Prosecutors in Alameda County, California, have filed hate crime charges against a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation employee who was filmed earlier this month ridiculing a Muslim man and throwing coffee on him. The incident was captured on cellphone video. Denise Slader, who is employed as a program technician with the department’s Adult Parole Operations, […]
Last Thursday, Carolyn Walker-Diallo was sworn in as a municipal court judge in New York. Since she’s a Muslim, she was wearing a traditional head covering for a woman, a hijab, and she also took her oath of office with her hand on the Koran instead of the Bible. But from the reaction by some narrow-minded […]
Captain Humayun S. M. Khan was a true American hero. In June of 2004, Captain Khan was serving in Iraq with the 201st Forward Support Battalion, 1st Infantry Division. He was at a designated military checkpoint when a vehicle with two men inside approached. Khan immediately yelled for his squad to “hit the dirt” when the […]
If one does indeed become infamous as a consequence of being famous, then Donald Trump is fast becoming infamous by the day. From dissing Mexicans to his remarks on women, and more recently with his announcement that he would bar all Muslims from immigrating to the United States, the Donald is running out of groups […]
Appearing on CNN Tuesday, the national spokesperson for the Donald Trump campaign asserted that there is really no difference between “insurgents” and law-abiding Muslims in the United States. Katrina Pierson was reminded by CNN host S.E. Cupp: “No one’s talking about allowing insurgents. You’re talking about not allowing regular Muslims. That’s what you’re talking about. […]
Last night I watched in stunned horror as Donald Trump spoke at a rally in South Carolina aboard the USS Yorktown, and one image came to mind: the Nuremberg rallies held by the Nazis in the 1930s. Yes, I’m well aware of Godwin’s Law of Nazi Analogies which states: “As an online discussion grows longer, […]
Stop the world, I wanna get off! Just when I thought things could not get any more ridiculous and Bizarro World when it comes to Trump, yesterday he declares we should ban all Muslim immigrants to the United States. And then during a speech in South Carolina last night, he let this bit of pure unadulterated ignorance […]
No sooner had President Obama ended his 13-minute Oval Office address on the topic of terrorism and the fight against ISIS than the right-wing lugnuts–including Donald Trump–began their assault on what the President had just said. Even though the President directly said things right wingers have been calling for ever since Obama took office–we are […]
On Friday, Jerry Falwell, Jr. the president of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, stood up in front of the weekly student convocation and decided to make a statement regarding the shootings in San Bernardino, California, which left 14 people dead and dozens more injured. Falwell told the gathered students: “I’ve always thought that if more […]
Since David Gregory left as host of “Meet the Press” and was replaced by Chuck Todd, I admit that I rarely watch the show. I don’t care for Chuck Todd. He’s a decent reporter, but as a host I find him more than a bit tiresome. But today on “Meet the Press,” Todd took GOP […]