While talking heads go on at length about today’s killing of a Holocaust Museum security guard by a white supremacist hatemonger, about whether hate-talk artists on right-wing radio and TV encourage violence, we see a key point being ignored. Why was an obviously seething lunatic like suspect James W. von Brunn, 88, armed and on [...]
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NC official’s racist fun ends in job loss
The head of North Carolina’s Alcoholic Beverage Commission joined the ranks of the unemployed yesterday, not because of budget cuts but for having indulged in a little unrbidled racist snark last fall. Gov. Beverly Perdue sacked Doug Fox from his $110,000-a-year post for having sent an e-mail featuring a demeaning, racist image to a liquor [...]
Praise the Lord and pass the torture tools
The finding indicates many people of faith objectify terror war prisoners as de-facto subhuman “others” who don’t deserve humane treatment.
Medical tab for 9 troubled people: $3 million
Anyone who thinks America’s health care system doesn’t need a complete overhaul had better reckon with the staggering cost of providing back-door treatment for a small number of have nots. AUSTIN, Texas – Just nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 of the emergency room visits in the Austin area during the past six years at [...]
Homeless, jobless Florida woman
lucky one among millions in distress
We’re sure it wouldn’t be hard to find a million more in the same dire straits — people who will never get to cry for help during a presidential town hall with the media present. It is for them and for millions of others in less-acute but still very difficult circumstances that this country needs a walloping economic stimulus.
Teen abstinence pledges made to be broken
It’s not surprising that teenagers who pledge abstinence from sex before marriage are no more likely to actually refrain than those who don’t pledge, as findings of a new study make clear. “Taking a pledge doesn’t seem to make any difference at all in any sexual behavior,” said Janet E. Rosenbaum of the Johns Hopkins [...]
Obama choice of Warren regrettable
President-elect Barack Obama is making many good personnel selections as he prepares for the duties and responsibilities of the highest office in America, but naming Pastor Rick Warren to give his inaugural invocation is not one of them. The charismatic senior pastor of Saddleback Church in California is likable and his inclusion will probably strike [...]
Blagojevich not the only one who’s got to go
Whatever the future holds for Blagojevich, Illinois Democrats need to do some serious housecleaning. The guy they chose to run for governor and helped elect didn’t get to the jam he’s in now by being honest as the day is long up until recently.
Low prices and selfishness
cost innocent man everything
What happened at that Wal-Mart was the triumph of bad upbringing — meanness, selfishness and complete lack of self-discipline — over all that is humane, decent and civilized.
Americans have had it with fearmongering
Republicans aren’t just innocent victims of an election-year downturn in the business cycle. They’ve been cruising for a bruising for decades.
