Hate crimes bill passes out of committee, wingnuts pass out with fright
Support.
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Tuesday: Minnesota's charter schools fall short of expectations
Damning report on effects of MN's charter schools.
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Frank Schaeffer: Sarah Palin Will Never Be President -- Trust Me
Good analysis. Let's hope it's true.
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Op-Ed Columnist - In Defense of White Americans - NYTimes.com
I hope he's right. There's evidence he is.
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Daylight Atheism > Skin Deep
The writer on this site is so worth reading.
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The Last Lynching: Ted Koppel documentary on Discovery tonight - Boing Boing
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Ashley Todd Photo: ATM Video Proves Assault Lies Hoax? - Original News: The Post Chronicle
The B, backward _or_ forward, is _not_ something an "angry big black assailant" would carve in somebody's face WITH A KNIFE. There is not a single knife-slice on her cheek. The B looks _rubbed_.
And rubbing takes a longer time to do, and hurts less, than using the knife to cut.
The sad thing? I"ve seen many comments believe this hoax _without question_ - which means, as usual, _without thinking_.
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McCain volunteer claims attacker cut 'B' into face | AP Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
We have to ask if this is a Willie Horton variation. See below for the annotations of the fishy details.
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Polls Show Obama Gaining Among Bush Voters - NYTimes.com
I've been thinking about PRAYER more lately. While it still seems as effective as throwing a message in a bottle into the sea, I'll do it in asking Whatever Is Out There to save the 21st century from DOOM due to the SWING VOTES OF BIGOTS.
God save us all if Americans vote based on a COLOR instead of a BRAIN.
And the funny thing? It seems the CHURCHGOERS - a certain type, anyway - are the ones most likely to be the RACISTS. Don't you see that too? Mainly poor, uneducated white people.
I'm on my knees, Jesus. Tell them AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE GOD'S CHILDREN TOO.
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Keli Goff: Thank You Rush Limbaugh (and Pat Buchanan)
Really interesting conclusion on this one. Are the likes of Limbaugh and Buchanan finally being left behind by an America that's outgrown them? Let's hope so.
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Service: Online Only: The New Yorker
A photo that should become iconic. Read the tombstone closely, including its symbol.
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Is McCain 'race-baiting'? - Los Angeles Times
Goldberg cites the examples, then tries to dismiss them. I'm not convinced. Emphasizing "Hussein" in speeches and rallies clearly tries to paint Obama not as an African-American, but as an ARAB. So it's post-9/11 racism, in a subtle way.
Regardless, it's old news. Now they're painting him as a "socialist" for saying he'd re-distribute the tax burden upwards from Bush's policies. And that's outrageous, in light of McCain's own "socialist" plan to have the US government buy mortgages from insolvent homeowners.
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Obama, McCain campaign in conservative states - International Herald Tribune
Interesting on many fronts. Historical changes and lessons to learn from this: a black man winning traditionally poor, white, uneducated votes in southern states.
The purse is color-blind, we learn?
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Racists for Obama? - Ben Smith - Politico.com
Fascinating and hopeful.
I've seen my own hometown, Chattanooga, Tennessee, change from a place in which interracail (black-white) couples would never be seen in working-class bars in the 1980s, to a place where precisely that was what I saw in the '90s, with nobody staring or blinking.
So hopeful.
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Palin vs. "Palin": When SNL Parody Becomes Campaign Reality - TIME
Interesting conclusion: Fey's SNL Palin is harmless, making the rabble-rousing _real_ Palin possibly harder to perceive.
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