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We hear it on an almost daily basis--"My opposition to President Obama has nothing to do with race, it's strictly about his policies." It has become the standard line of the TPP (Tea Party People) who carry the "Obama is a Marxist, Fascist, Communist, Kenyan" signs, as well as the town hall screamers and tantrum-throwers (both of whom, just by coincidence, are overwhelmingly white). Well, add one more to the list, the owner of the...

Warning: there is some random stuff in here, but it's based upon the research I've done and where it randomly took me at the time. I encourage you to think about things and let your critical thinking take you to places you've never been. Because we live in a world of naysayers, I have included links to the sites from which I have derived my information at the end of this piece. I challenge...

This is getting further and further out of hand every day. The fact that anyone is even suggesting a military coup in the United States is frightening. John L. Perry today at Newsmax.com:"There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America's military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the "Obama problem." Don't dismiss it as unrealistic.America isn't the Third World. If a military coup does occur here it will be civilized. That it has...

While authorities in Kentucky are still investigating the details surrounding the murder of  Census worker Bill Sparkman, comes this from the Minneapolis Star Tribune:"Derrick Thomas was on his bike with home in his sights, returning about 1 a.m. Wednesday from hanging out with his girlfriend and cousin in Brooklyn Park.Before he knew to be terrified, Thomas, who has autism, found himself flying over his handlebars and writhing on his back on the concrete. Standing...

<br />From Huffington Post. ...

Republicans: You spent my generation's tax dollars, and left destruction behind. We are now paying, using the next generation's future tax dollars, for your mess, and mistakes. Stop telling us we're socialists. We're problem solvers. The problems we're solving? Created by you. We'd love to stop spending the next generation's tax dollars - but we can't pay the debts left by you and fix your mess and run a nation and fight two wars...

It's funny, but sometimes when we think about civility in politcs we often consider our times to be the least civil. I was listening to America Left on XM yesterday and they reminded me of some things I had forgotten. Everyone knows about the famous duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. Fewer know about the beating done in South Carolina (yup there they go again. I hate using Wikipedia, but it is a well-known...

Desperado's post this morning about Rush Limbaugh's blatant race-baiting leads us here - to former President Jimmy Carter coming out and saying, in a way perhaps only he can, that some of the opposition to President Barack Obama is rooted in the dark southern roots of white superiority.  In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams, he remarked, ". . . I think it's bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people,...

Never one to let an opportunity to spew his hatred and play upon the ignorance and bigotry of his listening audience pass by, Republican Party spokesman and race-baiter-in-chief Rush Limbaugh said on his radio program yesterday about the incident on a Belleville, Illinois schoolbus:"It's Obama's America, is it not? Obama's America, white kids getting beat up on school buses now. You put your kids on a school bus, you expect safety but in Obama's America...

As a sideline to Scott's earlier blog, it turns out some of those aerial photos of the protesters that descended upon Washington, D.C. this weekend might be fake.  At least one is.  The photograph shown here was touted by Say Anything, a conservative blog, as reasonable justification for the claim of 1,000,000 attendees.    A sharp reader on the site posted the following photograph, proving that the above picture was taken before the National Museum of the American...