Was Giglio chosen for the inauguration benediction in order to provide cover for Chuck Hagel?

"An evangelical pastor from Atlanta [Rev. Louie Giglio] announced Thursday that he would not give the benediction at President Obama’s ...

Professor who teaches a course called Culture of Conspiracy...

... is denounced for "inquir[ing] whether the Sandy Hook shooting ever took place — at least in the way law enforcement authorities and...

Why is it "inhumane" and "idiotic" to question the veracity of the claims that have been made about Hillary Clinton's various medical conditions?

James Carville is saying: I have no idea what it is about the secretary of state that drives them to this kind of inhumane idiotic behaving ...

What's Happening to Hillary? Only a clod would say the clot is a plot!

Here are Senators Lindsey Graham and Dianne Feinstein, interviewed by Chris Wallace (yesterday, on "Fox News Sunday"): WALLACE: S...

"Local TV news is a sad thing. They ask sad questions and get sad answers."

"It's easier to laugh about it than to think about how State House coverage is dying," said Daniel Moraff, a Brown student and...

Michele Bachmann vs. Huma Abedin.

This is a weird story, which I first noticed in the context of Ed Rollins and John McCain denouncing the accusations as ugly and unsubstan...

Why aren't we all talking about the "secret plan to evacuate some residents of Chicago in the event of major trouble during the NATO summit next month"?

3 days ago CBS 2 reported on an e-mail that the Red Cross sent out to volunteers in the Milwaukee area: It said the NATO summit “may create ...

"It’s the iPads and laptops with the plausible-but-fake information that you leave out in the car. Oh, right."

Ah, yes! And when they use that material, we will know who the thieves are. Fiendishly devious.

Jeffrey Toobin on the SG's argument today: "This was a train wreck for the Obama administration."

"I don't know why he had a bad day," said Toobin . "He is a good lawyer, he was a perfectly fine lawyer in the really sor...

When Satan set his sights on America, the place were he was "most successful and first successful was in academia."

Said Rick Santorum in that 2008 speech at Ava Maria University. I've lived in that purported stronghold of Satan for the last quarter c...

"I’m tired of being accused of being anti-American... They call it class warfare... if anything, it’s warfare against people who have no class..."

Says Van Jones, "the former Obama Administration green czar who resigned in controversy, [who] appears on the fast track to a politica...

"Conspiracies are the sinister doppelgängers of our attempts to understand the world around us in rational terms."

"And, of course, we love them. With its promise of initiation into occult mysteries, and its revelation of order where others only see ...

I have a conspiracy theory, but I won't tell you what it is...

... because I hope the conspiracy — if it exists — succeeds. Some time next year, I'll tell you what the theory was, as this is a conspi...

At the Magnolia Café...

... I'm just trying to eat my pancake... and come up with some Monday morning posts. Talk about whatever you like. Tell me what I should...

"It's a good thing that we have the body of Osama bin Laden" because without it, "these conspiratorial-minded kooks would be hatching another bogus theory."

Somebody needs to nudge MyDD's Charles Lemos and tell him that we threw the body in the ocean. Allegedly. There were birthers and there...

"[T]he courts have no obligation to entertain pure speculation and conjecture."

Said the Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit , threatening sanctions against the plaintiffs' lawyer: [T]he appeals court said, the plain...

11 thoughts about hammering "Piss Christ" into destruction.

1. Here 's the news article everyone's linking to, which says that the famously controversial photograph "was attacked with ham...

Talking Points Memo turns 10.

"The post was about Ted Olson making his debut as the chief Bush lawyer in the emerging Florida Recount battle." Yes, it's als...

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"How is this opposition to the mosque being funded? How is this being ginned up?”

Asks Pelosi , going all conspiracy theory. It just can't be that people — and it's the vast majority of Americans ! — actually read/...