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#1062: Joel Richardson

Joel Richardson is an anti-abortion activist, decorative painter, armchair apocalyptist and author, who writes for his own blog Joel’s Trumpet, for the WND, as well as for Glenn Beck’s website. His...

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#1063: David Aaron Richey

David Aaron Richey is a pastor of the Gulf Coast Christian Center and founder of Operation MOBILE International Churches Inc..who has made an effort to get his priorities right. That’s why Richey is...

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#1064: Harry Riley

We feel compelled to throw in a brief entry on Harry Riley as well. Riley, as you may recall (or not), is a retired US army colonel and the leader of Operation American Spring, a May 2014 rally in DC...

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#1065: Joyce Riley

Joyce Riley is a “prolific but generic” 9/11 truther, who spreads her delusions and joyful alignment with the Dunning-Kruger lowest quartile on virtually any topic through The Power Hour, a daily...

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#1066: Sandy Rios

Wingnut wailings are usually rather predictable, and managing to carve out a certain personal voice in the gibberish requires something special. Sandy Rios is one such – there is little original about...

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#1067: Gail Riplinger

An old picture of Riplinger“King James Only” denotes the idea that the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible from 1611 is the best or only genuine translation, and in the case of some – such as Gail...

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#1068: Tom Ritter

Tom Ritter is (or at least was) a high school chemistry and physics teacher at Annville-Cleona High School in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. It’s a bit scary that people like Ritter are actually teaching kids...

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#1069: Randy Rives

Randy Rives was the Texas Taliban Candidate for the 31stDistrict during the 2012 Texas Senate election. He lost that one, fortunately. For the rest of us Rives came to attention through his antics as a...

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#1070: Richard Rives

You’ll have a tough job challenging Ron Wyatt for American lunacy. Wyatt was, as you probably know, a pseudoarchaeologist and young earth creationist who claimed to have found Noah’s Ark, the Ark of...

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#1071: Anthony (Tony) Robbins

Few arenas serve better as repositories of fluffy lunacy, vacuous pseudoscience and woo than the self-help literature and the rhetorics of motivational speakers, and Tony Robbins has certainly made a...

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#1072: Richard Roberts

There are few good things to be said of Oral Roberts apart from the fact that he is no longer around. But the Oklahoma-based Oral Roberts University, which is by not even remotely a university, is...

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#1073: Gordon Robertson

Continuing with the topic of the last post – spawn of famous fundamentalists – Gordon is the Chief Executive Officer of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), the network owned by his father Pat...

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#1074: Arthur B. Robinson

No, we are not going to dignify Phil Robertson with an entry, even as he is starting to gain some political influence. We have standards.Arthur B. Robinson may be just about the greatest crank alive in...

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#1075: James Robison

A.k.a. God’s HitmanWe simply cannot forego the opportunity to mention the woolly thinking of apologist and Dunning-Kruger victim Marilynne Robinson (discussed here) but that is because we are rather...

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#1076: Lew Rockwell

We generally avoid writing directly about politics, and the writings of Llewellyn Harrison Rockwell, Jr., usually concern politics – Rockwell is a libertarian writer, activist, and founder and former...

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#1077: Ricky Roehr

For some reason many people have recently come to more or less equate disbelief in God with critical thinking. Well, Ricky Roehr thinks that “God is a Myth”. It surely hasn’t gotten him far on the path...

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#1078: Joe Rogan(?)

Joe Rogan is well-known as a stand-up comedian and commentator, particularly for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, as well as for hosting the NBC reality show Fear Factor and The Joe Rogan Experience...

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#1079: Jay Rogers

Imprecatory prayer is always cute, especially when it is put to novel use. Jay Rogers, a self-identified Christian reconstructionist and militant anti-abortionist from Florida, for instance, turned to...

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#1080: Kesha Rogers

Lakesha (Kesha) Rogers is a political activist in the Lyndon LaRouche Youth Movement and seemingly perennial candidate for Texas’s 22nd congressional district for the Democrats (though the party has...

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#1081: Melissa Mowrer Rogers & Kathy Heiney

Heiney (left) and Rogers proudlydisplaying their trinketMelissa Mowrer Rogers and Kathy Heiney are the sisters behind the Texas-based Energetic Solutions Ltd, a company that started out developing...

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