And keep a close eye on those Macacans, too
Peter King, the Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, says it's time to put aside "political correctness" and start looking more closely at people of "Middle Eastern and South...
View ArticleGOP congressman on Holder: Which side is he on?
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., is upset by Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to have a prosecutor open a preliminary investigation into some CIA abuse of detainees -- "furious," actually. He's never...
View ArticleThomas Paine v. the Right’s torture defenders
(updated below - Update II) GOP Congressman Peter King -- the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee -- had this rancid outburst today in Politico regarding Eric Holder's decision to...
View ArticleAnthony Weiner wins the morning
Last night, House Republicans blocked a bill providing billions of dollars for healthcare for first responders and others suffering due to breathing toxins on 9/11. They were able to do so because...
View ArticleIRA terror victim speaks out against Peter King
Now that Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., has assumed the chairmanship of the House Homeland Security committee and is promoting hearings on Muslim "radicalization," there's been a burst of media coverage...
View ArticleAbout that Republican who supports gun control …
Ryan Grim at Huffington Post reports: Rep. Peter King, a Republican from New York, is planning to introduce legislation that would make it illegal to bring a gun within 1,000 feet of a government...
View ArticleFour proposed security measures that won’t work
Jason Linkins has written a piece for the Huffington Post about the members of congress who've come up with ideas for legislation designed to prevent what happened in Tucson from ever happening...
View Article“Radicalization” hearings lose anti-jihadist support
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) is scheduled to hold hearings on "radicalization" of American Muslims next month, and he has already taken heat from Muslim leaders and others who are aghast at, for example,...
View ArticlePeter King promises to be polite at his anti-Islam HUAC hearings
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) is the new chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, and in that capacity he is going to launch a series of modern-day HUAC hearings with American Muslims playing the parts...
View ArticlePeter King’s “radical Islam” hearings: For Fox viewers already scared of...
Rep. Peter King's, R-N.Y., forthcoming hearings on the supposed radicalization of American Muslims may end up being slightly less hysterical than they sounded when he proposed the idea.King is a...
View ArticleKing: Hearings will help US-Muslim cooperation
On Thursday, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) will hold his much-anticipated first hearing on terrorism and U.S. Muslims, or, as it's officially titled, "The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim...
View ArticleKing defends past IRA support, terror hearings
Rep. Peter King, who will hold hearings this week on Islamic radicalism, is defending his support in the 1980s and 1990s of the Irish Republican Army's political wing.The New York Republican says the...
View ArticleCivil liberties groups warn Peter King
A coalition of more than 40 groups including the ACLU have fired off a letter to Rep. Peter King (R-NY) voicing concerns about the scope of his planned hearing on Muslim "radicalization" Thursday.Write...
View ArticleJon Stewart calls out Peter King
The latest rash of anti-Muslim sentiment is surfacing online in the form of videos of demonstrations against the very presence of Muslim-Americans and showing up in state legislatures that want to make...
View ArticleDoes Peter King know the IRA killed an American?
After a decade of U.S. politics dominated by blanket denunciations of terrorism, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., has given several media interviews about his longtime support for the Irish Republican Army and...
View ArticleHow Peter King rationalized terrorism
Rep. Peter King, the Homeland Security committee chairman who will convene hearings Thursday on the threat of domestic terrorism and "radicalization" among American Muslims, is finding it difficult to...
View ArticleLive from the Muslim “radicalization” hearing
Rep. Peter King's much-anticipated first hearing on "radicalization" among American Muslims is happening right now. We'll be updating this post with developments as long as it lasts. C-Span is...
View ArticleU.S. lawmaker supporting terrorist group? Rep. Peter King isn’t the first
The Republican lawmaker who has deemed WikiLeaks to be a terrorist organization and is holding hearings this week on the dangers of home-grown Islamic radicalization has found himself on the defense in...
View ArticleAmerica’s growing intolerance
This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch. Just in case you thought that "political correctness" had been thoroughly discredited in the culture wars of the 1990s, it's back -- and this time it's...
View ArticleAt U.K. terror inquiry, Rep. King defends I.R.A. terror
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) stood by his past support for Irish terrorism during an appearance today before a British parliamentary inquiry into the roots of Muslim terrorism.King, the chair of the House...
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