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Seeds of Hatred---Reaping the Harvest

Larry Gellman | Posted 07.07.2009 | Media

We can't call ourselves civilized until we learn to disagree like grownups.

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Marcus Epstein Gives Everyone a Bad Name

Disgrasian | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Hate Crimes, PAC Leaders, Asian Americans, Marcus Epstein, Marcus Epstein Calls Woman "Nigger", Team America, Tom Tancredo, Tancredo Speechwriter, Conservatives, Bay Buchanan, Asians, Karate Chop, Racial Slurs, Marcus Epstein Assault, Paleoconservatives, Politics News

Marcus Epstein should know by now: Shame never dies. After all: shame, disappointment in self, feelings of failure and a deep sense of self-loathing ...

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Think Again: The Surprising Success of the Right-Wing Rant

Eric Alterman | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, Twitter, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sonia Sotomayor, Kkk, Racism, Glenn Beck, Newt Gingrich, Tucker Carlson, Barack Obama, David Duke, Tom Tancredo, Media News

For once, Foxnation.com has got it right.

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Senator Sessions, Judge Sotomayor, And Racism

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Latina, Sessions, Kkk, Ronald Reagan, David Gregory, Jeff Sessions, Boy, Scotus, Better, Republican, Reagan, Marion Three, Ku Klux Klan, Latino, Sexism, Gross Insensitivity, Racism, Sotomayor, Confirmation, Naacp, Communist, Reverse Racism, Judiciary Committee, Tancredo, Charles Pickering, Racist, Voting Rights, Alabama, Pickering, Tom Tancredo, Un-American, Meet the Press, Chris Weigant, Sonia Sotomayor, Republicans, Nominee, Aclu, Senate, Politics News

In all the hoopla over Judge Sonia Sotomayor being nominated to the Supreme Court, there is one interesting side story that the media is largely ignor...

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Playboy Scorned For Hateful Attack On Conservative Pundits (And The Rest Of Today's Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Misogyny, Conservative Pundits, Politico, General Motors Bondholders, Media Criticism, Liz Glover, Jezebel, General Motors, Tom Tancredo, Video, General Motors Bankruptcy, Sexism, Megan Carpentier, Playboy Magazine, Wall Street Bonuses, Citigroup, Media News

Circumstances conspired against me doing what Chip Hanlon advises on these pages today: heap a ton of scorn on Playboy Magazine and writer Guy Cimbalo...

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The Nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor -- Can it Be a Teachable Moment?

Les Francis | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Sotomayor Racism, Robert Bork, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Tancredo, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

We can hope that the confirmation process will be intense, spirited, and enlightening, and that Sotomayor -- and we -- will be spared the cheap, the tawdry, and the demagogic. We can hope, but we also should strive to make it so.

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The Fight Over Sonia Sotomayor: Why Were So Few Hispanics on TV Debating the First Hispanic Supreme Court Nominee?

Eric Deggans | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Cornyn, Abc, Cnn, Tom Tancredo, This Week, Supreme Court, Hispanics, Media, Prejudice, Rush Limbaugh, Race, Diversity, Sonia Sotomayor, Political Tv, Politics News

What irks me most about the media circus around Sotomayor's nomination is that white politicians and pundits pretend their race and culture have no impact on their sensibilities.

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Marcus Epstein's Racist Assault Bruises Buchanan And Tancredo

Washington Independent | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Buchanan Epstein, Conservative Activist Marcus Epstein, Epstein Assault, Tom Tancredo, Tancredo Epstein, Buchanan Tancredo, Marcus Epstein, Pat Buchanan, Marcus Epstein Assault, Politics News

On July 7, 2007, Marcus Epstein had too much to drink and stumbled onto Georgetown's scenic, shop-lined M Street, walking in no particular direction. ...

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Will the Fight Over Gay Marriage Be the End of Right vs. Left Thinking?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rush Limbaugh, James Inhofe, Jeff Sessions, Tom Tancredo, Dick Cheney, John Cornyn, Ban on Gay Marriages, Sonia Sotomayor, Dick Cheney Gay Marriage, Ted Olsen, Sotomayor Nomination, Newt Gingrich, Gay Marriage, Left vs. Right, David Boies, Politics News

Not that long ago, gay marriage was a dependable wedge issue Republicans could use to keep its base in line. But now that wedge is clearly splintering.

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Tancredo PAC Backs Staffer Charged In Racist Assault

Colorado Independent | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Immigration, Sonia Sotomayor, Marcus Epstein, Tancredo Sotomayor, Tancredo PAC, Team America, Tom Tancredo, Politics News

I just talked to Bay Buchanan, the co-chairman of Team America PAC and president of the American Cause, who is sticking by executive director (of both...

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Judge Sonia Sotomayor's Nomination: Obama Gives the Nation Another Teaching Moment

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Latina, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzalez, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, President Obama and Judge Sotomayor, Kkk, La Raza, President Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Mike Allen, " Immigration, The Minutemen, Judge Sotomayor, Lou Dobbs, G. Gordon Liddy, Newt Gingrich, Glen Beck, Jonathan Martin, Clarence Thomas, Tom Tancredo, Dolores Huerta, Cnn, "Racism, Latino, Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's Nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor, Mark Krikorian, Latino Vote, David Duke, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Colbert, Stephen Colbert, Politics News

One thing is clear: President Obama's choice of a Latina woman has sparked the ugliest reaction from the Republican Right we've seen years.

