Hate Hoaxes
Justifying and Excusing False Accusations
CBC: Crying hate crime: how hoaxes give bigots ammunition to undermine real victims
WaPo: Experts on hate crimes say that false accounts are still relatively rare.
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Government Shutdown: Obama, Punisher-In-Chief
Government shutdown pinches home builders
National Park Service defends shutdown closures
Feds seeking unemployment show shutdown impact
Nexus 5, Google watch may have been delayed by US government shutdow...
Ambassador Caroline Kennedy… ya know?
Caroline Kennedy poised for Japan
Flashback 2008: Caroline Kennedy repeats ‘you know’ 142 times in interview
And how is she, ya know, qualified to be our ambassador, ya know, in, ya know, Japan?...
The Union Way: Cheat Kids, Get Rewarded
My father was a teacher, so I know that teaching can be an all-consuming profession. Nonetheless, it's the job that my father chose — as do today's educators. There's no involuntary draft.
When I watch or ...
Overmedication Kills; Not Guns
Back in the day, some of us remember those kids in school who were “hyper”. That’s how that kid was and he or she was accepted as such. Over the last decade-plus, lazy parents and teachers decided the best way ...
Sharon Osborne: Male Genital Mutilation Is ‘Quite Fabulous’
I had a recent discussion with “Canadian individualist anarchist and individualist feminist” Wendy McElroy about a topic that really didn’t see much of the time of day by the mainstream media (or at least as mu...
The New York Times: Three-Fifths of a Newspaper
It's sad enough the New York Times' editors believe it "a theatrical production of unusual pomposity" that the incoming Republican Congress require "that every bill cite its basis in the Constitution." It may b...
Kos Comment on Black Conservatives: Harriet Tubman “Would Have Had To Shoot Them”
In a Daily Kos piece entitled “Afroturfed” by kid funkadelic,
They’re calling it Diversetea but it’s the same old shit we have been swallowing here for almost 500 years. The Right has started a campaign to go ...
RNC Chair Michael Steele WAS An Affirmative Action Hire
There are many blacks the Republican Party could (and should) have chose from. Ken Blackwell, Lurita Doan, J.C. Watts, Larry Elder, Ken Hamblin, Armstrong Williams, Walter Williams, Shelby Steele, and I’m sure ...
The Economic Mess Is the Democrat Congress’ Fault
While we were screaming about this months ago, why are media types only now doing their homework?
On Sept. 29, 2008, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, praised House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney...