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Fox News confirmed as bankrolling Republican Party
As recently discussed on Pickled Politics, last week Jon Stewart and The Daily Show brilliantly exposed the fact that the unnamed person Fox News had been repeatedly claiming was allegedly financing...
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Right-wing billionaires exposed as financing “Tea Party” movement
Further to my recent articles about Fox News’s bankrolling of the Republican Party and Jon Stewart’s exposé of the connections between Fox News and the “Ground Zero Mosque’s” alleged Saudi financier,...
View ArticleQur’an burning: Where does Freedom of Speech fit in?
This is a joint post by Shamit and Rumbold Global news media have had one common headline over the past few days – a Christian pastor wanting to burn the Qur’an. World leaders, including the Vatican,...
View ArticleEDL members go to New York protest
Members of the English Defence League (EDL), perhaps confused about what their moniker actually means, have been in attendance at the anti-mosque protest in New York. Richard Bartholomew reports: A few...
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American church in Memphis welcomes neighbouring Islamic Centre
As is now known worldwide, there has been a huge amount of publicity about the now-cancelled “Quran-burning” by Terry Jones, a pastor in Florida who not only attempted to link his own anti-Islam...
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Deepak Chopra writes a new book about Muhammad
The musician Salman Ahmad (from the Pakistani Sufi rock group Junoon; previously discussed on PP here and here) and Deepak Chopra, who has previously written the bestselling books Buddha and Jesus,...
View ArticleThis is why discipline in politics is sometimes necessary
The Senate today blocked the start of debate on the National Defense Authorization Act, with Republicans objecting to a provision that would repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. The vote was 56 to 43, with 60...
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The escalating bigotry of Newt Gingrich
Tea Party icons Newt Gingrich and Glenn Beck have recently been going into overdrive in terms of the scale of their extremism. During the past few weeks, there has been considerable controversy over...
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The escalating extremism of Fox News’s Glenn Beck
This article follows directly from the PP article yesterday focusing on Newt Gingrich. Readers are therefore advised to read that part first before continuing below. Fox News anchor & Tea Party...
View ArticleGlenn Beck: Indians, desire to commit multiple murders, whitewashes slavery
Further to the recent PP article about the influential Fox News anchor Glenn Beck, there has been an interesting article in the New York Times providing more information about Beck’s background and his...
View ArticleNeo-con asks why Julian Assange isn’t dead yet
Jonah Goldberg is a regular contributor to Fox News, editor-at-large of National Review Onlien (right-wing US mag) and one of those highly rabid neo-conservatives. In an article for the Chicago...
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What is Obama’s strategy going forward?
President Obama was quite downbeat in his conference the day after the mid-term election. A bit more downbeat than was required actually, which really struck me. Sure he’s tired, but does he have to...
View ArticleHow Gandhian Are Obama’s Politics?
This is a guest post by Rita Banerji The news of President Obama’s admiration for Gandhi preceded his visit to India. How Gandhi has inspired his life, and how a portrait of his hangs in his Senate...
View ArticleHilarious – FBI agent tries entrapment, gets reported
The news report is self explanatory. What’s funny is that he tried entrapment, clearly failed, and is now suing the FBI!
View ArticleObama is not triangulating, he’s being realistic
Obama’s made a deal on the whole ‘tax cuts’ issue and every leftie in the USA (and some here, who just echo their leftie cousins there) is screaming betrayal. Oh, and triangulation. But is it? Greg...
View ArticleNow the Wikileaks sh*t is really hitting the fan
The US government is stepping up security in Afghanistan to stop smuggling, after WikiLeaks cables embarrassingly showed that millions of dollars were leaving the country by nefarious means. According...
View ArticleHaggis to save the USA?
After the recent shootings in Arizona, many theories have been posited about the worsening political discourse in the US. Both left and right have been blamed, whilst others question how much impact...
View ArticleVictim forced to pay compensation for refusing to cheer attacker
This case from America was truly shocking. A high school cheerleader has lost a court case against her school and will have to pay the school $45,000 (£27,300) in compensation. What was worst was not...
View ArticleHow Asians in the USA are doing
There’s an interesting study into the demographics of the different Asian communities in the USA. Jeanne Batalova examined the size, distribution, demographics and socioeconomic characteristics of...
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Did EDL ally Pamela Geller already know about Norway terrorist ?
Pickled Politics senior editor Sunny Hundal briefly mentioned the following subject in his recent article discussing the fact that the atrocity in Norway highlights “a new form of prejudice”, but it’s...
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