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Director Of Tancredo's Anti-Immigrant Group Assaulted African-American Woman

Media Matters Action Network | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Sotomayor Racism, La Raza, Supreme Court, Anti-Immigrant-Groups, Tom Tancredo, Sonia Sotomayor, Pac, Politics News

Yesterday, former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo attacked Judge Sonia Sotomayor for being a member of the National Council of La Raza, absurdly likening t...

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Why Sotomayor's Confirmation Debate Is the D.C. Equivalent of Rock of Love

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sonia Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Pat Buchanan, Sotomayor Confirmation, Rush Limbaugh, Barack Obama Sonia Sotomayor, Obama Sotomayor, Robert Downey Jr, Tom Tancredo, Politics News

Listening to conservatives play the race card in attacking the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, I've been marveling at just how self-destructive they've become. Republicans have to know how bad this is for their party

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Tancredo Claims Sotomayor In "Latino KKK" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Tom Tancredo, La Raza, Ed Schultz MSNBC, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

Tom Tancredo, the former Colorado congressman and radical anti-immigration activist, stepped up his attacks on judge Sonia Sotomayor Thursday. Appeari...

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TV Cable News: Pro Wrestling Meets The Argument Culture

Bill Mann | Posted 06.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Ed Schultz, Msnbc, Deborah Tannen, Cnn, Andrea Mitchell, Sonia Sotomayor, Michael Savage, Fox News, Chris Matthews, Barack Obama, Tom Tancredo, Dick Cheney, Media News

Cable news, like talk radio, has coarsened our culture, turning it into a daily sideshow for loudmouths and know-nothings. It's all about the perceived best way to get ratings -- by keeping the pot stirred.

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Tom Tancredo Calls Sotomayor Racist (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Ton Tancredo Sonia Sotomayor, Tom Tancredo Racist, Sonia Sotomayor, Tom Tancredo, Politics News

Tom Tancredo, the former Colorado congressman and radical anti-immigration activist, called President Obama's Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor a ...

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Tancredo UNC Speech Disrupted By Student Protesters

McClatchy DC | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Unc Tancredo Protest, Tancredo UNC Speech, Tom Tancredo UNC, Tancredo Protest, Tom Tancredo Speech, Tom Tancredo, Tancredo UNC Protesters, Politics News

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill police released pepper spray and threatened to use a Taser on student protesters Tuesday evening when a cr...

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Former GOP Rep. Tancredo: Bush Wrong To Worry About "Anti-Immigrant" Party

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tom Tancredo, Tancredo Immigration, President Bush, Bush Immigration, Bush Tancredo, Politics News

President Bush has a long list of regrets that he's been sharing as he eases his way out of the White House. Chief among them is the failure to pass c...

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Time To Stop Paying Lameduck Members of Congress If They Stop Showing Up For Work

Mark Nickolas | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics

14 of the 26 non-voting members are lameducks who seem less interested in saving anything except their fat paychecks.

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Tom Tancredo Retires From Colorado Seat

AP | KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tom Tancredo, Tancredo Immigration, Tom Tancredo Immigration, Tom Tancredo Retires, Tancredo Retires, Tom Tancredo Retiring, Tancredo Retiring, Politics News

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — When Tom Tancredo, the lightning-rod Colorado conservative, went to Congress a decade ago, he promised he wouldn't disappear...

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Colorado's Katherine Harris Threatens the '08 Election

David Sirota | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Early Voting, Registering Voters, John McCain, Election 2008, Katherine Harris, Tom Tancredo, Barack Obama, Colorado, Politics News

We've got our own Katherine Harris here -- and a careful look at the news suggests he's moving to game this election in a state that could be the Florida of 2008.

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GOP Offers Valentine's Day Cruise With John Ashcroft

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cruising, John Ashcroft, Valentine's Day, Republicans on Boats, Tom Tancredo, Republicans, Politics News

If this election season runs the way most observers predict, the GOP will be facing historic electoral losses in November. How will they cope, if thi...

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McCain, Obama on International Diplomacy and Immigration

Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling | Posted 10.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Immigration Reform, Mccain Immigration Reform, John McCain, Homeland Security, Immigration, Election 2008, Border Fence, Border Security, Lou Dobbs Immigration, Tom Tancredo, Immigration Debate, United Nations Obama, Foreign Affairs Obama, Obama Immigration Reform, Barack Obama, United Nations Mccain, League of Democracies, Security Council Mccain, League of Nations, Bush Unilateralism, UN Human Rights, Obama Diplomacy, Fareed Zakaria Democracies, McCain Diplomacy, Un Secretariat, Zimbabwe Elections, Security Council Obama, Home News

Over the course of this week, OffTheBus will be running a primer on some of the most important foreign policy issues the next president will face. Today, the primer looks at where Obama and McCain stand on international diplomacy and immigration.

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Sarah Palin May Solve McCain's Sizzle Problem

Steve Clemons | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

Many women do like Palin -- there will be a lot who will be drawn to her gutsy, take on Washington's vested interests style as well as to her womanhood.

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Budget-Busting Colorado Race A Victory For Dems

Ron Levitt | Posted 07.24.2008 | Home

Read More: 2008election, Colorado Turns Bluer, Offthebus, Mark Udall, Wayne Allard, 2nd Colorado District, Colorado 2nd District, Will Shafroth, Colorado Senate 2nd District, Joan Fitz-Gerald, Colorado Senate Race, Tom Tancredo, Jared Polis, Home News

Mark Udall will win his race in Colorado, making both U.S. Senate seats for the state Democratic. Udall, and the slate of popular candidates running for his seat in the House, are moving the state strongly toward Obama.

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