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There was a time in American politics when the “race card” was an effective Establishment strategy against arguments it could not refute logically. Regardless of how unrelated an issue may have been to race, the Establishment would try to make a connection in order to avoid confronting the troublesome argument. Alternatively, they might completely ignore the issue at hand and simply present evidence that the proponent himself was racist. So distasteful is racism to most Americans that the mere suggestion that a politician might be racist was enough to condemn any idea, policy, or position he might take, whatever its...

LOS ANGELES -- Atlanta pitching coach Roger McDowell apologized Wednesday in response to a fan's complaint that McDowell spewed homophobic comments, made crude sexual gestures and threatened to knock out his teeth with a bat before the Braves played the San Francisco Giants over the weekend. "I am deeply sorry that I responded to the heckling fans in San Francisco on Saturday," McDowell said in a statement. "I apologize to everyone for my actions."

Video Link Here LONDON (Reuters Life!) – Mexico's ambassador in London has written a furious letter to BBC bosses to complain about "offensive and xenophobic" comments made by presenters of the popular TV motoring show "Top Gear." Ambassador Eduardo Medina Mora was infuriated by "insults" made by presenters Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May during Sunday's episode of the cult show, which has been sold to television channels around the world. "Why would you want a Mexican car? Because cars reflect national characteristics don't they?," said Hammond as they discussed the Mexican sports car, the Mastretta. "Mexican cars...

Students have vowed to protest or block North Carolina State University's Free Expression Tunnel until the university's chancellor gives guarantees that no hate speech will be allowed there. About 40 students painted the tunnel black overnight to protest racist and homophobic graffiti involving President Barack Obama painted there Sunday night. Slurs and the name "Obama" were painted over the picture of a black man. "It's not about the N-word. It's not about Obama. It's about racism, period,"

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WISH) - Indiana University Police in Bloomington are looking for a group of 5 men and 3 women who they say spewed hate speech at four students of Asian descent then beat and robbed two of them. The attacks happened in Forest Quad on campus.

Wake Forest, N.C. — Some Wake Forest residents woke up Saturday to find their neighborhood spray painted with racial slurs and other graffiti. Police calls about the vandalism in the Carriage Run subdivision, off Ligon Mill Road, came in around 3:15 a.m. Racial slurs were spray painted in red on a stop sign and in the roadway of Coach Lantern Avenue and Kemble Drive. A house and car on Kemble Ridge Drive were also spray painted. Investigators said they don't believe that a specific person was targeted. No arrests have been made. Public Works crews were sent out to cover...

Harry Reid’s egregiously inappropriate comment from the 2008 campaign that Obama is ”a light-skinned” African-American who “lacked a Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one” is causing quite a stir. But let’s be clear: had any Republican said it, he or she would be chased from office by Monday. But Harry Reid is no Trent Lott and the standards are different for Democrats. (John McCormack points out that even Obama had a different standard in 2002.) In this case, Obama is trying to snuff out the controversy, declaring: "Harry Reid called me today and apologized for an unfortunate comment...

South Africa's Jewish Board of Deputies has lodged a complaint of hate speech with the country's Human Rights Commission against Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Fatima Hajaig of the ruling African National Congress. In remarks tape-recorded during a pro-Palestinian rally outside Johannesburg at the height of the recent fighting in Gaza, Hajaig can be heard saying that "Jewish money" controls the US and other nations. "No matter which government comes into power, whether Republican or Democratic, whether Barack Obama or George Bush, the control of America, just like the control of most Western countries, is in the hands of Jewish money,"...

Muslim students are more likely to get attacked for their religion on the street, in stores and in restaurants than in the public schools, a new study shows. Although more than one in three Muslim students said they had been hit with ethnic slurs in the past year, only one in six said it happened in school. "Sometimes I'll hear something, like, 'Your people are terrorists,'" said Priscilla Mensah, a 16-year-old junior at Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene. "Most people are more informed, and I try not to take it personally." More than 600 students from 90 public...

A few more handfuls of dirt chucked at the ‘Cuda via the Corner, and one last shot at piecing together who the leaker(s) might be:

There they go again. Batting the “L word” and the “G word” about the politosphere. No, not those “L” and “G” words. This column is G-rated. I’m talking, first, about the “L” word being trotted out by the Left, the Obama campaign, and even the mainstream media (a.k.a. the “MSM”) – in multiple languages, no less. “Lie.” The term reared its ugly head in several quarters to describe Sarah Palin’s claim that she “told Congress thanks, but no thanks, to that Bridge to Nowhere.” Well, Palin undoubtedly supported the famous bridge from Ketchikan to its island airport when she ran...

