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Marcus Epstein is Free at Last

The saga of the Pat Buchanan and Tom Tancredo employee who pleaded guilty to a hate crime is over, for now.
At about 10 am on July 8th, in the District of Columbia Superior Court, Judge Anderson dismissed the case against Marcus Epstein, who had pled guilty to a class 6 felony hate crime; the prosecutor [...]


Bay Buchanan Speaks Out Against the ‘Lynching’ of Marcus Epstein

Bay Buchanan, whom I interviewed this week about troubled anti-immigration activist Marcus Epstein, has published a fuller account of his problems and a broadside against the — wait for it — “lynching” that ensued.
The stories about Marcus were for the most part inaccurate and incomplete.  Yet, the left wing bloggers ran with this little factoid [...]


The Denver Post Covers the ‘Karate Chop’

Michael Riley got former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) on the phone to ask about the just-revealed assault charges against Marcus Epstein, the executive director of his Team America PAC.
He said Monday that he didn’t know about the incident until it surfaced on the website of One People’s Project, an anti-racism group.
“I’m assuming that the only [...]


Tancredo, Buchanan Bruised by Racist ‘Karate Chop’

Recent revelations that a Tancredo and Buchanan staffer pled guilty to assaulting an African-American woman makes their Sotomayor attacks a tough sell.


Bay Buchanan Responds to Tancredo Speechwriter Hate Crime Scandal

I just talked to Bay Buchanan, the co-chairman of Team America PAC and president of the American Cause, who is sticking by executive director (of both groups) Marcus Epstein after this weekend’s revelations about his 2007 arrest for karate-chopping a black woman while yelling a racial epithet.
“I have been very impressed at the courage he [...]


Tom Tancredo Staffer Pleads Guilty to Karate-Chopping Black Woman

For years, conservative writer and activist Marcus Epstein has worked with the mainstream of the immigration restrictionist movement. He wrote speeches for former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) during his presidential bid, and he’s still working as the executive director of Tancredo’s Team America PAC, alongside Bay Buchanan. Epstein has been targeted for years by civil [...]


Tom Tancredo: Send Grover Norquist to Jail!

I talked briefly to former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) last night, before he addressed the inaugural meeting of Young Americans for Western Civilization, a new paleoconservative group.
“They absolutely did anything they could to stop me from coming here,” said Tancredo. “They hated the idea. That’s been the way they’ve done this for the last five [...]