Miranda Blue
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Gun Owners Of America’s Larry Pratt Suggests ‘Little Twerp’ David Hogg May Be Crisis Actor
Larry Pratt, the longtime leader of the right-of-the-NRA Gun Owners of America, who is now the group’s executive director emeritus, suggested in a radio interview last week that Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg, who has … → Read More
The NRA Gives Ajit Pai A Rifle For Ending Net Neutrality
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai was scheduled to give a speech at the Conservative Political Action Convention (CPAC) today, but instead he was surprised on stage by top brass of the American Conservative Union … → Read More
FRC Fellow Links Mass Shootings To Abortion Rights
Ken Blackwell, a senior fellow at the Family Research Council who worked on domestic policy issues for President Trump’s transition team, linked the recent mass shooting at a Florida high school to legal abortion in … → Read More
Has Mike Pompeo Been In Contact With Anti-Muslim Groups At The CIA?
Back when it was first reported that President Trump might nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, we noted Pompeo’s history of anti-Muslim rhetoric and his ties with the … → Read More
Peter LaBarbera Is Not Happy With Adam Rippon Coverage: ‘The Media Are Obsessed With Homosexuality’
Openly gay figure skater Adam Rippon, who has publicly feuded with Vice President Mike Pence over Pence’s support for anti-LGBTQ policies, does not have a fan in Americans For Truth About Homosexuality’s Peter LaBarbera, who … → Read More
Anti-LGBTQ Extremists Unite As Peter LaBarbera Joins MassResistance
The anti-LGBTQ group MassResistance announced yesterday that as it “continueto expand,” it is bringing Peter LaBarbera, the founder of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, onto its staff.From the announcement:Peter LaBarbera, a premier front-line culture … → Read More
Operation Rescue Latches On To ‘The Storm’
Over the last few months, a conspiracy theory called “The Storm” has been percolating in the murkiest of right-wing fever swamps. The idea, as Kyle explained last week, is that “an anonymous 8chan forum board … → Read More
Abortion Protest Movement Feuds Over Lawbreaking Tactics
Sidewalk Advocates for Life, an anti-abortion group that stations activists outside of clinics to attempt to convince women to not go through with abortion procedures, is criticizing the methods of “rescue” activists who have been … → Read More
Anti-Muslim Activists Are Over The Moon About John Bolton’s New Job
Hawkish former UN ambassador John Bolton, whom President Trump named as his national security adviser yesterday, has had close relationships with a number of U.S. anti-Muslim groups, and anti-Muslim activists celebrated the news that he … → Read More
PAC Run By Top Moore Ally Warns Doug Jones Wants ‘To Start A Race War’
Politico, reporting on the final days of campaigning in the special Senate election in Alabama, takes note of a radio ad being run by the pro-Roy Moore group Restore Our Godly Heritage PAC, which accuses … → Read More
Roy Moore’s Religious Right Supporters Stand By Their Man
Former Alabama chief justice Roy Moore’s run for the U.S. Senate is a dream come true for many Religious Right activists, and they aren’t letting allegations that Moore pursued sexual relationships with teenage girls when … → Read More
Mike Cernovich: Kate Steinle Verdict Should Discredit Mueller Investigation
Right-wing social media personality, “Pizzagate” truther and self-appointed “New Right” figurehead Mike Cernovich reacted last night to the news that a San Francisco jury had acquitted Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, … → Read More
Senate To Vote On Nomination Of Trump Administration Lawyer To Federal Judgeship
The Senate is expected to vote today on the nomination of one of President Trump’s White House attorneys to a lifetime seat on a powerful federal appeals court.Greg Katsas, whom Trump has nominated to a … → Read More
Bill Bennett To VVS: NFL Players Taking A Knee ‘Don’t Understand’ American ‘Culture’
Conservative pundit and former secretary of education Bill Bennett took to the stage at the Values Voter Summit this morning immediately after President Trump to defend Trump against all manner of criticism and to claim … → Read More
Brigitte Gabriel: Refugees ‘Hate America’ And ‘A Lot Of Them Actually Are Working Against Our Own Country’
In a speech to the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit today, ACT for America founder Brigitte Gabriel warned her Religious Right audience that refugees being resettled in the United States are bringing in diseases, … → Read More
At Values Voter Summit, Dana Loesch Declares Feminism Dead
NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch used part of her speech at the Values Voter Summit today to go on a bizarre rant about feminism, declaring that “feminism exists to subjugate men” but that it is now … → Read More
Jesse Lee Peterson Attacks Black Women In Political Leadership, Defends Emmett Till’s Killers
Right-wing activist Jesse Lee Peterson, who has a TV show on Newsmax, devoted a WorldNetDaily column yesterday to explaining why he thinks Oprah Winfrey “is worse than Obama” and would make a terrible president should … → Read More
Goodbye, Sort Of, To Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission
The White House announced last night that President Trump would disband his “commission on election integrity,” which he had established in an effort to prove his baseless claims that he lost the popular vote in … → Read More
Conservative Legal Activist Says Trump’s Judicial Nominees Are 92% White Because He Isn’t Meeting A ‘Quota’
USA Today reported yesterday that 92 percent of the people President Trump has nominated to federal judgeships so far in his term are white, the least diverse set of judicial nominees since Ronald Reagan, even … → Read More
Heritage Complains That Not Enough Of Its Hand-Picked Judicial Nominees Are Getting Confirmed
The Heritage Foundation sent a fundraising email on Tuesday complaining that while Heritage is working hard to hand-pick President Trump’s judicial nominees, those nominees aren’t being confirmed at an acceptable pace because of the Republican … → Read More