I’m sure this will cause some heads to explode: In an op-ed article in the New York Times, Robert D. Putnam, a professor of public policy at Harvard, and David E. Campbell, a political scientist at Notre Dame, say they have collected data indicating that the tea party is “less popular than much maligned groups like […]
It looks like the field of 2012 GOP candidates are quickly setting up their boogeyman – Sharia law. For years now there has been noise on the right that Sharia law is taking over the country and now that noise is getting louder. Over at Ben Smith’s blog, he has gathered a sampling of what […]
This one should get people talking: HATCH: Let’s be honest about it, in the First Amendment, religious freedom, religious expression, that really express matters to the Constitution. So, if the Muslims own that property, that private property, and they want to build a mosque there, they should have the right to do so. The only […]
Someone needs fired and flogged: The Army said Friday it was investigating a claim that dozens of soldiers who refused to attend a Christian band’s concert at a Virginia military base were banished to their barracks and told to clean them up. Fort Eustis spokesman Rick Haverinen told The Associated Press he couldn’t comment on […]
Again we show how the current right has changed over the past couple of years, embracing the crazy conspiracy theories that come out of their base and hope to turn that into political capital. This time it involves the Ground Zero mosque: Tuesday, Reps. Peter King (R-NY) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) called Imam Feisal Abdul […]
There is still a lot of speculating going on, but the most reasonable sounding thing I have heard so far is this: His cousin said Maj Hasan had been resisting such a deployment. “He hired a military attorney to try to have the issue resolved, pay back the government, to get out of the military. […]
The daily Obama conspiracy yesterday was that the President plans to “desecrate 9/11”: On the Aug. 11 call, Yearwood and other leaders kept saying repeatedly that they wanted 9/11 to be used for something “positive,” “forward-leaning,” and “productive,” said a source with knowledge of the teleconference. The plan is to turn a “day of fear” […]
A rap group called East Coast avengers has released a song called “Kill Bill O’Reilly”. Wired has the song available (towards the bottom of the article). Already some on the right are complaining about it, but is this any worse than when they call for killing Muslims, reporters or judges?
By having one of his surrogates out there saying the “Muslims are going to kill us all“: One of John McCain’s fellow POW’s in Vietnam defended the war in Iraq, saying, “The Muslims have said either we kneel or they’re going to kill us.” In a phone call with reporters arranged by the McCain campaign, […]
I was disturbed to notice a headline on a tabloid UK newspaper today stating something along the lines of “Terror alert, Is it time to search all muslims?” This is, in my view, they very sort of language that alienates folk from the muslim culture and causes some to fight back in anger. This made […]