dangerously tapping into deepseated fear and loathing

Healthcare by itself is an important and emotional issue, there is more to the deep rage people are unleashing at townhall meetings and elsewhere.
Maybe not all, but a lot — in fact, what I would guess to be the vast majority — of the rage is fueled by reaction to the last election.
Quite simply, a [...]

It’s okay to call for the Taliban to kill a soldier taken hostage if you’re a rightwinger

No, really. Retired Lt Col Ralph Peters says so on Fox News.
Think Progress has the story:

I want to be clear. If, when the facts are in, we find out that through some convoluted chain of events, he really was captured by the Taliban, I’m with him. But, if he walked away from his post [...]

Erick Erickson, Presbyterian, tells some Catholics they’re not actually Catholic

I know one trait of right wing authoritarians is that they are both utterly clueless concerning other people’s worldviews and utterly without a fragment of doubt concerning their own rectitude and worthiness, but this is shocking even for a rightwing blowhard like redstate.com’s Erickson.

In Which A Presbyterian Defends the Pope
Posted by Erick Erickson (Profile)
Sunday, July [...]

The US is *not* a christian nation

This post is in honor of Blog Against Theocracy 2009.
Obama recently drew some heat for saying that we’re no longer just a christian nation. I would have said we never were, but I’m glad he at least acknowledged this much.
We’ll probably never stop hearing conservatives and republicans, as well as some moderates, liberals and democrats, [...]