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Obama Against U.S. Anti-Muslim Bigotry

By | 06.04.09 | 9:34 am

In August 2006, after the U.K. thwarted terror attacks planned by al-Qaeda-inspired fanatics, George W. Bush remarked that the U.S. and its allies were “at war with Islamic fascists.” Bush’s use of the term, previously limited primarily to the sweatier precincts of the right-wing blogosphere, struck Muslims More…

FBI Ignored Repeated Complaints From Tiller’s Clinic About Murder Suspect

By | 06.04.09 | 8:18 am

How is it possible that the FBI was told repeatedly just days before the murder of Dr. George Tiller that Scott Roeder, now the leading suspect, had repeatedly broken federal law by vandalizing the women’s health clinic where Tiller worked, including gluing the locks of the clinic, and the FBI More…

Michele Bachmann’s At It Again

By | 04.16.09 | 10:46 am

A new transcript of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-Minn.) April 9 interview on San Francisco AM station KSFO yields yet another error:

On the station’s morning show, she recounted the 2006 controversy of the so-called “flying imams,” six Muslim clerics who were removed from a US Airways flight after More…