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The Southerm Poverty Law Center’s Mark Potok puts Michigan hate groups in context

This evening, I had the occasion to speak briefly with Southern Poverty Law Center Senior Fellow Mark Potok. I’d reached out to Potok, who serves as editor-in-chief of the Center’s quarterly journal, the Intelligence Report, and its blog, entitled Hatewatch, as I hoped that he might be able to shed a little light on William […]

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Now that five more U.S. soldiers have been charged in the Georgia murders surrounding a plot to kill President Obama, can we finally concede that we have a domestic terrorism problem?

In 2009, Daryl Johnson, a senior analyst in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, authored a report on the threat of right-wing extremists in the United States. Johnson, who had spent 15 years studying white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups within the United States, seemed to think that the circumstances were right, given the economic downturn, […]

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Here’s dreaming of a white Christmas… Ron Paul edition

On cold winter nights like this one, there’s nothing I like more than curling up in front of the fireplace and reading some classic racist tracts. Tonight, I’m sitting here in my easy chair, with a piping hot cup of camomile tea, and a big stack of Ron Paul newsletters. I really can’t imagine a […]

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Tea Party summer camp

The St. Petersburg Times is reporting today that a Tampa area Tea Party group calling itself the Tampa 912 Project is offering a summer camp for kids in July. Here’s a clip from the article: …The organization, which falls under the tea party umbrella, hopes to introduce kids ages 8 to 12 to principles that […]

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Reading the Iliad with my daughter

I had wanted to write about the Glenn Beck fan they call the Progressive Hunter, and his recently foiled plan to start a revolution in the United States by killing liberals in San Francisco, but I ended up staying up too late, reading The Iliad with Clementine. I know it might be a little out […]

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