Video: Thailand, With an iPhone 4S
Tonight's insanity break is a spectacular showcase for the capabilities of the video camera in the iPhone 4S. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Yesterday, 9:04pm
Latest Addition to the Super Bowl Counterterrorism Squad: Hot Dog Vendors
Hope for the best, plan for the wurst Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Yesterday, 7:53pm
Komen VP Karen Handel: I'd Outlaw Gay Adoptions
The ideological bent of Komen Foundation public policy VP Karen Handel really becomes clear in this 2010 interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the topic of gay marriage and adoption, in which she says she favors outlawing gay adoptions: Handel Says Gay Parents Not as 'Legitimate' as Hetero Ones. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Yesterday, 5:54pm
Religious Right Freaks Out Over Komen's Latest Statement
Komen Foundation CEO Karen Brinker may have denied that their decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood had anything to do with politics, but the religious right activists who've been waging a campaign against Planned Parenthood certainly think otherwise -- and today they're freaking over the Komen Foundation's apparent reversal: Religious Right Reacts to Komen's Latest Statement With Confusion, Anger and Warnings of God's Wrath. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Yesterday, 5:29pm
Your Friday IRS regulation dump: Obamacare’s job-killing medical device tax
If it’s Friday, it’s another White House dump day. Cue the dump truck horn: Doot! Doot! Doot! While Obama sycophants are busy trumpeting deceptive jobs numbers, the administration is quietly moving forward with job-killing Obamacare regs and taxes. The IRS today released rules to impose the $20 billion Obamacare medical device tax scheduled to take [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Yesterday, 4:21pm
Update: Did the Komen Foundation Really Reverse Its Planned Parenthood Cut-Off?
Judging from the statement they released, Planned Parenthood seems to believe the Komen Foundation will restore their funding for breast cancer screening. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Yesterday, 2:18pm
Komen Apologizes, Reinstates Planned Parenthood Funding
Apparently, the people in charge of merchandising at the Susan G. Komen Foundation had a little talk with their anti-abortion executives, and today the Komen Foundation is reinstating their Planned Parenthood funding, and apologizing to Planned Parenthood and the American public. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Yesterday, 1:22pm
Jim Moran, racist pig
Jim Moran, racist pig by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 Congressman Jim Moran is an old white Democrat from Virginia who thinks he can judge whether we minority conservatives are acting sufficiently non-white enough. Moran’s an inveterate bully, a brawler, a crook and a bigot. And not one of his civility-preaching liberal colleagues has [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Yesterday, 9:45am
Super Bowl Ad: ET’s Visit Earth to Make Sure Their Tax Dollars Didn’t Fund the Volt
Car Trek Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Feb 2, 11:00pm
Free Republic Reacts to Ron Paul's White Supremacist Links
Today at the far right fever swamp known as Free Republic, somebody posted a link to our latest article about Ron Paul's connections to the white supremacist subculture, which led to an amusing and revealing sequence of comments. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Feb 2, 10:41pm
Nevada Polls Show Romney Way Out in Front
Looks like Nevada Republicans are starting to get used to the idea of holding their noses and taking their Mitt Romney medicine: Romney Poised to Roll, Poll Shows. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Feb 2, 5:48pm
Concrete Evidence Man is Causing Glacier Retreat
Vindication Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Feb 2, 3:07pm
Susan G. Komen Official Resigned in Protest Over Planned Parenthood Cut-Off
This video is titled "Straight Talk from Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker, Founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen," the official response to the outrage that followed the Komen Foundation's defunding of Planned Parenthood breast cancer screening programs. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Feb 2, 2:12pm
Rich Birther Kook Will Endorse Mitt Romney
For some reason, it's supposed to mean something that Birther moron Donald Trump has decided to endorse Mitt Romney instead of Newt Gingrich. TIME has an all-caps BREAKING! headline to announce the earth-shaking news: BREAKING: Trump to Back Romney. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Feb 2, 12:55pm
Fast and Furious showdown: Holder/Obama defend bloody culture of contempt; Update: Fortress Holder, Stonewall City; vid clips added, Dems advise, “Don’t answer”
(Click for full-size; Source: GOP Oversight) Scroll for updates… Forget Klownald Trump. This is your story of the day. Attorney General Eric Holder is on Capitol Hill day, facing another round of questions from relentless GOP watchdogs led by House Oversight and Govenrment Reform chair Darrell Issa. You can watch the proceedings live on CSPAN [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Feb 2, 9:16am
Trump to Make ‘Major Announcement’ in Nevada; May Endorse Gingrich
Hair apparent? Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Feb 1, 10:09pm
Video: Prime Burger
Here's a great little short film about a great little hamburger joint in midtown Manhattan. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Feb 1, 9:48pm
