History Dept. Chair: Palin Somehow Connected to Pacific Northwest Hate Groups

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The chair of the Connecticut College history department, Catherine McNicol Stock,  has suggested that Sarah Palin is somehow associated with Pacific Northwest hate groups such as Posse Comitatus and the Aryan Nations. Her proof? Well, because Palin lived in areas with low "diversity." I kid you not. Here is the professor's "learned thesis" presented in a Philadelphia Inquirer opinion column melodramatically titled, "Intolerance thrives in Palin's Pacific Northwest" (emphasis mine):

Despite her efforts to portray herself as an average, small-town, "folksy" American, Sarah Palin's political views - ardently pro-gun, pro-censorship, antichoice and antigay - make John McCain's conservative credentials pale in comparison. What few observers have said, however, is these beliefs are not just extreme - they are radical, and even bear a comparison with some of the most notorious "rural radicals" of our time.

It has been years since groups such as the Montana Militia, the Posse Comitatus and the Sagebrush Rebels, and individuals such as Terry Nichols and Ted Kaczynski have made us wonder why so many "angry white men" populated our rural regions. Many of us have forgotten the threat once posed by domestic terrorists and instead have turned our attention to foreign terrorists. But we should never forget that in the late 20th century, ultra-Christian, antistatist and white-supremacist groups flourished in the states of the Pacific Northwest - called by many the "Great White Northwest" - the very region that Sarah Palin and her family call home.

Got that not so subtle connection between Sarah Palin and the Unabomber? And all because of Sarah Palin's choice of a region to call home. Stock then presents us her theory for all this supposed hate in the Pacific Northwest...lack of diversity:

Demographics most basically define this geographic region. In the six states that make up the Pacific Northwest - Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Alaska - only six counties are more than 5 percent African American. Not by coincidence, each of these counties is also near an important military installation with many African American men and women. Even so, barely more than 3,000 blacks lived in all of Idaho in 2000.

Although home to tens of thousands of native peoples, Alaska is not much different in terms of diversity from the other states of the region. African Americans live in areas near important military installations in Anchorage and Fairbanks and almost nowhere else. Wasilla, where Sarah Palin was mayor, makes the census' list of the top 10 Alaskan communities with the largest number of African Americans because they make up a full 1 percent of the population. Rough calculations suggest that 65 blacks lived in the town.

Got that? Wasilla lacks "diversity" so that casts a lot of suspicion upon Sarah Palin herself, at least in the mind of a far left professor.  The professor then "absolves" Palin of being a member of a hate group but then casts a suspicious light upon her religious affiliation:

There is no evidence that Palin was ever affiliated with white-supremacist groups during her years in Idaho or at home in Alaska. On the other hand, the beliefs of ultraconservative, evangelical churches like her family's come dangerously close to those of the Christian Identity movement of those years. Likewise, Palin's husband was a member of a political party whose members favored secession for Alaska, suggesting an affiliation with radical antistatism.

Perhaps somewhere on the record, Palin has publicly condemned the radical politics of her region. But it is hard to know where she stands on issues of race, equality and diversity. Thus it is high time to review the cultural ideals and models of the radical rurals from the Great White Northwest and find out for sure where Gov. Palin stands.

Would the professor actually specify how the beliefs Palin's church comes "dangerously close" to those of the Christian Identity movement? Of course, no such proof is offered but that doesn't stop the professor from implying there is some sort of dire connection. And why would Palin publicly condemn the "radical politics" of her region when there is no proof that it exists? Meanwhile will professor Stock ever get around to condemning the radical leftwing politics on college campuses of which there is ample proof exists in a big way? She might start with a condemnation of Ward Churchill. 

—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.


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Catherine McNicol Stock

Specialization:  Rural radicalism and domestic terrorism.  I'm not sure.  Does she write about it or support it??

 http://www.conncoll.edu/Academics/web_profiles/stock.html

 

oh yeah. She fits the description.  Leftist women attack in force today

Convincing Proof

This is convincing proof that someone can study for years, even decades, at higher institutions of learning, obtain numerous degrees and accolades and still be an absolute moron.

There is no class titled "Common Sense 101" in academia. 

It Just Kills Me..

It just kills me that these “learned academics” will contort themselves and risk their reputations to create whatever baseless assertion against McCain/Palin that they can dream up, but won’t even bother to pick the low-hanging fruit of scandal that hangs so abundantly from the “Messiah Tree.”

Hmmm...

Using that logic, then I guess that means that Ms. McNicol Stock is connected to Northeastern hate groups by virtue of her being a grossly liberal (or maybe just gross) college professor who promulgates "radical politics" in her region. It's a real shame that a good majority of professors in many colleges are nut jobs.

Guilt by common geography

These liberal, tolerant, inclusive, rainbow-ites never cease to amaze me with their guilt by association defaults and now their guilt by geography statements. So, acording to this tolerant non-hater, all people who live in the "pacific northwest" (which apparently includes Montana and Idaho to this genius) are racist domestic terrorists.

Oh, and apparently the only association that is needed is that someone be Christian. I'm beginning to beleive that the 'end-times' are almost upon us. When it becomes illegal to be a Christian again and the world is completely captivated by an atheist leader who has 'come out of nowhere', start listening for trumpets in the clouds.

 

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

c5

The liberals do this kind of stuff all the time, unless they want votes!

I found this linked at Drudge....filthy hypocrites.

Obama campaign rolls out new 'faith merchandise'

 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

WOW! What hubris and ego!

I wonder if they will be setting up and selling them on the front steps of all the churches.

