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Renouncing Islamism: To the brink and back again

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Johann Hari - Nov. 16 (Opinion) - In the mosques across the city, I hear a fringe of young men talk dreamily of flocking to Afghanistan to "resist". Yet this whisper never has an immigrant accent. It shares my pronunciations, my cultural references, and my national anthem. Beneath the beards and the burqas, there is an English voice.

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Limbaugh's Fake Outrage at Fake Quotes

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Obamapolitics - By John K Wilson - Oct. 22 (Opinion) - By now, everyone knows about the two fake quotes that have been attributed to Rush Limbaugh. What's being lost in Limbaugh's cries of victimhood over "my high-tech lynching" is the fact that he's made numerous racist statements throughout his career, as Media Matters documents and I write about in my forthcoming book about Limbaugh. The man who called Barack Obama "the little black man-child" cannot persuasively claim to be "color-blind."

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DeMint watches out for all of us

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times and Democrat - By − Edwin O. Merwin Jr., James S. Ulmer Jr. - Oct. 18 (Opinion) - There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves. By not using earmarks to fund projects for South Carolina and instead using actual bills, DeMint is watching our nation’s pennies and trying to preserve our country’s wealth and our economy’s viability to give all an opportunity to succeed.

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Republican Party white supremacists and...

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Real Time With Bill Maher - By Bill Maher - Oct. 09 (Comedy News) - Guests are Janeane Garofalo, Representative Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), and Thomas Friedman (3 time Pulitzer Prize winner). House floor footage from CSPAN.

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The racist truth about Beck and Limbaugh

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

courier-journal.com - By Joe Conason - Oct. 01 (Opinion) - With admirable calm, President Obama has sought to deflect the supercharged politics of race by expressing his optimism about American attitudes and ignoring the most extreme statements by his critics. For his own sake, as well as the nation's, he is wise to give a pass to the likes of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. That is not, however, what they deserve.

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Banish the Cyber-Bigots

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Michael Gerson - Sep. 24 (Opinion) - The Internet could represent a flourishing of democracy. Instead it amplifies hate. The brutality of public debate on the Internet is due to one fact above all -- the option of anonymity

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Why I'm Grateful for Joe Wilson and the Fury of Racists

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Keli Goff - Sep. 24 (Opinion) - Some people's racism has been brought to the fore is because the America they thought they knew is changing; an America in which a Black man can get elected president and their very own children applaud.

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Blackwashing

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

colbertnation.com - By Stephen Colbert - Sep. 24 (Comedy News) - Prevent your valid criticisms of Barack Obama from being unfairly associated with racism by putting on a little blackwashing.

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» Latino Leaders Riled by Role of Immigration in Health Care Debate

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:41:17 -0700

Washington Independent - Sep. 22 - Current proposals could even prevent legal immigrants from obtaining health care.

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Why They’re Mad

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Howard Kurtz - Sep. 22 (Opinion) - Maybe journalists have been asking the wrong question. In probing why a chunk of the country seems so ticked off at Barack Obama, we've explored possible motivations ranging from racism to programmatic concern about the public option. We have examined whether Obama is trying to do too much and whether he's on TV too much. But perhaps the sense of anger and unease is more deep-rooted than that, and not limited to Glenn Beck conservatives.

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‘Fringe element’ could easily upend America’s racial progress

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:24:06 -0700

Atlanta Journal - Sep. 21 -

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Ahmadinejad Spews Raving Lunatic Anti-Semitism on 'Jerusalem Day'

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Informed Comment - By Juan Cole - Sep. 19 (Opinion) - ... the venomous rhetoric against Jews (it isn't just Zionists if it is projected back 500 years) that he used in this speech is so hateful that if it became widespread and ensconced in Iranian society, it certainly would have bad and tragic results-- for Jews, Iranians and for us human beings in general.

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A President Was Killed the Last Time Right-Wing Hatred Ran Wild Like This

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Eric Boehlert - Sep. 18 (Opinion) - Manchester discovered that in a wealthy Dallas suburb, when told that President Kennedy had been murdered in their city, the students in a fourth-grade class burst into applause.

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Obama battles great racial divide

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Kansas City Star - By Yael T. Abouhalkah - Sep. 17 (Editorial) - Obama doesn't want this furor on his hands right now, given all the incredibly important policy decisions he's handling. But critics are off base when they carp about Carter and his comments. They were truthful. And they sting.

