Politics of Hate category archive
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Methinks Atrios makes an excellent point or two.
Republican Family Values 0
(Warning: Poor sound quality, but still worth a listen.)
“Mean Girls” 0
Jamie Stiehm suggests that you skip the movie.
Watch the real mean girls in the House of Representatives instead.
What’s in a Word? 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Ricky Kendall asks (to paraphrase), if January 6 was not an insurrection, what is?
Methinks he is onto something.
A Notion of Immgrants 0
Methinks Atrios pretty much nails it.
Aside:
Today’s Republican Party understands buy-partisan. Indeed, it is a treasured Republican Family Value.
In contrast, it finds the concept of bipartisan repelling.
Russian Impulses 0
Thom talks with Heidi Siegmund Cuda about the mechanics of Russian interference in the 2016 election via the Disinformation Superhighway.
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
The True Believer 0
What became of “old enough to know better”?
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Farron discusses a Fox News reporter who called out a right-wing lie. (Yeah, I know, but stranger things have happened.)
See Foot, Shoot Foot, Nikki Foot 0
I linked earlier to PoliticalProf’s post regarding Nikki Halley’s white-washing the reason for the American Civil War.
Halley has since conceded that, yeah, maybe slavery did have a little bit to do with it.
Over at No More Mister Nice Blog, Steve M argues that said concession is not likely to help Halley with the Republican Party’s secessionist base. A snippet:
But Haley can’t do any of that, because her brand is “reasonable-seeming Republican.” She’s polling best in New Hampshire, where members of any party (or no party) can vote in the Republican primary, and where the Republicans are, on average, more moderate than they are in most of the country. Angry wingnuttery might alienate these voters, so she’s ruled it out.
The Rule of Lawless 0
In a letter to the editor of the South Jersey Times, Evan F. Grollman argues for enforcing the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution. He writes:
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Looking at recent shenanigans involving the North Carolina state supreme court, UNC law professor Gene Nichol suggests that they embody a simple principle: