On Darwin’s Birthday

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From Shelley The Republican blog: Today is Darwin’s birthday and liberals will probably celebrate by having gay sex to prove how “evolved” they are.  Touche.  Well, you got all us liberals pegged there. Here at Shelley The Republican dot com we think it’s high time that this Darwin fella finally stayed dead the way he oughta and keep his theories … Read More

A Double Does Of Wingnuttery

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First up: Marsha West, a "freelance writer specializing in Christian worldview".  Let’s see what her Christian worldview is: Radical feminism: The kiss of death Oh, this isn’t going to be pretty. The "great strides" made by the feminist movement have been lost on young celebrities. Britney Spears has been spotted frequenting nightspots with actress Lindsay Lohan and heiress Paris Hilton. … Read More

Shorter Townhall Columnists

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Shorter Mary Graber: "Prompted by the New York Times story that 51% of women in America are unmarried, I stayed up all night drinking black russions and talking to my cat about the Playboy Mansion." Shorter Burt Prelutsky:  "Dogs, Jews, and Christians — good.  Pigs, Muslims, and Nancy Pelosi — bad.  Any questions?" Shorter Rich Galen: "Republicans worry too much … Read More

Novak: Democrats Are “Rude”

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Novak is very cantankerous and grumpy today.  More so than usual, that is. When President Bush called for a bipartisan "special advisory council" of congressional leaders on the war against terrorism in his State of the Union address, he had in his pocket a rude rejection from Democratic leaders. Thank you very much, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate … Read More

Wingnut Blog Of The Week

Ken AshfordRight Wing Punditry/Idiocy6 Comments

The site Shelley The Republican is so outlandishly hilarious that I’m not quite sure if it is a parody site or not.  Here’s a smattering — Shelley’s take on Iowa Governor and Democratic presidential hopeful Tom Vilsack.  For those who don’t know, Vilsack was orphaned and placed in a Catholic Church orphanage, alter raised by adoptive parents.  The highlighted sentences … Read More

Timing Is Everything

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Looks like Nathan Tabor picked the wrong day to write this: Democrats attempted to embarrass the President and portray him as being out of touch with the American public by forcing a vote on a federal funding plan for embryonic stem cell research that he had promised to veto. Embryonic stem cell research has resulted in zero successful treatments. That’s … Read More

Eating Crow

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It doesn’t get better than this: Packs of right-wing bloggers spent the last several weeks trying to destroy the credibility of Associated Press’s war reporting by claiming that one of its sources, an Iraqi policeman named Jamil Hussein, does not exist, that AP simply invented him. As it turns out — and as AP itself had the great pleasure of … Read More

Reading The Right

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Shorter Felilcia Benjamin: "Women who bear children out of wedlock are dishonoring the generations of soldiers who died on the battlefield preserving womens’ right to marry.  Also, immigrants suck." Shorter Lisa Fabrizio: "I found God at a dude ranch." Shorter Chuck Colson: "We Christians are more compassionate than non-Christians and fuck anybody who says otherwise." Shorter Cal Thomas: "The 2006 … Read More

Making Satire Obsolete

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I read my fair share of conservative editorials simply because I’m curious about how the other half third eighth thinks. Plus, those people make me laugh. Take, for example, a recent Townhall column by regular Townhall contributor Doug Giles. This is — I swear to God — his opening paragraph: Have you ever asked yourself, “Self, why do churches today … Read More

An Open Letter To Bill O’Reilly?

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Dear Mr. O’Reilly: On the December 13 edition of The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News, you engaged in a debate with a woman named Jennifer Chrisler, who heads the organization known as Family Pride, which supports famillies comprised of children with same sex parents. In the course of the show, you raised the subject of Mother Nature, saying: "Nature dictates … Read More