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Alabama Speaker At Wausau Tea Party Event Has Ties To Racist Groups
Post Date: 2010-04-08 19:36:57 by Brian S
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April 8, 2010 3:15 PM ET MADISON, Wis. (AP) - An Alabama author who's spoken to white supremacists who believe slavery is ordained by god is scheduled to headline a Wausau tea party rally next week. The scheduled appearance by John Eidsmoe at the same event where Jefferson County Circuit Judge Randy Koschnick is slated to appear has infuriated black leaders and those that monitor hate groups nationally. Stephanie Findley is chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party's black caucus. She says reading some of Eidsmoe's speeches sent chills down her spine. The Southern Law Poverty Center's research director Heidi Beirich says Eidsmoe has appeared before groups with racist and ...
Tea Party Leaders Announce National Federation To Combat Movement's Unruly Image
Post Date: 2010-04-08 19:27:02 by Brian S
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Several tea party leaders announced plans Thursday to form a national federation to promote the movement's conservative message and to counter the idea that the tea parties are politically unsophisticated and disorganized. Tea party leaders from Memphis, Tenn., Richmond, Va., and Orlando, Fla., along with representatives of several other groups announced the new National Tea Party Federation during a rally outside the Minnesota Capitol. They said 21 tea party groups around the nation had joined the federation. Memphis Tea Party founder Mark Skoda said recent media coverage had questioned whether the conservative tea parties, which number in the thousands nationwide, were too loosely ...
On Secret Recording, US Christian Militia Leader Advocates Killing Police To Deter Recruitment
Post Date: 2010-04-08 15:37:45 by Brian S
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DETROIT - A Christian militia leader accused of plotting to incite a violent revolt against the government says in a transcript of a secretly recorded audio tape that killing police would deter people from joining the force. The Associated Press obtained the transcript Thursday. It lists David Brian Stone of rural southern Michigan as saying: "You kill enough cops, you can't get enough people to take the job." Audio clips of the tape also were obtained by CNN and were available Thursday on its Web site. Parts of the tape were played during a March 31 bond hearing in Detroit federal court. Stone, his two sons, wife and five other suspects face seditious conspiracy and other ...
Poll: Low Favorability Ratings for Sarah Palin
Post Date: 2010-04-08 12:48:05 by Brian S
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CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin continues to receive unfavorable ratings from the American public overall, a new CBS News poll shows, though many Republicans do hold a favorable opinion of her. But even as the former GOP vice presidential candidate continues to build up her persona as a media personality and conservative spokesperson, nearly four in 10 self-identified conservatives say they do not have an opinion of her or know too little about her to have an opinion. Twenty-four percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of Sarah Palin, while 38 percent view her ...
Israel celebrates LGBT culture in Bay Area
Post Date: 2010-04-08 12:37:58 by mininggold
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Israel celebrates LGBT culture in Bay Area The Consulate General of Israel has joined forces with a variety of Bay Area organizations to present a monthlong series of events celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender arts and culture. Out in Israel continues through April 29 with films, dance performance, theater, lectures, panel discussions, music and a weekend retreat for LGBT Jews, their partners and friends. According to a consulate spokesman, this is the first time that another country has sponsored an LGBT cultural event in the United States. Participating organizations include Congregation Sha'ar Zahav, Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest, Israel ...
FBI Impersonated Right-Wing Teabagger-Friendly Group To Catch Man Who Threatened To Kill Dem Senator
Post Date: 2010-04-07 20:24:24 by Brian S
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It'd be a real shame if all the Teabaggers, and the rest of the far-right government hating crowd, thought that every time this group called, or organized something, or did a fundraiser, that it was really the FBI trying to lock them up. Real shame.As the F.B.I. moved in on a man who allegedly threatened Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, because of her support for health care legislation, law enforcement agents faced a challenge: they needed to confirm that Charles A. Wilson, the man whose phone number was used to leave menacing messages on her office voicemail, was in fact the man who made the threats.So they found a convenient way to get Mr. Wilson talking about the issue ...
