By Mark | January 16, 2013
The gun control debate in the United States went into overdrive today, as the President, surrounded by children who had written letters to the White House about gun violence, called on Congress “to renew a prohibition on assault weapons sales that expired in 2004, require criminal background checks on all gun purchases, including closing a […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Other | Also tagged arming kids, Art Kellermann, ATF, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, conspiracy theories, crisis actors, data, David Barton, gun control, gun violence, guns, guns in schools, knowledge, National Rifle Association, National Violent Death Reporting System, NRA, Obama, research, research findings, research funding, Sandy Hook, Todd Tiahrt |
By Mark | November 1, 2012
After days of dodging the issue during fake storm relief events, Romney has finally come up with a response to the question, “Now that the hurricane has passed, do you regret your comments about wanting to cut funding for FEMA?” Reversing his previous position, he today announced that he appreciates FEMA and wouldn’t dream of […]
By Mark | October 30, 2012
I didn’t think it was possible for me to be any more pissed than I was during the Republican National Convention when I heard Mitt Romney say the following. If there’s any silver lining at all in what’s happening right now along the east coast, it’s that maybe, just maybe, people will begin to see […]
Posted in Environment, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Chris Christie, extreme weather, Federal Emergency Management Agency, global climate change, Grover Norquist, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy, Obama, Paul Ryan, Romney, starve the beast |
By Mark | October 13, 2012
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 […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged American Third Position, anti-government, ATF, bullying, Census Bureau, conspiracy theories, crazy white people, Daniel Johnson the racist not the musician, domestic terrorism, educational materials, entrapment, Family Research Council, FBI, Federal Reserve, Fort Stewart, hate groups, Hatewatch, homophobia, Hutaree, KKK, Libertarianism, Mark Potok, Michigan Militia, Michigan's 11th congressional district, militias, Natural Law Party, patriot groups, racism, radicals, Rand Paul, ricin, Ron Paul, sexism, Southern Poverty Law Center, tea party, Teaching Tolerance, Terry Jones, the long suffering whites, the White Disenfranchised Male, white, white enclaves, white nationalism, white power, William Daniel Johnson |
By Mark | September 8, 2011
If Obama really wanted people to get behind him and this new jobs initiative of his, he would have announced this evening that he was planning to top Rick Perry by taking the lives of 250 American citizens. (Just think of all the executioners and grave diggers we could put to work if he said […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged American Jobs Act, asshole Republicans of Texas, blood thirsty, Cameron Todd Willingham, death penalty, deregulation, EPA, executions, Global Warming, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, pollution, putting innocent men to death, Rick Perry, smog, Texas justice, things to lose sleep over |
