Teabagistan

To loud applause, Rev. Jerry Falwell Jr. yesterday told students at Liberty University to arm themselves so that they can “end those Muslims.” Via the Washington Post: “It just blows my mind that the president of the United States [says] that the answer to circumstances like that is more gun control,” he said to applause. “If some of those people …

Gawker has compiled a slew of outtakes from hours of footage that one day, probably, will become a Cruz campaign commercial. They write: Thanks to the (few) rules governing campaign Super PACs, candidates aren’t technically allowed to coordinate with them. Which means candidates can’t technically feed them hours and hours of raw video footage for future campaign ads. Candidates can …

The New York Daily News reports: The GOP front-runners are reloading in their defense of the gun lobby after the latest mass shooting. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Iowa) pushed forward with unveiling his “National 2nd Amendment Coalition” at a shooting range in Iowa, mocking those who call him “insensitive” for defending guns after the San Bernardino massacre. “I really don’t view …

File this one next to the pyramids story. Via ABC News: Addressing the Republican Jewish Coalition today, Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson told a story about how the Star of David came to be on the U.S. dollar bill. Only one problem: There’s no Star of David on the dollar bill. Carson was telling the story of wealthy Jewish …

“You look at the military and one of the things we’ve seen is morale in the military under the Obama administration has plummeted, and it has plummeted because you have a commander-in-chief that doesn’t support our soldiers and sailors and airmen and marines. He treats the military as a cauldron for social experimentation. He’s more interested in promoting homosexuality in …

Todd Starnes appeared on Fox this afternoon where he literally ripped up the “garbage” New York Daily News for its front page story calling out useless prayers by GOP leaders in the wake of the San Bernardino massacre. Starnes followed that up with a tweeted call for Macy’s and JC Penney to boycott the paper. WATCH: @toddstarnes rips controversial New …

Appearing on The 700 Club today, Sarah Palin declared that Hillary Clinton is “a scary kind of naive” to not believe that America isn’t already at war with Islam. Palin say that her plan to stop ISIS would be to “quit being so namby-pamby.” Palin: “It is time to declare war on that enemy. And first to recognize who that …

Via Raw Story: Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. warned that Wednesday’s mass killing in San Bernardino could be a “literal war on Christmas.” Speaking to Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy the morning after the shooting, Johnson advised that the “critical question” was would the incident be “whitewashed” as workplace violence. “There are cardinal characteristics, cardinal fingerprints of …

Donald Trump today announced that he will release medical records which will prove his “perfection” and “great genes.” Business Insider points to the reason for today’s promise: Earlier in the morning, Politico’s Ben Schreckinger published a story critical of Trump for not releasing his health records despite once saying that all presidential candidates should do so. Several of Trump’s rivals …

As with every mass shooting including last week’s attack in Colorado, YouTube is lighting up with claims that yesterday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino was a “false flag hoax” using “crisis actors” in order to further the Illuminati, establish a New World Order, grab everybody’s guns, and criminalize Christianity. It’s all been predicted in the bible, people! Or something! Also …

In an interview published yesterday by Bloomberg, Ted Cruz vowed that upon election he’ll begin the work of stacking the US Supreme Court with right-wing appointees who have a “long paper trail” of conservative values. From the interview: While the stark divisions between the types of justices preferred by modern Democratic and Republican presidents are well-known, Cruz argued that within …

Ted Cruz yesterday told a right wing radio station that upon election he’ll “absolutely” hire Donald Trump to build that wall on the Mexican border. Mediaite has the quote: “If you’re elected president of the United States, will you do what Donald Trump has pledged to do? Would a President Cruz build a wall along the entire southern border?” Kuhner …

All of the major GOP figures rushed to Twitter this afternoon to make sure everybody knows they are definitely praying for the people murdered in today’s mass shooting. They’re also thinking about them! Which totally helps! And tomorrow they will return to blocking all attempts at gun control in America.

Yesterday Erick Erickson declared that Planned Parenthood should just be thankful that more Christians aren’t murdering them. He may have topped his record of assholery with this tweet. Maybe. After all, it’s a very long record.

Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: It is really difficult to know where to begin when cataloging all of the truly insane statements and conspiracy theories levied by radio host Alex Jones, who has talked about everything from how 9/11 and Oklahoma City were false flag operations to how juice turns kids gay and space lizards are running the …

The latest result in Breitbart‘s monthly “primary” shows that the far-right site’s readers are split between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz with Ben Carson now a far, far distant third. Today Breitbart is trumpeting former DNC chairman Howard Dean’s prediction that Trump could wrap up the GOP nomination with Florida’s March 15th winner-take-all primary. More mainstream conservative sites continue to …

“What are the odds that he is a spoiler? What are the odds that he got into this because he’s friend with the Clintons and he’ll get massive payback? If Hillary Clinton gets in because he ran third party, do you know the favor they’re going to owe him? It makes no sense otherwise!” – Glenn Beck, speaking on his …

It probably won’t be reported on sites like Breitbart and Twitchy, but as we all suspected, the “female” designation of Planned Parenthood shooter Richard Dear in Colorado’s voter database was a mere clerical error and one that Dear attempted to correct on two occasions. The Colorado Springs Gazette reports: Ryan Parsell, El Paso County’s chief deputy clerk and recorder, said …

How to completely and permanently alienate half of the electorate in one sentence. Via Mediaite: Ted Cruz pushed back against the media coverage of the Planned Parenthood shooting today and made a pretty strong assertion about which party most violent criminals belong to. Radio host Hugh Hewitt told Cruz that, given how some in the media have attempted to connect …

The Hill reports: Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider says he gave Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump permission to use the band’s hit “We’re Not Gonna Take It” on the campaign trail. “He called and he asked, which I appreciated,” Snider told Canadian Business in a recent interview. “I said, ‘Look, we don’t see eye to eye on everything — there …