Salon.com > Hadiya Pendleton http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 01:08:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Liberal racial hypocrisy http://www.salon.com/2013/02/23/liberal_hypocrites_on_race/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/23/liberal_hypocrites_on_race/#comments Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13208771 Since the reelection of President Obama, liberals have made some bold admissions. Commentators like Touré Neblett of MSNBC’s The Cycle have enthusiastically and repeatedly defended the president’s authority to launch drones against anyone, including American citizens, if he suspects that they are “trying to kill us.”

At no point in his several defenses did Touré reconcile his position with once-popular Constitutional precepts that every person should be presumed innocent until proven guilty, and know the charges and evidence against him, and have the right to a fair trial. Neither did he explain why ordinary Americans should suspend their longstanding skepticism of politicians in power or withdraw the demand that the president and Congress be accountable for their actions, especially the taking of someone’s life.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/02/23/liberal_hypocrites_on_race/feed/ 115 Standing up to gun bullies http://www.salon.com/2013/01/31/standing_up_to_gun_bullies/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/31/standing_up_to_gun_bullies/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13186662 Another day, another big Washington D.C. gun legislation event interrupted by news of more gun violence.

Just as a televised meeting of Vice President Joe Biden’s post-Newtown gun safety task force was upstaged by breaking news of another school shooting three weeks ago, so did Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing compete with chilling news reports of three more gun horrors: a Chicago teen who marched with her school band in the inaugural parade shot down in a park; an Alabama child taken hostage (and his bus driver murdered) by a known anti-government “survivalist;” three people shot, one dead, after an “office dispute” in Phoenix, barely two hours away from where former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was almost killed two years ago in Tucson.

Those competing gun-violence news stories are not technically a coincidence. With 30 gun homicides a day across the country, you’re going to have gun murders whenever you schedule an event to talk about it. We’re just finally paying attention to it. All of it.

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