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 […]
Tag Archives: Census Bureau
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, Arkansas, census, 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
The return of America’s cities…. except Detroit
The Census Bureau released new figures today, and they contain some good news. Apparently, after years of decline, people are reentering America’s older cities. It only stands to reason that, as fuel prices rise, people would congregate in cities – especially cities with decent mass transportation, infrastructure and access to jobs. Unfortunately, however, it doesn’t […]
Posted in Observations Also tagged America's great cities, bulldoze the suburbs, census data, Chicago, Detroit, Flint, Michigan film incentives, obesity, Robert DeNiro, urbanization, Utah, wind power 8 Comments