Orcinus

Well, the Minutemen apparently are running low on volunteers -- their Web site currently features an urgent plea for volunteers "on t...

It begins, it seems, with right-wing extremists threatening judges on the radio for failing to bend the law to their desires. Then you have...

And you may ask yourself, Well, how did I get here? How did we reach the point, as a nation, where treat the terrorists in our midst as ...

Probably no news event of the past year has made me as queasy as watching Eric Rudolph "confess" to his crimes as part of his ple...

Considering the focus being leveled at House Majority Leader Tom DeLay right now regarding his fondness for junkets with lobbyist Jack Abra...

Since the creep of right-wing extremism into mainstream conservatism is a major topic of this blog, I'd be remiss in not bringing to y...

One of the more troubling aspects of anti-terrorism laws generally -- and the Patriot Act in particular -- has been the likelihood that they...

It should be clear by now, I hope, that one of the chief achievements, as it were, of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is that the infiltrati...

American white men have a colorful history when it comes to dressing up as Indians, dating back at least to the Boston Tea Party. They also ...

In a couple of previous posts, I unfairly characterized the coverage of the Irving-Lipstadt trial by T.R. Reid of the Washington Post. Spe...

It's spring break at my daughter's preschool, which means my writing time is being sharply reduced this week. I'll be posting as...

I've been writing a lot here about the seeming emboldenment of the extremist right in America, particularly manifested in the growth o...

One of the many holes in civil-rights protections for minorities in Washington state is that it remains legal to discriminate against gays a...