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Right-Wing Extremism

Ann Coulter.

Note from Underground

I’m emerging from my spider hole, where I’ve been hard at work on that admiring profile of Michelle Malkin, to answer the request of some Swampland readers for comment on the latest about the fired US Attorneys. As Josh Marshall has reminded readers of TPM, back in mid-January I posted on Swampland about the firings. [...]

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Since you asked

A left-wing extremist exhibits many, but not necessarily all, of the following attributes: –believes the United States is a fundamentally negative force in the world. –believes that American imperialism is the primary cause of Islamic radicalism. –believes that the decision to go to war in Iraq was not an individual case of monumental stupidity, but [...]

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Self-Referential Feedback Loop–Relooped

Ezra’s response to my response to his response to Justin Fox here. Actually, one of the things I like most about blogging is the ability to acknowledge mistakes immediately, link to others, including readers, who make good arguments, and to publish additional thoughts…These “updates,” including this one, are not signs of being “embattled.” They are [...]

UPDATE: A bridge and a tightrope.

In my previous post, commenter Linda wonders whether I should have been more aggressive about connecting the dots: Just guessing here, but does it seem to you that the event was ‘long ago’ planned? Would Donna Brazile with some major league Civil Rights headliners be on the planning committee promoting Voters Rights? Since timing is [...]

A bridge and a tightrope.

While the commentariat was going on and on last week as though the implications of the Hillary-Barack spat was all about Hollywood and who it will support, those inside the campaign were telling me that their real concern was elsewhere–with the African-American vote. (Truth be told, as far as most voters are concerned, seeing a [...]