As their Saturday shift came to a close on March 25th, 1911, 500 young New York City immigrant women, many of them teenagers or in their early twenties, worked feverishly, many of them probably looking forward to getting out of work in twenty minutes or so.

Anonymous,' the group of online hacker activists that rose to prominence for laying cyber siege to a number of parties who opposed WikiLeaks, has launched its latest attack on the Americans for Prosperity website, a conservative organization funded by the billionaire Koch brother …

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There can be no clearer sign that the GOP/TP wish to kill poor people to save a buck than SB1519 in Arizona.

It's comforting to know that at least some Republicans are standing up to the newly-established orthodoxy, as Daniels here shows by calling for a "truce" in the culture wars so that government can deal with the financial crises we are all facing....

As the world watched the live images being broadcast out of Egypt yesterday, most of us felt a sense of accomplishment, not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of a genuine grassroots revolution that uprooted tyranny and knocked it onto its backside.

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....

The show at the Capitol yesterday sounds hysterical alright: everyone from the most ardent advocate of children's rights to the most extreme right-wing nativist! The only thing to which I can imagine comparing it is the endless array of comments at the end of the article....

Rick Scott says that he's going to focus on jobs, education, and the rule of law; but Gary Borders is running Lake County like his own personal mafia! And the governor is instead involved in promoting an Arizona SB1070-copycat bill - I guess that's his definition of rule of law!

A brilliant academic piece which shows that not only will rescinding birthright citizenship create a massive new bureaucracy at a time when we need to streamline but it would deprive us of the crucial resource of young people who are paying taxes, fulfilling civil & military serv …

A rundown on the follow-ups to the Mississippi move this week....

Here come the states!

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 …

Did Loughner see Palin's own most notorious contribution to the rancorous tone — her March 2010 Web graphic targeting Congressional districts? We have no idea — nor does it matter. But Giffords did.

A nasty battle between factions of Legislative District 20 Republicans and fears that it could turn violent in the wake of what happened in Tucson on Saturday prompted District Chairman Anthony Miller and several others to resign. Miller, a 43-year-old Ahwatukee Foothills reside …

Another brilliant piece on the rising anti-immigrant states-rights extremists being accepted into the mainstream discourse of American politics just as they are being elected into the mainstream offices of American jurisprudence (however unprudently) leaves me wondering if the Ut …

Not only does the South Carolina Farm Bureau acknowledge that we lack an adequate supply of laborers, but they are promoting the idea of actually solving the problem instead of further inflaming the passions around it for political gain!

The understatement of the year went completely unnoticed: Obama set a new record for deportation, even bending the rules & breaking the law to do so!

Let's hope that noone protests at the funerals!

I can't believe that "no state or federal judge has ever been impeached to punish a judicial opinion" yet in the history of our country: unfortunately these Family Leader folks dont' seem to be weary of "dangerous" roads....

The 2012 general election ballot shall carry the question of whether to amend Article VI, Section 1, of the Arizona Constitution to state that in making judicial decisions, Arizona courts must not look to legal precepts of other nations or cultures and must not consider internati …

It's amazing to look back to the 2009 DHS report that right wing extremists were planning acts of violence.

Across Arizona, conservative and tea party activists expressed shock and dismay at the shooting of Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others in the grocery store parking lot in Tucson on Saturday morning.

POll Did the world come to and end today or is this just the calm before the storm?

For a man who evangelized foreign leaders and taught Sunday school while U.S. president, Jimmy Carter has some strong words for what he sees as an "excessive melding of religion and politics."

Don't worry about Glenn Beck. Popular history will forget him. He's not a significant political player, and he's not a memorable entertainer. But the people hiding behind Beck and his ilk must be raised to public consciousness.

Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva says his opponent's depiction of him with a giant mustache in a fundraising appeal is "insulting," and Hispanic groups say it promotes a racial stereotype of Latinos.

The United States should borrow ideas from Communist East Germany to keep its borders secure, Alaska's Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller suggested at a town hall Sunday night.

O'DONNELL: A federal judge recently ruled that we have to overturn Don't Ask Don't Tell. There are a couple of things we need to say about that. First of all, judges should not be legislating from the bench.

