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Video LinkVideo of interviews at Fersuson, MO.This is shocking. I didn't think it had gotten this bad. Language warning, of course.

Roberto Rodriguez Anti-immigrants like to bandy about the phrase: "What is it about illegal you don't understand?" And they go ballistic over "amnesty" at the thought of treating all human beings equally and humanely. Here's a question that should help clarify the meaning of "illegal": In U.S. history, which of the following were not simply common practice, but legal? A. Forced removal of native peoples and the theft of their lands. B. Slavery, segregation and racial discrimination, and the denial of voting rights to women. C. Mass internment of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent and the mass repatriation of U.S....

In February 1899, British novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem entitled “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands.” In this poem, Kipling urged the U.S. to take up the “burden” of empire, as had Britain and other European nations. Published in the February, 1899 issue of McClure’s Magazine, the poem coincided with the beginning of the Philippine-American War and U.S. Senate ratification of the treaty that placed Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba, and the Philippines under American control. Theodore Roosevelt, soon to become vice-president and then president, copied the poem and sent it to his...

Hartford Advocate: My Own Private Orwell Why the high priest of dystopia still matters My Own Private Orwell Why the high priest of dystopia still matters Why the high priest of dystopia still matters by Alan Bisbort - June 19, 2003 Also see cover art PETER M. MORLOCK PHOTO ILLUSTRATION Orwell with his mother in 1903 Orwell's fether in 1903 Before an Eton game, 1921 While he was still Eric Blair, late 1920s One of Orwell's early novels, 1936 Orwell in Wallington Churchyard, 1939 The animal fable that made Orwell famous, 1945 Had he lived to be an old man...

'Take up the White Man's burden," Rudyard Kipling implored the Americans in 1899 as they began ruling the Philippines, hoping that they would better the lot of the inhabitants, whom he characterised as "new-caught, sullen peoples,/ Half devil and half child". That poem has wrecked Kipling's standing with bien-pensant opinion ever since, but as the United States now bravely embarks on its much more modern form of empire-lite, his reinstatement as a serious political figure - as opposed to merely a pre-eminent phrase-coiner - has received a huge boost. The Elizabeth Longford Historical Biography prize has been awarded to David...

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