Friday, May 22, 2009

Imagine if those New York terror suspects had been white

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-- by Dave There sure was an eruption of interest in domestic terrorism in the media yesterday over that case involving the black Muslim me...
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...