Religion Dispatches
…sending an email to prominent vampires with the subject line “You are ALL DOMESTIC TERRORISTS,” in which he warned that he has requested a meeting with Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to discuss why his vampire critics “violate the Patriot act.” In an apparent reversal of his 2006 promise to defend vampires he added, “I will ask that I be allowed to lead the government’s attacks against vampyres and pagan groups who are a threat t…
Read More…in a move that barely skirts the law preventing the CIA from carrying out domestic spying operations. In fact, what the NYPD has been doing seems to be done without the necessary legal approval from the CIA. The NYPD screening of Islamophobic ‘documentary’ Third Jihad shows just how disconnected the official police structure is from the communities they are supposed to protect and serve. The department’s counterterrorism unit has been valorized a…
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…p are victimized for the purpose of terrorizing the group as a whole. Such domestic terrorism usually becomes most pronounced when social reforms threaten an established pattern of discrimination and bias. As Sartre noted in his classic work, Anti-Semite and Jew, membership in an in-group functions for these ideologues as a source of personal worth; but it can do so only if there is a contrasting out-group that bears the stamp of inferiority. And…
Read More…ered the connections between race, wars of foreign conquest, and crimes of domestic inequity. King’s Civil Rights movement began with what West called “Jim Crow and Jane Crow,” but connected those forms of social injustice to others he identified in Southeast Asia and, toward the end of his life, to the grinding poverty of the white and black underclass nationwide. We must never forget, West reminded us, that he gave his life in support of sanitat…
Read More…ated for years. He plans to push such a plan as the new chair of the House Domestic Monetary Policy Subcommittee that oversees the Fed and its monetary policy. Reportedly Republican leaders had planned to put someone else in that position but appointed Paul under pressure from Tea Party organizations. I’ve written about the background of Paul’s economic views, particularly on the Fed, here. Paul told Bloomberg News he wouldn’t move to end the Fed…
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…tnote claims that there are enough potential adoptive parents to meet the “domestic supply of infants.” Otherwise, the mainstreaming of white nationalism will continue, past a tipping point, if we’re not already there yet. The “Great Replacement” and “White Genocide” are calls for violence by adherents—sometimes covertly, sometimes not. Every single politician, pundit and media personality who promotes the “Great Replacement” has contributed to th…
Read More…essive gaze of an overprotective lover—a tragic irony since it is believed domestic violence precipitated these murders. And others joined hands participating in both personal and corporate prayer. In the words of one local pastor who showed up at the house, “To hear of this tragedy, the only thing I could do was come by and pray.” I emphasize this latter point for a specific reason. It is indeed en vogue to mock religious faith in certain sectors…
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…sad about hitchBOT? Is it just a cultural thing—a xenophobic fear of smartphone-wielding strangers, versus a comfort with cuddly robo-travelers? What tools do we have to navigate the line between a creepy robot-human interaction, and an adorable one? These questions aren’t strictly academic. From the Microsoft paperclip to Siri, millions of people interact daily with human-mimicking computer programs. Earlier this summer, Aldebaran, a French robo…
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…n, the Claremont Institute’s Theo Wold, a former Department of Justice and Domestic Policy official under Trump, championed that “it’s time not just to end mass immigration, but to reverse it. It’s time to decolonize America.” Wold also admitted that there’s anxiety over recent press scrutiny of the Right’s policy plans (like Project 2025, with its booth in the hallway). Responding to his own question, “How will a future Trump administration decol…
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…ir desire for lower taxes, a more aggressive stance against Communism, and domestic policies that advanced traditional social values. To them, Congress was the bastion of liberal Democrats and liberal values, and the executive branch was for conservatives. The Federalist Society, a club founded the year Reagan took office, was an important driver of this new ideology. In Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic: The Deep State and the Unitary Executive…
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