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Muslim Baiting: Peter King's Dangerous Obsession
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyIn the last month and half, the Muslim world has been re-imagined in Western minds. On our television screens, at least before the upheaval in Libya, we saw women on the streets of Cairo, peaceful demonstrations, dictators overthrown. It was a different Islamic world than the one we'd been shown before, one that craves democracy, privileges peace; it was a counterpoint to Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations," and it provided a recognition of shared values, shared hopes. The world we saw is imperfect, to be sure. Women are struggling to be equal partners in that peaceful revolution. ...
From 9/11 to Tucson: No Wonder Our Politics Are So Paranoid
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyNearly a half century ago – writing in the shadow of the John Birch Society and Joe McCarthy – liberal historian Richard Hofstadter identified what he called, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics." Perhaps too glibly, Hofstadter tried to link the anti-Catholic and anti-Masonic agitation of the 19th century with the right-wing conspiracy theories that arose out of the Cold War. (Robert Welch, the founder of the Birch Society, actually believed that Dwight Eisenhower – Ike! – was "a dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy.") Endorsing the ...
The FBI File on Howard Zinn: 3 Historical Highlights
By David Knowles - AOL News(July 30) -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation today released 423 pages of its file on leftist historian Howard Zinn. The FBI started its file on Zinn in 1949, during the McCarthy era, over the author's suspected ties to the Communist Party of the United States. The feds interviewed Zinn, who died last year, in the 1950s and 1960s, and they eventually stopped tracking his activities in 1974. Surge Desk has been reviewing the redacted documents the FBI released today and has come upon the following highlights: 1. Zinn repeatedly denied being a member of the Communist Party. Was he or ...
Demarees to Wal-Mart: Get Ready for Your Bath
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyA year ago A.J. and Lisa Demaree of Peoria, Ariz. thought they were taking pictures of their daughters taking a bath, but to a Wal-Mart employee, the Demarees were committing "child erotica" and "sex exploitation." ...
Clinton, McPeak, Obama & the 'Black Menace'
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe ugliness of the Democratic Presidential primary race was given another layer this week, as former President Bill Clinton made a controversial statement, and Obama supporter Retired Air Force General Merrill McPeak issued a controversial rebuke, followed by a tacit demand by the Clinton campaign for McPeak to step away from the Obama campaign. Former President Clinton's remarks:"I think it would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country," said the former president. "And people could actually ...
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