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Photo Donald J. Trump on Saturday in Birmingham, Ala., where he said he had seen thousands cheering in New Jersey when the World Trade Center fell on Sept. 11, 2001. Credit Eric Schultz/Associated Press How alarmed were New Jersey officials by reports of Muslims dancing in the streets of Jersey City and Paterson on Sept….
At a campaign event in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on Tuesday, Donald Trump, who has spent the past week advocating for a mandatory database of Muslim Americans, ushered his rabid supporters towards that old Tea Party favorite: President Barack Obama is a secret Muslim. “There’s some nastiness, there’s some meanness there. There’s something going on…
Alice Ollstein Nov 23, 2015 9:26pm CREDIT: AP Photo/Eric Schultz Mercutio Southall is removed by security as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop in Birmingham, Alabama. When activist Mercutio Southall Jr. was curled up on the ground getting kicked, punched, and choked by Donald Trump supporters at a campaign rally in Birmingham,…
coins metadata inserted by kblog-metadata The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative. Individuals and groups are admissible in so far as they come within the State. Instead of directing the game…
Meet Jackie Biskupski, the openly gay mayor of Salt Lake City who just won the election campaigning on municipal issues, of all things. This is big news—because Biskupski is a lesbian—in Utah—no joke! Utah, the state with all the Mormons. Where that judge who didn’t like lesbians lives. http://gawker.com/utah-family-co… And sure, none of that really…
Update: Yes, I know there’s a cat in the picture; I took it from Slate, “The Cats of War.” I’ve used that image before, to lighten things up slightly. Apparently I didn’t succeed. Conventional wisdom on the politics of terror seems to be faring just as badly as conventional wisdom on the politics of everything….
Ben Carson’s campaign is walking back his support for Donald Trump’s controversial assertion that there was news footage showing “thousands of people” cheering the 9/11 attacks from New Jersey. Doug Watts, Carson’s communications director, said Carson confused protests in the Middle East after the 9/11 attacks, which were documented at the time, with the New…
Five people were shot at a Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis late Monday night. The Associated Press spoke with Minneapolis police who confirmed the shootings. Police spokesman John Elder told AP all five have injuries that are not life-threatening. The local newspaper The Star Tribune reported that the five people shot were protesters. Black…
“The Man In The High Castle.” (David Berg/Amazon) We have a Nazi analogy problem. “Nazi,” in an argument, doesn’t buy quite as much as it used to. We have Godwin’s Law (as an online discussion goes on, the probability of a Nazi comparison approaches 1) and its corollaries (the first person to make a Hitler…
London Blitz vs ISIS Blitz Sack cartoon: Contrasting responses to threats – StarTribune.com.