In many ways, the hearing led by Senate Democrats on Tuesday was the dramatic antithesis of one House Republicans held earlier this month on homegrown Islamic radicalism.

An overview of the trial of Shawna Forde in Tucson tells us little we don't already know.... I kept missing the fact that she was a beautician....

At least the British press is covering the trial of Shawna Forde for this outrageous murder of 9-year-old Brisenia Flores & her father by the renegade Minutemen operative.

We definitely need to heed Tim's advice to put away "the safe & sanitized version of this man & his compatriots" & "awaken from the stupor" which our "Ambien-induced haze" has cast upon us in order to deal with the legacies of injustice which MLK against which he spent his life f …

"Count to ten; & take a deep breath!"

Let's hope that noone protests at the funerals!

It takes a pretty sick mind to come up with the many things that Limbaugh has been spewing over the years, but this one could be his "David" moment....

An encyclopedia of rightisms!

Now this is what an adult conversation looks like!

WBAI's Evening News had the best coverage, detailing the stories of the unscrupulous restauranteur who answered a plea for payment with a whack of a frying pan & the contractor who threw someone out of a moving vehicle after they had severely beaten them - all for asking when the …

Imagine if your employers felt that they could strike you upside the head with a frying pan when you asked to get paid or throw you out of a moving car after severely assaulting you - & get away with it! Would you believe in the need for better labor laws then?

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.

The Mormon Church chided its members Tuesday to consider whether their attitudes toward all people — including gays — followed Christian principles, responding to activists' demand that a church leader withdraw anti-gay statements.

...[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.

Many of the tropes of classic anti-Semitism have been revived and given new force on the American right.

Three teenage girls in Kentucky allegedly attacked Cheyenne Williams, a lesbian classmate, last Friday (coincidentally, the national Day of Silence) and tried to push her off a cliff. Johnson's mother says she was attacked because she's openly gay..