Calif. Lawmaker Says University's Silence About Palin Fundraising Speech Violates State Law
Post Date: 2010-04-07 20:22:41 by Brian S
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A California lawmaker said Wednesday that a state university is breaking the law by failing to disclose correspondence about an upcoming fundraiser appearance by Sarah Palin. Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, filed a public records request with California State University, Stanislaus last week, requesting any documents related to the former Alaska governor's scheduled June 25 speech to mark the school's 50th anniversary. The university's compliance officer, Gina Leguria, responded to Yee on Tuesday, saying there were no such documents. Yee said he has evidence to the contrary. On Wednesday, he circulated a March 29 sent from a top university administrator to faculty and staff ...
Militia Member Who Targeted Judge Is 1st Nationwide To Be Sentenced Under Anti-Retaliation Law
Post Date: 2010-04-07 19:38:10 by Brian S
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An original member of the Montana Freemen — an anti-government group that conspired against the banking system in the 1990s and held an 81-day standoff with FBI agents — has been sentenced to 7½ years in prison for retaliating against three federal judges. Daniel Petersen, 67, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in St. Paul on six counts of filing a false lien or encumbrance against a federal judge. He is the first person to be sentenced under a 2008 federal law that makes it a felony to retaliate against a government official by filing false liens, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Minnesota. "This prosecution, ...
FBI Arrests California Man For Threatening Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
Post Date: 2010-04-07 19:05:47 by Brian S
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By JASON DEAREN and DEVLIN BARRETT (AP) – 1 hour ago SAN FRANCISCO — The FBI arrested a California man Wednesday for allegedly making threatening and harassing phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over health care reform, law enforcement officials said. Gregory Lee Giusti, 48, was arrested at his San Francisco home shortly after noon, said Joseph Schadler, spokesman for the FBI's San Francisco office. Schadler did not disclose the charges against Giusti, but said he's due before a federal magistrate Thursday morning. Several federal officials said the man made dozens of calls to Pelosi's homes in California and Washington, as well as to her husband's ...
Israel Seizing Hundreds Of Millions Of Shekels Meant For Palestinian Services
Post Date: 2010-04-07 14:52:20 by Brian S
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For the past 15 years, Israel has been channeling hundreds of millions of shekels it had collected in the West Bank into its state coffers. The move is considered illegal, since international law prohibits an occupying power from appropriating the fruit of economic activity in an occupied territory. Following protests by military lawyers, the deputy attorney general has ruled that the practice should be stopped and ordered an inquiry into whether the Civil Administration in the West Bank should be compensated retroactively. "Following staff work by an interministerial team composed of representatives of the Finance Ministry, Justice Ministry and Civil Administration, it has been ...
VA Gov. McDonnell Longs for the Confederacy, Slavery Not ‘Significant’
Post Date: 2010-04-07 14:19:33 by Brian S
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(ChattahBox)—- Since his inauguration in January, the Republican Gov. of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, has been busy transforming the Southern commonwealth into a right-wing mecca. The devotee of televangelist Pat Robertson, first issued an executive order excluding gays from state discrimination protections. Now, McDonnell is angering civil rights leaders, by issuing a state proclamation declaring April Confederate History Month. The proclamation calls for Virginians to “understand the sacrifices of the Confederate leaders, soldiers and citizens during the period of the Civil War.” Glaringly absent from the language is a reference to slavery. McDonnell knew what he was doing. ...
Michael Steele and the coming civil war in the Republican Party; Divide and be conquered...
Post Date: 2010-04-07 14:10:34 by Brian S
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By all accounts, Michael Steele's tenure as the head of the Republican Party has been a dismal failure. During his first few weeks in office, Steele heavily criticized Rush Limbaugh and his ilk, only to be thoroughly throttled by his partymates, followed by a lavish ass-kissing of Rush on the GOP chair's part. Emasculated, Steele has never quite recovered. Now, there's this bondage club scandal. Some are calling for his resignation. Others, like Newt Gingrich, are standing by Steele. And to think, the GOP could have had former South Carolina Republican Party chair Katon Dawson as their big boss. But that's not what the Republican Party choose to do. They went for the ...
Dems Mock Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann
Post Date: 2010-04-07 12:12:41 by Brian S
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Sarah Palin will attend a fundraiser later today in Minneapolis for Rep. Michele Bachmann, and Democrats are using the opportunity to have some fun mocking what they see as two of the Republican Party's most colorful — and kookiest — characters. First up: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is out with a "Bachmann or Palin" quiz, in which it challenges you to correctly guess which individual uttered a set of highlighted "lies." "One says that President Obama is trying to force America's youth into re-education camps," writes the DCCC. "The other insists that health insurance reform will create government-sponsored ...
