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Think Progress In April, two students at Cal State Stanislaus found a partial copy of a speaker’s contract for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. The partial copy revealed that Palin, who was due to speak at the university in June, has “more demands than an opera diva when she hits the road,” as the New York . . . → Read More: Sarah Palin, One of the Us? Not at All. Palin’s Speaking Demands Confirmed: $75K, SUVs, Deluxe Hotel Suites, Bendable Straws, And No Public Access  Courier-Journal Bristol Palin — the teen mother whose turbulent relationship with her son’s father has added a soap-opera subplot to her mother Sarah’s political career — will speak Sept. 8 on behalf of a home for single mothers in Louisville. Palin, 19, will receive $14,000 to speak at a benefit at the Louisville Marriot . . . → Read More: Like Mother, Like Daughter: Bristol Palin Charging $14,000 to Speak to Single Mothers Source: Washington Post Just one day after he drew a sea of conservative activists to see him speak on the National Mall, Fox News host Glenn Beck appeared on “Fox News Sunday” to discuss the event. Beck said his rally — at which former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin also spoke — drew “on the . . . → Read More: Beck: People Don’t Recognize ‘Obama’s Version of Christianity’ Beck Should Study Theology Before Making Comments. Beck’s Not Christian.  View Comments  Barack Obama, Bigotry, Christianity, Faith, Hypocrisy, Intolerance, Politics, Religion, Republican Party, Republicans, Right Wing, Tea Party Movement  Beck-Palin GOP, Bigotry, Christianity, Civil rights movement, Faith, Fox News Channel, Glenn Beck, Hate, Hatred, Martin Luther King, National Mall, Sarah Palin, United States  Source: Lancaster Unity More than 1,600 officers on horseback and in riot gear pen in 700 activists, including BNP members and soccer thugs Far-right activists threw smoke bombs and missiles and fought with the police as trouble flared in a protest organised by the English Defence League. Bricks and bottles and smoke bombs were . . . → Read More: Smoke Bombs Thrown at Right-Wing Group English Defense League Protest. EDL and Tea Party Similar in Intolerance? View Comments Bigotry, England, International News, Intolerance, Republican Party, Right Wing, Tea Party Movement Bradford Urban Gardens, EDL, England, English Defence League, Islam, Norman Bettison, Republican Party, Republicans, Right Wing, Right-wing politics, Tea Party movement, Unite Against Fascism, West Yorkshire  Source: NPR A campaign staff member for Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Joe Miller was told to exercise more caution Friday after sending a tweet that appeared to liken a possible party switch by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Miller’s GOP rival, to prostitution. Murkowski’s campaign responded by calling the tweet “disgusting” and demanding an apology. Alaska‘s . . . → Read More: Another Dumbass Tea Party Candidate– Joe Miller– Linking US Senator Lisa Murkowski to a Prostitute  Source: ACLU Forty-seven years ago tomorrow, 200,000-plus people marched on Washington to demand full access to the benefits of citizenship for black Americans and an end to segregation. On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. The poster that advertised the 1963 March on Washington . . . → Read More: ACLU: Martin Luther King and the Myth of Reverse Racism View Comments Civil Rights, Glenn Beck, Media, Racism, Radio, Republican Party, Republicans, Right Wing, Television African American, Barack Obama, Bigotry, Civil and political rights, Glenn Beck, Intolerance, Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King, Republican Party, Right Wing, Selma March, United States, Washington Source: Daily Kos Incumbent Representative John Fleming (R-LA) frames the November election in terms that only a proud member of the American Taliban could support: LA GOPer: November A Choice Between An Atheist Society And A Christian Nation Appearing before the Republican Women of Bossier with Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) cast . . . → Read More: Daily Kos: Another Proud Member of the American Taliban Source: Common Dreams On the heels of a horrific anti-Muslim attack in New York City on Tuesday night, there’s new disturbing evidence that hate crimes are on the rise across the country for Latinos. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is reporting an upward tick in anti-Latino hate crimes, and apparently it’s a general trend that’s . . . → Read More: Southern Poverty Law Center: Anti-Latino Hate Crimes on the Rise Source: Religion Dispatches Last night on his Fox television program, Glenn Beck (now fashioning himself a religion expert) tried to launch a theological attack on President Barack Obama‘s Christianity, opportunistically pasting together a predictable string of Jeremiah-Wright-Michael-Pfleger-Jim-Wallis clips to suggest that the President’s espoused a rogue brand of Christianity that was not Christianity at . . . → Read More: Religious Dispatches: Beck Claims Obama is “Not Christian” Source: The Huffington Post In an interview with the Huffington Post on Wednesday night, former Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman — whoannounced earlier Wednesday that he is gay and intends to join the fight for marriage equality in California — said he wishes he had come out while he was the face of . . . → Read More: Ken Melhman: There is Room for Gays in the GOP. 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