Jun 28 2011
Is America’s plight so terrible that it would lurch this far? By Matthew Norman, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 … Lovers of sledghammer irony, stand by for a doozy. Patience is required, while the odds are both fairly long and mortifyingly short, depending on the closeness of one’s acquaintance with sanity. For all that, there is …
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Jun 22 2011
The Anti-Muslim Inner Circle By Robert Steinback, Intelligence Report, Summer 2011, Issue Number: 142 Illustrations by Bri Hermanson … The apparent recent surge in popular anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States has been driven by a surprisingly small and, for the most part, closely knit cadre of activists. Their influence extends far beyond their limited …
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Jun 22 2011
Looks Like We’re Not Yet Done With The ‘Anthony Weiner Was A Secret Muslim’ Rumors By Jason Linkins, 06/22/11 04:21 PM ET … Just over a week ago, we brought you word of an insanely paranoid screed published in “The Communities at the Washington Times” (a distinction that both allows the Washington Times to avoid …
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Jun 22 2011
Michele Bachmann’s Holy War By Matt Taibbi, June 22, 2011 8:00 AM ET … Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and, as you consider the career and future presidential prospects of an incredible American phenomenon named Michele Bachmann, do one more thing. Don’t laugh. It may be the hardest thing you ever do, for …
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Jun 17 2011
“Conservatism Is True.” By Andrew Sullivan, 16 Jun 2011 09:57 PM … It’s funny that Fareed Zakaria and I are now seen as beyond the conservative pale. We were both Harvard immigrants at the same time and definitely right of center (although I always had more libertarian impulses). The core reason I became a conservative …
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Jun 16 2011
Michele Bachmann Isn’t Stupid, She’s Dangerous By Sarah Jones, June 16, 2011 … Michelle Goldberg appeared on MSNBC’s The Last Word detailing the origins of Michele Bachmann’s far right evangelical politics as outlined in her Daily Beast article yesterday. What madness is this? Will Americans wake up to the looming political threat of far right …
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Jun 16 2011
Birtherism is Alive and Well on World Net Daily By Hrafnkell Haraldsson, June 16, 2011 … Birtherism, by any normal standard dead since the release of President Obama’s birth certificate on April 27 and the mercy suicide of Donald Trump’s presidential aspirations, is alive and well on World Net Daily. In discussing conspiracy theorist Jerome …
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