300 lawyers in suits protested Maricopa County Attorney, Andrew Thomas, charging him and Sheriff Joe Arpaio with making a complete mockery of the justice system. Headlining the protest weren't left-leaning activist attorneys like the ones you might expect . They were self-described conservative Republicans, one of whom actually...
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Dec 21, 2009
The Center For American Progress just released new guidelines today, which would present a strong foundation for a real immigration overhaul. Before laying out their core principles for Immigration Reform (view pdf), however, authors Marshall Fitz and Angela Kelley outline why this kind of reform is so urgent: Our...
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Tom Perez, the Obama administration's new Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights announced yesterday that , "the Civil Rights division is again open for business." This is a welcome change for a department that had been widely criticized for politicizing the agency, lagging in effectiveness and suppressing legitimate...
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News broke yesterday that over half of the police force in the tiny Pennsylvania town of Shenandoah, PA – including the chief – have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges brought by the Obama administration for obstructing a federal probe of a brutal hate crime and...
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Andrea Nill over at the Wonk Room caught this racist right-wing holiday song, "Illegals in My Yard," set to the tune of the Christmas song, Feliz Navidad.
It goes:
Illegals in my yard. (3x) Sixteen arrive in a stolen car They're getting free organ transplants this Christmas....
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Quick note that that the oracle of the anti-immigration lobby, James R. Edwards, has given us another brilliant contribution to his "blame the immigrants" cannon. This time it's immigrants screwing up health reform, but don't be fooled: there's plenty more bashing where that came from.
See, Edwards is the...
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How's this for irony: the extremist group behind the drive to recruit Lou Dobbs into a presidential run has yanked support for their one-time champion.
While bloggers debated whether Dobbs was too mean to be President, it came out that he was no longer mean enough for the extreme base...
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We just got word that the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated a hate group, is holding a casting call in Atlanta tomorrow for a new web video that will change the hearts and minds of the average American.
Think you have...
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Nov 19, 2009
So Lou Dobbs was paid $8 million to leave CNN after the network came under increasing fire for giving Lou Dobbs a primetime slot to incessantly trash immigrants and Latinos. Kudos for CNN for finally doing the right thing. We've rounded up some of the funniest reactions to a...
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Nov 12, 2009
Last night, Lou Dobbs aired his final broadcast on CNN. So tonight, when viewers tune in to CNN primetime, the hate TV will be gone. According to the New York Times, CNN President Jonathan Klein said: "Lou Dobbs will carry the banner of advocacy journalism elsewhere." Help us...
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