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U.S. Conservative Politics

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    After 25 Years, Mötley Crüe's Girls, Girls, Girls Still Hasn't Brought About the Apocalypse

    Today, the Antichrist heads up a company that charters private jets. The standard rental features a plush, zebra-striped interior. He also operates a chain of bar-and-grill restaurants that specialize in garish décor and $9.95 caprese salads. In the mid-1980s, it was impossible to escape the apoc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Tea Party Rallies Are Good Entertainment Before a Giants Game

    Last week, we warned you the Tea Partiers were coming to San Francisco to spew all their anti-Obama politics all over the Embarcadero -- and spew they did. Those hardcore conservatives took the stage at 1 p.m., blasting Obama for "all his drama" and making noise about how the liberal president and h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Tea Party to Land in San Francisco Waving NOBAMA Foam Fingers

    You can always bank on it being a good time when Tea Partiers descend on San Francisco for the day. Those obnoxiously hardcore conservatives are planning to flood Justin Herman Plaza on Saturday, where 10 Bay Area Tea Party groups will spend three hours demonstrating ... oh, where to start?"The whol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    Jelly Belly, Host of Rick Santorum Rally, Is Sweet on the GOP

    ​The Jelly Belly factory is a beacon of thriving American manufacturing -- it is also a fine choice for wholesome family outings.And considering how much former President Ronald Reagan loved jelly beans, it also seems like the perfect location for a conservative darling's presidential ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2012

    Santorum Gaining Ground Among California GOP Voters

    ​Mitt Romney, the leading contender for the GOP presidential nomination, has to watch his back among voters in California's Republican primary, according to a new poll.The poll from the Public Policy Institute of California shows that U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum is surging here, and is closing the dis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    The Craziest Anti-Planned Parenthood Ads

    Planned Parenthood doesn't shy away from provocative gimmicks in its efforts to promote sex education and reproductive health; earlier this week, we brought you the news that the nonprofit has launched a new campaign encouraging people to "check in" to a special social network when they don condoms ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2012

    Andrew Breitbart, Conservative Media Critic, Dies of "Natural Causes"

    ​The prolific conservative media critic Andrew Breitbart died early this morning at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 43. He was walking near his home in Brentwood last night when he reportedly collapsed. Someone saw him fall and called 911, and paramedics attempted to revive him.The official announc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2012

    SF Examiner Goes Soft on Us

    ​For all the time we have spent bagging on the San Francisco Examiner, it's only right that we give credit where credit is due.Alas, in between coming up with synonyms for "creep" and "thug," the free tabloid has managed to insert some more liberal prose into their copy, as promised by the ne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Tea Party Warrior: Report Medical Marijuana Clubs to the IRS and Get Rich

    ​For Paul Chabot, the War on Drugs is personal indeed: Before he became a Navy man, a campus cop, and a former National Drug Control Policy staffer, he was in drug rehab for alcohol and marijuana addiction himself -- at the young age of 12, according to his online bio.In his latest tactical maneuv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    Mitt Romney Will Win Republicans Over By Teaming Up With Nancy Pelosi

    Mitt Romney is all set to be the Republican nominee for president, except for one stubborn hitch: Republican primary voters -- like most people -- don't like him, perhaps because he's actually an actor playing a presidential candidate on a soap opera in 1986. Instead, lately, lots of Republicans se ... More >>

  • News

    January 25, 2012

    Tea Party Princess: Victoria Jackson and the Rabid Right

    Mitt Romney is all set to be the Republican nominee for president, except for one stubborn hitch: Republican primary voters -- like most people -- don't like him, perhaps because he's actually an actor playing a presidential candidate on a soap opera in 1986. Instead, lately, lots of Republicans se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Phil Anschutz to Sell the San Francisco Examiner

    Does this mean they will stop endorsing Tea Party Republicans?​Clarity Media Group announced today that it will sell the San Francisco Examiner -- the city's daily free tabloid. Phil Anschutz, the evangelical media mogul, announced that his Denver-based company has agreed to sell the Ex to Black P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Republican S.F. Chair: I Never Wanted to Sic Government on SF Weekly

    No, no, you guys at SF Weekly are fine...​Last week, we told you about how the head of San Francisco's Republican Party threatened to sic big government on our newspaper. Harmeet Dhillon, the boss of the local GOP, now tells SF Weekly that was never her intention. She didn't want to abridge our Fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2011

    Republican Party Chair Threatens to Sic Government on Newspaper

    Write an offending article, face the consequences​If you write a newspaper article in San Francisco that rankles a political leader, the government can step in and punish you. That sounds like red meat for right-leaning forces on the Internet, setting off a firestorm of rants about the liberal idi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2011

