Top Stories Monday 02 Dec
Nathan Newman on who the “new Right” really are:
Unlike the stone racists of the American Renaissance, the “new Right” has learned a hypocritical cadence to dress their racism in the language of tolerance. But nothing symbolizes the bogus nature of the rhetoric than newly elected governor Sonny Perdue of Georgia, having campaigned on reviving the confederate flag, declaring “Free at Last, Free at Last, Thank God Almighty We are Free at Last” as his victory speech.
The Right today can quote Martin Luther King, but it’s all in the cause of Wallace and Bull Connor.
The Pontificator on the two questions that should be central to US foreign policy:
1) In ten years, will it be easier, or harder, to obtain weapons of mass destruction?
2) In ten years, will people outside the U.S.A. hate the U.S.A. more, or less, than they do today?
Bertram Online on responsibilities:
So, commentators of the ?Right?, you who ? in your own, warped self-understanding ? have been fighting a fight against Communism and so smoothly converted that fight into a fight against Muslims: do you feel the slightest little tingling of responsibility for what goes on? In the suburbs of Copenhagen and in Sweden?