Caught this last night on Maddow and it’s pretty striking. The gist – the Arizona immigration law was lobbied by the Arizona for-profit prison industry who stand to profit from the influx of new prisoners. This is amazing for many reasons – one of which how singularly awful Governor Jan Brewer is. Mostly it shows [...]
September 26, 2001: It’s my honor to welcome to the White House my fellow Americans, Arab Americans, Americans who are Muslim by faith, to discuss about the current issues that took place, the aftermath of the incident, and what our country is going to do to make sure that everybody who is an American is [...]
The id of the Republican base at work: Meanwhile: “Jesus hates Muslims,” they screamed at worshippers arriving at the Masjid An-Noor mosque to prepare for the holy week of Ramadan. One protester shoved a placard at a group of young children leaving the mosque. “Murderers,” he shouted. More – this mosque issue really is a good [...]
Three stories which outline why the political climate is totally fucked. Glenn Beck’s Incendiary Angst Is Dangerously Close to Having a Body Count On his Monday radio show, Glenn Beck highlighted claims that before he started targeting a little-known, left-leaning organization called the Tides Foundation on his Fox News TV show, “nobody knew” what the [...]
Why gay rights is one of the most important issues going right now. It’s not just a fight for equality, it’s a fight against fascism: No different than the many stories like this – Pakistani couple face death by stoning threat after conviction for adultery – or American lynchings. Yet when you see a video [...]
Michelle Bachmann says we’re being turned into a nation of slaves, etc. etc. “‘We are determined to live free or not at all. And we are resolved that posterity shall never reproach us with having brought slaves into the world,’” Bachmann read from founding father John Jay , ending her reading with the statement, “We [...]
Sane: “It’s a real concern, because I think what we’re doing is dividing the country into partisan camps that really look a lot like Shia and Sunni,” he said, referring to the two predominant Islamic denominations that have feuded for centuries. “It’s very difficult to come together to find solutions.” – Former GOP “It’s a [...]
Recently watched three documentaries that paint a pretty alarming picture of the state of things. But also bring to mind the activism on the right against financial regulation, environmental regulation, or changing tactics in the War on Terror. Maybe if tea baggers watched these documentaries, they’d realize the hole that bad government has put us [...]
This guy is excellent – and a monumental moron: Reminder, the Boston Tea Party wasn’t a protest against a tax, but against taxation without representation: The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Colonists objected to [...]