Jan Brewer, with her re-election campaign behind her, has become slightly less crazed. What else to account for the fact that she vetoed a so-called “birther bill”: The bill would have required presidential candidates to present their birth certificates or other birth records to be eligible to be on the ballot. “As a former Secretary [...]

Marcy is doing a great job liveblogging the McCarthyist hearings on Islamic radicalism chaired by terrorist sympathizer Peter King. She’s covered Keith Ellison breaking down when talking about a Muslim NYPD cadet and paramedic named Mohammed Salman Hamdani who died rescuing people on 9/11. She’s covered Sheriff Lee Baca of LA County, the only law [...]

I noticed over the weekend that Thaddeus McCotter put himself in the vanguard of conservatives backing the dictator Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and fearmongering over the Muslim Brotherhood and the possibility of an Islamist takeover in the country. He may not have been taking his cues from Israel, but certainly their opinions are in sync: [...]

PORTLAND – Greetings from Oregon. Republicans have pulled off a neat trick with respect to Jared Loughner. They have worked very hard to characterize him as a “whacko” and a “nutjob” (inadvertently hurting the prospect of a successful prosecution, by the way), going so far as to use the shooting as an opportunity to revamp [...]

CPAC, the venerable right-wing gathering, has a problem over its welcoming of the conservative gay group GOProud. They invited them to participate at last year’s event, and it led to this jerk making an ass of himself in one of the panel discussions. But this has gone beyond Ryan Sorba and into a full-fledged revolt [...]

Allen West may be the nuttiest of the nutjob Republicans elected last week, and it took him negative-55 days in office to register his first controversy. West signaled his intention to hire a Florida conservative talk-show host as his chief of staff. After criticism of her and some of her comments (calling Nancy Pelosi “garbage,” [...]

I actually thought this was reported somewhere, so I didn’t bother for a couple days. But I got enough of a response on Twitter that I thought I’d bring it here. The first mini-scandal of the post-election, tea party-infused era in Washington concerned President Obama’s trip to India. A report from an English-language Indian news [...]

The letter, via Greg Sargent: Dear Mr. Breitbart, We have spent the past several days trying to make clear to you your limited role as a participant in our digital town hall to be streamed on ABCNews.com and Facebook. The post on your blog last Friday created a widespread impression that you would be analyzing [...]

The man who stomped on the head of a Democratic protester outside a debate in Kentucky the other day wants an apology from her. I’m going to write that again. The man who stomped on the head of a Democratic protester outside a debate in Kentucky the other day wants an apology from her. On [...]

Conservatives are exercised about the recent Wikileaks revelations. Not about the evidence of US troops turning a blind eye to torture, not about the evidence of much higher civilian casualty rates, but about cheery-picked data suggesting that somehow the 101st Fighting Keyboarders were right all along about Iraq having WMD. Glenn Reynolds has been the [...]

Sharron Angle, and I’m giving her more credit than her own state Republican Party by spelling her name correctly, gave an interview to a conservative radio host in Nevada late last month that reflects the typical level of talk bandied about on these low-profile programs. Only now has it been elevated to the wider media, [...]