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Two weeks ago, TPM wrote about Piyush “Bobby” Jindal’s hands-on experience with exorcising demons:
As others noted during his 2003 and 2007 gubernatorial campaigns (see update), in an essay Jindal wrote in 1994 for the New Oxford Review, a serious right-wing Catholic journal, Jindal narrated a bizarre story of a personal encounter with a demon, in […]

Can you be inspired to trust your most sensitive financial information to a guy who doesn’t know how to spell “personal” or “know”, or even “an”?
It would take a leap of faith, would it not? That’s why he’s betting on people with a proven track record of making leaps of faith, people who believe […]

So, everyone’s in an uproar because South Carolina is going to offer special license plates featuring a cross and the slogan “I believe.”
Apparently it looks like this rejected version from Florida:

As if that weren’t offensive enough, these heathens argue, it will sell at a 90+% discount to the other specialty license plates offered by the […]

Continuing a roller coaster that began four years ago when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom allowed gay and lesbian couples to wed, the California Supreme Court decided not to stay its recent decision allowing gay marriage:
The California Supreme Court refused today to put its ruling allowing same-sex marriages on hold until the issue goes […]

John McCain has suddenly found it impossible to go on defending John Hagee’s bilge, and his relationship with this bilge-pump.
Who is John Hagee?
Hagee hates Catholics, hates Muslims, hates gays, believes Jews are responsible for bringing persecution upon themselves, believes U.S. foreign policy should actively help bring about the Rapture, believes Americans’ sins led to Hurricane […]

Why is it that when Republicans collide with reality, reality never ever wins?
The latest example: Rep. John Duncan, from the great state of Tennessee, at yesterday’s House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on the effectiveness of government-sponsored abstinence-only programs. Scientists and experts showed up to explain how well these programs work:
Experts from […]

The great state of Colorado has the dubious privilege of being represented in the House by Douglas Bruce (R-Colorado Springs). His latest shenanigan:
Disparaging remarks aimed at migrant workers got resident House rabble-rouser Douglas Bruce banned from speaking on a temporary-worker bill today.
“We don’t need 5,000 more illiterate peasants in the state of Colorado,” Bruce, R-Colorado […]

In case you ever wondered, here’s what a Christian jihad looks like.
Just like Muslim jihaads are launched by the criminal and lunatic fringe of Muslims, so too are Christian jihads launched by the criminal and lunatic fringe of Christians. Meet Kenneth Copeland, the totally pathetic bin Laden of the West:
Sen. Chuck Grassley […]

King Middle School in Portland, Maine has become the central front in a new sexual revolution.
Despite great fulminations by parents who think that a) it’s best to pretend that sexually active middle schoolers don’t exist, and b) it’s best for sexually active middle schoolers who insist on existing anyway to have contraception withheld […]