Demagoguery and Sharia: Reviving an American Tradition
By alienating American Muslims and the Muslim world by denigrating their law and culture only aggravates the real threats that we face.
By alienating American Muslims and the Muslim world by denigrating their law and culture only aggravates the real threats that we face.
Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.25.2011
I still have a strange sense of hope for change, but it is not coming from Barack Obama. Rather it is coming from public rumblings that I'm beginning ...
Paula Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011
Spare me the shock. Violent talk inspires murderous rage. Tormented souls are precisely why such incendiary talk is so dangerous. And spare me the s...
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.25.2011
The intent of a demagogue is not reasoned discussion, but solely to inflame. To anger people so much that they won't stop to think. And it's growing in a segment of leadership within the Republican Party.
Yuna Shin | Posted 05.25.2011
What the GOP and the "ground zero mosque" detractors want you to believe is that the Americans at the Muslim cultural center are not Americans. Remember the Japanese internment camps?
Ivan Katz | Posted 05.25.2011
Every now and then I get a newsletter/propaganda piece from my state senator. For the better part of two decades, Toni Harp has been lauded and honor...
HuffPost Radio | Posted 05.25.2011
Partisan divisions in the country have never seemed so extreme: on Health Care, on the stimulus and on the Wall Street bailout. But why is there so much anger?
Jim O'Grady | Posted 05.25.2011
Demagogues like Coughlin and Beck use ever more shrill appeals to cause serious short-term turmoil but, in the process, turn their followers' hearts to stone. People are happier, Day believed, when they are good.
Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011
If our political leaders won't make room for the "strangers" among us, we will -- because Jesus commands us to do so.
Ray Hanania | Posted 05.25.2011
The President's speech was so powerful it probably sent many of the nation's health insurance industry robber barons into economic cardiac arrest.
Chip Berlet | Posted 05.25.2011
Scott Philip Roeder, charged in the shooting death of Dr. George Tiller, was a regular consumer of conservative talk radio, television, and websites. ...
Ray Hanania | Posted 05.25.2011
There are shades of gray on all issues. Not everyone we fight hates us. Not everyone we fight opposes our Democracy. In many cases, those fighting us are simply defending themselves.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
While we're all waiting for someone to leak the Palin Troopergate Report (which is reminiscent of waiting for "Fitzmas" during the whole Scooter Libby...
Eric L. Lewis | Posted 02.24.2012