On the outs with mainstream pundits over “the Negro”, Cliven Bundy and his band of armed extremists are still hoping to spark a violent confrontation with the Feds that will go nationwide.
Here where I live, if you pull a gun on a law enforcement officer, things go down hill pretty fast. But out in Bundystan, as long as you’re a far right militia member and/or white supremacist, apparently it’s not a problem. At least until now. Apparently the FBI is starting to investigate the Bundy outlaws as part of “formal investigation into alleged death threats, intimidation and possible weapons violations.”
We wouldn’t have known anything about it if a reader hadn’t tipped us off that it happened. But in a congressional hearing this morning Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) left a Comcast executive basically speechless when he accused the company of conspiring to keep Glenn Beck off the airwaves in favor of Sharia Law in the form of Al Jazeera America. Watch.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) calls Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) “al Qaeda’s best friend in Congress.”
Amash is a fairly doctrinaire libertarian. So not surprisingly he’s very anti-NSA, anti-surveillance for a Republican. May or may not be your cup of tea. But perfectly legitimate positions. Amash is also Arab-American (of Christian Syrian and Palestinian extraction.) So it’s a slur on a couple different counts.
Just so wrong on so many levels.
As I mentioned, we’re going to be doing a sign up drive for Prime soon. So in The Hive we’re discussing with Prime members what they like, don’t like, why they subscribed and resubscribed. This captures one thing I’m kind of proud of – part of a member’s comment from one of those discussions …
I had zero interest in the Hive before I signed up, just wasn’t all that interested and did not think I would have the time for it. It has become one of my favorite things about the site. It is astonishing how much better a discussion can be when the people participating are actually interested in the heart of a topic and have respect for differing opinions. We all know how fragile that is, having seen it first hand.
The Hive is our Prime discussion forum.
Fox News goes out to find man on the street outraged about EPA porn-watchers, finds another outraged Fox News host. Watch.
Big seismic shifts this week in how Republicans grapple with the reality of Obamacare. Good analysis from Dylan Scott.
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Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC), one of the most vulnerable Democrats this cycle, chooses to go all in with a robust defense of Obamacare at today’s HHS confirmation hearing.
The Rialto Unified School District has now come forward to say that the class assignment in which 8th graders were supposed to argue whether the Holocaust was real or a vast hoax to make money was “horribly inappropriate.” As David Kurtz put it, no kidding.
But I’m not buying that we have the full story.