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This is about as ugly as America gets. I hesitate to add the words 'so far' but along with other incendiary actions like Rep. Peter King's hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims, and legislation in Alabama to ban the use of Islamic law ( as if that were a problem there) this kind of thing can only escalate and spread. From The Guardian via Crooks and Liars:"The Southern California chapter of the Islamic Circle...

"The rhetoric has devolved and descended past the ugly, and past the threatening, and past the fantastic, and into the imminently murderous."<br />Undoubtedly, the descriptions of Jared Lee Loughner as "unstable, very disturbed" and a "loner" are accurate. But it is precisely unstable, disturbed, loners who are the most susceptible to the rhetoric Olbermann describes. Unstable, disturbed, loners like Lee Harvey Oswald, like Sirhan Sirhan, like Arthur Bremer, like John Hinckley.Who out of a twisted...

Last night, a group of Rand Paul goons assaulted a Move-On supporter protesting Paul's support of the corporatization of the Republican party.  Paul was arriving at his debate with oppponent Jack Conway in Lexington, Kentucky when Lauren Valle approached his with a sign that said "RepubliCorp Employee of the Month".  She was either tripped or shoved to the ground by a large middle aged male supporter, who then stomped on her head before being called...

Guest blogged by Rachel MarcusLast week, the story of Tyler Clementi, a Rutgers University freshman who killed himself after his roommate secretly filmed him in an intimate situation with another male via his laptop web cam and broadcast the episode to other students, became the latest incident in a series of highly publicized suicides occurring among children and teenagers who have been bullied by their classmates and peers. On September 23, a Houston eighth-grader shot...

Former CNN news personality Rick Sanchez has been fired for saying that Jewish people run the media and that Jews are not a minority because they are successful in our society.That's right---Jews are doing really well in America and the world. At least those Jews are doing well who have not been exterminated. And, of course, we have just your normal every day Jewish folks who go about their daily lives and are not rich.But other...

I have taught a lot of workshops over the years, and one of the components that I cover when I deliver a workshop on change management is something called the "Emotional Contagion Theory."In the March 2005 issue of The Journal of Applied Psychology, Richard Saavedra and Thomas Sy at California State University at Long Beach examined the effects of a leader's mood on a group. They took 189 volunteer undergraduates, divided them into 63 groups of...

So the good pastor in Gainesville says he doesn't think their actions will directly provoke any problems in the Middle East for our troops if they have a Koran burning party at their little church.  I find it rather ironic that the name of his church is the Dove World Outreach Center. Doves are typically the symbol of peace, right? World outreach implies that they want to reach out and embrace others, right? It seems...

As we have seen over the past couple of years, prejudice and racism is on the rise. Xenophobia seems to be growing. All of it is threatening to come to a head. However, as I was reading Charles Krauthhammer's column on Sunday, while I usually disagree vehemently with him and did this time, I noticed again what we are dealing with. The GOP, conservative movement, Fox news, and whoever else they claim in their tent...

Thanks to Shortstuff for the inspiration! Unlike many of the talking heads who now appear on various "news" shows, Edward R. Murrow was a journalist with integrity who not only fought for free speech, but for TRUTH in journalism as well. He once said at the RTNDA Convention in Chicago in 1958 to a group of fellow journalists: "It is not necessary to remind you that the fact that your voice is amplified to...

Three in a little over a week, and counting: "Federal officials are investigating a fire that started overnight at the site of a new Islamic center in a Nashville suburb. Ben Goodwin of the Rutherford County Sheriff's Department confirmed to CBS Affiliate WTVF that the fire, which burned construction equipment at the future site of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, is being ruled as arson. Special Agent Andy Anderson of the federal Bureau of Alcohol,...