    Republicans Love Mayor Ed Lee

    Ed Lee welcomes support ... from everyone ​In a liberal bastion like San Francisco, what Democratic candidate would want the support of the Republican Party? Turns out, plenty. Supervisors David Chiu and Ross Mirkarimi, and mayoral candidate Michela Alioto-Pier, to name a few. But as far as the ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Common: Five More Reasons for Talk Radio Conservatives to Hate Him

    This man is dangerous!​Turns out, we were wrong. For all these years, we considered Chicago rapper/romantic comedy star Common just a hair more hardcore than Jamiroquai. We thought of him as a somewhat conscious MC boasting a warm baritone, some strong tracks, and the allegiance of white guys who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2011

    Tea Partier Portrays Obama as Ape in E-Mail to Friends

    Courtesy OC WeeklyTea Partier Marilyn Davenport sent this photo to fellow conservatives​Time for some link love to one of the southern garrisons of the Village Voice Media empire. We've written before about the paranoiac, semiliterate reasoning that supports the related belief systems of the Tea P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    Mayoral Candidates: Who's Hot, Who's Not

    Chris Daly -- would have been "hot"​After Supervisor John Avalos jumped into the mayor's race yesterday afternoon, we started thinking: with so many candidates now in the race, how will voters decide?To date, there are more than 30 potential candidates who want to be the city's chief executive. Of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    This Just In: The U.S. House of Representatives Hates NPR

    National Public Radio is good. Very good. They entertain us with such shows as This American Life, inform us with Morning Edition, and drop some musical knowledge on All Songs Considered. But the United States House of Representatives doesn't feel the same way: today it voted to cut off government f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Guardian Accuses Public Defender Jeff Adachi of 'Tea Party' Ties

    Jeff Adachi​We've got to hand it to the Guardian. Just when you think Bruce Brugmann's boys and girls have lost it -- that they don't have a single conspiracy theory worthy of a good belly laugh left in them; that all you can look forward to in the paper's pages are turgid, overlong articles on la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    The Real Message of Jared Loughner

    Jared Loughner​There's been a lot of ink devoted to analyzing Jared Loughner's motivations in the shooting rampage that left U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) seriously wounded and six others, including a 9-year-old girl, dead. Much of the press attention has focused on the question of whether ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Giffords Shooting: Was it Politics or Just Mental Illness?

    Critical Condition​It's easy to blame the incendiary rhetoric of vociferous Tea Party Republicans for the recent shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona Democrat who remains in critical condition after she was shot in the head on Saturday. But in Phoenix, 113 miles from Tucson wh ... More >>

  • News

    December 22, 2010

    List: Longevity Is the Best Revenge

    Critical Condition​It's easy to blame the incendiary rhetoric of vociferous Tea Party Republicans for the recent shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona Democrat who remains in critical condition after she was shot in the head on Saturday. But in Phoenix, 113 miles from Tucson wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    First Transgender Judge Victoria Kolakowski's Long Road

    Here comes the judge...​Winners of Alameda County Superior Court Judgeships usually don't get calls from national media. But Victoria Kolakowski -- "spelled just like it sounds" -- isn't just any judge. She's almost certainly the first transgender judge in American history, and even more almost ce ... More >>

  • News

    November 10, 2010

    List: What is Nancy Pelosi's next move?

    Here comes the judge...​Winners of Alameda County Superior Court Judgeships usually don't get calls from national media. But Victoria Kolakowski -- "spelled just like it sounds" -- isn't just any judge. She's almost certainly the first transgender judge in American history, and even more almost ce ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    Election Results Show Tea Party Fails to Gain Traction in Western States

    Is that Harry Reid in the middle?​Some of you might have found it particularly hard to greet the Red Dawn of Nov. 3. We admit that it's difficult to face the idea of Tea Party-propelled candidates marching off to Washington with plans to combat imagined New World Order conspiracies within the vaul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    The Examiner's Hilarious Political Endorsements

    ​God help me, but it's true: I love America's Funniest Home Videos. Thanks to YouTube, you can find more than enough old episodes. You turn the sound off -- be gone, Bob Saget! -- and bliss. It's so predictable, yet so hilarious. Men working on roofs are gonna fall. Skateboarders will not land whe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    GOP to Hammer Harris on Death Penalty with $1 million in TV Ads as Election Nears

    Close observers of the 2010 California Attorney General's race probably saw this one coming. With less than two weeks remaining until election day on Nov. 2, Republican activists are going to spend about $1 million blanketing the airwaves with commercials attacking San Francisco District Attorney Ka ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2010

    How the Tea Party Is Screwing Over Republicans

    Tea Party candidate Christine O'Donnell: "I'm not a witch"A new Harris Poll indicates that Democrats are gaining ground ahead of the November mid-term elections, and that the assortment of right-wing extremists who call themselves the "Tea Party" have something to do with this last-minute success.

