TagsTagsCommunism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both. Now, when ...
While watching Saturday night's Republican debate, my jaw hit the floor when Ron Paul, asked a question about his now-infamous newsletters, said: "One of my heroes is Martin Luther King." My amazement stems from the fact that in December 1990, Ron Paul's official newsletter contained the following paragraphs: He was ...
Ron Paul, Martin Luther King, Racism, Libertarian, Republican Party, Debate
The FBI has arrested a suspect in the attempted bombing of the MLK parade in Spokane, Washington: a home-grown American neo-Nazi. Officials have just identified the suspect arrested in connection with the attempted Martin Luther King Jr. Day bombing in Spokane, Wash., as 36-year-old Kevin William Harpham. Harpham was a member ...
Crime, Terrorism, Domestic Terrorism, Spokane, Pipe Bomb, Martin Luther King, Neo-Nazis
The Associated Press has a report from an unnamed official in the investigation into the bomb discovered on the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane, who says it was the most potentially destructive device he had ever seen -- a sophisticated IED with a remote ...
Crime, Terrorism, Domestic Terrorism, Spokane, Pipe Bomb, Martin Luther King
ABC News has the latest details on a potentially lethal pipe bomb discovered in a backpack along the route of the Martin Luther King parade in Spokane, Washington. A suspicious backpack left along a Martin Luther King Day parade route in Spokane, Wash., held a radio-controlled pipe bomb that could ...
Crime, Terrorism, Domestic Terrorism, Spokane, Pipe Bomb, Martin Luther King
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. — Martin Luther King, Jr. UPDATE at 1/17/11 10:27:31 am PBS NewsHour has a terrific compilation of archival videos, documentaries, commentaries, discussions and reports about King's life, legacy and the Civil Rights movement: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ...
The right wing nontroversy of the Labor Day weekend springs from an article at the Washington Post about the new presidential rug for the Oval Office: Oval Office rug gets history wrong. Writer Jamie Stiehm says these words on the rug are wrongly attributed to Martin Luther King Jr.: "The arc ...
Barack Obama, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Oval Office, Rug, Martin Luther King, Quote
Tim Blair is a funny person! Now he's demanding an apology from me. What will he think next? This time he dug up an LGF post from the presidential election, in which I quoted some excerpts from Barack Obama's autobiography about his prejudice toward white people, earlier in his life. (As ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Religious Right, Demonstration, Martin Luther King, Tim Blair
These days if I bother to read one of Tim Blair's phoned-in attack pieces, I increasingly get the feeling that he thinks his readers are complete idiots. His style has been reduced to tossing out distorted accusations in one-line sentences, then sitting back and letting his readers respond with the ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Religious Right, Demonstration, Martin Luther King, Tim Blair
The emerging media narrative on Glenn Beck's rally is that it was a "religious" event, not a "political" event: Glenn Beck Leads Religious Rally at Lincoln Memorial. But they're completely missing the point. In this context, there's no distinction between "religion" and "politics." The extreme right wing religious views promoted by ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Religious Right, Demonstration, Martin Luther King
[Video] Let us turn our thoughts today To Martin Luther King And recognize that there are ties between us All men and women Living on the Earth Ties of hope and love Sister and brotherhood That we are bound together In our desire to see the world become A place in which our children Can grow free and strong We are ...
CBS News commissioned an estimate of the crowd size at today's Glenn Beck Festival, and the results are in: Glenn Beck Rally Attracts Estimated 87,000. An estimated 87,000 people attended a rally organized by talk-radio host and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck Saturday in Washington, according to a crowd estimate ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Religious Right, Demonstration, Martin Luther King
The Glenn Beck Hope Restoration Minstrel Show banned attendees from carrying signs, knowing from past Tea Party experience that a public relations disaster always ensues when the loons get creative with a piece of cardboard and a set of colored magic markers. And they were trying to appear non-political and ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Religious Right, Demonstration, Martin Luther King
Today in Washington DC, Glenn Beck wept at least four times during a speech that shamelessly invoked Martin Luther King's name over and over, with an air of exaggerated reverence and treacly sentimentality. But earlier this year, on his own website, Beck had no qualms at all about labeling King as ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Religious Right, Demonstration, Martin Luther King
Today thousands of angry white people have descended on the National Mall on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, to whine about how they're being persecuted and unfairly maligned, sponsored by a race-baiting lunatic Fox News host who promotes the ideology of the far right ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Religious Right, Demonstration, Martin Luther King
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Jon Stewart, Comedy, Satire, Glenn Beck, Martin Luther King, Video