Racism is not pervasive on the Right, no sir!
These people were all plants and cranks bused in by George Soros to make colorblind conservatives look bad.
By Laurie Merrill, Dianna Nanez and Linnea Bennett
August 6, 2013 | Arizona Republic
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Thursday, August 8, 2013
Monday, January 24, 2011
There's no inciting violence here, folks! Nothing to see here, move along!
Just another example of how right-wing pundits definitely do not try to incite violence among the angriest and most unhinged of their followers. No sir, stop spreading more "blood libel!"
[Editor's Note: As of late 2010, Media Matters receives funding from diabolical global puppet master George Soros, therefore any of its opinions expressed or links to factual articles cannot be accepted as real.]
[Editor's P.S. - Let me take this opportunity to remind you alert readers to check the integrity of your tinfoil hats, just in case Major League Baseball's spy satellites are piercing your aluminum mind-reading shields. Oh, and Obama's going to take your guns away. You know what to do. Thank you.]
By Jamison Foser
January 24, 2011 | Media Matters
Friday, January 21, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg: There is consensus on gun control
As a reasonable liberal, naturally I agree with Bloomberg's commonsense gun control proposals...but only as a push on America's back down the slippery slope toward confiscating all your guns!
Foolish moderates! Mwwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! [Diabolical liberal laughter]
By Michael R. Bloomberg
January 18, 2011 | Huffington Post
January 18, 2011 | Huffington Post
The shooting in Tucson, Arizona has affected our entire country. In the days since, as we have prayed for the victims and survivors, we have also reflected on the lessons we might learn.
Yesterday, again, many of us contemplated the tragedy of gun violence as we came together to mark the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a champion of peace who was taken from us by a gun assassin.
Mass shootings and assassinations are shocking, and the sad truth is that America's history of gun murders is as repetitive as it is tragic. And what's more, much of its enormous toll never makes it into the national headlines: 34 Americans are murdered with guns each and every day.
As we remember those we have lost, we know that honoring their memory requires renewing our effort to overcome the threat of guns in the wrong hands. The aftermath of this tragedy is our nation's chance to challenge old assumptions about the politics of guns in this country.
One of the major old assumptions in the media and in Washington is that the gun issue is one that hopelessly divides Americans: Red versus Blue, urban versus rural, gun-owners versus those who don't own guns.
But a new poll shows a remarkable consensus among Americans on gun issues. The poll, conducted jointly by a Democratic and Republican polling firm, was released today by the bi-partisan coalition of Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
Among its key findings:
• Americans overwhelmingly believe the Second Amendment protects the rights of law-abding individuals to buy guns: 79% of Americans believe that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own guns and only 17% would support a proposal to ban all handgun sales.
• Americans overwhelmingly believe that felons, drug abusers, and the mentally ill should not have access to guns and that more needs to be done to ensure that their records are in the federal background check system: 90% of Americans and 90% of gun owners support fixing gaps in government databases that are meant to prevent the mentally ill, drug abusers and others from buying guns. Likewise, 89% of Americans and 89% of gun owners support full funding of the law a unanimous Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed after the Virginia Tech massacre to put more records in the background check database.
• Americans overwhelmingly believe that its time to close the loopholes that make it possible for people to buy guns without background checks: 86% of Americans and 81% of gun owners support requiring all gun buyers to pass a background check, no matter where they buy the gun and no matter who they buy it from.
It turns out there is a broad consensus on guns in America. Just consider that in less than five years, Mayors Against Illegal Guns has grown to include more than 550 mayors from across the country. We have come together around a simple idea: it's possible to respects the rights of responsible, law-abiding Americans and do more to keep guns from criminals, the mentally ill, and other dangerous people.
It is the job of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns to alert Washington that the conventional wisdom about guns is just not true.
Washington: are you listening?
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Arizona, Boomers, and USA's demographic future
Once again we see that selfish, self-absorbed Baby Boomers are the root cause of all America's problems. But unfortunately they all vote.
Will Arizona Be America's Future?
Immigration, Demographics, Race, Regions and States
By William H. Frey, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program
April 28, 2010 | The Brookings Institution
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Demographically, there is no doubt Latinos and other immigrant minorities are America's future, and on this, Arizona stands on the front lines. Over the past two decades the state has seen its Latino population grow by 180 percent as its racial composition shifted from 72 to 58 percent white.
Yet there is an important demographic nuance to this growth—providing context to the white backlash in Arizona in ways that could play out else where. It is the fact that the state's swift Hispanic growth has been concentrated in young adults and children, creating a "cultural generation gap" with largely white baby boomers and older populations, the same demographic that predominates in the recent Tea Party protests. A shorthand measure for this cultural generation gap in a state is the disparity between children and seniors in their white population shares. Arizona leads the nation on this gap at 40 (where 43 percent of its child population is white compared with 83 percent for seniors). But the states of Nevada (34 percent), California (33 percent), Texas (32 percent), New Mexico (31 percent), and Florida (29 percent) are not that far behind. (See Table 1).
Nationally this gap is 25 percentage points.
The appeal of anti-immigrant, anti-Latino messages among boomers and seniors may seem surprising especially because the former are so closely associated with 1960s era liberalism and Civil Rights. Yet this stereotype hardly applies to all boomers and recent presidential elections have shown them to be either politically split or, in the case of white boomer men, veering toward the right. Moreover, boomers grew up in a more insular America than did their parents or their children. Between 1946 and 1964, the years of the boom, the immigrant share of the nation's population shrunk to an all-time low (under 5 percent) and those who did arrive were largely whites from Europe. Most boomers grew up and lived much of their lives in predominantly white suburbs, residentially isolated from minorities.
Will Arizona Be America's Future?
Immigration, Demographics, Race, Regions and States
By William H. Frey, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program
April 28, 2010 | The Brookings Institution
[...]
Demographically, there is no doubt Latinos and other immigrant minorities are America's future, and on this, Arizona stands on the front lines. Over the past two decades the state has seen its Latino population grow by 180 percent as its racial composition shifted from 72 to 58 percent white.
Yet there is an important demographic nuance to this growth—providing context to the white backlash in Arizona in ways that could play out else where. It is the fact that the state's swift Hispanic growth has been concentrated in young adults and children, creating a "cultural generation gap" with largely white baby boomers and older populations, the same demographic that predominates in the recent Tea Party protests. A shorthand measure for this cultural generation gap in a state is the disparity between children and seniors in their white population shares. Arizona leads the nation on this gap at 40 (where 43 percent of its child population is white compared with 83 percent for seniors). But the states of Nevada (34 percent), California (33 percent), Texas (32 percent), New Mexico (31 percent), and Florida (29 percent) are not that far behind. (See Table 1).
Nationally this gap is 25 percentage points.
The appeal of anti-immigrant, anti-Latino messages among boomers and seniors may seem surprising especially because the former are so closely associated with 1960s era liberalism and Civil Rights. Yet this stereotype hardly applies to all boomers and recent presidential elections have shown them to be either politically split or, in the case of white boomer men, veering toward the right. Moreover, boomers grew up in a more insular America than did their parents or their children. Between 1946 and 1964, the years of the boom, the immigrant share of the nation's population shrunk to an all-time low (under 5 percent) and those who did arrive were largely whites from Europe. Most boomers grew up and lived much of their lives in predominantly white suburbs, residentially isolated from minorities.
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