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View ArticleVIDEO: We are a nation of laws, not a nation of emotions
Time to vent a little, this time about the rise in very public, very unrestrained emotions that are infringing upon-- and therefore reducing the opportunity to have-- reasoned, rational discourse. The...
View ArticleIt's not a mosque
"Hallowed ground" Via my BP source, Hugh Kaufman: The Center is supported by the Jewish Mayor, local Community Council, Jewish elected Officials representing that District, and opposed by Red State...
View ArticleGOP caught with their pants down
Bad pun alert. This is a quote from yesterday, but I just noticed it. Via Taegan: "It's the Monica Lewinsky ploy." -- Grover Norquist, quoted by Time, arguing that the Ground Zero mosque controversy...
View ArticleAP to staff: Don't use phrase "ground zero mosque"
Thank you, AP. However, it is not a mosque, it is a community center with a prayer room. Or as Stephanie Miller called the center, a "rumpus room". From the Department of Close, but No Cigar: AP...
View ArticleVIDEO: Anti-Muslim rally at Ground Zero gets ugly. Wake up, America.
lefthandedart | August 22, 2010 A man walks through the crowd at the Ground Zero protest and is mistaken as a Muslim. The crowd turns on him and confronts him. The man in the blue hard hat calls him a...
View ArticleFamilies Of 9/11 Victims Rally In Support Of Community Center
Let's see now... who would be the biggest proponents of Freedom of Religion? Ooo! Ooo! I know! Pick me!! Patriots (real ones, not fake ones)! The planned mosque and Islamic center blocks from ground...
View Article"Why stop with mosques?"
Tim Rutten has a good op-ed in the L.A. Times today about, what else? The dreaded evil terrorist "mosque" that is sitting on the hallowed ground of strip joints, food stands, and a dilapidated coat...
View ArticleDick Cavett: "We have collectively taken a pratfall on a moral whoopee cushion"
I met Dick Cavett once, briefly. We attended a casual evening of jazz (my brother was in The Beverly Hills Unlisted Jazz Band for awhile with George Segal, Sheldon Keller, Conrad Janis, to name a...
View ArticleTwo "missiles" donated to protest against Muslim community center
(Via) What says "all-American ad campaign" better than a rented missile? What next, a new constitutional amendment patriotically called Freedom of Intimidation? The owner, Arye Sachs, is looking for...
View ArticleTwo mosques far from Ground Zero get hate messages
Boy, that "hallowed ground" sure covers a lot of square miles. There's a new rash of hate crimes and bigotry targeting the ground zero community center, and... Wait, hang on. I'm being told they...
View ArticleMichael Moore: If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
I can't begin to do Michael Moore's post justice. You may or may not agree with him on everything, but he knows how to turn a phrase and make a point. A snippet, but please go read the whole thing: I...
View ArticlePoll-itics: Mosques v. Strip Clubs; Guess which GOP prefers...
Via Taegan, a little insight into the preferences of the Family Values crowd: A new Public Policy Polling survey in New York finds that just 4% of Republican voters support building a mosque near...
View ArticleAUDIO- Radio host: Terrorists should fly a plane into NY Islamic center
I'm speechless. Anyone hearing an uproar from the Wrap Ourselves in the American Flag/War on Terror/Exploit 9/11 for All It's Worth crowd? Rudy? Sarah? John McCain? GW Bush? Me neither. Via David...
View ArticleVideo- President Obama Lays Wreath at Ground Zero
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View ArticleWho influenced Anders Behring Breivik? Fox regular Frank Gaffney, "Atlas...
Anti-Muslim activist Brigitte Gabriel presents an award to Rep. Peter King (R-NY) Think Progress has an important post up about the influence that some anti-Muslim, anti-not-a-Mosque, American...
View ArticleCHART, VIDEO: Blowing the rush to blame Muslims for Oslo attack to smithereens.
Thom Hartmann has been referring his listeners to the FBI website, specifically its counter-terrorism division, even more specifically its chronological summary of terrorist incidents from 1980-2005,...
View ArticleRemember the dreaded "Ground Zero Mosque"? It opened... without a whiff of...
Via After all the hooplah, all the whoop-dee-doo, all the Islamaphobic slurs and right wing attacks, all the gigantic 24/7 controversy that was covered by all the "news" dee jays... yes, after all...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street: "We're talking about revolution, not about reform...Our...
Via Reuters My new best friend is Marty Weinstein, aka @LUCKYMW on Twitter. You can see his last guest post here, which was a big hit. He has more to say, and I've invited him here to say it (bolding...
View ArticleGOP's "Ground ZEE-ro": ZEE-ro jobs, ZEE-ro honesty, ZEE-ro specifics
At about 1:53... "So here's another job score. President Obama: plus 4.5 million, congressional Republicans: ZEE-ro." Let's not forget that on inauguration night, the GOP conspired to obstruct and...
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