TPM: "Conservative radio host Bryan Fischer on Wednesday doubled down on his "Muslims have no first amendment rights" comments from last month, this time arguing that the United States should "restrict immigration from Islamic countries." ........................."

I've always avoided the subject of the Westboro Baptist Church, for a few reasons. For one, I didn't want to write something in anger, which has proven difficult to manage at times.

TPM: "Ann Coulter appeared in good spirits on last night's Hannity- "Obamacare," to her the cornerstone of the Obama administration's achievements, was deemed unconstitutional.

"Palestinian Authority security officials have detained a meat dealer on suspicion of selling land to Jews, Palestinian media outlets reported Friday.

"Just moments after the new year began, a bomb outside a church in Alexandria killed 21 Coptic Christians. A week later, a Pakistani governor was murdered for standing by a Christian convict. The two cases dramatically illustrate the worsening plight of Christians in the Orient.

"If you thought the Harry Potter series was an innocent children's fantasy story, you're wrong, an Iranian movie producer says: In reality, the Harry Potter books and movies are part of a "Zionist plot" to "spread their poison."

"She claims that she knew of the star's alleged intolerance far before anyone else.

"Each week, Mahmoud Habbash, the Palestinian Authority's minister of religious affairs, sends an e-mail to mosques across the West Bank. It contains what amounts to a script for the Friday sermon that every imam is required to deliver.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The number of hate crimes reported in Florida last year reached their lowest levels since 1990. Law enforcement agencies in the state reported 148 hate crimes in 2009, well below the annual average of 262 hate crimes.

According to WNYC, "Until now, investigators have maintained there were four victims that night, two men and two teenagers. But the grand jury has named two new victims, Bryan Almonte and Brian Cepeda.

This is a long article making several points, the most critical of which is not made until the very end, so I hope you will read it all the way through. Thanks, Mal

I recently saw an article with the title, "Have all of you Progressive-Socialist-Democrats finally gotten the message?" The author then quotes someone making a case against social entitlements. Someone else left the following comment...

...merely because one worked hard all their life does NOT mean that, somehow, they become entitled to a damn thing...

I replied to that comment, and I feel my reply expresses my Progressive-Socialist-Democrat viewpoint pretty well. Well enough in fact, to use that comment to make a point in this article. Here is what I said, as a reply to the preceding comment and to the article as a whole...

"The BBC's Panorama programme has found evidence that Muslim schoolchildren in England are being taught anti-Semitic and homophobic material from a Saudi textbook.

Bishop Gene Robinson of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire said he would retire in 2013, when he will be 65. "The fact is, the last seven years have taken their toll on me, my family and you," Robinson wrote in a message posted on the diocese website.

We hear it in the news, we see photos of the result of it and tombstones are left in the wake of it.

"The peace process in the Middle East might not be the bearer of good news, but it appears that off camera there is a glimmer of hope when it comes to cooperation in the region. "For the past decade Israeli and Arab students from different countries have been involved in a jo …

I sat in a bathroom, closed doors and my girlfriend was a couple rooms away. I had just disappointed her. My heart was feeling pain.

In a Monday interview with the Washington Post, Jarrett said of the family of the teen, Justin Aaberg: "These are good people. They were aware that their son was gay. They embraced him, they loved him, they supported his lifestyle choice."

New York City police arrested seven gang members accused of beating a new recruit who they discovered is gay, Commissioner Ray Kelly announced.

If someone was getting beat for wearing a rainbow necklace, would you walk on by feeling they deserved it because they must be gay? If a student was getting their books knocked out of their hands because they were carrying a Qur'an, would you laugh?

...[Tyler] Clementi's death last month, following suicides by several other homosexual teens in recent weeks, has also prompted a sharp debate in religious communities, a discussion that includes an unusual degree of soul-searching in addition to the more typical defensiveness.

"A Russian court has handed long sentences to three ultranationalists convicted of hate killings and bombings."

"Words have consequences, particularly when they come from a faith leader," Joe Solmonese, president of HRC, said in a statement.

Gawker: "...................ISP was "United States Senate," and it appeared to come from the Atlanta office of Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Georgia). Now the Atlanta Journal Constitution has confirmed that Sen.

Jezebel: "Gay rights blogger Joe.My.God traced the IP address of a hateful comment to... a "United States Senate" ISP, and possibly to "the neighborhood of GOP U.S. Sen.

Although it's a small town of about 7,800, Pulaski, Tenn. may well be the white supremacist epicenter of the nation — at least if the number of rallies held there by bigoted groups is any indication.

As kids head back to school, conservative Christian media ministry Focus on the Family perceives a bully on the playground: national gay-advocacy groups.

The gunman holding hostages in the Silver Spring, Md., headquarters of the Discovery Channel has been tentatively identified as James Jay Lee, an apparent eco-fascist who thinks that immigrants are breeding "filthy human children" and helping to wreck the planet.

TP: "......................."We've got a campaign to get rid of these judges. What do you think of that?" he called out to a man in a gray trucker hat at the fair.

