By: Salman MofakOne of these ethno-linguistic groups is the Türkmen, who have made a major effort to define themselves, both internally and to the world community. Their real population has always been suppressed by the authorities in Iraq for political reasons and is officially estimated at 2%, whereas in reality their number should be put [...]

Huffington Post: Dozens of Second Amendment rights activists holstered their handguns and slung unloaded rifles over their shoulders Monday at a gun rights rally in northern Virginia [ MAP ], while hundreds of like-minded but unarmed counterparts converged in the nation’s capital. The gun-toting protesters in Virginia were within the bounds of the law but [...]

From Media Matters For America: Rush ‘FAT‘ Limbaugh: McVeigh attack happened because “Reno ordered tanks to be used against American citizens” in “Waco invasion.“ NOTES: 1. The Waco Siege began on February 28, 1993, when the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) attempted to execute a search warrant at the Branch Davidian [...]

Pundit Joe Klein calls statements by the Republican noise/hate machine “right up close to being seditious.“ Correction: Members of the “American Taliban” — Beck, Limbaugh, Bachmann, Palin and co., have crossed the line from “Free Speech” into Outright Sedition, and should consider themselves lucky to be living in a society as “open” as The United [...]

It’s not happenstance that officials from the Sons of Confederate Veterans in Virginia and Mississippi have argued, as one said this month, that the Confederate Army had been “fighting for the same things that people in the Tea Party are fighting for.” Obama opposition increasingly comes wrapped in the racial code that McDonnell revived in [...]