Right Wing Extremism

The Right Wing Tilt Toward Mass Hysteria

Zaki Hasan | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: You Lie, Michele Bachmann, Louie Gohmert, Donald Trump, Joe Wilson, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Allen West, Right-Wing Extremism, Barack Obama, Politics News

What we've seen in the last few years is the gradual and systematic transformation of the far right's pundit class into the mainstream right's elected class.

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Memo To Supreme Court: Arizona Immigration Law Is No Solution for Broken System

Kristian Ramos | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Mass Deportation, Jan Brewer, Kris Kobach, Mitt Romney, Joe Arpaio, sb1070, Immigration, Arizona, Right-Wing Extremism, Russell Pearce, Latino Voices News

The rise of the state-passed immigration movement has been an ideological dead end for the country and a stagnation of real conversation around reforming our current system.

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Wanted: Wartime Consiglieri

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Elections 2012, Right Wing, Democrats, Right-Wing Extremism, Politics News

The thing is, anything less than a Democratic sweep this November is unlikely to rid the body politic of this parasite. So we have to resign ourselves to years of more deadlock while the nation's problems fester.

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WATCH: Anti-Gay Group's Bizarre Titanic Tribute

Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Video, Right Wing Media, Truth in Action Ministries, Titanic Anniversary, Titanic, Anti-Gay, Anti-Gay Groups, Slidepollajax, Right-Wing Extremism, Gay Voices News

The Titanic might be re-surfacing in the public consciousness as the 100th anniversary of her ill-fated maiden voyage draws near, but we're not sure t...

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Rick Roiled

Zaki Hasan | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, 2012 Election, Right-Wing Extremism, Santorum 2012, Elections 2012, Rick Santorum 2012, Politics News

Santorum's near-miss White House run is an indication of precisely what happens and who happens when we let our political discourse get to the point it's now at, awash in apocalyptic, end-times metaphors and doomsaying prognostications about the other side.

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Rush to Judgment

Zaki Hasan | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Sandra Fluke, Contraception, Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh, Right-Wing Extremism, Rush Limbaugh Apology, Media News

Rush is simply too entrenched in too many radio lineups across the country to ever disappear completely, but if nothing else, this whole kerfuffle signals the first substantial chink in his once-impenetrable armor.

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Money

Steven Weber | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Conservative-Extremists, ROMNEy TAXES, Right Wing Politics, Rick Santorum 2012, Right-Wing Media, Santorum Surge, Right-Wing Extremism, GOP Candidates, Politics News

Money does make the world go 'round. But without a country full of healthy, educated, secure, united, hopeful people to make it, save it and spend it wisely, then really, what the hell good is it?

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Confronting Neo-Nazi And Skinhead Fanaticism In Northern Europe?

Kemal Argon | Posted 03.24.2012

This kind of interfaith work might be compared to throwing a small stone into a pond: there is usually not a big splash but the ripples slowly proceed everywhere, bringing their important message.

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Former 'SNL' Actress Makes Wild Islamophobic Claims

Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Political Hollywood, Right Wing Extremism, Terrorism, Victoria Jackson Islamophobia, Right Wing, Victoria Jackson Glee, Victoria Jackson Muslims, Victoria Jackson, John Guandolo, Video, Victoria Jackson Web Show, Maj. Stephen Couglin, Victoria Jackson Politichicks, Entertainment News

Former "Saturday Night Live" actress Victoria Jackson, working on confidential information she has special clearance to obtain as a web talk-show host...

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Why the Right Wing Hates the Left Wing

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: Right Wing Media, Right Wing, Conservatives, Right-Wing Extremism, Right-Wing, Politics News

Read my lips. Two words will explain why... "Fearful aggression." Fearful aggression is well-known to show dog and thoroughbred horse trainers. It oc...

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All-American Muslim Not Worth the Fuss

Zaki Hasan | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Islamophobia, Islam, Muslims, All American Muslim, Tlc, Right-Wing Extremism, Lowes All American Muslim, Entertainment News

If it's an open and honest discussion about Islam's tenets and values these folks are after, fair enough. Let's have that conversation. Personally, I'd rather someone be absolutely clear and open with their prejudices and preconceptions.

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Man Opens Fire In Florence Market, Killing 2

AP | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Italy Right Wing Extremism, Italy Immigrants, Matteo Renzi, Italy Shooting, Italy, Florence Vendors Shot, Italy Right Wing, Florence Shooting, Right-Wing Extremism, Florence, Giuseppe Quattrocchi, Video, World News

ROME -- An Italian man with extreme right-wing views opened fire in an outdoor market in Florence Tuesday, killing two vendors from Senegal, then crit...