A federal judge Monday ruled that Missouri laws restricting protests near funerals are unconstitutional.

"Muslims are calling for the executions of homosexuals in America," Dean said on YCR's May 15 radio show on AM 1280 the Patriot.

Protesters have recently been rallying against a proposed Islamic educational center containing a mosque near Ground Zero, claiming that the proximity of anything Muslim to Ground Zero would contaminate a hallowed place.

Judge Vaughn Walker just released his decision, removing his stay order on last week's Prop 8 ruling. This action allows California same-sex couples the right to marry. This ruling, removing the stay, is in keeping with the Governor and Attorney General's wishes.

Bryan Fischer, the "Director of Issues Analysis" for the American Family Association, wrote a blog post yesterday on the AFA's site arguing that the United States should have "no more mosques, period."

I broke up Al and Tipper Gore. And Sandra Bullock and Jesse James. No, I am not a 50-something masseuse or a tattoo model with a thing for Nazi outfits. I'm just a gay man who's about to celebrate his second wedding anniversary. Apparently, my marriage is a menace.

On September 11th of 2001, religious zealots attacked The United States. In those attacks, friends and acquaintances of mine were viciously murdered. It is in their memory, speaking on their behalf, that I write this article. I knew these people well.

But they can be built in the other 56 Muslim-majority countries in the world! As Americans, do we want to compare ourselves to the single exception to the rule of interfaith tolerance? After all, we pride ourselves on our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom o …

The latest plot against America, we're told, is smoldering in the ashes of 9/11. A Muslim organization wants to build a "community center," including a mosque, two blocks from the site of the fallen World Trade Center.

The National Organization For Marriage (NOM) has embarked on a disastrous 23-city "Summer for Marriage Tour 2010," spreading the gospel of one-man-one-woman marriage to tens of supporters and encountering well organized counter protests in almost every city.

Convicted felon Byron Williams loaded up his mother's Toyota Tundra with guns, strapped on his body armor and headed to San Francisco late Saturday night with one thing in mind: to kill workers at the American Civil Liberties Union and an environmental foundation, prosecutors say …

J. Christian Adams' accusations that President Obama's Justice Department engaged in racially charged "corruption" in the New Black Panther Party case do not stand up to the evidence.

Seventy-five years have passed, but every time James Bradley drives by a section of Davie Boulevard he ponders an event that, though rarely recalled, still casts a dark shadow on Fort Lauderdale's history: the lynching of Reuben Stacey.

This morning, the white supremacist political party American Third Position (A3P) proudly announced its donation to the fund recently established by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to defend that state's controversial new immigration law.

Pressure is mounting on a Nevada megachurch to end its financial support of one of the key backers of Uganda's notorious "kill the gays" bill.

The son of "God Hates Fags" preacher Pastor Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, has been speaking publicly about his relationship with his father.

"Muslim extremists -- believed to be from Hamas-- have repeatedly vandalized a UN summer camp in Gaza because they believe the children are being "corrupted" with a summer program of "games, sports and human rights lessons."

The Ugandan parliament is considering legislation that would impose the death penalty or life imprisonment for some homosexual acts (which are already illegal), require people toreport every LGBT individual they know, and criminalize renting property to gay men and women.

Evangelical leaders on the far right held a press call Wednesday urging lawmakers on Capitol Hill to pass comprehensive immigration reform but exclude LGBT families from the legislation.

The Oakland Press reports that three men convicted of burning a cross near the home of a black family will serve at least 120 days in jail.

Pro-Israel highlights from Barack Obama's June 4th, 2008 speech to the AIPAC policy conference.

Satire.

The effort to destroy the Jewish state has many fronts. One front is in Iran, where the maniacal regime that has repeatedly promised to "wipe Israel off the map" marches inexorably toward a nuclear bomb.

"Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy takes on a terrifying question: How does the Taliban convince children to become suicide bombers? Propaganda footage from a training camp is intercut with interviews of young camp graduates. A shocking vision.

A Facebook Page and group which were called "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" have been pulled from Facebook following protests, and the eventual banning of Facebook in Pakistan.

Buchanan is a well known anti-Israel and anti-Semitic bigot: "If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats. Is this the Democrats' idea of diversity?

Killings of gays and lesbians have risen in Mexico despite a government tolerance campaign and a law legalizing same-sex marriage in the capital, according to a report released Thursday by a coalition of civic groups.

"The militant homosexual agenda is a symptom of sexual politics… Sexual politics always trumps religious liberty. Hate crime laws are turning Christians into second class citizens."

Racial profiling is stupid. I'm not just saying that because I'm a member of a race that's often profiled. It's stupid because it rarely ever works and often does more harm than good. Studies from the Department of Justice and U.S.

this is actually a long-standing policy that's used to hurt guys at their place of employment like this. They've been able to get away with it for fifteen years or so and nobody says a word.

"UIC student Jason Connell used the appearance of the hate group to raise money for queer rights groups such as Human Rights Campaign, International AIDS Foundation and Chicago based Jerusalem Open House.