Timothy Mcveigh

Right Wing Extremists Should Be Barred From Military

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics


Casey Gane-McCalla

What is ironic is that while right wing pundits attack Islam as a cause for the horrific massacre, they continue to fuel the flames for right wing terrorists who have massacres of their own.

The Real Red Flag Raised By Fort Hood

David A. Love | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living


David A. Love

As a repository for violence, the military is not dealing with untreated mental illness among its ranks. The fact that Hasan was a mental health professional underscores the problem.

Beyond a Lingering Doubt: It's Time for a New Standard on Capital Punishment

Louis Klarevas | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics


Louis Klarevas

As a nation, we face a dilemma when it comes to capital punishment: No one wants to see an innocent person put to death -- but some criminals deserve to die for their offenses.

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.

Not Fun Change...

Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business


Stephen Gyllenhaal

It has struck me that those who are in charge -- from the White House, through the gleaming halls of Congress and around plump Wall Street -- all feel genuinely that they are right, that they are good.

Democrat Alan Grayson Calls Republicans "Knuckle-Dragging Neanderthals" on CNN. Was He Right? You Bet!

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics


Ronald B. Robinson

Being progressives and promoting a positive agenda of Socio-Spiritual Liberation and Joyful Justice doesn't mean being wimpy.

Oklahoma City Bombing Tapes Appear Edited: Attorney (VIDEO)

AP | By TIM TALLEY | Posted 09.27.2009 | Home


***Scroll down for video*** OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)-- Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma Ci...

Thomas Jefferson and "The Blood of Tyrants"

Josh Horwitz | Posted 10.17.2009 | Home


Josh Horwitz

Those who hold the belief that the 2nd Amendment gives them an individual right to take violent action have isolated Jefferson's "tree of liberty" quote in order to justify a radical ideology.

Guns, Guns, Everywhere

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics


Dennis A. Henigan

It is important not to treat these incidents of public gun-carrying as merely the misguided behavior of a few. It is more than that; the acting out of central tenets of the extremist "gun rights" ideology.

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...

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.

A Question for Dick Cheney: Should We Now Waterboard Tiller's Murderer?

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Roeder is claiming the now-infamous "ticking time bomb" scenario of what can only be termed domestic terrorism. Doesn't this mean that he should immediately be waterboarded?

Scott Roeder: Latest Guy With a Gun Who Made the Rules

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics


Josh Sugarmann

"The guys with the guns make the rules" was the rallying cry Wayne LaPierre of the NRA offered attendees at this year's CPAC convention.

Dick Cheney Is America's #1 Terrorist

Andy Ostroy | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics


Andy Ostroy

Cheney is setting the stage so that if a terrorist attack does occur again, he can place the entire blame on Obama's reversal of several "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding.

Fear and Loathing of Change

Shannyn Moore | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics


Shannyn Moore

I'm not a lawyer. I can't see a law school from my house. But I know the dark, twisted, sick, fetish language in the torture memos is not what America stands for.

Pennsylvania Avenue: Take 2

Mary Lou Song | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media


Mary Lou Song

I almost had to remind myself to breathe inside the Newseum. There was Patty Hearst's gun and jacket. Donald Brasco's watch and Amex Card. A press pass to Timothy McVeigh's execution.

A New Approach to Terrorism

Kerry Kennedy | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics


Kerry Kennedy

A war on terror which undermines the most basic values of society -- life, liberty, the rule of law -- is not worth waging if we end up creating a society which mirrors the repression we battled in the first place.

Farewell to a Washington Fixture

Murray Fromson | Posted 12.21.2008 | Media


Murray Fromson

I was hoping more would have been written, marking the demise of the Los Angeles Times' Washington bureau last week It certainly deserved more than a few lines of copy.

Unintentionally Humorous Right Wing Talking Points For The Summer

James Boyce | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics


James Boyce

The folks behind the Oklahoma City Bombing and the first World Trade Center attack were caught, prosecuted and in the case of Timothy McVeigh, executed. And then there's Osama.