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Outside of perhaps a drum circle or Phish concert, there are few things progressives enjoy more than dead people. It’s a fetish … It’s what makes some people love feet and makes Bill Clinton a chubby-chaser. The foot-fetish people are at least consistent – they are in to virtually all feet. But progressives’ fetishizing of dead people is very, very specific – they love dead black men who were killed by white men. Crime statistics show that if you’re the victim of a crime, particularly a violent one, it is highly likely the perpetrator looks like you. To a normal...

Actually the Democrats have been race baiting for decades. And it’s not going away. Using fear and race-polarizing agitation to drive minority voters to the polls is going to be the increasingly overt face of the Democratic Party. They can’t win any other way. What’s new is that the mainstream media has suddenly discovered all of this.Through the years, these same news outlets have wasted no time at all in spotting anything that even hints of Republican race baiting. Take the presidential campaign of 1988.Willie Horton was a black murder convict who raped a white woman and stabbed her boyfriend...

Last week, the president's lap dog blew his dog whistle. In case you didn't know, in politics a "dog whistle" is coded language that has a superficial meaning for everybody, but also a special resonance for certain constituencies. Using dog whistles lets politicians deny they meant to say anything nasty, bigoted or controversial. Speaking to the National Action Network the day after a testy but racially irrelevant exchange with Republican members of a House panel, Attorney General Eric Holder said, "The last five years have been defined ... by lasting reforms even in the face of unprecedented, unwarranted, ugly and...

"Washington (CNN) – Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, has been a member of Congress for almost two decades. Yet when he is walking down the street in Washington, D.C., at night and white women walk toward him, he says "I cross the street" to avoid making them uncomfortable. Cummings says he rarely speaks about race or what life is like as a black man

Does racial bias fuel Obama foes? How to tell? Is it because he's black? The question of whether race fuels opposition to President Barack Obama has become one of the most divisive topics of the election. It is sowing anger and frustration among conservatives who are labeled racist simply for opposing Obama's policies and liberals who see no other explanation for such deep dislike of the president. It is an accusation almost impossible to prove, yet it remains inseparable from the African-American experience. The idea, which seemed to die in 2008 when Obama became the first black president, is now...

Read the letter "Tea party takeover" from Al Tillman. Says it all.

Question No. 3: Why won't Democratic incumbent Steve Cohen debate Republican challenger Charlotte Bergmann for the 9th District House seat? Answer: Nancy Pelo... Oops. Sorry. I got carried away for a moment. The correct answer: Birthers, tea partiers and other kooks are controlling her campaign.

U.S. activist Rev. Jesse Jackson on Tuesday said his organization will target top energy companies like Exxon Mobil Corp. and ConocoPhillips in a push to create more jobs for women and minorities in the industry. Jackson said members of his Rainbow PUSH Coalition plan to buy stock in 20 of the world's largest energy companies. As investors, the group will seek change by attending annual meetings, calling for talks with the companies' chief executives and pressing for fairness hearings at the state level. "We intend to inject ourselves into the struggle for fair access to energy," Jackson told a news...

ENVIRONETDAILY Whites more to blame for 'global warming'? New study claims blacks at greater risk, but less responsible for climate change Posted: July 22, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Joe Kovacs © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A new study released by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation suggests rising temperatures will kill more black citizens than whites in the U.S., while claiming African-Americans are less responsible than others for causing so-called "global warming." The research, conducted by Oakland, Calif.-based group Redefining Progress, is being billed as the first-ever comprehensive examination of the health and economic impact of climate change on the black population....

Saudi sermon: O God, O God, destroy the tyrant JewsFBIS Report - Friday sermons broadcast by the Saudi Government media on 23 May 2003: [With thanks to www.mideastweb.org/mewnews1.htm ] SAUDI ARABIA: Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia TV1 in Arabic, official television station of the Saudi Government, at 0930 GMT carries a 20-minute live sermon from the holy mosque in Mecca. Shaykh Usamah Bin-Abdallah Khayyat delivers the sermon. He praises God, the messenger, and his companions and thanks God for revealing Islam to humanity as a way to salvation. He also urges Muslims to devote themselves to worshipping God, warning that...