“Hussein” is not a slur

Eugene Robinson – Stoking irrational fears about Islam. For more than a century, the most remorseless and violent terrorist organization in the nation was the Ku Klux Klan. Watchdogs such as the Southern Poverty Law Center would be happy to share with King voluminous information about heavily armed militia groups out in the backwoods, training for some imagined Armageddon.

It seems that Barack Obama is using a teleprompter. Apparently this is bad because it means he is stooping to GOP levels of having everything scripted for him. You see before, he spoke from conviction and didn’t need to have anything pre-written. At least, I think that’s why it’s bad. I can’t imagine why it would newsworthy otherwise. But Sarah Palin, she swears she doesn’t need a working teleprompter because she know everything. Oh wait, sorry. Republican talking, just invert the story and you’ll get the truth. It’s just like Calvin and Hobbes. Election 2008, McCain, sara

Jihad Against Islam | Southern Poverty Law Center. Rarely has the United States seen a more reckless and bare-knuckled campaign to vilify a distinct class of people and compromise their fundamental civil and human rights than the recent rhetoric against Muslims.  It would also be hard to imagine a more successful campaign. In the span of the two years since the start of Barack Obama’s presidency in early 2009, an astonishing number of people have turned into a kind of political wolf pack, convinced that 0.6% of the U.S. population is on the verge of trampling the Constitution and imposing…