Monday, May 11, 2009

Sheriff Joe Arpaio says hi to his neo-Nazi supporters, poses for pix

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-- by Dave I've been reporting for a long time on the many ways that the immigration debate has served as a critical nexus in the inters...
Sunday, May 10, 2009

O'Reilly doesn't know the difference between hate speech and hateful speech

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-- by Dave There's an ambiguity in the rhetoric used by people who fight bigotry that people like Bill O'Reilly -- people who couldn...

The face of naked eliminationism

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-- by Dave Remember that DHS bulletin on right-wing extremism that got all the righties' shorts in a bunch? Let's quickly recall th...
Thursday, May 07, 2009

Hannity lies about hate-crimes bill, claims Dems protect pedophiles but not veterans

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-- by Dave The progression of the nation's first federal hate-crimes law -- the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act -- out ...
Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Does hate-crime bill create double jeopardy? Latest right-wing meme as hollow as the rest

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[H/t Heather ] -- by Dave Most of the debate from Republicans regarding the hate-crimes bill that just passed the House -- titled the Local...
Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Republican Agonistes: GOP wrestles with the toxic embrace of its wingnut base

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-- by Dave Republicans were out this weekend in force, holding town-hall meetings designed to "reconnect" with constituents -- an...
Monday, May 04, 2009

A jury's hate-crime verdict in rural Pennsylvania reinforces the racial divide

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-- by Dave You don't have to have been from rural Pennsylvania to have been able to predict the outcome of this case: Some satisfied, ot...
Sunday, May 03, 2009

Why Virginia Foxx's non-apology for smearing Matthew Shepard isn't enough

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-- by Dave First Rep. Virginia Foxx called Matthew Shepard's murder a 'hoax' . Then, she turned around and issued a non-apology ...
Friday, May 01, 2009

MSU #0001: No First Amendment In Canada

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-- by Sara This is the first in what promises to be an interminable series of "Making Shit Up" mythbusting posts. (Note the serial...

Hate-crimes bill's passage in House gets the right-wing lie machine whirling

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-- by Dave The nation's first real federal bias-crimes statute -- the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act -- just passed ...

Gun-toting hatemongers: They're ba-a-a-a-a-a-ack

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One of the main takeaways from the phony controversy over the DHS' bulletin on right-wing extremism was the self-revealing way that m...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

The Far Right's First 100 Days: Shifting Into Overdrive

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-- by Sara Somewhere back in February, about three weeks into the Obama Administration, everybody on the left suddenly noticed that there wa...