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The GOP and our national media will murder this country yet

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Charles P. Pierce at Esquire, who is now one of my favorite writers, asks a good question: where the Hell is the national media on this clusterf%rk?

This story,of one Paul Carroll, is sadly unsurprising.

As the election year goes on, these kind of stories are going to become a staple of campaign coverage, like watching the candidates try to eat corn dogs in Iowa, flip pancakes in New Hampshire, and pretend to care about baseball in Florida. There is going to be a story like this in every media market. Some ambitious young reporter is going to be assigned to the Old Guy Who Voted In Every Election Since FDR But Who Couldn’t Vote This Time Because Of The New Law beat. There will be pathos. There will be drama. But the fundamental fact that these laws are an organized national assault on the right of the people to elect their own leaders, because sometimes the people elect leadersof whom the ratcfckers of the organized right do not approve, like Kenyan Muslim Usurpers Of The Alinsky Underground, will get lost in all the pathos and drama…

They Didn’t Ask For ID’s At Normandy

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Tea Party patriotism and Tenthers

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Recently, Arizona State Senate President Russell Pearce (R) told ‘patriots’ at a Tea Party rally: You’re not citizens of the United States but citizens of your respective states.

Think Progress reads the Constitution for Pearce and the Tea-Challenged:

The 14th Amendment of the constitution lays out very plainly that all people born in the United States are citizens of the United States:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

And if Pearce actually read the Constitution, he would also see that it clearly trumps state law and “shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby.”

Arizona really does have a lot of problems.

Time to take a stand

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Evan’s Blog. Meh.

Re: The “Ground Zero” Mosque

[...] America was not attacked.  ”America” was attacked.  And the proxy was New York and Washington, DC.  Alaska was not attacked.  Alabama was not attacked.  Mississippi was not attacked.  Arizona was not attacked.  Minnesota was not attacked.

I am tired of people using what happened to my city as the basis for their hate.  I am tired of people so fundamentally misinterpreting our Constitution and Bill of Rights.  I am tired of people turning the word “Muslim” into the word “terrorist.”

We are coming dangerously close to a point in our history where those who died on D-Day and are buried in French soil at Normandy died for naught.  Those men saved my dad.  Those men defeated a tyrant.  Those men died to ensure others could have the freedoms it is so often said we take for granted.  It is our duty, our most important job as citizens, to make sure their sacrifice continues to be for the cause of freedom, justice and acceptance.

We need to take a stand.  We need to stop this madness.  I will fight to protect what America stands for at all costs.  If I have to stand in front of that Mosque with a shotgun so young Muslim children can safely pray to their God, I will.  We are allowing a scary and dangerous faction to control the course of our society.  If it takes force to stop them, then this is what we must do.  The stakes are too high.  It is time rational people took a stand.  It is time Americans took a stand.