Honest St. John McCain sure keeps honest companies — lobbyist paramours, regular lobbyists who control every aspect of his campaign, and religious fundamentalists. First there was John Hagee, the anti-papist who McCain didn’t denounce for a long time; now we have Rod Parsley, a televangelist from Ohio. Mother Jones‘ David Corn has the full scoop on this guy, who McCain, “with Parsley by his side at the Cincinnati rally, called a ’spiritual guide.’” Interesting, since this guide likes to say that “Allah was a demon spirit.” MORE »

Because Rudy Giuliani ended his campaign for America’s terrorism mayor yesterday, and because the kids enjoy top 10 lists (like on the David Letterman show), and because it is the most obvious opportunity to strike since 9/11, here is your list of the best Giuliani references to America’s Holiday in the Sun, 9/11. After this, we hope to never speak about either Rudy Giuliani or 9/11 again. The very existence of Rudy’s campaign, after all, proved that the terrorists had won a long time ago. MORE »

Michael Savage, the eponymous host of conservative radio’s Savage Nation, filed a lawsuit Monday against the Council on American-Islamic Relations for essentially calling him a bigot, of all things! He claims that CAIR illegally used a 4-minute clip from his Oct. 29 program, during which the compassionate host said American Muslims “need deportation.” Savage and his law people say the Muslims “repackaged” these words to make them more shocking. Hmm…. Unless the words before were “Everyone is special and all groups and religions are super equally awesome and no smiling, culturally equivalent Muslims ever” [need deportation], then we’ll probably side with the non-Savages on this one. MORE »

The FBI is trying to reach out to the US Muslim community in order to help recruit them in the battle against “homegrown extremists.” The threat of citizens turning against their own country has become very real in Europe. “They were middle-class, educated and had people who loved them,” a U.S. intelligence official said of the transit bombers in England. “How do you get from being a moderate Muslim to being a suicide bomber? What is that road?” MORE »

One of the many benefits of 9/11 is suddenly everybody knew the definition of madrassa: some kind of primitive Islamic boys school in Pakistan where the glassy-eyed kids chanted the Koran for a Dateline producer and none of the 9/11 hijackers were involved because they were doing blow and screwing strippers in Florida and Las Vegas.

Learn the explosive truth about Osama bin Obama’s radical indoctrination made-up story created by either the Moonies or Hillary or both, after the jump.

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Take it from us, living under the teachings of Iraq Shiite leader Ali al-Sistani sometimes gets pretty complicated. Can I wear nail polish? Can I go to a cockfight? It’s a full-time job keeping all the edicts straight! Thankfully, al-Sistani’s got a helpful Web site that clearly lays out what’s what. Gossiping? It’s a sin. Shaking hands with women? Not under his watch. Ass-fucking? Well, er, that depends: MORE »

Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, future presidential candidate, and one of the few men in politics (or elsewhere) who lived out the fantasy of Van Halen’s “Hot for Teacher,” has opened up the home front in World War 3, the conflict that only Newt (and possibly his Venusian overlords, though who knows, maybe he’s freelancing on this one, because he’s the kind of maverick who dammit plays by his own rules!) knows that we’re fighting. MORE »

Lots of us will be going to the movies this weekend, but sometimes it’s hard to pick the one that won’t turn little Billy into a hairdresser, or one which won’t fill little Sally’s head with radical thought of satanism, Islam and belly shirts. Could one use, you wonder, the new Pirates of the Caribbean sequel to learn imortant lessons about Jesus and God’s love? Heck, is the Pope a Nazi? Of course you can! MORE »

* Women’s Studies professors aren’t just violently pro-choice; they’ll hang up on you without exchanging pleasant good-byes. [Michelle Malkin]
* God loves your embarrassingly out-of-date Blackberry just the way it is. [HuffPo]
* Protestants — surprisingly more oppressed than every branch of government would suggest. [Evangelical Outpost]
* Islam Does America: A Play in Three Awesomely Xenophobic Acts. [Crooked Timber]
* New Orleans makes Tulane Law students fishers of unarmed, possibly dangerous men. [TalkLeft]

Do we make too much fun of right-wing pundit Ann Coulter in these pages?

Well, here at Wonkette we pride ourselves on being “fair and balanced.” Sometimes we make fun of conservatives; sometimes we make fun of liberals. Sometimes we mock Ann Coulter; sometimes we reprint reader email praising her to the heavens:

I read with considerable interest (Feb 15th) an article by Ann Coulter, whom I have never come across before… She’s saying exactly, precisely, what the semi-literate masses (of which I consider myself one of) have been thinking, dared to think, for the last half century: that they, the Muslims, have succeeded in invading the West by stealth, the West too interested in cheap labour and watching Coronation street to realize that the armies of the night have been and still are, marching endlessly, silently, surreptitiously, relentlessly, to their ultimate goal of total absorption and control of the West.

This is a fact which only in the light of the recent Danish disturbances have the Governments of the West lifted their snouts out of the troughs of corruption and had to face the reality of Islam, which is now firmly established in every street in Europe. These “pleasant, unassuming, individuals,” simply waiting for the signal to rise up and fall mercilessly upon all peoples, cultures, that do not abide by the Koran.

More disturbing yet fascinating rantings, after the jump.

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* Two top judges questioned the legality of warrentless eavesdropping twice in the past four years. [WP]
* White House agrees to provide additional information to House Intel Committee about NSA eavesdropping. [WP, NYT]
* Bush condemns violent reaction to cartoons that mocked Islam as Condoleezza Rice says Iran and Syria “have gone out of their way to inflame sentiments and have used this for their own purposes.” Bush: “We reject violence as a way to express discontent with what may be printed in a free press.” [WP]
* Years of “significant cuts” will be necessary to meet deficit goals. [WP]
* Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) proposes that a special court provide oversight of eavesdropping. [USAT]
* Bush, aiming to “bring fiscal sanity” to Washington, signs bill limiting growth of Medicare and Medicaid. Bush: “People call it a cut in Medicare. That’s not a cut. It’s slowing down the rate of growth. It’s the difference between slowing your car down to go the speed limit, or putting your car in reverse.” [WP, NYT, USAT]
* Democrats strive for “understandable” agenda with their own “Contract for America.” Paul Begala: “If it were up to me, I’d be tougher and meaner. But you’re trying to unite a diverse party.” [USAT]

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