I am a white woman (technically, translucent without a tan, but, that’s a personal problem). There has never been a time when I’ve felt the sting of judgment over something so irrevocable as my skin color. Not once have I sensed that someone was uncomfortable with my racial identity, even in ethnically diverse situations. I [...]
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The Reid affair is one conversation about race Republicans shouldn’t want to have.
Sarah Horowitz showed how the Left could save itself from self-destruction.
“They have ardent supporters who are nearly hysterical at the very election of President Barack Obama,” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse roared about his Republican opponents in the closing hours of the Senate health care debate on December 20. “The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups. It is unbearable [...]
Arabic-speaking Christians have been using the word “Allah” for God from time immemorial, and these Malay Christians, influenced by this in their non-Arab but Muslim society, have been doing so for decades. The whole idea of making this an issue at all was just another expression of Islamic supremacism. Or…
Arabic-speaking Christians have been using the word “Allah” for God from time immemorial, and these Malay Christians, influenced by this in their non-Arab but Muslim society, have been doing so for decades. The whole idea of making this an issue at all was just another expression of Islamic supremacism. Or…
A history lesson: “In late 1492 King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castille succeeded in driving the Muslims from Spain” – posted at a website This statement, so often made, seems at first glance both true, and innocuous. I mean, wasn’t that what happened? Wasn’t 1492 the year…
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The heavy hitters in our global Whac-a-Mole game, President Obama and U.S. Army General David Petraeus, have had their mallets confiscated by the Yemeni government. Maybe we should take the hint and stay out of there.
In part 1 and part 2 of this series I explained the futility of chasing al-Qaida [...]
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In all the time I’ve been covering Media Matters, I’ve only spotted a couple of female bylines attached to their “reports.”
The George Soros Steno Pool claims to employ women, but evidently they’re relegated to brewing the yerba mate. One Christine Schwen has been promoted, however — I guess because the usual “Limbaugh Wire” scribes (with [...]
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