Saturday, May 15, 2010

Juan Varela's Family Says White Neighbor Gunned Him Down Over SB 1070, Demand Hate-crime Charges

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] John called out the case in Phoenix involving the murder of a Latino man by his white neighbor the...

There's A Reason We Need To Keep Reminding People About George W. Bush

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] The other day, Rep. Ed Markey made the following mundane but true observation : For years, the Bu...
Friday, May 14, 2010

Polls On Arizona Immigration Law Remind Us Of A Historic Truth: Discarding The Civil Rights Of Others Is Always A Popular Idea

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Recent polls are showing that Arizona's police-state immigration law is broadly popular with th...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

Appalling Video Of Oil Pouring Into The Gulf From BP's Wellhead: Remember 'Drill Baby Drill'?

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Well, BP has released the video of that oil wellhead pouring crude into the Gulf of Mexico, and br...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Megyn Kelly Gives A Nice Demonstration In Corporate Censorship: She Won't Let Josh Silver Explain How Net Neutrality Works

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] One of libertarians' real blind spots is that they seem to believe that only government is cap...

Arizona's Immigration Law Creates A Police State For Immigrants In Order To Solve A Drug-war Problem

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Have you noticed how the people who defend Arizona's new police-state immigration law constant...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Rudy Giuliani Tells Hannity He Could Easily Secure The Mexico Border. 'It's That Easy!' Gasps Hannity

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Gawd, if only we had elected Rudy Giuliani president. Just think -- as he did last night with Sean ...

O'Reilly And Dobbs Agree: Arizona Immigration Law Is Fine And Dandy, And It Would Be Political Suicide For Obama To File A Suit

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Bill O'Reilly brought on "immigration expert" Lou Dobbs to talk about the Arizona po...

Video Captures Seattle Cop Kicking Latino Suspect In The Face, Using Ethnic Slur -- And Then Releasing Him

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] A Seattle freelance videographer recently captured a local cop kicking a man in the head while pro...
Monday, May 10, 2010

Three Years Ago, Immigrant-bashers Were Claiming 'Illegal Aliens' Killed 9,000 People A Year. Now They Claim 2,200. Eh?

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Have you noticed how the people who love to bash "illegal immigrants" by associating the...
Saturday, May 08, 2010

Ron Paul's Inner Far-right Extremist: We'll Have 'Riots In The Streets' Like Greece Because The U.S. Dollar Is 'Counterfeit'

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Somewhat predictably, the professional fearmongers at Fox News have been hosting all kinds of segm...

Hannity's 'Little Idea': 'The Iraqis ... Need To Pay Us Back For Their Liberation. Every Single Solitary Penny'

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Sean Hannity was on quite a roll last night. First he suggested President Obama step down. Then, ...
Friday, May 07, 2010

Fox News Grotesquely Smears Immigrants By Blaming Them For Over 2,000 Deaths Annually -- Based On Wild Speculation

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Remember how Lou Dobbs got in trouble for touting phony statistics linking immigration to leprosy ?...
Thursday, May 06, 2010

Enough With The Whining! 'Teabaggers' Actually Introduced The Term They Now Claim Is A Slur

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] There's nothing quite like those moments on Fox when Megyn Kelly and Monica Crowley share the ...

Rupert Murdoch Says Fox Is Winning The Ratings Wars Because All The Other Media Are So Liberal

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Rupert Murdoch believes Fox News is handily winning the cable ratings wars because all the rest of ...

O'Reilly And Co. Want Everyone To Declare Islam 'The Enemy'

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Bill O'Reilly's been on a tear lately in pushing the notion that Islam itself is the Enemy...
Wednesday, May 05, 2010

'Oath Keeper' Under Arrest After Driving To Tennessee To Take Over Courthouse, Conduct 'Citizens Arrests' Of Public Officials

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] To listen to right-wingers in the wake of the arrest the would-be Times Square bomber, Faisal Shaza...
Tuesday, May 04, 2010

How About That 'Law Enforcement Approach' To Terrorism: NYC Bomb Suspect Caught Boarding Dubai Flight

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Well, that's what you would call some nifty police work : Authorities arrested a U.S. citizen...

The Gulf Oil Spill Makes Right-wing 'Drill Baby Drill' Fans Look Like Idiots. So Of Course, It's A Liberal Conspiracy

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] The Gulf oil spill is such a disaster of monstrous proportions -- one that makes the right-wing ...