Tech Note: LGF Search Bookmarklet
Here's a very handy Javascript bookmarklet I whipped up yesterday, when I realized I was often searching the LGF archives for phrases on other sites; for example, when I was writing the post about the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, I wanted to search LGF for my previous posts about Planned Parenthood. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Feb 1, 8:24pm
Hiring Spree in NYC
**Written by Doug Powers This week the First Lady told an audience at a fundraiser that the economy has made “remarkable progress” these past three years. One example of a hiring spree uptick can be found in New York City, where a couple hundred workers have been or are being added to the payrolls due [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Feb 1, 2:47pm
Anonymous Hacks White Supremacist Site, Finds Direct Links to Ron Paul
The "anti-fascist" wing of the "Anonymous" hacker group has broken into a website run by the white supremacist American Third Position (A3P), and released a document dump consisting of private forum messages, emails, organizational notes, and other personal information. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Feb 1, 2:31pm
Climate Scientists Smack WSJ Over Op-Ed From Non-Climate Scientists
The WSJ published an op-ed several days ago, in which several notable scientists and luminaries claimed there was no need to panic about global warming. They included former NASA astronaut Harrison Schmidt, Burt Rutan, and several other scientists. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Feb 1, 1:04pm
Mitt Romney: 'I'm Not Concerned About the Very Poor'
Here's an astoundingly tone-deaf statement from Mitt Romney, tailor-made for his rivals to exploit: "I'm not concerned about the very poor." Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Feb 1, 12:18pm
Obama’s new campaign candy: More mortgage aid, homeowner “bill of rights”
Ugh. We’re back to this again. Yes, President Obama’s re-inflating the housing bubble to pander in an election year. Foreclosure avoidance is now a civil right. Long-term consequences be damned. Obama is outlining a proposal to allow millions more homeowners to refinance their mortgages at lower interest rates even if they owe more than their [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Feb 1, 11:39am
BlunderMitt: Let Them Eat Food Stamps; Plus: PPP results point to Santorum
Romney looks tired here in this CNN interview this morning. Too much post-primary partying, I guess. But it’s exactly the time he needs to be on guard and on his A-game. Instead, he fumbles the post-Florida football and gives ammunition to all of his opponents on both sides of the aisle by reinforcing the perception [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Feb 1, 9:44am
VA State Senator Proposes Mandatory Rectal Exams Before Viagra Prescriptions
Big LGF kudos to Democratic Virginia State Senator Janet Howell, who attached a rectal exam amendment to the misogynistic Republican "ultrasound" bill in that state. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Jan 31, 11:50pm
First, they came for the Catholics
My latest column examines the Obama administration’s continuing war on religious health care professionals, which I spotlighted when the ACLU first launched its salvo against Catholic hospitals in 2010. What’s noteworthy now is the united front that Catholic bishops (who have traditionally taken big government positions) are now taking against the Obamacare abortion edict. Better [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Jan 31, 10:51pm
Florida Primary 2012
Here's a thread to keep up on breaking news from the Florida GOP primary election. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Jan 31, 7:58pm
Florida Primary Open Thread; Update: Romney Wins
Victory Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Jan 31, 7:24pm
Komen Foundation Caves to Right Wing Pressure, Defunds Planned Parenthood
A terrible precedent: apparently caving in to the right wing crusade against Planned Parenthood, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has decided to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer prevention. It's a concrete example of how the religious right's reactionary anti-choice agenda is hurting women right now. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Jan 31, 5:24pm
Early Voting Gives Romney a 21-Point Lead in Florida
The Florida primary may already be over. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Jan 31, 2:27pm
Newt Gingrich vs. Survivor
The latest musicians to get upset at Republicans for appropriating a song without permission: the band Survivor, whose song "Eye of the Tiger" has been used by Newt Gingrich for years. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Jan 31, 1:57pm
Allen West Says to President Obama, 'Get the Hell Out of the US,' Then Denies He Said It
Yesterday in Palm Beach, one of the right wing's deranged heroes, Allen West, took a break from trying to end funding for NPR and repeal the 14th Amendment to deliver an especially nasty speech in which he told President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to "take their message of equality" and "get the hell out of the United States of America." Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Jan 31, 12:54pm
The Middle East Forum: Strategy, not Advocacy
Given the many excellent organizations dealing with Middle Eastern and Islamic issues, what niches does the Middle East Forum's fill? We provide strategic counsel, as opposed to advocacy or apologetics. To understand what this means, look at the Read more...
