Today I learned, much to my dismay, that there are states that, not being able to opt out of the federal Martin Luther King holiday, have chosen to celebrate the birthday of slaveholding Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the same time. And before any of you write in to tell me that, in spite […]
Tag Archives: Arkansas
Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee, side by side on my piano keyboard
Posted in Civil Liberties, History, Uncategorized Also tagged Civil War, Dick Williams, Ebony and Ivory, Franklin Pierce, George Parke Custis, Martin Luther King, MLK, mythistory, neo-Confederate, racism, revisionist history, rewriting history, Robert E. Lee, the south, Wesley Norris, white man's burden 28 Comments
Paranoia on the right leads to more bloodshed
Not too long ago, CNN contributor and Republican blogger, Erick Erickson, publicly threatened to pull a shotgun on census workers if they had the audacity to show up on his doorstep…. Here’s a clip from Politico: …Erickson — the founder of the conservative blog RedState — said on his Macon, Ga.-area radio show Thursday that […]
Posted in Other, Politics Also tagged American Community Survey, census, Census Bureau, conspiracy theories, domestic terrorism, Erick Erickson, internment camps, James Von Brunn, Jerry Kane, Lionel Craig Patterson, Michele Bachman, paranoia, patriot movement, Redemption theory, RedState.com, Scott Roeder, shootout with police, sovereign citizen, tea party, Victoria Roger-Vasselin, violence on the extreme right, West Memphis, Yuba City 15 Comments