Suicidal Maniacs?
Fred Thompson is the emerging for reasons I don’t quite understand as the Great Conservative (read: White) Hope. His recent comments on immigration offer a penetrating preview of his campaign rhetoric:
“Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to [...]
“I’m My Kid’s Mom!”
Sometimes childrens’ Myspace pages say more about their parents then themselves. The pathetic saga of Deryk Schlessinger, whose MySpace page contained racist rants and photos of tortured Army detainees, continues to unfold as his mother, “Dr.” Laura Schlessinger, is called to account for her constant radio refrain, “I’m my kid’s mom!” Deryk’s [...]
Diary of a Christian Terrorist
Visitors to Mark David Uhl’s Myspace page will quickly learn that Uhl is a student at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, that he is a devoted Christian, that his name means “Mighty Warrior” — and that he likes Will Smith’s saccharine tear-up-the-club track, “Switch.” Uhl reveals his career ambitions on his page [...]
A White Nationalist’s Brownest Friend
I wasn’t surprised when I checked the website of America’s brownest white supremacist, Michelle Malkin, and found no mention of Mark David Uhl, the Liberty University ROTC student who planned to kill the deranged Phelps family with explosives. Uhl declared his intention to commit acts at least tantamount to terrorism, and [...]
Agent of Intolerance
In my latest, a short history of Jerry Falwell’s exploitation of race to galvanize the Christian right, I note that neither the Washington Post or New York Times mentioned Falwell’s segregationist activism in their obituaries — a glaring oversight if I ever saw one.
Anyway, here’s my piece:
Jerry Falwell, found unconscious in his office [...]
Farewell, Falwell
Jerry Falwell is dead. I’m working on an obit for the Nation. For now, here is a retrospective of the Rev’s greatest hits, courtesy of the Carpetbagger Report:
March 1980: Falwell tells an Anchorage rally about a conversation with President Carter at the White House. Commenting on a January breakfast meeting, Falwell claimed to have [...]
Dobson Does Iran
I report for Raw Story:
President George W. Bush met privately with Focus on the Family Founder and Chairman James Dobson and approximately a dozen Christian right leaders last week to rally support for his policies on Iraq, Iran and the so-called “war on terror.”
“I was invited to go to Washington DC to meet [...]
Judi’s “Jew Boy”
Lloyd Grove on Judi Giuliani’s divorce of Bruce Nathan, aka Husband Number 2:
Bruce, in his own court filings, claimed that Judi had kidnapped their child and branded her an “unfit mother†and a “social climber†whose “‘main goal’ in life was being involved with whatever was ‘the in thing’ at the moment. [...]
You Ain’t Cause You’re Not
Brian Farmer of the John Birch Society calls my credibilty into question:
At the same time, he dismisses the North American Union as an extreme conspiracy theory, despite the mountain of evidence produced by the likes of Lou Dobbs and the John Birch Society, which only serves to damage his credibility even [...]
“Deborah VonSprecken said Giuliani’s campaign backed out of the event at her home after deciding she and her husband did not fill the bill for the candidate’s talk about the so-called “death tax.”
“They checked our assets, and since we’re not considered millionaires, they canceled,” she said.
VonSprecken told her local newspaper, “Why would Rudy Giuliani not [...]
