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Agroup of masked neo-Nazis marched through the capital of Wisconsin on Saturday afternoon waving swastikas around, shouting racial slurs at onlookers, and chanting “there will be blood.” About two dozen men wearing red shirts that identified them as members of Blood Tribe—a white supremacist group that has been trying to make a name for itself since 2021 by targeting Jews, people of color, and the LGBTQ community—took part in the march in Madison, according to local reports. Footage from the scene showed them standing in formation to perform a Nazi salute while onlookers mostly mocked them and called them “disgusting.”...

President Obama's complete lack of concern for the fraudulent science associated with global warming is contrasted with the common sense of Sarah Palin. The gutsy Alaskan suggested that Obama ought to hold his horses on the whole climate change thing until The real verdict is in. Of course, the smartest man in the world will have none of that. With the outrageous news of deceit, fraud and suppression of opposing evidence by top climate change "scientists," many conservatives had expected to see the story unfold a little differently (with actual reporting and investigating). Global warming, aka, climate change has been...

Millions of words have been written as to the motivations of voters. Particularly in close elections, as in the 2000 presidential contest, pundits and laypeople alike have speculated on why people voted for whom. The exit poll has been a major tool in this speculation. But the speculation misses the mark by far. It's increasingly obvious, for example, that none of the so-called theories can explain President Bush's popularity, such as it is. Even at this date in his presidency, after all that has happened, the president's popularity hovers at around 50 percent -- an astonishingly high figure, I believe,...

In The Claremont Review of Books, Christopher Flannery addresses what he says is the liberals' "increasingly desperate effort to discover or create a Rush Limbaugh of the Left." Liberal radio is not much fun, he writes in summarizing the reaction gleaned from friends, observers and critics. "Compared to El Rushbo — ever buoyant, larger than life, overflowing with conservative joie de vivre — the lefty pretenders appeared, to friend and foe alike, anemic, wan, somehow depressing," he says. "In a word, grim." The problem might be America's success, he says. "Since at the same time America shows disturbing signs of...

War may lead to free PalestineBy Timothy Garton Ash Thursday, Apr 10, 2003,Page 9 "Free Palestine" said the placards held up by some marchers on the anti-war demonstrations. Well, here's a surprise for them: this bloody mess of a war may result in a free Palestine. Let me explain, through this extract from the 2020 edition of the Oxford History of the Contemporary World: "Curiously, the Iraq war can now be seen as the turning-point in progress towards an independent Palestinian state. Of course American forces, with their overwhelming technological superiority, succeeded militarily in defeating Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, but,...