TagsTagsThe extreme right wing nativism and bigotry embraced by the mainstream Republican Party is beginning to have real consequences. In Colorado, an influential long-time Republican, Muhammad Ali Hasan, who founded the organization "Muslims for Bush" and was a regular on Fox News, is fed up with the fetid racism of ...
Republican Party, GOP, Extremism, nativism, Immigration, Racism, Anti-Muslim
The Republican Party continues playing obstructionist politics with important issues, pandering to the nativist right wing base by blocking the DREAM Act. The so-called Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act would have affected immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children under the age of 16 and ...
Republican Party, GOP, Extremism, nativism, Immigration, DREAM Act
A new study shows that Arizona's anti-immigrant law has so far cost the state more than $140 million in lost revenue. A boycott of Arizona in the wake of a controversial immigration law has cost the state more than $140 million in lost meeting and convention business, a new report ...
You know your attraction to women's underwear is a little out of control when you do things like this: Sarah Palin Gets Gift of Pink Underwear from Sheriff Arpaio. At last week's Tea Party Express rally in Phoenix, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio welcomed Sarah Palin with a pair of ...
Arizona, Immigration, Law, nativism, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Sarah Palin, Underwear
Matt Duss has a good piece about The Roots Of ‘Sharia’ Hysteria, pointing out this interesting article at Foreign Policy about the Muslim Brotherhood, which concludes: At a global level, the Brotherhood is no Mafia. Nor is it a rigid and disciplined Stalinist-style Comintern. It most closely resembles today's Socialist ...
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Newt Gingrich thinks we need a federal ban on shariah law. Because without this crucial legislation, sharia law will be taking over America any day now. The danger is imminent. cough Also see: Oklahoma Will Ban Sharia Law, Which Was Just About to Take Over
newt gingrich, nativism, paranoia, Right Wing, Republican Party, Anti-Muslim
David Frum calls out Newt Gingrich: Gingrich: Obama Wants Whitey’s Money. As for the underlying D’Souza article that inspired Gingrich, what is there to be said? When last was there such a brazen outburst of race-baiting in the service of partisan politics at the national level? George Wallace took more ...
newt gingrich, Racism, Barack Obama, nativism, paranoia, Right Wing, Republican Party
Uh oh. Citing a recent Forbes article by Dinesh D’Souza, former House speaker Newt Gingrich tells National Review Online that President Obama may follow “Kenyan, anti-colonial” worldview. Gingrich says that D’Souza has made a “stunning insight” into Obama’s behavior — the “most profound insight I have read in the last six ...
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Jan Brewer, Sharron Angle, Rand Paul, Sarah Palin -- representatives of the new breed of Republicans who refuse to answer any questions about their views, refuse to engage in debate with their opponents (and are pathetically bad on the rare occasions when they do), completely avoid the media, and just ...
An awesome train wreck of an opening statement from Jan Brewer, in Arizona's gubernatorial debate. One of the most embarrassing political performances ever captured on video. [Video] And then, after the debate, Brewer refused to answer questions about her claim that there were "beheadings" near the border -- and ended up turning ...
The latest really bad idea to move from the fringe to the Republican mainstream at light speed: repealing the "birthright citizenship" granted by the 14th amendment to the US Constitution. That's right -- the people who publicly make a fetish out of the Constitution, declaring their unconditional love for every word ...
Immigration, nativism, Xenophobia, Republican Party, Constitution, 14th Amendment
After US District Judge Susan Bolton blocked parts of Arizona's immigration law from taking effect, her office was reportedly 'inundated' with death threats. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton received hundreds of threats at her court offices within hours of her ruling last week on Arizona's tough and controversial immigration law. "She ...
Arizona Republican Sheriff Paul Babeu is a frequent guest on Fox News, vigorously defending Arizona’s new immigration law on at least 18 occasions. And last July 10th, Sheriff Babeu appeared on a radio show that openly and proudly promotes white supremacism, antisemitism, Holocaust denial and other extreme right wing causes — ...
Arizona, Immigration, Law, nativism, White Supremacists, Neo-Nazis, Xenophobia, Racism, political cesspool
Heavily armed neo-Nazis roaming the Arizona desert looking for “narco-terrorists.” What could possibly go wrong? Jason “J.T.” Ready is taking matters into his own hands, declaring war on “narco-terrorists” and keeping an eye out for illegal immigrants. So far, he says his patrols have only found a few border crossers ...
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Check out Ry Cooder’s excellent new single, inspired by Arizona’s new anti-immigrant law, in an exclusive premiere on NPR. Arizona’s ongoing battle over immigration has inspired a new single from guitarist, composer and venerated session musician Ry Cooder. The song, “Quicksand,” tells the story of six people who attempt to ...
Here’s Nevada Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle, saying that the unemployed are “spoiled.” The GOP sure is raising up quite a crop of canny politicians this year. [Video] (Hat tip: philosophus invidius.)
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Nevada Tea Party wacko Sharron Angle shows why the GOP brass are doing their best to keep her away from the media: GOP Senate Nominee Sharron Angle Breaks Her Silence. [Video] LAS VEGAS - As Sharron Angle greeted supporters at Stoney’s Restaurant in Las Vegas, 8 News NOW Reporter Nathan Baca ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, John Birch Society, Fluoride, Conspiracy Theories, nativism, Bad Craziness, Insurrection, Incitement
New GOP Senate candidate from Nevada Sharron Angle is back in the news, after a radio interview surfaced in which she suggested that it might be time for an armed insurrection. [Audio] You know, our Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason and that was ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, John Birch Society, Fluoride, Conspiracy Theories, nativism, Bad Craziness, Insurrection, Incitement
Tom Mullins, the Republican nominee for a New Mexico Congressional seat, has suggested that it might be a good idea to mine the US-Mexico border. During the May 18 interview with KNMX radio in Las Vegas, N.M., Mullins said the U.S. could mine the border, install barbed wire and post ...
New Mexico, Immigration, Mexico, Land Mines, Bad Craziness, GOP, nativism, Republican Party
New GOP Senate candidate from Nevada Sharron Angle is apparently trying to quietly toss the online records of her extreme nativist and John Birch Society-inspired positions down the memory hole. Sharron Angle—Tea Partier, Oath Keepers supporter, anti-fluoride crusader, and new GOP candidate for Senate from Nevada—is already demonstrating her solidarity ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, John Birch Society, Fluoride, Conspiracy Theories, nativism, Bad Craziness
Here’s Sarah Palin, who mocks Barack Obama for using a teleprompter (while reading notes written on the palm of her hand), carefully reading almost every word of her speech in Phoenix from, yes, a teleprompter. Which would not be a problem, of course, except for the acrid reek of hypocrisy. [Video] You ...
Now that Arizona has enacted a repressive law conceived by people connected with white supremacist organizations, what’s the next step? Arizona legislature bans ethnic-studies programs, of course! But wait, there’s more! They’re on a roll. In another controversial shift in state education policy, the Wall Street Journal has reported that the Arizona ...
Arizona, Immigration, Law, nativism, White Supremacists, Eugenics, Racism, FAIR, Ethnic Studies, Xenophobia
Here’s some highly interesting TV as Rachel Maddow grills the leader of FAIR (the organization behind Arizona’s immigration law) about FAIR’s numerous connections to extremist groups. [Video]
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Rachel Maddow uncovers the people behind Arizona’s new immigration law: neo-Nazis, white supremacists, nativists, and eugenicists. Lovely. The main guy taking credit for the new law is Kris Kobach — a Birther who’s running for Kansas secretary of state. But his Birtherism is the least offensive thing about Kobach. His campaign ...
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