The Fort Hood Shooting and the White Privilege of Disassociation
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.
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.
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 ...
Dan Sweeney | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
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.
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 ...
Eric Boehlert | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media
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.
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...
Robert Koehler | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
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...
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...
Dan Sweeney | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
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...
B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media
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...
Terry Krepel | Posted 07.17.2009 | Media
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.
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...
Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
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?
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...
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...
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...
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"...
Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media
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...
Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
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.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
"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."
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Paul Raushenbush | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics