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“The New Peter King”: New House Homeland Security Chair May Not Be A Whole...
Good news for people who are uneasy with New York Republican Rep. Peter King’s leadership of the House Homeland Security Committee: He’s stepping down thanks to term limits. But there’s some potential...
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“Hot GOP Source”: Tabloids Become Reputable When They Provide An Opportunity...
There’s a hot new meme blowing up on the conservative blogosphere: James Holmes, the alleged Aurora, Colo., theater shooter, has become a devout Muslim. But where did it come from? The Washington Times...
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“Substituting Identity For Motivation”: How To Understand Things When You...
Let’s be honest and admit that everyone had a hope about who the Boston bomber would out to be. Conservatives hoped it would be some swarthy Middle Easterner, which would validate their belief that the...
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“Nativist Vigilantism”: The Media And The “Dark-Skinned” Men From Chechnya
Jake Tapper had been up all night covering the manhunt in Boston for CNN, so maybe that explains why he seemed to rush to judgment when he said of the bombing suspects: “It certainly seems these two...
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“Is America Crazy?”: Just Another Manic Monday
Is America crazy? Twelve people killed at a secure naval installation virtually on the front porch of the federal government, eight others hurt, the shooter shot to death, and it’s just another manic...
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“The Oldest Hatred, Forever Young”: When Hatred Is Loosed, We’re All In The...
Most of the hate crimes in the United States don’t take the fatal form that the shootings in Kansas over the weekend did, and most aren’t perpetrated by villains as bloated with rage and blinded by...
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“Keeping Its Viewers In The Dark”: Fox News Causes America To Fixate On The...
A grisly beheading at a food plant in Moore, Oklahoma last week reinforced some Americans’ greatest current fear: that the Islamic State terrorist group has infiltrated the U.S. Murder suspect Alton...
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“Gun Nuts’ Vile Muslim Test”: Why Open Carry Activists Don’t Want To Extend...
So what do you think the gun proliferation activists would say to a bunch of American Muslims exercising their constitutional right to bear arms on Main Street, USA? That’s the question writer and gun...
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“Paris Terror: What ‘Je Suis Charlie’ Should Mean To Us”: Restoring And...
Not long after 9/11, leading figures in France’s champagne industry decided that they would hold their 2002 annual awards gala in New York City rather than Paris. At no little expense, they displayed...
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“Race, The Police And The Propaganda”: There’s A Different Criminal Justice...
Welcome visitors to New York City! This has been the best time ever to urinate on a street, sneak onto the subway or run a red light, for the police force has been on a virtual strike. Police officers...
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“Ted Cruz & The New McCarthyism”: Inside A Dangerous Response To The Atrocity...
Here are a few sentences I should not have to write but apparently must, all the same: Taking the life of another human being is an absolutely terrible thing for a person to do. By definition, murder...
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“Cynical Pandering To Wingnuts”: Of Course Obama Is To Blame For Everything...
Because we are used to Sen. Lindsey Graham saying irresponsible things about world affairs all the time, there’s a temptation just to ignore him. But he’s so ubiquitous a media presence that this is...
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“A Triumph Of American Culture Welcoming Immigrants”: Why Republican...
One frequent criticism conservatives make of Barack Obama when it comes to terrorism is that he doesn’t “understand” the threats we face. This supposed lack of understanding, they say, is what leads...
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“Useful Idiots”: Why The Violent Extremists Welcome Attacks On Islam
Whenever an act of horrific terror enrages the West, a predictable second act ensues. Furious commentators and activists on the right erupt with blanket denunciations of Islam, Muslims, and their...
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“The Company You Keep”: Bobby Jindal Wants To Fistfight Your God
“Our God wins!” Who do you think made this statement on Saturday in the hopes of rallying a group of religious fundamentalists? A. The leader of ISIS; B. A Yemeni militant commander; C. A radical...
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Muslims, Marriage And Bigotry”: Our Capacity To “Otherize” People Of A...
In North Carolina, three young Muslims who were active in charity work were murdered, allegedly by a man who identified as atheist and expressed hostility to Islam and other faiths. Police are...
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“Usually Seen As Isolated Psychopaths”: The Most Common Type Of American...
Yesterday, an outspoken white atheist murdered three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. We don’t yet know for sure whether this was a hate crime or whether the killer, Craig Stephen Hicks,...
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“Christian Exceptionalism”: Conservatives Want To Rewrite The History Of The...
At the National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama made a statement that you wouldn’t expect to be controversial: violence in the name of religion is a global problem and it’s bad. He referenced the war...
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“Fighting The Extremists Within”: As Our History Shows, Best Way To Defeat...
One of the things that I find interesting in the conservative outrage over President Obama’s remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast is that most of it is focused on his inclusion of the Crusades (and...
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“Is This So Hard To Understand?”: Why Calling ISIS Islamic Only Plays Into...
If you want to help ISIS and Al Qaeda, then call them Islamic. That’s one of my big takeaways from this week’s White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), which I attended on Wednesday....
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