Yakima County Man Charged With Threatening To Kill Sen. Patty Murray
Post Date: 2010-04-06 19:36:13 by Brian S
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A 64-year-old Yakima County man has been charged with threatening to kill U.S. Sen. Patty Murray over her support of the National Health Care Reform Act. The FBI and local police arrested Charles Alan Wilson at his Selah home early Tuesday. Wilson was scheduled to make an appearance in U.S. District Court in Yakima, and he will then be transported to Seattle, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. According to the charges, staffers in Murray's office in the Jackson Building in downtown Seattle had become concerned over a series of phone calls by an unknown man over the past several months. The calls came from a blocked number, and often were made in the evenings or on weekends. ...
Reagan vs. "Reagan Conservative" Sean Hannity
Post Date: 2010-04-06 13:32:36 by Brian S
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A chapter in Sean Hannity's new book, Conservative Victory, is titled "Why I'm a Reagan Conservative." But from immigration reform to tax policy to the proper response to terrorism, the political platform Hannity espouses in the book and on his Fox News program directly contradicts the policies carried out under President Reagan. Terrorism Hannity attacks Democrats for "treating the war" against terrorists "as a criminal prosecution." In Conservative Victory, Hannity writes: On nearly every issue since the war on terror bean, Democrats have stood for the wrong principles and policies and have proved incompetent in carrying out their own ...
Tea Partiers: Obama’s a Muslim because he takes his shoes off
Post Date: 2010-04-06 12:13:37 by Brian S
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President Obama's most vigorous opponents have gone to great lengths to paint him as a Muslim, despite all evidence to the contrary. At a recent event, a Tea Party organizer pushed those limits even further. "In the yellow cinder-block meeting room of the Munford, TN, municipal building, the Tipton County Tea Party convened on a recent evening to raise money for billboards, organize a tax day protest and encourage attendance at a state convention planned for Gatlinburg at the end of May," the Washington Post reported in a recent feature story. The 40-person-large gathering was treated by organizer Vince DiCello to jokes about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and encouraged ...
Gun Rallies Planned For OKC Bombing Anniversary
Post Date: 2010-04-06 11:55:43 by Brian S
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The date April 19 seems to have a strange echo in American history.According to the media, a pro-gun group planning a rally in Washington, D.C. on that day is doing so because it is the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. While technically correct, that's not half the story.The controversy surrounds two groups: Oath Keepers and Second Amendment March; one, a rapidly growing association of current and former military and law enforcement personnel who've sworn an oath to uphold the constitution, even if ordered otherwise; and the other, a pro-gun group organizing rallies across the country.While Oath Keepers forbids its members from ever ushering U.S. citizens into a military ...
Israel Is Losing Its ‘Legitimacy’, Its Moral Legitimacy
Post Date: 2010-04-05 12:05:35 by Brian S
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As it was reported last week that “AIPAC has persuaded more than three-quarters of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives to sign a letter calling for an end to public criticism of Israel and urging the US to ‘reinforce’ its relationship with the Jewish state (UK Guardian),” it is worth noting one fact of American citizenship: American servicemen and women, all federal employees, and elected representatives who swear to defend the U.S. Constitution do not affirm dual allegiance to Israel or any other country. In fact, no American owes an affirmative vow of loyalty to Israel, as AIPAC and the Reut Institute apparently would have ...
Former NY Mayor Ed Koch: Obama Is Willing To 'Throw Israel Under A Bus To Please Muslims'
Post Date: 2010-04-04 18:53:43 by Brian S
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Last week saw Julian Kossoff blogging ebulliently about the strength of American Jewish support for Barack Obama. Not even “the unprecedented tension between the White House and Israel [can] break the bond,” he trilled. Now I realize Julian seems to see his role in life as reassurer to the goyim that Jews are Kumbaya-singing liberals — nothing like what he calls “the noisy neo cons and the Commentary crowd” and especially those cheeky, pushy Israelis. So I’m almost a little sorry to rain on his parade, but, sorry JK… not so fast. One of New York City’s most famous and influential Jews, former mayor Ed Koch, a longtime Democrat — and longtime ...
