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Canada Takes Over Where Obama Refused to Go

Kevin Grandia | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

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Kevin Grandia

Canada's right-wing government is relying on the heated rhetoric and divisive-style of politics that Obama refused to engage in south of the border in the recent US election.

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Victim of Racist Attack Awarded $2.5 Million

Kety Esquivel | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

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Kety Esquivel

Gruver was attacked by Klansmen at a Kentucky fair in 2006. He was in line at a concession stand at the Meade County Fair when two Klansmen... threw whiskey in his face.

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Explain? How Do You Explain Saying

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 11.15.2008 | Media

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Charles Karel Bouley

I am sorry anyone thought I wanted a real person dead -- I did not. But John McCain, Sarah Palin and all the zealot conservatives meant the dangerous things they said about Obama. They still mean it, and they've never apologized for it.

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Threats of Violence Persist Against Civil Rights Leaders

Kety Esquivel | Posted 11.12.2008 | Home

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Kety Esquivel

Even as the country was celebrating its extraordinary milestone of electing the first African American President, The Washington Post published a sobe...

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The McCotter Doctrine

Jerry Stahl | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

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Jerry Stahl

Sarah Palin may be painted on the side of the bomber, but the guys who out there dropping the bombs look and sound like Thaddeus McCotter.

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Hate Speech, Vandalism, and Death Threats Have No Place in Immigration Debate or the Election

Kety Esquivel | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics

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Kety Esquivel

Originally posted at wecanstopthehate.org NCLR launched http://www.WeCanStoptheHate.org to address the surge of hate and violence infecting the immig...

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NC Candidate for Governor Trashes Immigrant Voting Bloc

Angela Kelley | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Latinos, Asian American Voters, Latino Vote, Latino Voters, Naturalization, Voter Registration, Asian Americans, Hate Speech, Immigration, Asian-American Vote, 2008 Election, North Carolina, Extremism, Politics News
Angela Kelley

Last week, North Carolina's candidate for governor, Pat McCrory, potentially isolated upwards of 83,000 New American voters in his state when his emai...

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Top McCain Advisor Learned Slime Tactics From Jesse Helms

Erik Ose | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics

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Erik Ose

During the '84 NC Senate race, one of Helms' top aides responsible for implementing a gay-bashing strategy was McCain advisor Charlie Black.

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Time For Hannity and Friends to Take a Xanax

Larry Gellman | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

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Larry Gellman

It's over. The American people have spoken. If this election was a basketball game, it would be time to clear the benches and let the subs play out the clock.

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McCain Campaign Tried Using Assault Hoax to Slime Obama

Erik Ose | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

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Erik Ose

According to one of the actual police reports documenting the charade's unraveling, Ashley Todd says she can't remember whether she mutilated her own face, or had someone else do it.

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Middle Eastern Bloggers Disgusted by Slurs Against Muslims, Arabs and Blacks

Amira Al Hussaini | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home

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Amira Al Hussaini

A Negro, a Muslim and an anti-American. These are just some of the names Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has been called over the pas...

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McCain and Palin Inciting Violence in North Carolina

Erik Ose | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics

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Erik Ose

In the wake of McCain-Palin visits to North Carolina, a string of election season crimes have occurred around the state involving violence, vandalism, and harassment.

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Death Threats Made to Staff and Board of CASA of Maryland

Kety Esquivel | Posted 10.16.2008 | Home

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Kety Esquivel

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ACORN Attacks A Smokescreen For Undercutting Black And Latino Vote

Brian Ross | Posted 10.16.2008 | Home

Read More: 2008 Elections Racial Tensions, Racial Tension, Hate Speech, John McCain, Hate, Race, Sarah Palin, Home News
Brian Ross

Win or lose, John McCain has turned loose an ugly side of white America's fear of inclusion of minorities in positions of authority. It is a genie which will be nearly impossible to stuff back into the bottle.

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Jason Linkins

Sacramento GOP Removes "Waterboard Obama" Graphic From Website

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fear Watch 2008, Hate Speech, Waterboarding, Barack Obama, Torture, Politics News

Republican officials in Sacramento, California have removed highly offensive materials from their official website after just about everyone with even...

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Straight Talk Express is the New Hate Train

Mike Papantonio | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Election 2008, John McCain, Terrorist, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Campaign, Hate Speech, Politics News
Mike Papantonio

The GOP is in the midst of a meltdown that is so serious that they run the risk of branding themselves for a generation -- a new brand that is one that they won't be proud of.

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History's Lesson Concerning the Recent Viciousness of McCain/Palin Rallies

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics

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Madeleine M. Kunin

By repeatedly asking "Who is the real Barack Obama?" McCain/Palin is hinting that he has a hidden agenda -- an agenda that threatens all of us. By making Obama the Other, they are fueling racial paranoia.

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Political Campaign Is A Mirror Of The Man Who Leads It

Linda Hansen | Posted 10.14.2008 | Home

Read More: Politics of Rage, Politics of Division, John McCain, Palin Inciting Violence, Kathleen Parker Hate-Mail, Campaign 2008, Sarah Palin, Offthebus, Hate Speech, Palin Mccain, McCain Palin, Home News
Linda Hansen

At the end of the campaign day -- win or lose -- the responsibility for loosing the mob mentality beast, calling it from the depths of the sub-cranial cavern, is wholly that of John McCain. He is the commander-in-chief of his own political army.

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McCain Sowing Seeds of Hatred

Rory O'Connor | Posted 10.13.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Hate Speech, Mccain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, John Lewis, Shock Jocks, 2008 Election, Media News
Rory O'Connor

Rather than rejecting his remarks as ''shocking and beyond the pale,'' McCain should have listened to Lewis, who is one of three people the Arizona Senator said he would "rely heavily on" if elected president.

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We Don't Need to Fight Dirty

Jeannie Ralston | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hate-Mongering, Mccain Dirty Politics, Dirty Politics, Presidential Campaign, Palin, Obama, Mccain, Hate Speech, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jeannie Ralston

What Obama knows and what we can emulate is this: we can offer a poised defense, but we don't have to get down and dirty with the Republicans we encounter.

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Hate as a political strategy...

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Violence, Iran, John McCain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Hate Speech, Politics News
Larisa Alexandrovna

McCain-Palin have been rather busy this week endorsing the view of some of their psychotic supporters who chanted "Obama is a traitor," amon...

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A New Low: McCain Camp Condones Violent Threats Against Obama

Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

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Eric Schmeltzer

John McCain's campaign is defending these kinds of outbursts, saying those like Barack Obama who are bothered "just doesn't understand regular people."

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The "White" House Taken Literally is Dangerous & Un-American

Shannyn Moore | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

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Shannyn Moore

I spent much of my early radio air time trying to "wake up" the citizenry of Anchorage. I was impatient, frustrated, chiding at times. On June 5th, th...

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We the Losers

Rusel DeMaria | Posted 10.08.2008 | Home

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Rusel DeMaria

They'll get all hopped up with Palin and start yelling out all kinds of horrible chants, like "terrorist" and "kill him." What Palin is doing, and knows she's doing, is inciting a mob. Country first? Give me a break.

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Silence In The Face Of Hate Makes McCain-Palin Unfit To Lead

Baratunde Thurston | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racism, John McCain, Hate Speech, Fear, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Baratunde Thurston

One supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man and told him, "Sit down, boy." Everything we need to know about McCain-Palin is summed up by their reaction.

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