Mike Tidmus

Republican Rep Eric Cantor: “Everybody knows America’s built on the rights of free expression, the rights to practice your faith, but come on!” (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) The Divine Ms M provides a couple of stellar examples of how America’s god-botherers imagine they have the right to trample the rights of other American god-botherers, [...]

Reinforcements ordered in the War on Brains (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) Is it really possible that the entire American right was hom skooled?

GOP backed hate group off rails on crazy train (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) Bradlee Dean (teenage gurl spelling: his) is just your typical run-of-the-mill superstitionist. Like most Christian cons, Dean possesses an astonishing ability to pull made-up statistics out of his sanctimonious ass to hurt the people his invisible sky fairy tells him are [...]

Prop 8 ruling rich with facts (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow explains what happened, what it means and what we can expect now that California’s discriminatory Proposition 8 has been declared “unconstitutional” in, what Maddow describes as, a “bold” ruling by federal Judge Vaughn Walker.

Anti-gay marriage testimony lacking fact and integrity (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) Last night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow seemed relatively amused as she read from Judge Walker’s ruling in Perry v Schwarzenegger. The judge’s findings dismissed the anti-gay side’s ridiculous arguments fantasies about the gay and the pro-H8 witnesses’ desultory ramblings and recitations of crap gleaned [...]

Kent Jones presents Gays on a train (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) From the irrevocably FRCed-up Family Research Council‘s Alert: If there was ever proof that the Obama Administration has gone off the rails, it’s Amtrak. For the first time in the train service’s history, Amtrak has decided to spend a quarter-million dollars recruiting homosexual [...]

Lt Dan Choi describes the pain and emotion following his discharge from the army for violating Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) Dan Choi‘s discharge is a disgrace and dishonors the US military. Shame on President Obama for kowtowing to the gay-hating extremists of the radical religious right and to his imaginary [...]

Gay Marriage Chart-of-the-Day by Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight As of this morning, Argentina has joined nine other countries and a handful of American states that allow their gay and lesbian citizens to marry just as their non-gay or non-lesbian citizens are allowed to marry. Nate Silver, the genius-in-residence at FiveThirtyEight, has taken a look at our [...]

Defense of Marriage Act ruled unconstitutional (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) What the court’s DOMA ruling means(video: The Rachel Maddow Show)

Can GOP adjust angle of incidence? (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) Apparently the Republican Party can no longer be called the Party of No. These days, they’re the Party of Pass the Ammo. Here’s Nevada GOP senatorial nominee Sharon Angle in her own words: You know, our Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in [...]

Fake President Maddow’s Oval-Office-in-her-own-head address (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) Personally, I know who I’d rather have in the Oval Office addressing this ecological tragedy and making sure nothing like it ever happens again. Follow the Maddow Blog at the link.

Olbermann: Palin an ‘IDIOT’ and coward for mocking Maddow, MSNBC (video: Countdown with Keith Olbermann) Not that it wasn’t already an article of faith among thinking people that former governor, Christian supremacist, and failed Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin is an idiot — or “f*#king retard” if you prefer, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann named Palin his [...]

Anti-gay hypocrite is news because of his activism (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) From The Rachel Maddow Show: Rachel Maddow explains what’s really scandalous about revelations that anti-gay activist George Alan Reker is gay. It’s not his personal life but his efforts to impose his self-loathing on the rest of society. On the subject of [...]

Evidential challenges may get Huteree out of jail (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) I, for one, am absolutely effin’ thrilled that this moron of an activist judge has decided that we need more – not fewer – violent Christian terrorists walking the streets of America. The American Taliban (the radical religious right) must be peeing [...]

Right wing threats of violence intensify (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) Those whacky Christian conservatives are up in arms and at it again. File this under: But It’s a Peaceful Religion. And, yes Virginia, there is a Confederate History Month, however, rational adults stopped celebrating it ages ago. Virginia, it’s really not for lovers anymore.