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The hate inside our borders – white supremacist opens fire at Holocaust Museum, kills guard
(UPDATE: It’s murder now, as one of the guards has died. The right wing domestic terrorism body count rises.) Yes, friends, the parade of domestic terrorists and eliminationists continues. (CNN): The suspect in Wednesday’s shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is James von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist from…
Gay former Army Ranger in WSJ op-ed: it’s time to repeal DADT
I received an email from Brian Hughes, a former sergeant in the Army Rangers, who wrote an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal the other day, “Gays Have Served Honorably in the War on Terror,” calling for the repeal of DADT. He said that he was moved to write…
Every once in awhile I do need reminding that my party sucks, too
Senator Macropod prepares to bend Democrats to his will yet again As so often happens, Harry Reid is my reminder: President Barack Obama’s promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison suffered a blow Tuesday when his allies in the Senate said they would refuse to finance the move until the…
Race-baiting Rush needs to get his Klan garb out of the cleaners
He needs it straight away for popping off this offensive sh*t. LIMBAUGH: As the economy performs worse than expected, the deficit for the 2010 budget year beginning in October will worsen by $87 billion to $1.3 trillion. The deterioration reflects lower tax revenues and higher costs for bank failures, unemployment…
Why President Obama hurts his own cause of addressing homophobia in the black community
(I really hope this doesn’t become an orphan thread…please get out of your comfort zones and comment.) Over the last few days we have seen the White House struggle to answer questions about the failed discriminatory policy known as Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, as well as respond intelligently to the…
America: The Myth, The Legend, The Blacks
Walter Williams writes a lazy variation on the lazy argument you’ve heard at some point in the past: if we call blacks African-Americans, then what do we call white Africans who come to America? Or Arab Africans? And if we call them by their country of origin, why don’t we…
Alan Keyes arrested at Notre Dame during Obama protest
There’s nothing like a little helping of the crazy… I can’t wait to see the interpretation of this event at the blog of failed former Illinois U.S. Senate hopeful and failed presidential candidate Alan Keyes.Alan Keyes, a former Presidential candidate was arrested at Notre Dame University for joining a group…
NC: Alcoholic Beverage Commission head resigns after circulating racist email
The state’s top liquor regulator, Doug Fox, is now the former top liquor regulator, as Governor Beverly Perdue demanded and received Fox’s resignation after newspapers sent her a copy of the racist illustration Fox was shooting around on email. The e-mail included an altered photo of the White House that…
The classy racist voice of the GOP base: witness this Teabagger phone call
No surprise here from the GOP base. Blender Kel Munger of the Sacramento News & Review covered the teabaggers in that part of the world this week and has a great description of the event in the post “Revolt of the frightened, middle-aged white tea-baggers“: The stage was set up…
Don’t Run On Your Daughter’s Fertility
Newsbusters is gravely, deeply concerned that the media is covering Sarah Palin’s family drama more closely than Barack Obama’s. This is when it becomes relevant to point out that Palin based a substantial portion of her electoral and personal appeal on her ability to manage her fuckup dropout family using…
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