Quiz time. Who said this: “I’m a hawk on this, but that’s how much I value America. I know that is a very drastic stand, but let me put it this way: I expect illegal invasion of our country by … Continued
diaBLOGue: Rep. Peter King: “White Guy” Terrorists? What “White Guy” Terrorists?
In this adroit piece of satire from The Daily Take concerning domestic terrorist David Burgert, Thom Hartman basically predicts the case of (bigoted) mistaken identity that plagued the imaginations of some journalists, and spread like scurvy on a pirate ship … Continued
DIA(B)LOGUE: Your Responses to “Is Dream Act Messaging too Exceptional?”
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas has become an emblem for the Dreamer movement. His rise to cultural saliency was cemented by
Politics
The Hijab in the United States: a Symbol of Choice or Oppression?
Recently, a protest took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capitol, when thirty to forty women participated in a Right-to-Drive campaign. These women did so, of course, in the traditional Islamic garb that many “Westerners” openly recognize as counter-intuitive to all … Continued
Immigration
Kris Kobach: “Fanatics” and the Carving of Social Space
In a move straight out of a high school debate club “How to Argue” handbook, Kris Kobach compared his life’s work with Winston Churchill’s. Kobach, the Federation for American Immigration Reforms’s (FAIR) Constitutional assassin, was characterizing his own blinding obsession … Continued
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Kris Kobach: Coming to Your Town, or Not?
As has been widely reported on this blog and elsewhere, anti-immigrant lawyer and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is having a hard time these days finding a parking spot for his mobile legal lab of bigotry. With towns and … Continued
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Kris Kobach: Neither at a Loss for Words nor Money
Tomorrow night, Tuesday, April 12th, the poison scribe of the anti-immigrant movement, Kris Kobach, the man who wrote SB 1070, is set to deliver a speech he’s entitled, “State and Local Law Discouraging Illegal Immigration: Their Economic and Security Impact,” … Continued
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Apple’s App Problem is Far from Over
Under pressure from activists nationwide, Apple has recently banned two homophobic “apps” issued separately by ManhattanDeclaration.org and Exodus International. Both represent moral attacks on all non-heterosexuals, suggesting respectively that their existence is an assault on the “unborn, the disabled, and … Continued