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Terror Fears Scarier Than Guantanamo Bay Suspects in the Heartland

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Hate Crimes Against Muslims, Violence Against Muslims, Valerie Kenney, Tinley Park Illinois, Thomson Illinois Prison, Islamophobia, Fort Hood, Mark Kirk, Guantanamo Bay, Backlash, Nidal Malik Hasan, Chicago News
Esther J. Cepeda

I'm less scared of the possibility of an armed Islamic radical coming into my life than I am about the everyday bigots.

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Poll: Muslim Backlash Is Concern For Solid Majority Of Americans

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nidal Malik Hasan, Revenge Killings, Muslim Backlash, Backlash, Fort Hood Shootings, Fort Hood, Politics News

The headline on the new Rasmussen poll is this: "60% Want Fort Hood Shooting Investigated as Terrorist Act." But the more interesting news, buried in...

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Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining Our Future

Joyce McFadden | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Reproductive Health, Obama, Backlash, Living News, Feminism, Reproductive Rights, Sexism, Media News
Joyce McFadden

While reading Barbara Berg's Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining our Future, I felt energized and eager to be a part of this third wave of feminism.

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Tiring of Facebook Fatigue

Sarah Schmelling | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Facebook Fatigue, Backlash, Twitter, New York Times, Trends, Facebook, Wall Street Journal, Exodus, Media News
Sarah Schmelling

Just a few months after we've splattered the media with pieces about how great something is, we turn around and report on how sick of it everyone has become.

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Obama's Gates Trainwreck

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Backlash, Henry Louis Gates, President Obama, Harvard, sgt.james Crawley, Race, Health Care, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Obama spoke from the heart and said what needed to be said about the thorny issue of racial profiling. No apology needed for that. He just said it in the wrong case and at the wrong time.

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Gay Marriage

Sandy Maisel | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gay Rights, Civil Unions, Backlash, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Maine, Politics News
Sandy Maisel

For the state to sanction marriage between males and females, but to deny the same to gay couples violates our Constitution. More than that, it violates the basic essence of who we are as a people.

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Obama's Election May Put an End to Sept. 11-related Animosity and Bring Healing

Ray Hanania | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hope, Animosity, Backlash, Terrorism, 9/11, Healing, Middle Easterners, Barack Obama, Election Reaction, Muslims, Arabs, Hate Mongering, 2001, Bias, Bigotry, Obama Middle East, President Obama, Obama International Reaction, Sept. 11, 2008 Presidential Election, Obama Presidency, Obama Middle East Policy, Obama International Experience, Obama Reaction Abroad, President Elect Obama, Politics News
Ray Hanania

Obama's election as president has changed America and can also make it a far better nation, one that truly embraces the ideals that motivated our founding fathers.

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After the Election

Mark Potok | Posted 12.08.2008 | Home

Read More: White Supremacy, Obama Election, Obama Election Day, Extreme Right Wing, David Duke, Backlash, Home News
Mark Potok

After 250 years of slavery, a century of Jim Crow laws, and a legacy of racial terror that includes the lynching of thousands of African Americans, Am...

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The Selfish Gene Part 2

Linda Bergthold | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Barack Obama, Selfish Genes, Backlash, John Kerry, Politics News
Linda Bergthold

In the past few days, Clinton supporters of various stripes have refused to donate to the Obama campaign (while they whine about Obama supporters not wanting to help retire the Clinton debt).

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In Defense of Hart Hanson and Why We Lose the Best TV Characters

Jamie Frevele | Posted 06.03.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Michaela Conlin, David Boreanaz, Emily Deshanel, Bones Finale, Bones, Backlash, TJ Thyne, Eric Millegan, Bad Season Finale, Bones Season Finale, Hart Hanson, Fox, Tamara Taylor, Matt Roush, Entertainment News
Jamie Frevele

What made the Bones season finale so traumatizing is how the departure of a beloved regular character was executed. There was nothing leading up to it, and it was completely unfair.

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