See Me
If you are in New York City tonight, come check me out at the Brecht Forum at 7:30. I’ll be discussing the anti-immigration movement on a panel sponsored by the North American Congress on Latin America. Info is here.
I may be discussing the same topic on Democracy Now! tomorrow. Still waiting for confirmation…

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The Contrarian Delusion: How Hitchens Poisons Everything
Update: KKK paypal and friend of the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, Tony Perkins, has orchestrated the hacking of this post. In doing so, he has drawn greater attention to his links to and ideological support for white supremacists. The photo of Christopher Hitchens posing with the [...]

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Israeli Anti-Semitism
Paging Abe Foxman:
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Rabbi Avraham Levine never imagined that years after immigrating from Russia to Israel he would fall victim to a brutal anti-Semitic attack in the heart of the Jewish state.
But less than three months ago, he was beaten up by teenage skinheads as he walked home in the city of [...]

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The Klan is back and they’re taking orders from Michelle Malkin:

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Hitchens Still Dancing With Wolfowitz
Hitchens left the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in a petulant frenzy:
Christopher Hitchens, the writer and Vanity Fair columnist, walked out of the dinner at about the time Mr. Little got around to his Ronald Reagan impression.
“The event was disgraceful, so lame and mediocre that it is beyond parody,” he said later. [...]

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Pulling an Imus
Tommy Thompson: Earning money is part of the “Jewish tradition.”

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Hitchens, Still Dirty Dancing With Wolfowitz
I had a strong suspicion Hitchens would leap to his boy Wolfowitz’s defense. Finally here it is.
Some choice lines:
The relationship between the two of them is none of my damn business (or yours), but it has always been very discreet…
Aha, you say, but why did Wolfowitz take so long [...]

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I Thought Cho Seung-Hui Did It
Franklin Graham thinks otherwise:
Evangelist Franklin Graham said Cho Seung-Hui, the killer at Virginia Tech University, was “filled with evil,” and that Satan is responsible for Monday’s mass killings of 32 people at the Blacksburg, Va., campus.

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The Enablers of Imus: A Study in Careerism
Mahatma Ghandi called forgiveness “the virtue of the strong.” Certain presidential candidates and political insiders pride themselves on forgiveness. They are so forgiving, in fact, that they were willing to forgive Don Imus, the nationally syndicated radio kingpin with a long and well-documented history of bigoted remarks.
Last [...]

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Regent Scrubs its Site
A reader tip from JStraight:
Regent University has scrubbed from its web site any mention of its 150 graduates that work for the Bush administration.
Google cache has a screen capture from April 6 2007 of a Regent University’s “facts” web page where they proudly boast “150 graduates serving in the Bush Administration”
Their current [...]

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