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Huffington Post, Bianca Boske – Facebook Group ‘Praying’ For President Obama’s Death Passes One Million Members The group, which lists its location as “Marysville, OH, 43040,” currently has over 1 million members–Facebook users who say they “like” the group. It includes an album of anti-Obama imagery uploaded by the group’s members–what Facebook labels “fan photos–that [...]

Matthew Yglesias – Pelosi As Trailblazer Of course, the Pubs despise her. More, less than Obama? Is she Goering? Goebbels? (How did we ever revile people before we had Nazi references? I know – anti-Christ.) And, of course, Tom Delay was so much more attractive a figure. The truth is – one more “of course” [...]

Nick Meo, Telegraph – Jews leave Swedish city after sharp rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes (H/T Normblog) It’s all perfectly natural. I was unhappy about Tibet, so I attacked Chinese on the streets of Los Angeles. Christian Tau, Z-Word Blog – The Anti-Jewish Riots in Oslo Are we picking up a pattern here? Jonathan Chait, [...]

Amnesty UK – Human rights are for all: Response to media article And if the Allies had violated any of what we now think of as Herman Goering’s human rights, would Amnesty International, upon his release, have stood on podiums with him to champion those rights? Evading-the-Point 101, or the downward spiral of self-interested, self-righteous [...]

Jeffrey Herf, The New Republic – It Will Not Go Away (H/T Yaacov Lozowick) His review of Robert S. Wistrich’s 1200 page A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad. A Lethal Obsession is an encyclopedic—and genuinely alarming—compendium of the new anti-Semitism. Wistrich gathers a massive amount of evidence to drive home the [...]

Hendrik Hertzberg – One Year: Beware of Sudden Downdrafts What he said. And I said yesterday, only mo better. Obama, healthcare, what’s going on and down. Daniel Indiviglio – Goldman Shareholder Revolts With Lawsuit Where the anger should be. Rob Capriccioso, Indian Country Today – Elouise Cobell, woman warrior The woman behind an Indian victory. [...]

Jonathan Cohn, The Treatment – Pelosi Isn’t Panicking. Her Party Should Listen Democrats are rarely tough like Republicans. Here’s hoping there are two who are. Spencer Ackerman, Firedog Lake -These Were Not Suicides At Guantanamo We tortured and mudered. It won’t go away. ShrinkWrapped – How Do Universities Breed Terrorists? You have to care for [...]