It’s Thursday Threatcon, your intelligence briefing on right wing activity. Below are the best reports, investigations, exposées, and debunkery of the wingnutosphere this week. Due to the sudden emergence of George W. Bush neoconservatives in the candidacy of Jeb Bush, our Threatcon Color Code continues to be FLORIDA ORANGE
- Jeb Bush is going to use the word “nukuler” at any moment just like his brother — I’m setting the clock at one minute to midnight on this soundbite disaster happening. His advisory staff is a who’s who of the last time America put a foreign affairs illiterate in the White House, including Vin Weber, a signatory to the infamous PNAC letter that called for an American global military empire. Jeb Bush’s foreign policy motto is ‘FOUR MORE WARS!’
- Jeb Bush is also a huge fan of private prisons, which is just about the most neoconservative policy position ever
- Speaking of foreign affairs illiteracy and prisons, torture-loving Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is setting House Republican policy against American foreign interest — and party over country — to keep Camp X-Ray open by threatening American allies who accept released detainees
- Republicans in Oklahoma would like to mandate historical illiteracy by making children read the Ten Commandments and a speech by George W. Bush instead of letting them know all those ugly ‘facts’ that don’t fit a jingoist’s world view of ‘America the totally pure and holy’
- Speaking of history: David Neiwert has found those ‘no-go zones’ that Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was looking for; some are right in the middle of Louisiana
- Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who recently got caught trying to change the ‘Wisconsin Idea’ and seeks to shift hundreds of millions in state money away from colleges and towards professional basketball, is getting some flack for having no college degree. Walker was bored by learning but very excited by power, so he left Marquette University in a cloud of butthurt when he couldn’t get elected student body president
- Math illiteracy: Wisconsin is skipping debt payments to make up for Walker’s tax cuts
- Cultural illiteracy: ‘American Thinker’ F.W. Burleigh sees terrorist fingers everywhere
- Economic illiteracy: North Carolina Republicans are very happy with their state’s new levels of poverty and income inequality, so they’re trying to get rid of the anti-poverty advocates in the state’s education system
- Ethical illiteracy: North Carolina’s ethics commission has decided it’s totally okay for politicians to have sex with lobbyists
- Dr. Vesna Roi of Michigan has refused to care for a six day old baby because the parents were gay, proving there is nothing ‘Christian’ about homophobia and likely earning a big downgrade on Yelp!
- Dear media: please stop breathlessly repeating NYT reporter James Risen’s statements about Eric Holder and the Obama administration and start holding them up to factual scrutiny
- The US Department of Justice is getting ready to sue the Ferguson, Missouri police department over a pattern of racially discriminatory tactics by their officers
- The Mississippi state supreme court just ordered Mississippi Power to refund $281 million in rate hikes over the last two years meant to pay for a ‘clean coal’ facility in Kemper County. Remember this the next time you hear Kochheads complaining about subsidies for renewables
- A Muslim school in Rhode Island was vandalized with Islamophobic graffiti last weekend
- A 42-year old man was arrested and his car impounded in Omaha when he tried claiming ‘sovereign citizenship’ to get out of a traffic stop
- Mississippi Republican State Rep. Gene Alday has apologized for telling a reporter that blacks are lazy and violent
- 55 year-old Darryl Ferguson allegedly made Islamophobic statements to a convenience store clerk before setting a Houston mosque on fire
- A Detroit, Michigan man has been charged with wounding two men in a knife attack outside a mall. Terrence Thomas allegedly asked the victims if they were Muslim first
- An essential look at Fox News from a foreign perspective:
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- Arizona State University professor Lee Bebout has faced criticism from Fox News and conservative activists for teaching students that white supremacy is an ongoing problem in American society. Now Elizabeth Hasselbeck can count on the support of neo-Nazis and white supremacists in her crusade against Bebout
- Parents and students are objecting to a ‘WHITE POWER’ sign that appeared during a recent high school basketball game in Dallas, Texas
- Thanks to her paranoid delusional parents, homeschooled teen Alicia Faith Pennington is an undocumented American
- Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri are trying to criminalize abortion procedures
- Republicans are trying to undermine minimum wage laws
- The Montana Republican Party platform consists of militias, dress codes, and conspiracy theories
- Bill O’Reilly sure does love holy war a lot
- The Chief Economist at the Heritage Foundation is completely incoherent on Obamacare
- Remember that emerging demographic majority that was going to permanently dispel conservative plans for a permanent majority? Here’s why Democrats need to stop acting like demography is destiny
- Kansas Republicans are set to fill the budget hole they have created by raising taxes on farmland
