in Nevada, Tea Party darling Sharron Angle defeated Republican establishment candidate Sue "Chickens for Checkups" Lowden by a margin of 39%-28%. A June 11 Rasmussen poll showed Angle with a 50-39 edge over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Then Angle started talking...and running from cameras. Now? The latest from Rasmussen has Reid up 45-43, and Nevada has...

. From TPMDC:   "Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, currently running third in the state's Republican gubernatorial primary race, says he's not sure if Constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion apply to the followers of the world's second-largest faith, Islam. At a recent event in Hamilton County, Ramsey was asked by a man in the audience about the "threat that's invading our country from the Muslims." Ramsey proclaimed his support for the Constitution and the...

Another day, another right-wing hit piece on Shirley Sherrod. This time it's Jeffrey Lord at the American Spectator who calls Mrs. Sherrod a liar for saying in her remarks to the NAACP that one of her relatives, Bobby Hall, was lynched in Georgia in the 1940's. Lord claims to have done his research this time, unlike Andrew Breitbart, and taken Sherrod's words in context, directly from the transcript of her speech. "I should tell you...