2012 archive

Indistinguishable from the lunatic fringe

Satanazis III: Night of the Satanazis

By Fred Clark, April 25, 2012 Don’t imagine you’re safe just because Pat Robertson, Demon Hunter, is on the job. Sure, Robertson’s Age-Defying Shakes give him the strength to leg-press 1,000 pounds,…  [more]

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Our crime was looking like the people

We Japanese Americans must not forget our wartime internment

By , Friday 27 April 2012 15.15 EDT Seventy years ago, US soldiers bearing bayoneted rifles came marching up to the front door of our family’s home in…  [more]

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Third-rate wingnut talkshow host

This supremely Republican supreme court

By Scott Lemieux, Friday 27 April 2012 15.41 EDT The 2008 elections represented a decisive repudiation of the policies of George W Bush and the Republican party. Yet, conservative Republicans still control the…  [more]

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Coordinated, systematic racial discrimination

Christians of the Holy Land

By Ben White, 26 Apr 2012 06:36 A recent report by CBS show 60 Minutes on “Christians of the Holy Land” has received a lot of attention, not least for the embarrassing contribution by…  [more]

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Flammable pool of toxic paranoia

The Ghost of Joe McCarthy in Today’s Republican Party

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, April 26, 2012 We’ve talked at times about George Orwell’s classic novel 1984, and the amnesia that sets in when we flush…  [more]

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An alternative vision of capitalism

The Self-Made Myth: Debunking Conservatives’ Favorite – And Most Dangerous – Fiction

By Sara Robinson, April 25, 2012 The self-made myth is one of the most cherished foundation stones of the conservative theology. Nurtured by Horatio Alger and…  [more]

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Climate change in Arkansas

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aunab1wtUfY[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aunab1wtUfY The following was just emailed to John Lowery, a Democratic assemblyman for District 6 of the Arkansas State Legislature. – Monsieur d’Nalgar From: [Jacques d’Nalgar] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:04 PM To: loweryj@arkleg.state.ar.us Cc: dwain@crosslifechurch.net…  [more]

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