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John Oxendine: GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Joins Perry States' Rights Stance

Is support for states' rights the new litmus test for the GOP? For the second time in as many weeks, a Republican... more

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Talking Dirty: Congressman Reads Long List Of Sex Acts Not In Hate Crimes Bill (VIDEO)

Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) likely set a congressional record Thursday for the most sexual terms mentioned in one speech on the... more

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Frustration seen behind GOP's strident rhetoric

To many Republicans, President Barack Obama's first 100 days have been a period of apocalyptic agony. "The most... more

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Dick Durbin: Banks "Frankly Own The Place"

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has been battling the banks the last few weeks in an effort to get 60 votes lined up for bankruptcy... more

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Poll: Bush Getting Even More Unpopular Out Of Office

A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found that former President Bush's popularity has dropped since he left office.... more

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Jim Inhofe: Specter Switch Will Bring Republican Revolution In 2010 (VIDEO)

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said Wednesday that Sen. Arlen Specter's defection from the Republican Party is "the first... more

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Supreme Court on voting rights case 'discrimination provision is outdated'?

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's conservative justices led a sustained attack Wednesday on a key element of the Voting Rights... more

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Obama: 'We're doing what we said we'd do'

ARNOLD, Mo. - Marking his symbolic 100th day in office, President Barack Obama told Midwesterners Wednesday: "I'm... more

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New Hampshire Senate passes gay-marriage bill

CONCORD, New Hampshire (Reuters) - New Hampshire's Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that would legalize same-sex marriage... more

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Hate Groups Are Benefiting From Obama's Election

With an African-American president and the economy in bad shape, extremist groups are trying to enter the mainstream—and they're having some success.
Newsweek article: By Eve Conant | NEWSWEEK

It's not about hate, it's about love. Love of white people. That's the message in songs, speeches and casual conversation during a weekend retreat in Zinc, Ark., sponsored by the Christian Revival Center and the Knights Party, an offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan. There's no overt threat of violence here. No cross burnings (or "lightings," as the KKK prefers to call them). The only fire at the grassy compound, located at the end of a long, rocky road circled by turkey vultures, is a bonfire for the Knights youth corps to roast their s'mores. The kids draw pictures of white-hooded Klanspeople and sing songs about the oppressed Aryan race; rousing sermons are read from Bibles decorated with Confederate flags. Aryan souvenirs are for sale, including baseball caps proclaiming IT'S LOVE, NOT HATE and advertising THE ORIGINAL BOYZ IN THE HOOD.

This would all be funny (Jon Stewart, where are you?) if it weren't so disturbing. "Do you know why people are so afraid of us?" asks Thomas Robb, the soft-spoken national director—don't call him grand wizard!—of the Knights. "Because we're so normal." In his speeches, Robb is more likely to make a joke about his short stature than he is about minorities. His Web site includes careful statements about nonviolence, green energy and women's rights. But among his ideological kin, Robb equates minorities to fleas and favors a program for "voluntary resettlement" to home countries. Illegal immigrants, as well as blacks serving time in prison, should be deported, he says. "Why is it that when a black man wants to preserve his culture and heritage it's a good thing, and when a white person wants the same thing, we're called haters?" he says.

Some of the roughly 50 attendees at the Arkansas lovefest wear Knights uniforms with Confederate flags and, along with their children, raise their arms "Heil, Hitler"–STYLE to shouts of "white power!" Robb sometimes dons his white robe and hood and doesn't see why that carries any baggage: "Why do judges wear robes? It's tradition." The Klan's past is misunderstood, he insists—no history of brutal lynchings, torture and intimidation; it's gotten a bad name from, for example, federal provocateurs who instigated violence. While Robb questions the authority of other Klan groups, he happily notes that "a rising tide lifts all ships."With an African-American president and the economy in bad shape, extremist groups are trying to enter the mainstream—and... more