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When I think of Christmas Carols I think of happy songs about time with family or rejoicing the birth of Jesus.  Songs like The Little Drummer Boy, White Christmas, Silent Night, and Frosty the Snowman will always bring me back to my childhood and will hopefully become cherished holiday songs for my young sons.  I feel many of us in this country feel the same way, but apparently not everyone feels the same way.  The right-wing...

In my opinion, there's no bigotry worse than bigotry cloaked in religion. More dangerous than the guys in the hoods and sheets are the snakes in 3-piece suits who stand behind pulpits claiming to be followers of Christ while spewing hate for their fellow man. Here is the latest in what is getting to be an increasingly long line of "pastors" who fit that description, Grant Swank, of the New Hope Church in Windham, Maine....

Where does the hate-filled rhetoric of the far-right lead? When Rush Limbaugh says "we're just a couple notches above what hell must be like, and we're still spiraling down."When Limbaugh says that Gallup is "upping the sample of black Americans" to keep President Obama's approval rating at 50%. When Glenn Beck says the passage of health care reform will be "a nail in the coffin of America" and "the end of America as you know...

To those of us who have been around the blogs for about the last 18 months this data from Public Policy Polling should come as no surprise:"PPP's newest national survey finds that a 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama last year, with only 27% granting that he won it legitimately...Overall 62% of Americans think Obama legitimately won the election to only 26% who think ACORN...

The Washington Times dug far deeper than their usual low standards yesterday in an opinion piece by Wesley Pruden, with maybe the most despicable piece of racist garbage I've read outside of Stormfront. It starts with a slam at President Obama over his bow to Emperor Hirohito of Japan:"A little traveling, like a little learning, can be a dangerous thing. Barack Obama on the loose in a foreign land is enough to frighten protocol officers...

Yesterday, Desperado and I attended the angry mob tea party in the parking lot of the Sam Houston Race Track.  Hundreds showed up to voice their concern about a black president and losing an election  higher taxes and government spending.  One gentleman was so kind as to let us know that Obama couldn't be prosecuted for treason because he's not a citizen - instead - he can be prosecuted for espionage.  From Kenya, I assume?...

This just what we need. A mob of Bachmann-inspired teabaggers and  town hall screamers roaming the halls of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. From Crooks and Liars:"I'd love to have every one of your viewers to join me so we can go up and down through the halls, find members of Congress, look at the whites of their eyes and say, 'Don't take away my healthcare.'"Interesting phrasing by Congresswoman Bachmann. Google the words "the whites...

Rush Limbaugh's ongoing tantrum over being excluded from a group trying to buy the St. Louis Rams is hilarious to me. Especially this statement yesterday that the NFL is an "outpost of racism and liberalism": <br />Yes, that outpost of racism where 70% of the players are African-American. Where 17 of the top 25 salaries belong to African-American players. Just for our 2 Texas teams, the highest salaries on both the Houston Texans and the...

October 15, 2009 I start with the date, because this is something straight out of America's sad, sad, history.  I thought this was over.  From Associated Press: NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most...

The right's treatment of Kevin Jennings is just in the latest of that sort and revealing of a strategy, but instead of talking about his case I thought I would review a lesson plan I delivered earlier this year for my elementary school students.Most people think there is only one bully. You picture the kid from "Christmas Story" walking back to class with a black eye, or Nelson from the Simpsons. Really, most bullies don't...