Crackpots

The Jerusalem Post reports: A homophobic Kuwaiti academic claimed on Scope TV that she invented a cure for homosexuality based on Islamic medicine. “I discovered therapeutic suppositories that curb the sexual urges of boys of the third gender as well as the fourth gender, which is butch lesbians. They have excessive sexual urges,” said the anti-gay and anti-lesbian researcher Dr. …

Charisma News, the site best known here for its anti-witchcraft tutorials, its claim that the lifespan of gays is shortened by 20 years, and its warning that burning breakfast eggs can summon demons, returns today to their favorite topic. An excerpt from “prophetic minister” Kathy Degraw: I just finished swimming laps in the hotel pool. I get some of my …

“Man, the word ‘fag’ is a really hateful word, isn’t it? Especially when it’s like one gay calling another gay guy that? Hoo! Have you ever been in the middle of one of them hate marriages? Hoo! It’s like, wait a minute, we’re not supposed to say that word. How come you’re saying that word? “What? Oh, I just can’t …

“Protesters shouting ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’ interrupted mayor and 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg this week at a rally in Iowa. I don’t agree with heckling anyone – I think we should be respectful. In response, Buttigieg made the comment, ‘the condition of my soul is in the hands of God.’  Mayor Buttigieg is absolutely right. His soul is in the …

Posted yesterday to Matt Barber’s site Barbwire: From a Christian perspective, Notre Dame represented no loss to real Christianity, because it is a cathedral consecrated to Notre Dame, a French name whose English meaning is “Our Lady.” The Apostles of Jesus would have seen as abomination a church dedicated to Mary, the mother of Jesus. They would have characterized it …

CNBC reports: Herman Cain will not drop out of consideration for the Federal Reserve Board even though he does not appear to have enough votes to get confirmed in the Senate, he told The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. The former Godfather’s Pizza CEO and Kansas City Fed Board president said he is “very committed” to the process, according to …

“Here we are, the day before the Mueller report comes out, and it just — no matter what it says, we’re going to be lied to. So even though the report has no collusion in it and no obstruction according to Barr’s summary, you wait, because I guarantee you — well I can’t guarantee, I haven’t seen it, but I …

Politico Playbook reports: South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg swept into Iowa on Tuesday, drawing some of the biggest crowds of the 2020 race so far in the first-in-the-nation caucus state. He faced anti-gay hecklers at two events, including in Des Moines where a man in the crowd shouted ‘remember Sodom and Gomorrah!’ just after Buttigieg talked about marrying his husband, …

“I’m going to tell you, whenever you hear anywhere on the left an attack on white nationalism or white supremacy or white this or that, what they’re really talking about is the founding of the country and it’s roots in Christianity. That is the actual target of all of these made up targets: white nationalists, white supremacy, white privilege, white …

The New York Times reports: It’s the N.R.A. versus NRATV. The National Rifle Association sued one of its largest and most enduring contractors late last week and raised concerns about the contractor’s relationship to the association’s own president, Oliver North [photo], in a stunning breach within the normally buttoned-up organization. The suit was filed late Friday by the N.R.A. in …

Via press release from Christian activist Randall Terry: We are going to Iowa to confront the “new political sensation;” Pete Buttigieg. We’ve sent a press release to every daily newspaper in the state of Iowa…telling them we are coming to welcome “Mayor Pete” AT ALL FIVE of his campaign stops next week! (Please help us fund this trip!) As I …

“I will say to your listeners, in my lifetime I have never seen a more biblical president than I have seen in Donald Trump. He has so impressed me in what he has done, and we haven’t even talked about Israel. What he has done to advance Israel. He is highly biblical and we will in all likelihood never see …

The Kansas City Star reports: Herman Cain, whose prospects for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors have grown shaky before President Donald Trump even nominates him, likely gave his detractors in the U.S. Senate more reason to oppose his confirmation with comments at a University of Kansas lecture Wednesday night. He described the Senate Banking Committee, which …

Media Matters reports: Herman Cain, President Donald Trump’s pick for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board, took money to promote the newsletter of an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist. Cain also sent sponsored emails suggesting that the government is forcing citizens to take “7 deadly drugs” and that former first lady Nancy Reagan’s “desperate fight to cure Alzheimer’s disease” may be …

The Hill reports: A clip of a confrontation between conservative activist Candace Owens and Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) has become the most-viewed C-SPAN Twitter video from a House hearing ever, according to C-SPAN. During the exchange, Lieu questioned the appropriateness of Owens’s presence at the hearing, playing a clip of her from December discussing the difference between “nationalism” and “globalism” …

Charisma News, the far-right site best known here for its anti-witchcraft tutorials and warnings that burning your breakfast eggs can summon demons, has joined in the annual attack on GLSEN’s anti-bullying Day Of Silence. Pastor Larry Tomczak writes: This Friday is a big day in thousands of elementary schools, middle and high schools, colleges and universities across America. GLSEN (The …

Politico reports: Herman Cain is in deep trouble. And he hasn’t even been formally nominated to the Federal Reserve yet. Senate Republicans are warning the White House that the 2012 presidential candidate will face one of the most difficult confirmation fights of Donald Trump’s presidency and are making a behind-the-scenes play to get the president to back off, two GOP …

Mediaite reports: Candace Owens has had a winding road to testifying before the House about extremism. Just a few years ago, she ran an anti-Trump website that floated conspiracy theories about the size of Trump’s penis. Then she took a right turn, straight onto the set of InfoWars. Somehow, she parlayed that insanity into regular appearances on Fox News. Then …

The New York Times reports: Less than a month after suing Twitter for allowing its users to insult him, Representative Devin Nunes, a Republican from California, said he was suing the McClatchy Company, a newspaper chain, over what he called “character assassination.” The defamation lawsuit seeks $150 million and the deletion of an article in The Fresno Bee, a McClatchy …

Fox News reports: House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes exclusively told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that he is preparing to send eight criminal referrals to the Department of Justice this week concerning alleged misconduct from “Watergate wannabes” during the Trump-Russia investigation, including the leaks of “highly classified material” and conspiracies to lie to Congress and the Foreign Intelligence …