Zombie Lie: Right Still Clinging To Decade-Old Fabrication About Radicalized Mosques | Media Matters for America

via TPM Cafe I found this interesting condemnation of Rep. Keith Ellison for something he didn’t say. Yes, he most likely was referring to Bush, but no, there was no direct 1-1 correlation. If this story gets any traction it will be interesting to see how it plays out. Perhaps, “Anti-Semitic Muslim Congressman denies Holocaust?” I think in the wingnutosphere “Anti-Semitic Muslim” is redundant, but then I don’t speak ignant. I wonder why no one is concerned that the AG most likely has a little hole drilled in your bathroom to see if you are “American” in your actions. Sounds…

Careers – The Globe and Mail. The study (titled “Why do some employers prefer to interview Matthew, but not Samir?”) found that English-speaking employers in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver – who should have an awareness of the diversity of talent in the work force, given their city’s multicultural populations – are about 40 per cent more likely to choose to interview a job applicant with an English-sounding name than someone with an ethnic name, even if both candidates have identical education, skills and work histories.

Sepoy asks the tough question over at Chapati Mystery. We’ve been giving money to a fraud, but we believe we can identify targets through drone cameras. Do we even know who we are after? Fake Talibothra. So, tell me, spy novel world, how is it that you cannot identify someone you give money to, someone you introduce to highest officials but you ask us to believe that you know without any doubt that someone you kill without any formal charge, any trial is the right target?