Rick Santorum Has A Pastor Problem

When you’re the candidate of religious extremists, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise  when one of them opens their mouth and says something incredibly boneheaded. At a Baton Rouge revival yesterday, the Republican presidential candidate was introduced and blessed by the fire-breathing pastor Dennis Terry. To a cheering crowd, Terry shouted that ours is a “Christian nation,” that “we...

Iran’s Supreme Leader | Nuclear Weapons Are A Sin

If you listen to all the politicians and pundits, you’d think that Iran is bent on destroying the world once they have a nuclear weapon in their possession.  Aside from the ridiculousness of this suggestion, that a nation would guarantee its own destruction in a fit of sociopathic madness, it would do everyone well to revisit what Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei has been saying for the last seven...

The @TeaPartyNation Supports $7 A Gallon Gasoline

There’s a catch, though. In a recent blog on TeaPartyNation, noted Islamophobe, Homophobe, and, well, let’s be honest, White Supremacist Rich Swier wrote these words: I for one am willing to pay $7 or more per gallon for gasoline so long as the regime in Iran is toppled. Yup.  He, and the numerous commenters on that page, will support high gas prices as long as the US goes to war, on the behalf of...

Sheriff Arpaio’s Criminal Gang…Err.. Posse

Maricopa County Sheriff Mafia Don Joe Arpaio often brags about his citizen’s “posse”.  He will typically trot them out at major Arizona events and during the Christmas shopping season he’ll assign them to mall parking lots to provide “security”. One would think that if Sheriff Joe is going to put his name, and department’s reputation,  on something as visible as a...

Only In Texas…

In Texas, there is an organization called TAPPS (Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools).  As noted in the New York Times, an Islamic school from Houston petitioned for membership into the organization. Upon requesting membership, the TAPPS board sent a questionnaire that asked these, among other, questions. “Historically, there is nothing in the Koran that fully embraces Christianity or...