It's a miscarriage of justice that actually pushes well into the realm of being a fucking travesty. Yesterday, a federal jury ruled that what all of us saw for days and days, what the perpetrators specifically bragged about, and what one guy even pulled a gun on government agents ...read more
Update, Thursday @ 3:20PM ET: All the militia members have now surrendered. It's over. Meanwhile, Cliven Bundy has been charged with conspiracy against the United States, assault on federal law enforcement officers, carrying a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, ...read more
Call them Y'allQaeda. Call them VanillaISIS. Call them Yokel Haram or al-Shabubba. Say they're engaging in YeeHawd. By all means, mercilessly mock those dopey hicks who claim to want to spark a revolution against tyranny by taking control of an empty bird sanctuary in Middle of ...read more
As you're probably aware, right now dozens of self-styled American "militia" members are holed up deep inside an empty federal nature preserve in Oregon, claiming that they've taken it back for the people (as is their supposed Constitutional right). Led by two sons of racist, ...read more
The more things change, the more they stay the same. It was just last week that many Republican leaders finally came around on the issue of the Confederate flag, but just days after activist Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in Columbia, SC to take down that flag, one Republican ...read more
Some friends of everyone's favorite deadbeat rancher Cliven Bundy are raising hell again, according to San Antonio Express-News. Citizen militias in Texas under the names Patriots, Oathkeepers and Three Percenters, some of which helped “defend” the Bundy ranch, are swearing they ...read more
The crisis created by our broken immigration system and children fleeing violence in Central America reached a dramatic fever pitch on Tuesday, as anti-immigrant protesters physically attempted to block buses headed for a Border Patrol center in Murrieta, California. Not to be ...read more
HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher is shaping up to be a sort of Drunk Black History, with the host blithely explaining, last week, why black people love their Cadillacs, and this week, delving into the shockingly recent origin of the slur "nigra." While Maher was dead wrong to the ...read more
The Bundy Ranch is back in the news by virtue of this past weekend's deadly shootings in Las Vegas, which were carried out by a married couple who were among the supporters at Cliven Bundy's ranch during his showdown with the Bureau of Land Management. Remarkably, no one in the ...read more
The problem with being paranoid is that it's not the kind of thing you can just turn on and off. If you're someone who sees invisible threats around every corner and who warns that vigilance and suspicion is what's always necessary to avoid becoming one of the hapless sheeple, ...read more
The news media has moved on from Nevada rancher and Racist The Time Forgot Cliven Bundy, but according to Rep. Steven Horsford's (D-NV) office, residents in the Bundy Ranch's Bunkerville community still don't feel safe, as armed miltiamen continue their discomfiting presence. ...read more
Los Angeles Clippers owner and all-around NBA-hole Don Sterling is the hot topic this weekend after a recording surfaced of him making racist remarks to his girlfriend, including a request that she not bring black people to Clippers games. Sterling's racism is now a global ...read more
Conservative hero turned right-wing Rosetta Stone Cliven Bundy continues to dominate news coverage after his remarks about "the negro" surfaced Wednesday, and were followed by more and more of Bundy's ruminations about slavery. When video of Bundy's remarks came out, the last ...read more
Like rats abadoning a sinking ship, the conservative political and media figures who've spent the past two weeks lionizing Cliven Bundy are getting as far away from him as possible now that he's proven himself to be nothing more than your average crusty old racist. Unlike, say, ...read more
Nevada rancher and racism grenade Cliven Bundy has Republicans and conservatives scrambling to deal with his remarks on the state of "the Negro," and the BLM bugaboo is not making their job easier. In an interview with Tom Woods Thursday morning, Bundy was asked about the ...read more
Well, here it is: the inevitable video clip of Cliven Bundy's racist remarks detailed in a New York Times story yesterday: Since this is "one more thing" he knows about "the negro," it raises the question of just what the hell he was saying before this statement. Given that ...read more
As Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy blows up in the faces of conservatives who championed his cause by articulating what is, in fact, mainstream Republican thought, the left waits to see which conservatives will back away, and which will lean into it. Conservative radio host and ...read more
Yesterday I wrote that Sean Hannity was cultivating trouble by supporting Cliven Bundy, the deadbeat Nevada rancher who says he doesn’t recognize the federal government and who’s played host to an armed anti-government “militia.” That conspiracy goon Alex Jones had jumped to ...read more
In a bombshell article published Wednesday night by Adam Nagourney for The New York Times, Cliven Bundy said the following during a recent press conference at his ranch: “I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a ...read more
"Some on the right will try to make this a free speech issue. But this isn’t about the right to say unpopular or dangerous things. It’s about the abuse of a powerful megaphone for selfish ends, with potentially disastrous consequences. The freedom to speak doesn’t exempt one for ...read more
If you ever find yourself agreeing with Alex Jones on a major political issue, you should stop what you’re doing and immediately retrace your steps back to where you might have lost your mind. That’s because Jones is America’s preeminent thrower of bat feces, and is either the ...read more
