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An NYU professor has turned Martin Luther King’s famed I Have A Dream speech into a PowerPoint presentation.

Wake County, North Carolina Republicans swept onto the Raleigh school board with the backing of the Tea Party are abolishing the busing of minority students from poor neighborhoods into better-funded school districts. The new school board has won applause from parents who blame the old policy – which sought to avoid high-poverty, racially isolated schools – for an array of …

As Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) read the Constitution’s stipulation that the president must be a natural-born citizen, a woman in the gallery of the U.S. House shouted, “Except for Obama! Except for Obama! Help us Jesus!” She was immediately removed. So much for the sanctity of our nation’s most-revered document. UPDATE: Unsurprisingly, World Net Daily is ecstatic.

In an effort to get school kids to read Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, a new version edited by a Twain scholar will excise the novel’s 219 usages of the n-word. Finn is rarely taught in public schools anymore due to discomfort with the word, even though most agree its use is meant as an attack on slavery. Twain himself defined …

“I remember, like, fifteen years ago, I was at one of those big Hollywood parties. And he was really drunk. I was with my friend, who’s gay. He made a really horrible gay joke. And somehow it came up that I was Jewish. He said something about ‘oven dodgers,’ but I didn’t get it. I’d never heard that before. It …

“The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, …

GOP state legislators swept into office in the midterm elections are using their new majorities to push bills that would require proof of American citizenship in order to be placed on state presidential ballots. Bills are now being readied in Pennsylvania, Texas, Arizona, and Georgia. The internet birther headquarters, Christianist site World Net Daily, is cheering them on. Texas state …

“Black voters are racist. Not only will they stick with Obama no matter what he does, but they will punish anyone they think harmed him in any way. Part of why HRC took the Secretary of State job was so she could appear to now be friendly with Obama…that, and so she did not have to be in the Senate …

Sharron Angle sent Joy Behar a huge bouquet of flowers with the note: “Joy, I raised $150,000 online yesterday thanks to your comments.”

As I noted in a post early today, Joy Behar called Sharron Angle an “evil moron” and “bitch” for her racist ad about immigration. Tonight Behar is being digitally tarred-and-feathered by the teabaggers and is getting a bit of criticism from the left as well. Below is the original View clip. Not embeddable here but equally worth watching is Behar’s …

Joy Behar just opined on The View: “Yikes! It’s like a Hitler Youth commercial! Let me tell you how stupid she is: 25% of the voters in Nevada are Hispanic and 80% of them are Mexican. She is a moron, on top of being evil. I’d like to see her try this ad in the South Bronx. Come here, BITCH! …

According to Florida’s proposed Arizona-style immigration law, if cops suspect you of being in the country illegally, they will release you if you show a Canadian or European passport. Passports from other nations? That calls for further investigation. ​Florida state Rep. William Snyder, the slow-drawling ex-Miami-Dade Police officer who has drafted Tallahassee’s version of the hotly debated Arizona immigration bill, …

Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard and white supremacist David Duke thinks it’s ridiculous to criticize the Tea Party for being so white. Completely unrelated (yeah, right) is today’s report from the NAACP that ties the Tea Party to several white nationalist groups. According to Duke, Zionists are trying to wrestle the Tea Party away from its rightful white founders. …

Angle is attacking Sen. Harry Reid over the DREAM Act, which actually died along with the repeal of DADT thanks to the GOP filibuster.

The Washington state woman who falsely claimed that a black girl threw acid in her face is being charged with theft for accepting donations from a fooled community. When she was first hospitalized, the woman told reporters that it was only through her faith in Jeebus that she survived the attack of the evil (nonexistent) black woman. (Tipped by JMG …

I am getting thisclose to going all Mary Hart when I hear Palin’s voice.

A Washington woman who told reporters that she was only alive because of her faith in Jeebus has been exposed as having actually thrown acid on her own face. So much for the unidentified black woman the hoaxer had accused. The “attack” has been discussed daily on right wing talk radio. A woman who said she was attacked with acid …

Can this season’s political ads GET any uglier?