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"Interesting piece. First, I want to congratulate you. You’re the first liberal media member I’ve seen who has actually acknowledged that a group of Obama supporters did in fact wear t shirts calling a woman a c*nt, in public and in front of her daughter no less. Now, does the fate of the Republic hand on such issues? No. Still, it was interesting to see the media pretend it never happened, straight out of some Ministry of Truth from Oceania. Somehow, if a group of McCain supporters had worn a t shirt to an Obama event calling him a n—-r,...

"Police are investigating a brick with an offensive message thrown into the window of an East Austin home. The brick, thrown through a 4-year-old boy’s bedroom window, read “Keep Eastside Black. Keep Eastside Strong.” The homeowner, Barbara Frische, who is white, said she has lived in the home for 10 years. “It’s the first time anything like this has ever happened to me,” she said. Police have not classified this incident as a hate crime, said Austin Police Sgt. Richard Stresing, because hate crimes target an individual specifically because of an identifying characteristic, like race. Police say the incident has...

I got tired of the old and slimey "To be a Republican, you need to believe...", so I wrote my own rejoinder. Mix and match, add your own, just send them around. We have an election to win. To be a Democrat you need to believe: 1. God is dead, and that Al Ogre is the Messiah 2. Kennedy was a hero for wanting Castro dead, and surprised when Castro dropped him first, or “What, Vietnam was Nixon’s war, wasn’t it?” 3. Communism is basically good, it just wasn’t well executed by the Soviets. 4. The United States should subrogate...

Explaining Jews, Part I By Dennis Prager FrontPageMagazine.com | January 4, 2006 Years ago, on a flight to Louisville, KY, the woman seated next to me asked what brought me from Los Angeles to Louisville. "I will be giving a lecture," I responded. "To whom?" the personable middle-aged woman asked. "To the Jewish community," I responded. She then proceeded to engage me in a discussion about Jews, and it became apparent that she believed Jews wielded great influence in society. So I decided to ask her a question: "There are almost 300 million Americans. How many of them do you...

We have found a remarkable recording from the Bergen Belsen Death Camp of the recently liberated inmates singing “Hatikvah”. This recording is a piece of history and makes the connection between the loss of the 6 million and the burning desire for the creation of a Jewish State. Sit down and listen: this is a short recording that you will remember for the rest of your life.

Hundreds of riot police have been deployed around the US embassy in Seoul as anti-US activists called for a candle-lit vigil to demand the withdrawal of US troops from South Korea, witnesses said. Some 20 bus loads of riot police troops carrying shields stood guard around the high-walled US embassy compound as some 100 activists began a rally nearby to protest against the expansion of a US military base south of the capital. "As long as US troops stay in this country, we will never be freed from the threat of war," Kim Kyu-Chul, a pro-unification activist said at the...

Mohammad cartoon protests aren't unique to Islam By Michael Conlon 2 hours, 2 minutes ago The violence linked to cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad is not unique to Islam, experts say, and the protests reflect political and cultural passions more than the faith's core values. Looking for distinct features that would make Islam liable for the cartoon-related violence around the world does little to explain it, said the Rev. Patrick Gaffney, an anthropologist and expert on Islam at the University of Notre Dame. "There are parallel behaviors in every tradition," he said. "Buddhism has a violent strain despite its pacifism...