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Satirical French newspaper firebombed after printing Muhamed cartoon; Time reporter defends bombers

Satirical French newspaper firebombed after printing Muhamed cartoon; Time reporter defends bombers

Yesterday, satirical French newspaper Charlie Hedbo published an edition guest edited by “the Prophet Muhammad” and was promptly firebombed. Here’s the cover that “provoked” the attack: It should go without saying that whether the publication is funny, juvenile, both or neither is completely irrelevant. Nobody has a right not to...

Rick Perry: Fact-based warrior for truth and facts and stuff

Rick Perry: Fact-based warrior for truth and facts and stuff

Texas’ most evidence-based governor ever, Rick Perry, put the smackdown on those lazy Occupy Wall Street losers last Friday: “I don’t know if it can be proved up or not,” Mr. Perry conceded, “the young man’s name was Jeremy and he was 38 years old. But he said, ‘We got here at 9 o’clock, and those people, this...

Is “White History Month” funny?

Is “White History Month” funny?

Uh, no. Not even a little. Sounds a lot like David Duke, though. On today’s show, we talked about Michael Berry’s reprehensible pandering to the white racists in his audience who just don’t get the joke. And since it’s pledge drive, thanks to everyone who gave, especially everyone at Occupy Houston who walked in with a huge...

Maligning ‘Occupy’ before it can define itself

In the Chron: The top one percent of the population is richer than ever while their taxes are at historic lows. Four hundred people — people — have more money than half the country combined. They’re living it up while the bottom 99% of Americans struggle with unemployment, underemployment and a political class that caters to whoever’s got...

Making sure the right doesn’t define Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street is about a month old and the right, sensing a threat, is trying to define it as an anti-American, anti-Semitic communist plot. How the movement can define itself by settling on a message and defeat the conservative attempt to delegitimize advocacy on behalf of the 99%. Listen...

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