Bryan Fischer, the “Director of Issues Analysis” for the American Family Association, wrote a blog post yesterday on the AFA’s site arguing that the United States should have “no more mosques, period.”
“This is for one simple reason,” he writes. “Each Islamic mosque is dedicated to the overthrow of the American government.”
Fischer, who is scheduled to speak at the Value Voters Summit in September alongside Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Mitch McConnell, and a host of other Republican politicians, writes that every mosque “is …

Is it possible that even the center-right tilting viewing audience of Fox news programs is also open to significant upgrades of gay civil rights? That is what a surprising new, unscientific survey of a Fox web audience seems to be showing.

With pleasure, I direct you to this interesting Fox News online poll in which at the time of this posting 300,499 votes had been cast.

The poll poses the following issue and question:

A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that Prop. 8, California’s gay marriage ban is unconstitutional. Do you agree with the judge’s decision?

After a former immigration detention guard was charged yesterday with sexually abusing female detainees, the ACLU is renewing calls for further reform of the immigration detention system.
The alleged abuse took place in the T. Don Hutto Residential Center, near Austin, Texas. The resident supervisor, Donald Dunn, 30, was charged Thursday with three counts of official oppression and two counts of unlawful restraint, the Austin American-Statesman reported. The facility is managed by Correction Corporation of America, a private detention and corrections contractor.

No one should be surprised. Rove has been lying to voters, just as a matter of course, throughout his career. For a campaign operation organized by the activist/hatchet-man/media-personality to base its work on playing voters for fools is entirely predictable.

But as Rove’s lies go, this one takes some chutzpah. It was Rove’s White House, after all, that crafted and approved irresponsible tax cuts — which failed miserably in their stated goal — and put an expiration date on them. It wasn’t Obama, and it wasn’t Democrats…

It takes an awful lot to force a conservative talk-radio host off the air, but as it turns out, there are apparently some limits. Just ask Dr. Laura Schlessinger.
If you haven’t heard, a woman called Schlessinger’s show last week with an upsetting problem. The caller is in an inter-racial marriage — she’s black, her husband is white — and is offended when her husband’s friends and family members make racist remarks. Schlessinger blamed the woman, telling the caller that …

News Corp., which owns Fox News and the New York Post, gave $1 million to Haley Barbour’s Republican Governors Association this year, according to the RGA’s most recent filing.

The company’s media outlets play politics more openly than most, but the huge contribution to a party committee is a new step toward an open identification between Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. and the GOP. The company’s highest-ranking Democratic executive, Peter Chernin, recently departed…

What’s the difference between mainstream Republican leaders and the Tea Party extremists that have been winning Republican primaries across the country?

The main difference is the willingness of the Tea Party gang to say what they believe out loud. This, of course, is driving Republican political consultants crazy. Republicans have never gotten elected by laying out to the voters the core components of their economic agenda. When they have been successful it has generally been by soft-pedaling or sugar-coating the things that mattered most…

Major media outlets continue to give him a pass, but the ongoing FBI investigation into Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) took an interesting turn recently when the scandal-plagued Republican started begging for cash for his legal defense fund.
Ensign, at the center of a humiliating sex/corruption/ethics scandal, registered his legal defense fund as a tax-exempt 527 political organization, which itself was a bizarre move. But this week, the right-wing senator sent out his first appeal to help pay his …

By Margo Moon – Our Big Gayborhood
Oliver Hardy was always blaming Stan Laurel for their troubles. But, of course, it took the both of them to bungle their way into the slapstick fiascos they were famous for. Which reminds me of the United States’ immigration policy toward Mexico.
To hear almost any member of the administration or Congress talk about immigration, you’d think we Americans had been innocently sitting up here on our beautiful, un-stolen land while hoards of Mexicans illegally leaked through our border …

For Americans, being middle class is part of our national ethos. People who, based on income level are poor, rich or middle class view themselves, and are usually identified by others as being middle class. The phrase can be modified by “upper” or “lower” to mean rich or poor, but for Americans a modified middle class status is more comfortable than being defined as rich or poor.

While most Americans see themselves as middle class, the notion of the middle class both defines and is defined by America…

Have you heard rumblings of a counter Tea Party movement afoot in the land that calls the Tea Party “the-bite-the-hand-that-feeds-you caucus?” A rogue e-mail making the rounds called the movement “freeloading, progress-blocking, benefit-grabbing, resource-sucking, violent and hypocritical.”
Southern politicians, in particular, complain about big government and taxes because it resonates easily and conforms to the post-Civil War self-perception of that region as victims of northern conspiracies…

A couple of weeks ago, Rep. Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.) talked up secession. “I hope that the American people will go to the ballot box in 2010 and 2012 so that states are not forced to consider separation from this government,” Wamp told National Journal. Wamp went on to praise Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), who has referenced “dissolving” the Union, for also raising concerns about the U.S. government’s “oppressive hand.”
This Civil War talk has been echoed by other Republicans, including Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), …