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UPDATED: I'm listening to Joe Scarborough right now and his mantra of "We never hear about threats or violence if it's a Republican" and "We have these people on both sides," referring to the rash of violence and threats against Democratic representatives after the health care vote on Sunday.  Ed Schultz got into a shouting match last night with former right wing congressman and now radio talker Ernie Istook when Istook also falsely claimed that...

It's been a big day in hate speech today.  First, ten Democratic Congressmen have received extra security due to threats they have received since the health care debate.  Members of the Democratic caucus have been briefed by security personnel about precautions they should take to protect themselves and their families.  Bart Stupak and other Democrats have received death threats, their offices vandalized and their families' homes damaged, all in retaliation for their vote on Sunday. ...

As you know, we have been following the investigation into the death of part-time census worker, Bill Sparkman, since his his bound and naked body was found in September with "FED" scrawled across his chest.  Yesterday, the Kentucky State Police, along with other agencies, concluded that the death was a suicide, not a homicide as earlier reported by witnesses.  Apparently, Sparkman believed that lymphoma, which he had fought off last year, had returned.  He had...

We've been watching the trend now for a couple of years.  The Republican Party, having lost its way as its leaders, drunk with power after controlling national politics and much of the media for over 10 years, began reaping the crop of hate and intolerance it had cynically sown to attain that power.  Moderates and thinking people fled, or were drummed out of the party, as the GOP became a mere shadow of its former...

The Williamson Daily News is reporting that the memorial service for Bill Sparkman, part-time census worker who was brutally murdered in Kentucky over a month ago, will be held tomorrow at a church in London, Kentucky.  A reader asked that I update this story, and after a little research, I'm surprised just how little new information is out there.  Here we have a federal employee brutally murdered outside a small town in Kentucky, and no...

We hear it on an almost daily basis--"My opposition to President Obama has nothing to do with race, it's strictly about his policies." It has become the standard line of the TPP (Tea Party People) who carry the "Obama is a Marxist, Fascist, Communist, Kenyan" signs, as well as the town hall screamers and tantrum-throwers (both of whom, just by coincidence, are overwhelmingly white). Well, add one more to the list, the owner of the...

Recommended by a friend, here's a piece by Roger Ebert who writes about the extremist fringe who lives in an alternate reality of paranoia, racism, and hate.  What the hell is wrong with people who are more concerned with their perceived constitutional right to carry a loaded assault weapon to a Presidential speech than about almost 45,000 people dying each year due to lack of access to health care?As Desperado wrote about earlier this week,...

Anyone who has spent any time at all on internet based discussion pages knows how ugly they can be.  These message boards, especially on news sites that are poorly moderated, can become the schoolyard where bullies push people around, conspiracists, bigots and racists are emboldened to spread their hate, and regular folks are driven away.  The anonymous nature of this public medium encourages some to use immoderate speech and to attack others in ways they...

While authorities in Kentucky are still investigating the details surrounding the murder of  Census worker Bill Sparkman, comes this from the Minneapolis Star Tribune:"Derrick Thomas was on his bike with home in his sights, returning about 1 a.m. Wednesday from hanging out with his girlfriend and cousin in Brooklyn Park.Before he knew to be terrified, Thomas, who has autism, found himself flying over his handlebars and writhing on his back on the concrete. Standing...

Updated 9/24/09 21:14: As we've all been painfully made aware of in recent years, white supremacist, anti-government hate speech has resulted in violence against innocents.  Evidence?  The Holocaust Museum murder, the murder of George Teller, abortion doctor, and, of course, the most famous terrorist act committed by an American, the Oklahoma City bombing.  There has now been another senseless murder, and it's looking like it was committed by anti-government extremists.Part time census worker, Bill Sparkman,...