"I have made mistakes in this campaign - I have made mistakes all my life..."

Carl Paladino, GOP-Tea Party candidate for governor of New York, gave a speech to religious fundamentalists yesterday, in which he expressed his opinions about the gay and lesbian community.

Twelve months ago, many of today's most vocal opponents of the Cordoba House, the planned community center and mosque in New York City, were in favor of the plans, praising Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf on Fox News and celebrating the concept as a move toward unity.

Tea partiers and other anti-Islam activists are freaking out about a Muslim Family Day planned for several Six Flags parks around the country on Sept. 12, the day after the World Trade Center attacks.

GOP Rep. Bob Inglis slams Republican demagoguery, bemoans anti-Semitic tea party conspiracy nonsense, decries Sarah Palin's ignorance, and looks for a job. It was the middle of a tough primary contest, and Rep.

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.

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.

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has big concerns about the Emerald Coast Tea Party Patriots inviting Brigitte Gabriel, the head of the anti-Islam hate group "ACT! for America," to be their keynote speaker at its "U.S.

Dear Mr. Lincoln

The lack of support for legalizing gay marriage amongst conservatives is surprising because the push to legalize gay marriage serves conservative aims.

There is compelling new evidence that Republicans will rue the day that they allowed their virulent anti-immigrant wing to grab the controls of the Republican Party.

The Nevada Senate candidate says abortion is always wrong because there is a divine purpose to all pregnanciesSharron Angle may be giving the press the silent treatment now, but she hasn't always been so tight-lipped.

FOX hosts have shown time and again an uneasiness with the proximity Arizona has with the nation of Mexico.

As ambitious as the title might seem, my intention is rather simple in design: I'm going to list solutions to the problems this Country is facing.

Rand Paul opposes the Civil Rights Act. He opposes the Americans with Disabilities Act. He opposes Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations. This radical ideology has earned him a place of dishonor in our Hall of Shame.

As a hot, humid wind blew off New York Harbor, Mitzner joined some 500 others to stir up a rhetorical whirlwind of protest against a proposal to build a mosque and Islamic cultural center near the site of America's bloodiest terror attack.

Dale Robertson, the vitriolic founder and president of TeaParty.org, blasted out a mass E-mail today that seemed meant to convince doubters that his movement is, after all, racist at its core.

There are fewer sentences more sincerely uttered these days than "I'm not a racist." In fact, except on the Aryan fringe, you'd be hard put to find anybody who believes the word applies to them. And they're telling the truth too, strictly speaking.

So, following a traffic stop, a bible thumping, anti-government, AK-47 wielding wingnut named Jerry Kane and his son manage to kill two police officers and wound two other officers without any major blowback to the Republican party, Tea Party, and/or other (media) people who indi …

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin accused MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Sunday of conducting a "prejudiced" interview with Rand Paul, in which the Tea Party candidate infamously aired skepticism about the reach of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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This morning on ABC's This Week, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele had to address Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul's recent comments that private business owners should be allowed to discriminate against people of color or anyone else they choose.

If Tea Party activists want to be seen as more than a momentarily interesting collection of cranks and bigots, they have to decide what to do about the cranks and bigots who claim to represent them

In an apparent bid to stoke further controversy, the Tea Party leader who last week referred to Allah as a "Monkey God" has apologized -- but to Hindus, not Muslims.

It didn't take long for Kentucky Republican Rand Paul to stumble into trouble.

A top Tea Party leader, enraged by a plan to build a mosque near Ground Zero, has referred to the Islamic deity as a "monkey-god" and to Muslims as "the animals of allah." His Tea Party group, meanwhile, tells TPMmuckraker it's not concerned abut the rhetoric.

"The United States is built upon stolen land and stolen labor. For racism to serve its essential purpose, which was and is the exploitation of people of color in order to maintain white economic and political power, i.e.

Where are the tea partiers when we need them? For a year now, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and their minions have been warning that America is morphing into a police state.

Is it just me, or has the Tea Party remained noticeably silent on the subject of the recent Immigration law in Arizona? Where are the protests? Where are the signs referencing freedoms and individual liberties? Where are the Colonial outfits with tea bags swaying in the breez …

One of the most important things for a successful democracy is civilian control of the military.