Houses of God Increasingly Face Foreclosure
Post Date: 2010-04-04 18:41:13 by Brian S
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FORT WASHINGTON, Md. - By the time thousands of parishioners stream into the 3,000-seat Ebenezer AME Church on Easter Sunday, church leaders hope to have something else to celebrate: financial revival. The congregation, one of America's largest, has been scrambling to raise funds to save the arena-sized sanctuary from potential foreclosure. To that end, it has enlisted national leaders, such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Harvard Law School's Charles Ogletree, who was President Barack Obama's law professor. Thanks to its 10,000-member congregation and connections with business and civic leaders, Ebenezer expects to avoid the fate of a growing number of U.S. churches, which are ...
Ten Ways You Can Tell If You Are A Teabagger
Post Date: 2010-04-04 13:32:50 by Brian S
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1) If you are part of a movement that mocks sick, disabled, or terminally ill people, you are a teabagger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ik4f1dRbP8 2) If you are part of a group of people that hurl racial and homophobic slurs at elected officials. (Extra-special teabaggery awarded to those that called my former congressman and civil rights leader, John Lewis the “N” word,) you are a teabagger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsCL6cxbJqk http://www.mediaite.com/online/analysis-was-the-notorious-racist-tea-party-sign-forged-we-believe-not/ 3) If you are part of a movement that defends someone spitting on an elected official, you are a teabagger. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0 ...
Kristol: ‘Better’ For US To Attack Iran Than If Israel Did
Post Date: 2010-04-04 13:06:20 by Brian S
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The Obama administration should be seriously considering a strike on Iran, according to neoconservative Fox News contributor Bill Kristol. An Israeli Deputy Defense Minister said last week that he expected Israel would have to attack Iran within a year. Kristol believes it would be better for the US to attack first. "I think we have to have a credible threat of force and the preparation to use force against Iran. It would be much better if we used force against -- to delay the Iranian nuclear program than if Israel did and there is no evidence that the US government is being at all serious about the use force there," Kristol told Fox News' Chris Wallace Sunday. Click for ...
TV Sarah Palin's Special Not a Big Winner for Fox News, but Greta's Got Her Back
Post Date: 2010-04-04 02:51:03 by Brian S
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Sarah Palin's celebrity and a week of free publicity over her planned use of canned interviews and her warlike political rhetoric didn't deliver enough viewers for her Fox News special to match the ratings of the Greta van Susteren show in the same timeslot. "Real American Stories" got 2.073 million viewers, 472,ooo of them in the coveted 25-54 age group. It was enough to beat the cable competition, but still 10% fewer than van Susteren got the week before and almost a quarter million down from her lead in, Sean Hannity. Reviews were not enthusiastic, or, as Greta van Susteren would have it, "nasty." The proper role of a journalist in this situation, van ...
Freedom Alliance, Hannity And North's Favorite Charity, Has Been Downgraded By Charity Navigator
Post Date: 2010-04-04 02:46:02 by Brian S
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We've been following with great interest the complaints filed against Freedom Alliance, the charity run by convicted liar Oliver North and promoted by Sean Hannity via his pricey Freedom Concerts that fail to tell you how much of your $100 or so ticket price actually goes to the charity. Apparently, the charity watchdog organization Charity Navigator is paying attention, too. Joe Conason in Salon reports that Freedom Alliance has just been abruptly downgraded from a four star rating to two stars. Click for Full Text!
Outrage At Anti-Semitism Comparison By Pope Preacher
Post Date: 2010-04-03 23:26:10 by Brian S
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Jewish groups and victims of sex abuse by Catholic priests have condemned the Pope's preacher for comparing criticism of the pontiff to anti-Semitism. US-based abuse victims' group Snap said the remarks were "morally wrong". The head of Germany's Central Council of Jews described the Easter sermon as unprecedented "insolence". The Catholic Church has been rocked by abuse scandals this year. The Vatican said Raniero Cantalamessa's remarks did not represent its official view. Drawing such parallels could "lead to misunderstandings", spokesman Rev Federico Lombardi told the Associated Press. Fr Cantalamessa's sermon was printed in full on ...
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