Daniel Pipes Columns, Jan 31, 11:49am
Jerry Brown: C’mon, California’s High Speed Rail Will Be Way Cheaper Than $100 Billion
Off-the-rails funding options Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Jan 30, 10:35pm
Sarah Palin: Annoy a Liberal, Vote for Newt!
I'm not sure why Sarah Palin is suddenly all over Fox News with her stream-of-semi-consciousness rants, but here's another hilarious word salad from the half-governor in which she comes up with a great slogan for Newt Gingrich: "Annoy a liberal, vote for Newt!" Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Jan 30, 8:40pm
Live Video: President Obama Google+ Hangout
President Obama is doing a Google+ "Hangout" right now, taking questions from users via webcam; here's the live feed. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Jan 30, 5:52pm
Quinnipiac Poll: Romney Romps to 14-Point Lead
The latest poll from Quinnipiac University is even more bad news for Newt Gingrich: he's behind Mitt Romney in Florida now by 14 points. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Jan 30, 4:24pm
Global Warmists Seek to Flush Out ‘Denier’ Meteorologists
Cloudy with a chance of fiery death Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Jan 30, 4:09pm
Breitbart Editor John Nolte Picks a Fight With the Muppets
As if to illustrate just how incredibly dense some right wing bloggers can be, Andrew Breitbart's editor-in-chief John Nolte picks a fight with ... Kermit and Miss Piggy: Muppets Go Partisan: Kermit and Miss Piggy Trash Fox News. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Jan 30, 1:46pm
For Santorum
Rick Santorum opposed TARP. He didn’t cave when Chicken Littles in Washington invoked a manufactured crisis in 2008. He didn’t follow the pro-bailout GOP crowd — including Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich — and he didn’t have to obfuscate or rationalize his position then or now, like Rick Perry and Herman Cain did. He also [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Jan 30, 8:24am
Video: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
Today's insanity break: a spectacular Oscar-nominated animated short film by Moonbot Studios, another gem discovered at Vimeo. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Jan 29, 4:44pm
Polling Shows Romney With Big Lead in Florida
Nate Silver is now projecting mega-millionaire Mitt Romney to win the Florida GOP primary; Newt Gingrich's surge has evaporated. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Jan 29, 1:30pm
Agreeing with Rudy Giuliani
My disagreements with the Bush policies parallel those of Rudy Giuliani. His new Foreign Affairs article, "Toward a Realistic Peace," breaks dramatically with current policies on a number of issues, and especially vis-à-vis the Arab-Israeli conflict: Too Read more...
Daniel Pipes Columns, Jan 29, 8:42am
Damascus and the Claim to Lebanon
What does the Syrian government want in Lebanon? Some highly-placed observers in the American government are sanguine about its ambitions there. Richard Murphy, the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, told Congress in Read more...
Daniel Pipes Columns, Jan 29, 8:33am
Arabs Criticize Illogic and Tyranny
In the initial years after political independence, Arab opinion leaders shied away from public criticism of their governments, fearing that anyone unsympathetic would seize upon their words and use them to discredit Arabic-speaking peoples. To a certain Read more...
Daniel Pipes Columns, Jan 29, 8:19am
Prayers for Bella Santorum
Word came down tonight that Rick Santorum has canceled his Sunday campaign events to be with his 3-year-old daughter, Bella, who was admitted to Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia earlier today. The Santorums have spoken movingly throughout their campaign about Bella, who was born with Trisomy 18, and recently had surgery. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: The [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Jan 28, 10:38pm
The Cain-Gingrich Endorsement
The loonier far right celebrities are lining up to show their support for Newt Gingrich -- Chuck Norris, Sarah Palin, and now Mr. 999, Herman Cain. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Jan 28, 9:04pm
Muslims to Westerners: Get Tougher on Islamists
Muslim-majority countries may be the main source of terrorism, but the leaders of these states generally take a harder line against their Islamists in opposition than do their Western counterparts. This makes sense, for (1) all this is quite new to Read more...
Daniel Pipes Columns, Jan 28, 8:52pm