Russ McBee

Thirty-one members of the US House of Representatives seem to think the establishment of an American theocracy is a more urgent matter than any of the economic, military, or environmental problems we face. Those 31, including Tennessee's own resident wingnut Marsha Blackburn, have co-sponsored HR 598; the bill's stated purpose is: Supporting ...

Here's reason #1 Mike Huckabee is absolutely unfit to serve as President of the United States (Raw Story via HuffPo): ''I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution,'' Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. ''But I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the ...

This is why Mitt Romney will never be President: ''A vote for Romney is a vote for Satan,'' [televangelist Bill] Keller declared in his daily e-mail devotional last May. His reasoning went like this: Romney's election would serve as a giant advertisement for a competing religion, Mormonism, which Keller and others believe has falsely portrayed ...

Here's a short quiz:  A certain political party with strong ties to religious fundamentalism is seen as a threat to a certain country's secular tradition. The country's military sees its most crucial role as defending the separation of church and state. A presidential candidate is declared ineligible to run because he and ...

In this post, I mentioned a resolution being considered by a county-wide Republican party convention in Utah. The resolution declared that illegal immigration was the work of Satan. The state Senate Republican party leader predicted ''I don't think there is going to be a great deal of people attributing the problem to Satan'' at Saturday's ...

A Utah Republican has introduced a resolution in his county asserting that illegal immigration is the work of Satan. No, really. I'm not making this up. Here's what he says: ''In order for Satan to establish his 'New World Order' and destroy the freedom of all people as predicted in the scriptures, he must first destroy the U.S.,'' Larsen’s ...