The Marilyn Parker Metro GOP Mutiny Six Republican colleagues of 18th District Councilman Jon Ackerson have chosen to toss him aside in this year’s election and instead are endorsing one of his Republican challengers. That’s shocking enough, but what’s even more shocking is the challenger they chose to endorse: Marilyn Parker. Parker is known for being an outspoken Tea Party activist, launching an aborted campaign against John Yarmuth in 2009, and using the word “socialist” like most people use the word “the.” She describes herself as “a student of biblical history as well as Austrian economics.” But right-wing ideological screeds bashing “socialists” and “Marxists” and “George Soros” over email and Facebook are one thing. It’s another thing to promote the extremely bizarre conspiracy theories about Barack Obama that she has over the past several years. On her Facebook page, Parker has repeatedly expressed views that Barack Obama is a “secret Muslim” set on intentionally destroying America from within. She also has promoted articles touting that Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States, and last January promoted an article spinning together many conspiracy theories about the Obama administration orchestrating the Arizona massacre last year by programming the killer…

Ken Ham says the C-J’s ‘anger at God just seethes within them’ Courier-Journal cartoonist Mark Murphy took a jab at Gov. Steve Beshear and the Ark Park, highlighting the $11.1 million that Beshear budgeted toward highway construction around Ark Encounter — which may, as we recently reported, end up being a Bridge to Nowhere. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with Ken Ham, the cult leader CEO of Answers in Genesis, who has made a fortune telling people that humans used to ride on dinosaurs and fight fire-breathing dragons. “Well — the Louisville (Kentucky) ‘Courier Journal’ just can’t help themselves — they just can’t let it rest. I guess their anger at God just seethes within them. They published another negative cartoon about the Ark Encounter project to continue to mislead the public. Maybe they think if they can say something incorrectly enough times, people may believe it. So much for freedom of religion in America!” …

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