The “Friends” Defense

Tim Wise:

I swear, if I hear one more transparently racist person insist they aren’t racist because they have black friends, I am going to shoot them. But not because I’m violent. I’m not violent. And this I know because I have friends who are pacifists.

Indeed.  The whole logic of the [...]

Because there is no Left in America anymore…

From the annals of the “we told you so” brigade:

PHOENIX — Perhaps no law in the past generation has drawn more praise than the drive to “end welfare as we know it,” which joined the late-’90s economic boom to send caseloads plunging, employment rates rising and officials [...]

Hoody!

By now, we all know the tragic story of Trayvon Martin. Steven covered it brilliantly yesterday! There is a part to the story that he didn’t cover. The Geraldo Rivera/Fox News part of it.

Fox News journalist and Bill O’Reillys BFF had a new revelation on the reason that Trayvon was shot. It was [...]

We are all Stalin now

Fareed Zakaria:

“Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today,” writes the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik. “Over all, there are now more people under ‘correctional supervision’ in America – more than 6 million – than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.”

We are a [...]

Eliminationism in Action!

At a shooting range in Louisiana, a woman has a suggestion to Rick Santorum who is taking target practice.

WEST MONROE, Louisiana – At a campaign stop at a firing range, while Rick Santorum was firing off some rounds, a woman shouted, “pretend it’s Obama.”

Santorum, who was far from the woman, couldn’t [...]

On Trayvon Martin: My Son is African American

It is time to confront the whole Trayvon Martin mess.  I have taken too long to do so, and can only plead that the issue hits too close to home for me to have written calmly about the issue.  You see, I have an African American son.  There he is in his cowboy hat from [...]

A Tragic Learning Experience

I fear that more people are going to die needlessly before good sense reasserts itself in American jurisprudence.  Until then, the bodies will pile up, the news media will continue to wring their hands and the perpetrators of violence will escape accountability for their actions.

Just another Republican candidate for sheriff….

Wait……what?!? He’s a white supremacist???

Shocking, I know! According to the Bonner County Daily Bee, local sheriff candidate Shaun Patrick Winkler, 33, has ties to the Aryan Nations and Church of Jesus Christ-Christian, both white supremacist organizations. And despite having taken part in race-based protests, Winkler says he’s running in opposition to “increasing federal reach” [...]

Controversy over proposed Brookfield, Wisconsin mosque is much ado about nothing

The Islamic Society of Milwaukee wants to build a mosque in Brookfield, Wisconsin, and some area residents are freaking out. Members of the Eagle Forum cite traffic concerns as the central reason they oppose the mosque, but it’s hard to believe that’s the case after reading comments made at their Tuesday night meeting. Of course, [...]

29% of likely GOP primary voters in Mississippi think interracial marriage should be illegal

Apparently there’s a lot of likely Republican primary voters in Mississippi who still believe interracial marriage should be illegal; Q24 Do you think that interracial marriage should be legal or illegal? Legal ……………………………………………………… 54% Illegal …………………………………………………….. 29% Not sure …………………………………………………. 17%

Those 29% of likely GOP primary voters in Mississippi are precisely the types of [...]