Category Archives: Racism

We’re outraged at SCOTUS now. What will we do when they demolish NYS gun control laws?

Alito’s draft Roe opinion has us marching, yelling, protesting. Yes. In the back of my rage against the SCOTUS machine, I had a nagging small thought. Yesterday, after the soul-shattering racist mass murder in Buffalo, the thought became larger. And … Continue reading →

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How about this for getting more famous?

From Harper’s Weekly Review: “There was definitely a contingent of old-school—you know—old-boy-network types who resented me,” said Alfreda Scheuer, a former CIA station chief who tortured suspected members of Islamic terrorist groups around the world and is now a beauty … Continue reading →

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A reason to mourn

Harper’s Weekly Review leads with this death notice for Orrin Hatch: The former Republican senator Orrin Hatch, who moonlighted as a Christian songwriter, alleged that parts of Anita Hill’s accusations against Clarence Thomas had been plagiarized from the book The … Continue reading →

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