I live in Tennessee where last year a crazed gunman was pushed over the edge by the rants of Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage and Sean Hannity and took out his rage against Democrats on ... a local Unitarian Church staging a children's production of "Annie." So hell yeah I'm worried. The increasingly unhinged right has paid no price for inciting such violence. There has been no call to tone down the rhetoric.

I urge everyone to (respectfully, of course) contact Beck's advertisers and ask them to do the right thing and halt their support for this kind of dangerous loony talk. There's a list of advertisers in the comment thread on Beck over at MediaMatters.

Rep. Susan Lynn, R-Mount Juliet, a suburb of Nashville, recently presented one of those nonbinding resolutions to the Tennessee House. It urges the U.S. Congress to recognize Tennessee’s sovereignty under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Methinks this is all the Republican Party has left. They've run out of wedge issues.

Thanks, Salon, for this column, it's very interesting!

While Mr. Wingnut protests that conservative's objection to marriage equality is NOT about bigotry and intolerance, he then says a main concern is that gays are "forcing other people to accept how they live, to validate the lives they have made for themselves." And I'd say that an unwillingness to accept people who are different from them and deny them legal rights is, by it's very definition, intolerance.

I'd also say that going back to Henry VIII as an example of state interference in church affairs is a pretty weak and stupid argument. And when the people of a nation are legislating based on intolerant, unjust, weak and stupid opinions that are not legally sound, then hell yeah we need the judiciary to step in. If they hadn't, Jim Crow would still be the law of the land.

Bush gets credit for pushing Qaddafi in a direction he was already headed? That’s wingnut logic for you.

In 1999 he vowed to fight Al-Qaeda and opened Libya's weapons program to international inspection. Bush wasn’t president then, but Clinton was. Qaddafi’s announcement that he had an active WMD program in 2003 was just a continuation of the same policy he’d begin 4 years prior, so he could get sanctions lifted. Bush and wingnuts like our columnist friend here jumped all over it as an example of how being a tough guy works, but the facts show otherwise. The facts show it was sanctions, not fear, which created change.

You know what we lefties always say about wingnuts: facts are stupid things. And I wouldn’t trust Qaddafi any further than I could throw him. When the price of oil goes back up and he's no longer dependent on good will from other countries he'll go back to being his crazy self.

... in a February Wall Street Journal op-ed, in which he pointed out that the healthcare sector GREW in 2008 so why should tax dollars go towards "stimulating" that aspect of the economy?

http://sobeale.blogspot.com/2009/04/karl-rove-memory-hole.html

He explains that some bees settle on fields of sunflowers and canola treated with the chemical and then "fly right through to next year."

Well, duh. Some humans are able to smoke cigarettes for 50 years and not get lung cancer. That doesn't mean smoking doesn't cause cancer or heart disease.

"Buchanan compared Sotomayor to Harriet Miers .."

Well of course he did. That is their one and only viable strategy to killing or at least tarnishing the nomination. I knew it as soon as I saw that TNR hit piece.

That is what conservatives are trying to do: frame Sotomayor as another Harriet Miers, unqualified for the job.

Which I really don't see how they can do without offending women and Latinos. But they will try to make that case anyway.

Don't knock Martina, her behavior is typical of any divorce. But the legal limbo which same-sex face in these situations is just another reason why a "civil union" or the awful current situation of no legal recognition at all is unacceptable. It's just another legal gray area same sex couples have to deal wtih.

We need gay marriage so we can have gay divorce. Gay marriages shouldn't operate on the legal fringes

If I am to understand her speech correctly, and that was difficult, it sounds like she's not just resigining from the Gov's office but resigning from politics. She just referred to "the blood sport of politics" or some such. Keeps saying she's going to "fight for our children from another direction, outside of politics."

So basically if she runs for president in 2012 she will have some major words to eat.

Last year then-gov. Sarah Palin issues a proclamation announcing "Healthcare Decisions Day" and urging all Alaskans to take do of end of life planning:http://tinyurl.com/q6nys9

This is just more political theater. And I have to say, I am really really REALLY sick of political theater. It's the one thing I hate about this country right now. The right wing wackos got in a tizzy when Bill Clinton got a blow job and they haven't given up since.

Who gave the keys to the crazies? Why do they rule the debate? It's absolutely insane.

As governor of Alaska Sarah Palin accepted FREE federal government healthcare to solve a very big problem in her state: providing medical and veterinary care to remote Alaskan villages.

It was provided by the U.S. military at ZERO cost to the people of Alaska.

Personally I don't have a problem with this, but Palin shouldn't be so hypocritical as to tout "free market" healthcare principles while accepting a government handout.