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Over the years I've had dozens of on-line and in-person discussions about how eliminationist rhetoric has moved from the fringes of the extreme right into mainstream conservative politics.  One of those who leads the way with this incendiary language is, of course, Rush LImbaugh, the de facto chairman of the GOP and primary spokesman.  Part of eliminationism is demeaning and disparaging everyone who not only disagrees with the speaker, but who is fundamentally different...religion, political...

My wife was talking with a co-worker the other day about the Haitian situation and their conversation steered to Katrina. She and the co-worker spent a good portion of their lives living in or around New Orleans. My wife is a graduate from Tulane and lived a good portion of her childhood in Baton Rouge. I love visiting every so often because the food is spectacular and the people are always very nice. However, those...

When I think of Christmas Carols I think of happy songs about time with family or rejoicing the birth of Jesus.  Songs like The Little Drummer Boy, White Christmas, Silent Night, and Frosty the Snowman will always bring me back to my childhood and will hopefully become cherished holiday songs for my young sons.  I feel many of us in this country feel the same way, but apparently not everyone feels the same way.  The right-wing...

Note the man in the NRA cap: "It's basically to embarrass America, which is what this administration's all about. Let's embarrass America...embarrass Western civilization, embarrass the white race." 　 More of those happy Republicans non-partisan patriots....

In my opinion, there's no bigotry worse than bigotry cloaked in religion. More dangerous than the guys in the hoods and sheets are the snakes in 3-piece suits who stand behind pulpits claiming to be followers of Christ while spewing hate for their fellow man. Here is the latest in what is getting to be an increasingly long line of "pastors" who fit that description, Grant Swank, of the New Hope Church in Windham, Maine....

Where does the hate-filled rhetoric of the far-right lead? When Rush Limbaugh says "we're just a couple notches above what hell must be like, and we're still spiraling down."When Limbaugh says that Gallup is "upping the sample of black Americans" to keep President Obama's approval rating at 50%. When Glenn Beck says the passage of health care reform will be "a nail in the coffin of America" and "the end of America as you know...

To those of us who have been around the blogs for about the last 18 months this data from Public Policy Polling should come as no surprise:"PPP's newest national survey finds that a 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama last year, with only 27% granting that he won it legitimately...Overall 62% of Americans think Obama legitimately won the election to only 26% who think ACORN...

The Washington Times dug far deeper than their usual low standards yesterday in an opinion piece by Wesley Pruden, with maybe the most despicable piece of racist garbage I've read outside of Stormfront. It starts with a slam at President Obama over his bow to Emperor Hirohito of Japan:"A little traveling, like a little learning, can be a dangerous thing. Barack Obama on the loose in a foreign land is enough to frighten protocol officers...

The debate over the chicken or the egg is a common one even if you don't have a chicken or egg handy. It can be spread to just about any discipline you want. Today, it will be used in the field of politics. As an amateur political scientist (with only a Bachelor's Degree) I love to delve into these political questions of the day. As we have noticed, there has been a sudden breakdown in...

Rep. Tom Price, that good ol' boy from Jawjah, introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives recently expressing "gratitude and appreciation" to the Teabaggers who assembled in Washington on September 12, the text of which can be seen here. It was co-sponsored by the usual Republican bigots suspects like Bachmann, Broun, Gohmert, and Gingrey, among others. I made a few minor modifications and corrections and came up with something much more appropriate."Whereas, on September...