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'Nut Country' 48 Years Later

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Edwin Walker, Bruce Alger, JFK Assassination, Lyndon Johnson, Michelle Obama Booed, Dallas 1963, Right Wing Extremism, Politics News

"We're heading into nut country today," President John F. Kennedy said to his wife as he showed her an ad, bordered in the black of a funeral announcement, that the John Birch Society had placed in the Dallas Morning News.

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Counterterrorism Czar Resists Muslim Labels, As Critics Say Right-Wing Threat Looms Larger

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Peter King, White Supremacists, Homeland Security, Islamic Extremists, Fbi, Southern Poverty Law Center, Department of Homeland Security, Video, Islamic Radicalism, Counterterrorism, Janet Napolitano, Neo-Nazis, Newt Gingrich, Nypd Spying, Dhs, Eco-Terrorism, Right-Wing Extremism, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The federal government's point man working to counter homegrown violent extremism and defend communities from terrorist attacks isn't in...

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Populist Backlash Crushes Art Pope's Forces in North Carolina

Michael Carmichael | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Cultural Diversity, Chapel Hill, Lloyd Scher, Kevin Hill, Occupy Wall Street, Heather Losurdo, Ray Margiotta, Winston-Salem, Wake-County-School-Board, Christine Kushner, Wake-County-School-Board-Protests, Wake County School Board Protests, Resegregation, Fayetteville, Creationism, Durham, Greensboro, Charlotte, Right-Wing Extremism, North Carolina, Reactionary, New Yorker's Jane Mayer, Democratic National Convention, Susan Evans, Asheville, Keith Sutton, Wake County, Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board, Jane Mayer, Segregation, Wake County School Board, Homophobia, Racial Diversity, Jim Martin, Diversity, Art Pope, Extremism, Tea Party, Koch Brothers, New Yorker, Koch, Politics News

North Carolina's right-wing political boss, Art Pope, is having a bad week. One week after a searing profile appeared in the New Yorker, Pope's ultra-conservative ticket fell under the crushing weight of a populist uprising.

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People: Get Ready

Steven Weber | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Right Wing Machine, Right Wing Media, Right Wing Tea Party, Right Wing, Election 2012, Gop 2012, Right-Wing Extremism, Politics News

Lacking actual creative imaginations (but mistakenly thinking "shrewd deception" is the same thing), the right-wing corporate machine may have bought up all the gullible Tea Party's concerns and transmogrified them with craven corporate cant.

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Jesus Christ, Michelle Bachmann And Other Lunatics

Bruce Reyes-Chow | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Christianity, Michelle Bachmann, Right-Wing Extremism, Jesus, Religion and Politics, Christian Extremism, 2012 Election, Christian Radicalism, Conservative Radicalism, Bachmann and Jesus, Religion News

One's faith tradition must not in itself be used to wholly define or dismiss a person, especially a person who is passionate about his/her faith.

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Creative Ways to Counter Right-Wing Extremism: Trojan T-Shirts

Jalees Rehman, M.D. | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Germany, Neo-Nazis, Right-Wing Extremism, Extremism, Trojan T-Shirts, Right-Wing Extremists, Exit Deutschland, World News

The fact that some right-wing extremists were impressed by the humor in "Operation Trojan T-Shirt" illustrates the need to develop creative approaches to interact with them.

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Norway -- And the Fate of the Human Species

Peter Clothier | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Fear, Overpopulation, Terrorism, Population Shift, Norway, Immigration, Prejudice, Right-Wing Extremism, Extremism, World News

It's past time for us to look our fear in the face and acknowledge that it is capable of bringing about our imminent destruction.

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Norway Killings Suspect, Was Considering Other Targets

AP | By IAN MacDOUGALL and KARL RITTER | Posted 09.29.2011

Read More: World News, Norway Terror Targets, Norway Shooting, Terrorism, Norway Shootings, Norway Attacks, Anders Behring Breivik, Europe, Right-Wing Extremism, World News

OSLO, Norway -- The anti-Muslim extremist who confessed to a bombing and youth camp massacre that killed 77 people in Norway has told investigators he...

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Blaming the Muslims

Robert Koehler | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: War on Terror, Anders Breivik, Norway Shooting, Terrorism, Violence, Neocons, Muslims, Media, Peace, Right-Wing Extremism, Utoya Shooting, Norway Shootings, Norway Attacks, Anders Behring Breivik, Media News

Pundits, reporters and editorial writers jumped the gun and blamed Muslim terrorists for Norway. And the word went out. This is worse than bad reporting. It's a massive cover-up of the roots of human violence.

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