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Re: Morning Awful: CPAC Kulturkampf
02/10/12 7:31 am
Now Fatherland, Fatherland show us the sign... (Do you still think you can control them, GOP Establishment?)Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 9:35 pm
I can't remember if I tweeted you this link but it's to an article by a Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Marquette University. I h...Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 8:26 pm
The six Republican Senators who sponsored the contraception mandate consist of two women who now have Stockholm Syndrome, a man who was driv...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.
Category Archives: racism in politics
Juan Williams Wakes the Hell Up
Commentator Juan Williams was serving two masters: FOX Noise, which has no standards, and NPR, which has high standards. He couldn’t serve both masters to the full satisfaction of either. Now that he no longer appears on the public airwaves, … Continue reading
Jimmy Carter Educates Piers Morgan on Dog Whistlin’
By Emilia1956 Dog whistlin’, Piers, doesn’t mean a person is really racist. It just means he knows how to use coded words to appeal to the people who are.
The Pejorative Epistles of St. Paul
By Emilia1956 First, Fox did it. Not just Fox, but Sean Hannity:- Then CNN challenged, and things got shirty:- Hannity mentions the Ron Paul newsletters. He expresses disbelief that Paul says he doesn’t know what’s even in them. Sean Hannity, … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Senselessbrenner
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) has a misogyny problem. That’s not unusual for a Republican, but denouncing the First Lady’s buttocks at a church auction and then bragging about it in an airport lounge brings politician and party to a new low: … Continue reading
Bill Maher Addresses Racism…Unfortunately, Not His Own
By Emilia 1956 On Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Bill’s final New Rule dealt with the Niggerhead Incident and the Republican Party’s official stance on racism, which is, basically, to deny it. Here’s Bill’s editorial in full:- He makes a … Continue reading
Melissa Harris-Perry Pokes A Hornet’s Nest
Tulane professor Melissa Harris-Perry responding to the telling outcry of white liberals for suggesting at The Nation that some of the decline in Obama’s popularity among whites is due to latent racism: In fact, I suspect that those who tell me … Continue reading
Dr. Laura Breaks Through
You know what? I’m glad she did that. Really. All these wingnuts doing right-wing hate radio have been so very, very careful to NOT say the n-word because their defense against charges of racism boils down to the non-use of … Continue reading
Kulturkampf And Rand Paul
Kudos to Rachel Maddow for recognizing that tea party extremism is essentially leftover reaction to the Sixties. The word she’s looking for — the noun that describes this kind of regressive politics in which history is re-fought, from Texas schoolbook … Continue reading
Global Immigration Challenge
This comes from the end of a NYT article about South Korea, but it might as well have been written about the United States, and the man being quoted could easily be mistaken for Lou Dobbs: The Foreign Ministry supports … Continue reading
Sunday Sermon: Fear of Change
Let us open with a hymn, courtesy of The Toadies: Please open your copies of Origin of Species to Chapter Nine, verse six: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It … Continue reading
GOP Civil Rights Hall of Fame
Why are there no Republicans in the Civil Rights hall of fame? This is the same Texas Board of Education that erased liberals from the civics books. This is Orwell, folks: Day by day and almost minute by minute the … Continue reading
