usatoday.com - 10/21/2008
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Derek Black, left, gets help from his father, Don, on his Internet radio show Sunday in Lake Worth Fla. Don Black is a former Ku Klux Klan leader, and Derek holds a seat on the Palm Beach County, Fla., GOP committee.
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White supremacists target middle America
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... groups are going more mainstream," says Jack Levin, a Northeastern University criminologist who studies hate crime. "They are eliminating the sheets and armbands.
The groups realize if they want to be attractive to middle-class types, they need to look middle-class." From 2006 to 2007, the number of such groups rose by 5% to 888, says the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which tracks them through news reports and other sources. The number is up 48% since 2000. Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-20-hategrou... The FBI knows of about 24 domestic ...
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
QandO —
I figured it was about time for these sorts of stories to begin surfacing: Supremacist groups are on the rise as they market themselves to middle America, according to leaders of the groups and organizations that monitor them. They are fueled by the debate over illegal immigration and a struggling economy.Yes, it is white supremacist time in the news cycle again. Some things are as predictable as sunrise. I assume militia stories can’t be far behind. And, of course, that will set the framework to tar anyone who ...
USA Today Story on White Supremacists Subtly Suggests GOP Home to Bigots
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... In her October 21 article, "White supremacists target middle America," USA Today's Marisol Bello took a look at how hate groups are trying to go more "mainstream" by ditching Nazi armbands, brown shirts and white sheets and going for a more "middle class" look. While there is merit in covering such a story, Bello and/or her editors unfortunately chose to color the piece in a way that reflected negatively on the GOP by featuring with the article the photo shown at right with this caption: ...
White supremacy on the march
Newshoggers.com —
... "It
appears they are tapping into and fanning the flames of mainstream
America's fear of immigrants," says Ann Van Dyke of the Pennsylvania
Human Relations Commission. "They are increasingly using the language
of Main Street, things like, 'We want safe communities to raise our
children.' " (Link) ...
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Target: London
julescrittenden.com 10/21/2008 — Comply with United Nations demands re nukes? Nah ... target London. Iranian strategy for hanging in there and averting an attack in the waning days of the Bush administration. MEMRI:
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Do we need the middle class?
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 12/18/2008 — Kevin Drum writes that
One way or another, there's really no way for the economy to grow strongly and consistently unless middle-class consumers spend more, and they can't spend more unless they make more.
This is a widely held view, and I'm as much ...
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Down the ballot: On their own —
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