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President Reagan read the story about the cross burning in his morning Washington Post. A black family in College Park, Md., had just won a civil suit against a young Ku Klux Klan leader who had been convicted of terrorizing them five years earlier. Reagan’s deputy press secretary, Larry Speakes, said the president was jarred by what had happened to Phillip and Barbara Butler. “That was the first thing on his mind this morning,” Speakes told The Post on May 3, 1982. White House Chief of Staff James Baker and Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver walked into the Oval...

Another vicious teen brawl erupted inside a McDonald’s location in Brooklyn, New York, on Friday — and innocent people may have gotten hurt.

In an e-mail to supporters yesterday (and on his Tumblr), filter-deficient Florida congressman Alan Grayson, as is his wont, suggested that the t in tea party stands for a burning cross. As to his assertion that the tea party is actually "no more popular than the Klan," 26 percent of Americans support the tea party according to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll, and we couldn't find any polls measuring support for the KKK but ... it's probably lower than that. Grayson does not offer a source for the claim in his e-mail. Instead, it was hyperlinked to a campaign-donations...

Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson sent out a fundraising email with a burning cross to compare the tea party to the Klu Klux Klan. The Florida congressman, who was known for his over-the-top antics in the House during a previous tenure in Congress, also excerpted a transcript of a recent appearance on MSNBC’s “Politics Nation w/ Al Sharpton” in which he declared that, after the government shutdown, “the tea party is no more popular than the Klan.” In the email, the burning cross is used as a “t” to spell out “tea party.” See part of the email below:

<p>Earlier this evening at NewsBusters, Tim Graham noted that the Washington Post gave space, in an item entitled "Reagan Historians to Decry 'Ahistorical Caricature' as Racist in 'The Butler' Movie," to refute the false portrayal of the Gipper in that film.</p>

A family of Barack Obama supporters awakened this morning to find a burned 6-foot cross on the front lawn of their home in northern Warren County, police said. The charred cross was partly wrapped with a homemade congratulatory banner that declared "President Obama Victory '08" and had been stolen from the lawn the night before, police said.

KENNESAW, Ga.--Is the history of our great nation important to you? Union Gen. William T. Sherman said of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, "After all, I think Forrest as the most remarkable man our 'Civil War' produced on either side." This came from a man who was once a foe of Forrest on the field of battle. Why do some folks attack America's heritage? Several years ago, attempts were made to change the name of Forrest Park in Memphis, Tenn. Now, there are people trying to change the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Fla. But was...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A St. Johns County man pleaded guilty to burning a cross in his own front yard in an effort to intimidate a black family that was considering buying a house in his Hastings neighborhood, according to WJXT-TV. Neal Chapman Coombs, 50, admitted to setting fire to a cross in January while a family was negotiating to purchase the house across the street. According to the plea agreement, when the black family came to inspect the house, he made a derogatory remark to one of the children, then poured something flammable on a cross and set it on...

Farewell to Principle The Republican Party has lost his soul. First we all thought that it was just W's administration tryin to rally some hardcore social conservative support in order to improve his plummeting popularity. Well, as it turns out, the Republican strategy for this fall's elections will be based on fear (a republican classic) and big government. Of course republican leaders won't say that they want a bigger, stronger and more oppressive government, but their recent strategy certainly suggests so. For example, flag burning. Even though it's true that not all Congress republicans advocated for such an asinine...

Couple Finds Crosses Burning Outside Trenton Home Detectives Await Return Of Evidence From Crime Lab TRENTON, Mich. -- A biracial couple that moved to a Trenton neighborhood two weeks ago received a harsh welcome this weekend, Local 4 reported. The man who lives at the home with his wife and 1-year-old daughter told the station that the family woke to find a cross burning outside their daughter's window two days in a row. "I thought it was a dream," he said. "I just actually couldn't believe that people would do something like that." Police caught two men leaving the area...

Durham Leaders Gather To Discuss Cross BurningsPOSTED: 11:25 am EDT May 30, 2005 DURHAM, N.C. -- Leaders in Durham gathered Sunday night to plan an event in response to the three crosses that were burned last week. But what was supposed to be a forum, turned into a heated discussion. "We have to be intelligent enough to make decisions that will keep the community calm," Reverend G.I. Allison said. But to many who were present, Durham's cross burnings were symptomatic of a problem that they believe already existed. "We have to have a conversation about how race is destroying the...

More than 300 Muslim protestors set fire to a wooden cross outside the American Embassy in London last Friday 20th May. The crowd, led by Omar Bakri Muhammad and Yassar al-Siri, were protesting against the alleged desecration of a Qur’an by American military interrogators at Guantanamo Bay. This followed claims by Newsweek magazine that a copy of the Qur’an had been put down a toilet. American and British flags were also burnt, and the protestors chanted calls for violence against the US and UK. Amongst the protestors were about 50 women, some of whom had brought their children. At the...

www.NoDNC.com Conscientious Americans (whether liberal or conservative) have got to be wondering what is going on with the racist liberals? Where is the black caucus? And why does the liberal left have such a passionate hatred of successful minorities? It's called racism, and it has existed for a long time in the liberal left disguised under politically correct terms. I've known for some time about the racist tendencies of the left, dressed in the drag clothes of "diversity" and "multiculturalism"--, but now it's rearing its ugly head. Within two day of writing the article "How long before Liberals dust off...

What? In Liberal, tolerant, inclusive, diversity-loving New York? I'd expect this in, say, Crawford, Texas. Awakened by a loud bang and the ring of their doorbell, an interracial couple peered out the front window of their Long Island home at 3 a.m. yesterday and saw a cross burning on the front lawn.

<p>A sharply divided Virginia Supreme Court struck down a state law against cross-burning Friday, saying such acts of bigotry are a protected form of speech.</p> <p>In a 4-3 ruling, the court threw out the convictions of three people in two cases. One involved the burning of a cross at a Ku Klux Klan rally; the other involved an attempted burning in the back yard of a black person.</p>

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Teens try to burn cross on man's lawn Sara Leaming Staff writer Several teenagers were caught by an Elk, Wash., resident Sunday while trying to burn a cross in his front yard, the Spokane County Sheriff's Office said. The man heard a noise outside his home Sunday morning in the 39000 block of North Hardesty Road and looked outside to see a cross on his front lawn, said sheriff's spokesman Cpl. Dave Reagan. The man ran outside and saw three teenagers riding away from his home on bicycles, and two more teenagers approaching, Reagan said. The resident stopped the two...

<p>SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- A pastor who awoke to find a cross ablaze in his family's front yard said Sunday he hopes to speak with the teenagers accused of setting the fire to tell them they are forgiven.</p> <p>Pastor Jason Martin, who is black, said he would like to talk to the boys to offer guidance, if they are willing to listen.</p>

A federal appeals court sided with the Justice Department yesterday in overruling a North Carolina judge who had decided that a man convicted of cross-burning could avoid prison time because he had been provoked into the act. Robert Nelson May and an accomplice were accused of erecting a cross 20 feet from the home of an interracial couple in Gastonia, N.C., and setting it on fire in 1999. Prosecutors said the pair sat in lawn chairs drinking beer while the cross burned. They had previously taunted the black victim verbally, using a racial epithet that they also wrote on a...

<p>Christopher Dale Easley, a 22-year-old parolee, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Sacramento federal court to race-based hate crimes in connection with a cross burning three weeks ago on an African American family's front yard in the Shasta County town of Anderson.</p>