As if to provide a perfect example for Dahlia Lithwick's demonstration of the superficial and selective nature of Tea Party reverence for the Constitution, Steve King has decided to open the new Congress by introducing a flagrantly unconstitutional law. And by "unconstitutional," I don't mean...
racism
Like Matt, I think Cotes's point here is very important: I guess I can agree that merely displaying the flag of a white supremacist Army, praising a group which opposed.
Rick Perlstein has a typically brilliant analysis. Read the whole etc., but a preview: What happened between Brown v. Board of Education and that January day in 1970 comprises some.
Is Haley Barbour really going to run for the GOP nomination in 2012? I hope so; the modern neo-Confederate+Corporate Lobbyist Republican Party might as well have a definitive standard-bearer: As Barbour recalls it in a new profile in The Weekly Standard, things weren't so bad...
The former President in a forthcoming interview (emphasis mine): MATT LAUER: You say you told Laura at the time it was the worst moment of your presidency? GEORGE W. BUSH:.
While the Na'vi may be blue, the people who played them are not. Consider:NeytiriTsu'teyEytukanMoatHorse Clan LeaderIt could be the case that all the other models for the Na'vi are white,.
Annalee Newitz writes that "[w]hether Avatar is racist is a matter of debate," but it isn't: the film is racist. Its fundamental narrative logic is racist: it transposes the cultural politics of Westerns (in which the Native Americans are animists who belong to a more...
In the comments to a long, inaccurate attack on those who consider Palin evidence that the conservative movement is trending stupid, Darleen Click claims that those who point out the.
Race in America has always seemed to me like the terrible secret at the end of Chinatown, that isn't really a secret at all. Forget it, Jake . . .Anyway.
A few months ago, I foolishly claimed that Pat Oliphant could never get away with open racism comparable to his misogyny. I was certainly mistaken. (Latter link via Ez.)
Reproductive healthcare in prisons in the U.S. sucks.First, there were prisons that were refusing to allow pregnant inmates to get abortions, even when the women could pay for the procedures.
One thing to say about this thread, which has won a coveted Belle Waring Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence in Trolldom, is that given the inevitable.