E. W. Jackson at a 2011 tea party rally (image courtesy Mark Taylor, available under a Creative Commons-BY license)
According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken in September, 62 percent of white evangelicals approved of Donald Trump's performance. That represents a marked decline from the 81 percent support Trump received from white evangelicals in the...
For all out there feeling a little demoralized about the class warfare congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump's administration are waging against us, results from Tuesday's elections should lift your spirits. Let's start in Virginia where...
Do you remember seeing any of these advertisements on Facebook last year? Last month, news broke about evidence confirming Russian buyers used Facebook advertising as propaganda leading up to the last year's presidential election. In response, Facebook presented Congress 3,000 Russian-purchased ads...
The most long-lasting damage which will be done by President Trump isn't from any of his executive orders, tweets, or ignorant speeches. It will probably be from the people he's nominating to the federal judiciary. Take...
There are a couple of prerequisites if you want to be a supporter of Donald Trump: You have to be an idiot. You must be willing to hate others on command. You need to be...
Perhaps you've wondered how someone as immoral and corrupt as President Trump manages to work with a supposedly religious person like Vice President Mike Pence. And it turns out the answer definitely proves what massive...
Krysten Sinema (image courtesy Sinema's Facebook)
It's no secret that Arizona's junior Senator, Jeff Flake, was going to have his work cut out for him to win a second term. He's got potential Republican primary challengers circling him like sharks, and...
“Blood and soil!” “Jews will not replace us!” You know where people chanted these slogans, don't you? Berlin, circa 1938, right? Technically, yes. But we don't need to take a trip in the way-back machine to hear this chilling rhetoric....
A Christian Right activist, E.W. Jackson, said that homosexuality is unnatural because children find it "icky." He was interviewing WorldNetDaily's David Kupelian and both men agreed on the subject. Kupelian said: “We now have 4-year-old kids in preschool...
Rosie O'Donnell at the Family Equality Council's 2017 Night at the Pier (image courtesy Family Equality Council, available under a Creative Commons BY-ND license)
Homophobia runs very deep in some elements of the religious right. In many cases, it can get to the point that basic standards of decency get thrown out of the window in the name of...
Curt Schilling was undoubtedly a great baseball player. At this best, he was a dominant pitcher who helped lead the Arizona Diamondbacks to a World Series title in 2001 and then did the same in...
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Australia is a progressive country in some ways and not so much in others. The current government is the Liberal Party, even though they are actually the more conservative of the two major parties. There has...
Roy Moore on the campaign trail for Senate (image courtesy Moore's Facebook)
If the latest polls are to be believed, Luther Strange is facing a steep climb to keep Jeff Sessions' former Senate seat in Alabama--even with the White House putting its thumb on the scale. But...
Jim Bakker on his set (image from Bakker's Facebook)
Days after the September 11 attacks, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson claimed the planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon because of abortion and gays. They were deservedly sliced, diced, and julienned...
The road to a sex reassignment can be very challenging. In many European countries including Switzerland, Greece, and 18 other Eastern European countries, the road to sexual reassignment includes sterilization. These countries are Armenia, Azerbaijan,...
Right-wing zealots in Nashville recently got together and crafted a statement saying that they don't want same-sex couples to marry. Shocking! Groundbreaking! This statement thing isn't new. There was the Manhattan Declaration back in 2010 that said...
This week Defense Secretary James Mattis ordered a comprehensive study of transgender troops after President Donald Trump decided to ban them from serving in the military. In the meantime, transgender troops will still be allowed...
A woman being rescued in Houston (image courtesy Texas National Guard, part of public domain)
These days, one of the sure things when a disaster strikes is that religious right leaders will open their mouths, stick in their feet, and jam them in deep. Hurricane Harvey was no exception. On Monday,...
Did you know that the Confederate flag is the same thing as the rainbow LGBTQ pride flag? According to an idiot who appeared on Fox News Tuesday morning, the two are "the exact same thing." Conservative...
Alabama Senate candidate, former Chief Justice, and known theocrat Roy Moore is at it again. He said that America promotes a lot of "bad things' like same-sex marriage. When reminded of the time that former President...