Conservatives Seize on Racist's Bullshit Story to Defend Congressman
Adam Weinstein · 01/02/15 11:37AMSlate was itching to issue a Slatey take on this week's news that Republicans' House majority whip spoke at a white supremacists' hootenanny in 2002. So the site published a contrarian account, quickly praised by right wing pundits, based on the rantings of one local man who concealed his ties to the racist group.
Libertarians Don't "Get" Clickhole
Adam Weinstein · 12/30/14 11:24PMFile under "Market Champions Flummoxed By Marketplace of Ideas":
David Duke Claims to Have Met With Other Pols, Threatens to Name Names
Adam Weinstein · 12/30/14 12:15PM2014: The Year in Dumb Conservative Memes
Adam Weinstein · 12/30/14 09:10AMSince the time of Archimedes, human history has acknowledged six simple machines, basic tools designed to advance our lots. But in 2014, no tool proved simpler and more efficient in the production of sublimation, denial and self-sustaining garbage than our conservative media. Here were its highest achievements.
No. 3 GOP House Member: Sure, I Spoke at That White Supremacist Rally
Adam Weinstein · 12/29/14 05:00PMHero Soldiers Forced to Move Their Wedding So Obama Could Play Golf
Adam Weinstein · 12/29/14 12:10PMWe live in a world with walls. And those walls have to be guarded. Who's gonna do it? You, Barracks Hussain Obummer? Of course not. You can't even extend the slightest of courtesies to America's Guardians™ when their love stands, like a wall, between you and your dumb 16th-hole sextuple-bogey play-through.
Woman in Body Armor Leads Police on Car Chase After Shooting Spree
Adam Weinstein · 12/29/14 11:05AMIn another case of justice for violent lawless thugs, a deviant evildoer was gunned down by pol— oh wait it was a white lady and she was taken into custody bloodlessly after driving around Chattanooga, Tennessee, clad in body armor, shooting at innocent people and pointing her loaded gun at cops.
Judge: S.C. Erred in Convicting, Executing Black 14-Year-Old in 1944
Adam Weinstein · 12/17/14 04:10PMTexas A&M May Rename Academic Building for D-Student Rick Perry
Adam Weinstein · 12/16/14 03:30PMRich White Guy Who Knows a Guy Plans to Run For President
Adam Weinstein · 12/16/14 11:25AMWell-Paid Torture Apologist Has Wrongest Take Ever on Torture's Upside
Adam Weinstein · 12/15/14 05:06PMGlistening war dome Eli Lake, late of Bloomberg Politics, just can't stand that hand-wringing Senate report about torture being bad and ineffective. So he turned it upside down and tried to read it all backwards-like, and it turns out torture is super good at helping Americans, maybe, possibly. That'll be $275,000, please!
This CIA Torturer's $1.3 Million House Sure Looks Nice
Adam Weinstein · 12/15/14 05:05PMThis is a "Custom-Contemporary Cape Cod on 5 wooded acres" in Great Falls, Virginia, zoned for Langley High School. It's 4,240 square feet, has lovely features inside and out, and is really just a dream. For you. But it's just one of several homes that one CIA officer managed to own with all the money he made as a torturer.
Adam Weinstein · 12/15/14 03:19PM
Florida Cop Pulls Over Harvard Grad for Blasting "Fuck Tha Police"
Adam Weinstein · 12/15/14 11:50AMIn 17 years as a Hialeah cop, Harold Garzon has racked up 16 internal affairs cases against him. He may have a 17th case, after pulling over the wrong guy for playing N.W.A. on his car stereo: a "double Harvard graduate" and current law student who wasn't snowed by Garzon's poor command of state noise ordinances.
A Dozen Sailors Involved in Plot to Video Women in Submarine's Showers
Adam Weinstein · 12/12/14 12:09PMOpen-Carry Gun Activist Arrested for Killing Husband and Stepdaughter
Adam Weinstein · 12/11/14 02:20PMA History of Thugs
Adam Weinstein · 12/10/14 09:00AMCivilization is imperiled. Demonic dark-skinned criminals exult in seizing property and security. Only a vanguard of brave uniformed officers can take them off the streets and restore order. It is 1835, and whites are finally confronting what Mark Twain will soon call "the satanic brotherhood of the Thugs."