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2010

    Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina Shun Sarah Palin Event

    Are Meg and Carly running away from Sarah? ​It seems the two Republican women running for office in California don't want to self-apply the label "Mama Grizzly" anytime soon. The New York Times reports that both Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina will be passing on the "final path to victory" rally in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Study Finds Many iPhone Users Are Tea Party Supporters (Really)

    Apple's iPhone: The preferred mobile device of semi-literate morons​We certainly wouldn't have seen this one coming. A poll released today by the tech policy group CALinnovates.org reveals that iPhone users -- whom we would have firmly placed in the same consumer class as those who sip lattes and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    Supreme Court Rules State Not Required to Appeal Prop. 8 Ruling

    ​The California Supreme Court yesterday dismissed a right-wing group's suit that would have compelled the state to appeal Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. Both Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown have come down in favor of Walker's ruling ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    John Dennis, Republican Challenger to Nancy Pelosi, Seeks YouTube Fame

    Will John Dennis be our next Congressman, or next YouTube laugh riot -- or both?​Harking to the analogies you probably last dealt with on the SAT, John Dennis is to Nancy Pelosi as squirrel is to highway-driving big rig. The Republican Congressional candidate will not beat the Speaker of the House ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2010

    Republicans' Love/Hate Relationship With the Gays

    Is pink the GOP's color after all? ​The Week in GayRepublicans are much more entertaining than Democrats, don't you think? They make the most outlandish and flamboyant statements without a hint of irony about the incredible insincerity of their positions. Democrats usually just bite their lips wai ... More >>

  • News

    August 4, 2010

    Republicans tastelessly milk cow-shooting controversy

    Is pink the GOP's color after all? ​The Week in GayRepublicans are much more entertaining than Democrats, don't you think? They make the most outlandish and flamboyant statements without a hint of irony about the incredible insincerity of their positions. Democrats usually just bite their lips wai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    Republicans Following Porn on Twitter (NSFW)

    By following @_PrettyAlison, the California GOP studied the body politic...​If you're going to get hit with a sex scandal, you should at least make sure to enjoy the sex. Yet the California Republican Party has been monitoring the online offerings of dozens of porn purveyors in a situation that ga ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    Big Day in Court for Candidate Harris

    This is what a sexy prosecutor candidate looks like​With her solid victory in last night's Democratic primary for the vaunted post of attorney general, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris proved that she can deflect accusations of being soft of crime. At least when they come from other D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2010

    Over the Weekend: Flight of the Conchords

    ​Flight of the Conchords @ The Greek Theater May 28 2010 Better than: any kind of complimentary muffin. There were several people dressed up in giant tin foil covered boxes parading around as robots Friday night waiting for the Flight of the Conchords to take off. The sold out crowd at the Ber ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 31, 2010

    Medical Drama

    ​Flight of the Conchords @ The Greek Theater May 28 2010 Better than: any kind of complimentary muffin. There were several people dressed up in giant tin foil covered boxes parading around as robots Friday night waiting for the Flight of the Conchords to take off. The sold out crowd at the Ber ... More >>

  • News

    February 10, 2010

    Against all odds, a radical S.F. Republican takes on Nancy Pelosi

    ​Flight of the Conchords @ The Greek Theater May 28 2010 Better than: any kind of complimentary muffin. There were several people dressed up in giant tin foil covered boxes parading around as robots Friday night waiting for the Flight of the Conchords to take off. The sold out crowd at the Ber ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 18, 2009

    Our Woman in Washington

    ​Flight of the Conchords @ The Greek Theater May 28 2010 Better than: any kind of complimentary muffin. There were several people dressed up in giant tin foil covered boxes parading around as robots Friday night waiting for the Flight of the Conchords to take off. The sold out crowd at the Ber ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 22, 2008

    Vote With Your Art

    ​Flight of the Conchords @ The Greek Theater May 28 2010 Better than: any kind of complimentary muffin. There were several people dressed up in giant tin foil covered boxes parading around as robots Friday night waiting for the Flight of the Conchords to take off. The sold out crowd at the Ber ... More >>

  • News

    December 28, 2005

    Moonbat Is on the Air

    Conservative radio host tries to teach Infiltrator rules of right-wing punditry

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