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Which America?
This guy and a friend he met online wanted to kill Barack Obama. They were going to wear white tophats and tails while doing it, and shoot from their car windows. They didn’t expect to succeed, but...
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Congratulations
Following the longest, most expensive, best organized, and perhaps most bitter campaign in my lifetime, Barack Obama has been elected the 44th president of the United States. Not only is the the first...
View ArticleNot So Cool
doga: It’s a shame that the world doesn’t unite to criticize the racist government in Israel. eatbees: I was annoyed at the Europeans who walked out of Ahmadinejad’s speech, but at the same time, he...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Israeli Racism
Just yesterday, I wondered to a friend if maybe Benjamin Netanyahu is disrespecting Barack Obama in part because he is black? And lo and behold, David Bromwich wrote today in the Huffington Post:...
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Run and Tell That
“You have given me this opportunity to shine so dammit I’m going to shine.” — Antoine Dodson An act of ordinary heroism (July 28): YouTube remix, 8 million views (July 30): Internet celebrity (August...
View ArticleNervous Days
Newt Gingrich, former House Speaker and potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate, recently made waves by praising an article by Dinesh D’Souza, a conservative “thinker” who has previously...
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Strong Measures
A Congolese man has filed a complaint against Tintin in a Belgian court. He accuses the classic adventure comic by Belgian author Hergé of being racist in its 1930s portrayal of the Congo, and he...
View ArticleElections Do Matter
As a follow-up to my post from three days ago, I want to take stock of all that is at stake in this November’s election. First, consider this article by Ta-Nehisi Coates in The Atlantic, Fear of a...
View ArticleLinks 15 July 2013
Rami G. Khouri in The Daily Star, Spare Us Your Intellectual Disneylands: “Arab citizens, who now can express their identities and mobilize in the millions for mass political action, represent the...
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Moment of Rupture
Italian cabinet minister Cecile Kyenge, an orangutan, Senator Roberto Calderoli. At a rally of his suppporters on July 13, Italian Senator Roberto Calderoli said this about Immigration Minister Cecile...
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What Color Is Your Santa?
The Santa is white controversy got me wondering if Ronald McDonald could be Chinese….
View ArticleVote Trump for a Pure America!
This exchange occurred yesterday at a Donald Trump rally in New Hampshire. I call the man asking the question a “supporter” because he was wearing a Trump T-shirt. SUPPORTER: We have a problem in this...
View ArticleNetanyahu, Hitler Apologist?
Benjamin Netanyahu, who we all know is the Prime Minister of Israel, now claims that Hitler didn’t want to annihilate the Jews until he was given the idea by a Palestinian! Here is what he actually...
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