James Von Brunn

The Fort Hood Shooting and the White Privilege of Disassociation

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


Paul Raushenbush

The Fort Hood shootings no more reflect on the whole of Islam or South Asians than Timothy McVeigh or James Von Brunn reflect on white, Christian males.

James Von Brunn, Accused Holocaust Museum Shooter, Appears In Court

AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — An 89-year-old white supremacist charged with killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was ordered to remain ...

We Don't Negotiate With Terrorists

Dan Sweeney | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics


Dan Sweeney

Note the phrase "threatened use of force" in the definition of terrorism, and then ask yourself what the guy at Obama's event with an assault weapon was doing, given the events of the past year or so.

Von Brunn Indicted In Holocaust Museum Shooting

AP | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — A federal grand jury indicted an elderly white supremacist Wednesday on charges that could earn him the death penalty in the fatal ...

Mainstreaming The Fringe: Lou Dobbs Fuels Birther Bonfire

Eric Boehlert | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media


Eric Boehlert

The birther movement is about a larger, more sinister attempt to paint Obama as the Manchurian Candidate, with all the evil connotations that come with it.

FBI Found Child Porn On Holocaust Museum Suspect's Computer

Washington Post | Del Quentin Wilber | Posted 07.19.2009 | Home


Authorities discovered child pornography on a computer used by James W. von Brunn, the 88-year-old white supremacist accused of killing a security gua...

Democracy's Paradox

Robert Koehler | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics


Robert Koehler

Wanna hear a good Holocaust joke? Or a rib-tickler about lynching? How about starving Ethiopians? You'll bust a gut. I spent an eerie couple of hours...

Guard Who Returned Fire Speaks About Holocaust Museum Shooting

Associated Press | GILLIAN GAYNAIR | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics


WHITE PLAINS, Md. (AP) -- After retiring from a 27-year career as a D.C. police officer, Harry Weeks thought working security at the U.S. Holocaust Me...

Patriot Acts: Four Reasons the USA Is Still the Bomb

Dan Sweeney | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics


Dan Sweeney

My weekly newspaper columns are usually about local issues, but as this week's column had a national bent, I figured I'd post it here for all of you H...

How Can I Be Loved for Hating Everybody?

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media


B. Jeffrey Madoff

The world is changing way too fast. A year ago we thought Hillary Clinton might get elected. Television pundits repeatedly asked us if we were ready...

WorldNetDaily Feeds the Extremists

Terry Krepel | Posted 07.17.2009 | Media


Terry Krepel

If Fox News is guilty in hastening the death of Tiller, Farah and WorldNetDaily also are. Too bad WND Joseph Farah lacks the guts to honestly address the subject.

Judge: Holocaust Museum Suspect Can't Appear In Court

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — A white supremacist accused of fatally shooting a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is in no condition to appear...

Smart Cars, Terrorism, and Hoping for Audacity

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics


Dr. Susan Corso

The only option. Change. Radical, untried, brand new ideas implemented to change the way things have been done around here for decades. When are we going to get it? What's it going to take?

Erik Von Brunn, Shooter's Son: I Wish Dad Had Died Instead

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — The son of a white supremacist accused of killing a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum said Monday the shooting was unforg...

James Von Brunn Expected To Survive: FBI

AP | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — A judge is expected to hear a report on the health of a white supremacist accused of killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust...

Recent Shootings Show Threat Of 'Lone Wolf' Terrorists

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 07.14.2009 | Home


WASHINGTON — An elderly man enters a crowded museum carrying a rifle and begins shooting. A young man in Arkansas pulls the trigger outside a mi...

James Von Brunn's Son Slams His "Cowardice"

ABC News | MICHAEL S. JAMES, PIERRE THOMAS, JACK DATE and THERESA COOK | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics


A son of the 88-year-old white supremacist who allegedly started a shootout at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is slamming his father's "cowardice"...

Media Gives Hate-Mongering White Supremacist Airtime, Facetime and Helpful PR

Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media


Rachel Sklar

This is unbelievable. In last night's "NBC Nightly News," Pete Williams had a segment on the Holocaust Museum shooter, James von Brunn, and they prese...

Fox Loudmouth Rhetoric Comes Home to Roost

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics


Richard M. Benjamin

Palpable demographic shifts have sparked considerable terror among a cadre of white Americans -- a fear that whites will be politically and culturally moribund in their "own" land.

My Daughter's Chilling Account of Years at Holocaust Museum

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics


Greg Mitchell

"The entire time I worked there, we always expected something terrible to happen. I was very lucky it didn't while I was there -- but it wasn't for lack of trying."

Holocaust Museum Reopens Two Days After Shooting

AP | GILLIAN GAYNAIR | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Liz Johnson showed up Friday to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum with 12 Girl Scouts in tow. None of them was alive when the Holo...

Hate Websites Remove Online Traces Of Von Brunn

Washington Post | Monica Hesse | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media


Shortly after authorities identified their suspect in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting Wednesday, the world began searching for traces of J...

Weekly Standard May Have Been Museum Shooter Target

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media


FBI agents visited the offices of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine yesterday after a shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum and told emplo...

Von Brunn Ex-Wife: The Hatred Was "All-Consuming," He May Have Wanted To Die (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics


The second ex-wife of James von Brunn, the man who shot and killed a security guard at the Holocaust Museum yesterday, spoke publicly Thursday for the...

James Von Brunn BNP Link Found

Times Online | Posted 07.12.2009 | World


The white supremacist gunman who shot dead a guard at the Holocaust museum in Washington D.C. had attended meetings of the American Friends of the Bri...