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Psychopaths, Not Psychotics

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living


Robert David Jaffee

When TV pundits misuse the word 'psychotic' they unintentionally malign a group of people who share six letters with but couldn't be more different from psychopaths.

Hate Acts and the NRA's Extreme Rhetoric

Paul Helmke | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics


Paul Helmke

Please take a moment this weekend to read Bob Herbert's column published today in the New York Times. His message is long overdue: Even with the mur...

About That DHS Report on Right-Wing Extremists

Karl Frisch | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media


Karl Frisch

In the wake of these attacks, it shouldn't be too much to ask that the DHS report be taken seriously rather than used to score political points.

What Right Wing Threat?

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media


John Wellington Ennis

Maybe continually over-simplifying every issue in politics into a siege upon America actually helps bring about a siege mentality in Americans.

Insurrectionism Goes "Mainstream"

Josh Horwitz | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics


Josh Horwitz

Far from protecting liberty, insurrectionism deprives American citizens of their freedom.

What's Going On?

Byron Williams | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics


Byron Williams

In the midst of the recent tragedies in Pittsburgh, Oakland, Binghamton and Silicon Valley, questions abound. Is this the result of a bad economy?

Glenn Beck and The Consequences of Crazy Talk

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics


Bob Cesca

Broadcasters like Beck ought to take responsibility for some of their more incendiary remarks -- remarks which appear to be ginning up the darker, uglier, fanatical tendencies in an already militaristic, jingoistic, reactionary audience.

Jason Linkins

Glenn Beck: "Nutjob" In Pittsburgh Not My Fault, I'm Just A "Flight Attendant"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.08.2009 | Media


Hey, blogs! Fox News' Glenn Beck has heard what you've been saying about him -- how his brand of crazyfaced paranoid fearmongering is just the sort o...

Revolutionary Goad: Has the Anti-Government Rhetoric Gone Too Far?

Chez Pazienza | Posted 05.08.2009 | Media


Chez Pazienza

Glenn Beck is basically good, clean fun -- at least until some tinfoil-hatted psychopath who takes his nonsense way too seriously and decides to fire off a few rounds at President Obama.

Pittsburgh Police Shooting Had Origins In Urinating Dog

AP | JOE MANDAK | Posted 05.06.2009 | Home


PITTSBURGH — A 911 call that brought two police officers to a home where they were ambushed, and where a third was also later killed during a fo...

RICHARD POPLAWSKI, Pittsburgh Gunman, Kills 3 Police Officers

AP | RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI and DAN NEPHIN | Posted 05.05.2009 | Home


PITTSBURGH — A gunman wearing a bulletproof vest and "lying in wait" opened fire on officers responding to a domestic disturbance call Saturday,...