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The Favor Jimmy Carter Did Us All

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Eugene Robinson - Sep. 17 (Opinion) - The former president did the country a favor by bringing up race. I think this journalist got it exactly right, and it's important to distingish between for pure racism and disageement on policy. I think those who are racist are 'bringing fuel to the fire' to the ultra-right conservatives such as Ann Coulter, who tries to be 'cute' and 'funny' about it. None of them are doing the conservatives or the Repuclican party a favor. But I think the President is wise not be distracted by it, because then what he wants to achieve as President will be secondary and race will be the 'only issue', that will feed talk shows and political cable shows.

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A culture war, literally

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

courier-journal.com - By Leonard Pitts - Sep. 17 (Opinion) - I don't know who coined the term “culture war” to describe our political divisions, but I'm reasonably sure he or she intended it only as a figure of speech It feels like something else in light of a new report from the Intelligence Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors extremist groups. “Terror From the Right” is a listing of bombers, killers, would-be assassins and insurrectionists motivated by anger over abortion, gays, taxes, blacks, Muslims and illegal immigrants. Which raises an obvious fair and balanced question: What about terror from the left?

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Limbaugh: We need segregated buses

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Sep. 17 (Opinion) - On school bus attack that police now say wasn't racially motivated: "I mean, that’s the lesson we’re being taught here today. Kid shouldn’t have been on the bus anyway. We need segregated buses — it was invading space and stuff. This is Obama’s America."

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How GOP can manage Tea Party

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By John Freehery - Sep. 16 (Opinion) - While the Tea Party movement presents a threat to the Obama administration, it also presents a challenge to congressional Republicans. After all, many of the protesters have as low a regard for the GOP as they do for the Democrats, and they hold the previous administration in as much as contempt as they do the Obama White House.

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Rush Limbaugh hits racial bottom, digs

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Crunchy Con - By Rod Dreher - Sep. 16 (Opinion) - But that's not why I took down the item and the link to the video. I took it down because now we have Rush Limbaugh blaming Obama for black kids beating up a white kid on a school bus. This is what happens in "Obama's America," he said today on his

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An Allergic Reaction To The Race Card

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

legalinsurrection.blogspot.com - By William A. Jacobson - Sep. 16 (Opinion) - Race is the most sensitive and inflammatory subject in this country. By turning every issue, even a discussion of health care policy, into an argument about race, liberals have created a politically explosive mixture in which the harder they seek to suppress opposing voices, the harder those voices seek to be heard.

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What mean-spirited Rep. Joe Wilson tells us about the nation's character

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By E.J. Dionne - Sep. 15 (Opinion) - The far right has decided that extremism in assailing Obama is no vice. As for immigrants who are here illegally, those who go to an emergency room receive medical attention, and they should. No doctor I know, whatever his or her politics, would deny treatment to a sick person on the basis of immigration status. Forget compassion and consider self-interest. Aren't you better off if the person working next to you who has a communicable disease has early access to care?

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Uninsured like me

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Michael Lind - Sep. 15 (Opinion) - Now and then a moment occurs that clarifies the nature of American politics like a flash of lightning over a prairie landscape. Such a moment occurred on Sept. 9 during President Obama's televised address to a joint session of Congress about healthcare. As the president explained that illegal immigrants would not be eligible for benefits under the plan he supported, Joe Wilson, a conservative Republican member of Congress from South Carolina, shocked the chamber and the television audience by shouting, "You lie!"

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Even Babies Discriminate: A NurtureShock Excerpt

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman - Sep. 14 (Review) - Vittrup sent a third of the families home with multiculturally themed videos for a week, such as an episode of Sesame Street in which characters visit an African-American family's home, and an episode of Little Bill, where the entire neighborhood comes together to clean the local park.

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Beating Up Thurgood Marshall

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Sam Ferguson - Sep. 14 (Opinion) - Based on the tenor of the argument yesterday at the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. FEC, the Supreme Court is poised to overrule the 1990 decision in Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce. If they do, corporations will be allowed to use general treasury funds to run advertisements and campaign on behalf of federal candidates. Corporate cash will flood our elections and special interests will be enshrined in the Constitution. But the blow will not just be to the proponents of campaign finance reform. It will be a stinging uppercut to the legacy of Justice Thurgood Marshall.

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Boy, Oh, Boy

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Maureen Dowd - Sep. 13 (Opinion) - Joe Wilson’s outburst in Congress revealed one thing: Some people just can’t believe a black man is president and will never accept it.

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