The Australian Open erupted in ugly violence last night as police doused tennis fans with capsicum spray. Panic gripped Margaret Court Arena as spectators gasped for air after coming into contact with the spray. Many ran for the exits and the match had to be stopped. Police used the spray to try to subdue fans of Greek player Konstantinos Economidis who became upset when police tried to evict members of their cheer squad. Police believed they were leading racial chanting against Chile's Fernando Gonzalez. Women and children were also hit by the spray. One woman said she had suffered an...

"JEW MOTHER****ER" AND "N***ER" The Foulmouthed & Lying Clintons by Reinhold Aman, Ph.D. Millions of Americans still admire Bill and Hillary Clinton, whose habitual lies, gutter language, anti-Semitic outbursts, and anti-black slurs have been documented by reliable writers but which have been -- and still are -- routinely suppressed by the so-called liberal media. This article serves to counter and expose that shameless misleading of the public about the true character of America's two supreme actors and how they talk in private. Lest you think I am a Republican, conservative, or member of the imaginary "vast right-wing conspiracy": I am...

A girl who wears an Islamic head scarf says a fellow student at Blaine's Westwood Middle School called her a terrorist. Two other Muslim students say food and milk were thrown at them in the cafeteria. And an assistant principal who talked with a Muslim student about the lunchroom spat allegedly made inappropriate references to Islam. CAIR-Minnesota, a civil rights group, raised the allegations Thursday and asked the school to investigate. The request got a swift reply from Don Helmstetter, superintendent of the Spring Lake Park School District, who called the allegations "serious" and said an investigation began minutes after...

NEW YORK — Syndicated talk-radio personality Don Imus apologized Friday for calling members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" during a segment yesterday in his "Imus in the Morning" show. Imus and his producer and on-air sidekick, Bernard McGuirk, went on to further attack the black members of the team, calling them "jigaboos and wannabees." In his apology, Imus called his comments "insensitive and ill-conceived." "It was completely inappropriate, and we can understand why people were offended," he told listeners at the opening of his broadcast Friday morning. He further called the comments "thoughtless and stupid" and...

Over the past several months, I've seen the Roman Catholic church,its beliefs,its clergy, and its members sneered at,smeared with vicious exaggerations,and deliberately lied about. I've read these things on the web and wondered: " Where are the Catholics ? Why aren't we hearing from them ? Why isn't their viewpoint appearing ? You received a little tap on your cheek or shoulder- during confirmation to remind you of your duty as "soldiers of Christ". Did that little tap so unnerve you, that you can only cower in silence when bullies from the Left and Right denounce your faith ? It's...

Mayor Ken Corley of Brazoria, Texas, has proposed a city ordinance that would make using the word in an offensive fashion a crime equal to disturbing the peace and punishable by a fine of up to $500. The 62-year-old mayor, who is a self-described "middle-class white boy," came up with the idea after watching Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton discuss banning the word on TV after "Seinfeld" comedian Michael Richards used the word in an act last November.

Hey Rosie! It ain’t funny no more By John David Powell It is encouraging to see that someone is challenging Rosie O’Donnell’s racial slurs. What is not encouraging, however, is the small amount of attention her racism received in the mainstream media. Given the lack of public outrage, one would surmise that it is never okay to use the N word, but it is open season for the C word, especially if said on national television. Here is what happened. Actor Danny DeVito recently made the rounds of talk shows to promote his new movie. His apparent drunken state was...

John Kerry says he's "sorry people misunderstood him." Horsefeathers,John: we understood you loud and clear !

The NYPD's highest-ranking uniformed cop stood outside a Brooklyn station house screaming, "Get the f- - -ing Jews out of here! I want heads rolling!" a city councilman charged yesterday. Chief of Department Joseph Espo sito shouted the slur as cops in riot gear struggled with hundreds of young Hasids rampaging throughout Borough Park, setting fires and smashing windows Tuesday night to protest the arrest of an elderly Ortho dox Jew, Councilman Simcha Felder said. Esposito then turned to Felder and said, "Simcha, if you don't want to help me, get the f- - - out of here," the councilman...