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CiC Vs. CiC: You Decide
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — In just over a month a completely different country is mutating … but that’s the bottom of the page … One sent them into bloody wars and told them it was going to be horrific and there couldn’t be a timeline or date for ending it. One said he would bring them out of “harms way” , then saying this about them in the next breath: and also promised to empty that small prison facility on an island off mainland Cuba of all the poor misunderstood and ‘tortured’ bloodthirsty terrorist thugs THEY fought so hard, and some dying in the process, to capture and put ...

BLOWHARD NEW YORK TIMES CONTRIBUTOR A PARANOID LOON
Right Wing Nut House — His name is Charles Blow - no really, it is. I don’t know exactly what he does for a living because this op-ed that appears in the New York Times today doesn’t give us a clue. Perhaps he is the official liberal hand wringer. Or maybe he is the designated hysteria monger for the left. Whatever he does, it is apparent he needs a change of underpants after trying to scare the crap out of the left with visions of bloody revolution, right wing terrorism, and conservative mobs running amuck: Lately I’ve been consuming as much conservative media as possible (interspersed with shots of Pepto-Bismol) to get a better sense of the mind and mood of the right. My read: They’re ...

Talk Shows and Cop Killers
TPMCafe — Richard Poplawski, the Pittsburgh Cop killer had been worried for weeks. He had abandoned his own attempts at talk show fame (an Internet talk show) because nobody called in. But still the fears he heard on Right Wing talk radio must have haunted him. Poplawski's friends at the scene described him as a young man who thought the Obama administration would ban guns. One friend, Edward Perkovic, said Poplawski feared "the Obama gun ban that's on the way" and "didn't like our rights being infringed upon." As Charles Blow pointed out last week the calls from the Right for "revolution" are only increasing. ...

Why Obama Derangement Syndrome Has Stopped Being Funny
The Moderate Voice — By SHAUN MULLEN GUEST VOICE The murder of three Pittsburgh police officers last week by a young man who bought into right-wing lunatic fringe fears that the president is going to outlaw guns is an extreme manifestation of Obama Derangement Syndrome. But to suggest, as one right-of-center commentator has, that people like myself who make such connections are irrational is the grown-up equivalent of a child closing his eyes, putting fingers in his ears and chanting nothings to try to drown out a parent or teacher. Presidential derangement syndromes have a pungent history and go back at ...

Josh Horwitz: Insurrectionism Goes "Mainstream"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — For years, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) has warned Americans about the dangers of insurrectionist ideology: the idea that individuals have the "right," in the words of National Rifle Association (NRA) CEO Wayne LaPierre, "to take whatever measures necessary, including force, to abolish oppressive government." CSGV has argued that not only does insurrectionism degrade the democratic values and institutions that protect the freedoms that we enjoy as Americans; it also poses a direct threat to the very existence of our constitutional democracy. 13 years after the Oklahoma City bombing, insurrectionism was in the national headlines again ...

Destroying America to Save It
Commondreams.org Views — It's not only neocons who desperately need enemies , like Ahmadinejad, to succeed so that they'll have an excuse to bomb bomb bomb Iran, or any place they damn well please. It's also the paleocons and the concons (conspiracy conservatives), or whatever Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's bin Laden unit, could be called these days. Hard to categorize and hard to completely dismiss, Scheuer is the thickly bearded guy who's been all over the media the last few years calling his cable hosts "Sir," speaking out against the Iraq war, and making the sensible case that one reason "they hate us" is because of our support of Israel--not unlike paleo Pat Buchanan. But ...