Va. delegate says blacks "should get over" slavery, suggests Jews should "apologize for killing Christ."
RICHMOND, Jan. 16 -- A veteran Virginia lawmaker from suburban Richmond ignited a hot exchange in the House of Delegates on Tuesday after criticizing a proposal for the state to issue an apology for slavery and likening it to requiring Jews to ( Read more... )

Here's Keith Olbermann, showing some of the video, and talking with a reporter from the Daily Bruin. (Thanks to o4fuxache for the heads up.) If you haven't seen the video I posted last night, Warning: it is violent and disturbing.

One thing Olbermann asks about, about the officers threatening to Taser other students, is in the original video of the ( Read more... )

Via FDL and C&L. WARNING: DISTURBING AND VIOLENT VIDEO FOOTAGE

This is what it comes to. This is what statements like Beck's, which clearly convey that if you're Arab/Muslim/brown, you're guilty until proven innocent, support. The repeated shocking with a Taser of a UCLA student, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, by university police, inside the ( Read more... )

Army specialist Alyssa Peterson, the third female U.S. soldier to die in Iraq back in 2003, killed herself "after objecting to interrogation techniques used on prisoners."

Peterson was an Arabic-speaking interrogator assigned to the prison at our air base in troubled Tal-Afar in northwestern Iraq ( Read more... )

First there was George Allen and the "blacks can't swim" dude. Then there was the Louisiana school bus driver who thought it was ok to make the black kids sit in the back of the bus. Now we have a Nebraska State Trooper who joined the Klan and a Missisippi Baptist church expelling a twelve-year-old boy because he's biracial. They were afraid he' ( Read more... )

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The anti-flag desecration amendment falls one vote short of the 2/3 majority of Senators required to send it to the states.

Whoever shall curb that infamous rash of recent flag-burning incidents now ( Read more... )

Republican Senatorial candidate Michael Steele has some interesting choices in campaign donors.
The fundraiser thrown for Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele on Thursday night, while ordinary in most ways, struck some African American leaders as notable because of the host ( Read more... )

The World Cup begins in less than 4 days and 21 hours. The FIFA World Cup site addresses the question of whether Americans care. Answer? Results are mixed.

Almost half of the respondents indicated that they could not name a single player from the American squad, and others who could name some players were somewhat unconvincing in their ( Read more... )

I see the Minutemen came to my fair city yesterday... all 150 of them. ::eyeroll:: Let's recap: millions of people in cities across the country came out in support of Immigrant Rights and Amnesty, while the MinuteKlan could barely attract 150 people in one city.

I love it.

I also love the counter-protestors who showed up:
Loudly challenging ( Read more... )