It’s easy and cheap to grouse about Pakistan’s “will” to confront extremism in the tribal areas, but this Washington Post piece about how the Pakistani military is taking its sweet time to conduct its much-boasted-about military offensive in the tribal areas contains quite a dash of cold water:
“It’s
The fatal shooting allegedly by a known white supremacist at the Holocaust Memorial Museum Wednesday in Washington is the second murder apparently motivated by a hateful ideology that’s come to national attention in the last two weeks. James W. von Brunn, the 88-year-old suspect and More…
For example, this is not happening.
Andrew Lee Patterson identifies himself as the state leader of the National Socialist Movement, Oregon Unit, and said he has been a “storm trooper, first class” with the movement for about six months. Other unit leaders from around the state selected
The key bit of this story on a number of conservative House Republicans howling — sorry, proceeding to the floor of the world’s second-greatest deliberative body and speaking in measured tones — for the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano over the department’s right-wing extremism More…
Here’s a quick appendix to yesterday’s story about the civil war in the right-wing anti-terrorism blogosphere. I quoted Robert Spencer of JihadWatch as saying:
I wrote a book called ‘Religion of Peace’ — which [Little Green Footballs' Charles] Johnson wrote a favorable review of — and I
And the winner in the “Who Can Milk the Department of Homeland Security ‘Rightwing Extremist’ Report the Hardest” contest is … the Thomas More Law Center, which has filed a (hilarious) lawsuit against DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano.
Republicans put some effort into painting presidential candidate Barack Obama as an insufficient friend of American soldiers, with Exhibit A being his decision not to visit wounded soldiers in Germany. Once Obama became commander-in-chief, it became harder to argue that he hated his own troops. But the Department of More…
The Republican congressman from California who’ll be speaking at an Orange County Tea Party complains about the Department of Homeland Security report on right-wing extremism to The Washington Times:
The last time a liberal left administration tried to increase public apprehension about alleged right-wing extremism, they ended
Stephen Gordon whacks me for not understanding the fuss over the Department of Homeland Security report:
To help Dave find what’s wrong with the report, I’ll suggest a little mental exercise. Let’s break down one little piece of the report he provided: “…has likely spurred rightwing extremists—as well as
Most of the criticism of the Department of Homeland Security’s guide to right-wing extremism has been along the lines of Pamela Gellar’s panic about “the fascist blueprint to create a police state and legalize gulags.” But the American Legion is jumping in to give a patina of respectability to More…
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