The Pharisees are back! Now they can advertise their hypocrisy for all to see.

You want change? Give me a dollar.

The hypocrisy is stunning, isn't it?

The left repeatedly smack down Christians with their left hand, while holding out their right hand...."join us, vote for us".

How stupid do they think people really are?

Unfortunately, I suspect people like us (the political junkes) are less than 5% of the population.  Many very, very smart people just live their lives, watch the news, and don't give it another thought...they believe the idiocy they hear on the news.

Which is why I'm hoping the blatant out-and-out cheerleading and cover-ups for Obama sink the old media, once and for all.  Truly make them the dinosaur media. 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

B:Religion is the Left's

B:

Religion is the Left's latest popular "thing".  It is like the latest fashion.  Religion is a tool, a means to power, not salvation.  Once it is no longer "needed", ie post-election, it will be jettisoned faster than a down jacket in Summer, sooner if it gains no traction.

 Ted Kaczynski? Wasn't

 Ted Kaczynski?

Wasn't he using Gore's "Earth in the Lurch" for his bible.

Let's see your proof.

If pro is the opposite of con what is the opposite of progress? Congress!

Ted and Terry, college educated terrorists

Ted Kaczynski was born in Chicago, attend Harvard, earned a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan, and was an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Just what Ted has to do with "rural radicals" is beyond me.

As for Terry Nichols, he, too, attended college at Central Michigan University, although he never graduated.

If anything, this "professor" just offered proof that a college educated male is more likely to be a terrorist (Weather Underground, anyone?) than someone like Sarah. This "professor" has just shot herself in the foot.

Obama: My job is above my pay grade

"Ted Kaczynski was born in

"Ted Kaczynski was born in Chicago, attend Harvard"

Obama has lived in Chicago.  He also attended Harvard.  Obama associates with known domestic terrorists.  And, last but not least, he has a Muslim name.  *GASP!!*  He is a terrorist.  Don't you just love making generalized comparisons like that?

Wow, that's like saying

Wow, that's like saying just because you live in Germany you are assoicated with Hitler.

www.theholyrosary.org

"There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we can not resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary." -Sister Lucia

Remember when professors just taught stuff?

Yoo hoo, 'Professor': Washington, Oregon and Idaho are the Pacific Northwest, plus (only by some definitions) a small sliver of Alaska where Palin does not live. Alaska is Alaska. Just saying.

Is there is no end to this stream of crazed feminazis? They're like roaches scooting around when the lights are turned on. 

More like: They are scooting around

in the dark looking for the roaches that they dropped!  If you know what i mean.

Amen. (Secularly speaking of

Amen. (Secularly speaking of course)

Put this in the library of smart retorts

"Intellectual: Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence" - and I'll attribute it to Arthur C. Clarke.

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

Another one for smart retorts

"Either the proffessor is brilliant or not"

Main Entry: Oc·cam's razor
Function: noun
Pronunciation: 'ä-k&mz-
Etymology: William of Occam
: a scientific and philosophic rule that entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily which is interpreted as requiring that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex or that explanations of unknown phenomena be sought first in terms of known quantities

Simplest explanation..........NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   MORON     he he he

"If your 20 and not a Liberal, You have no Heart. If you are 40 and not a Conservative, You have no Brain"    Sir Winston Churchhill

It's Not Just the Good Professor...

It's not just the good professor: remember, the "Inquirer" decided that her opinion was worthy of print.

 By the way, both Obama and Ayers live in Chicago. Do you think they could be linked? Nahhhh....

This person is a...

...complete and utter embicile.

This is what passes for "experts" at our nation's colleges and universities???

We are in much more trouble than just B.H. Osama then; it would seem Osama is only the proverbial icing on the communist cake. 

otr... "This is what

otr...

"This is what passes for "experts" at our nation's colleges and universities???"

Sadly it is! Be very careful where you send your children to college. You could end up sending them to a re-education camp without you even knowing it.

Sarah Palin - Joe Lieberman - Hate Fest 2008

 

 

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She loses the argument in the first sentence...

"Despite her efforts to portray herself as an average, small-town, "folksy" American,"

You idiot Catherine! Average, small town Americans don't need an effort to portray anything! We just are who we are. We do not need to pretend to be someone else just to get elected. And we sure do not want to pretend to be anything like you or your type to gain favor from you. If Sarah were anything like what you assume don't you think there would be a history to point to rather than create your own stupid theory? What a moronic argument.....

"I need more cowbell!" SNL

Meanwhile, this morning over at MSNBC...

....they are continuing to hammer away at Palin's firing of the state police commissioner. 

Last night (who is that horrible, sneering female on at 9 PM ET?) the fired police commissioner was on who while saying no one told him to "fire" the officer in question (you see, no one said "fire him" because they all knew that would be illegal), the amount of "pressure" he felt from Palin and her husband (!!!???) led him to believe that is what they wanted.

I am eagerly awaiting MSNBC spending the same amount of time regarding Obama's ties with Rezko and Ayres, as well as his apparent attempt at tampering with US-Iraq discussions on a withdrawal agreement.

Gee, I wonder why a

Gee, I wonder why a governor would want their stalker police officer who threatened to kill the governor's father and kidnapped the governors nieces and nephews and tased them...I wonder why that governor would think the police officer should not be wearing the uniform.  How odd. It seems to me it is the media that is pro-domestic violence and violence against women and Sarah Palin is trying do do something to stop it.  But heck, if a violent police officer can still keep his job after stalking the governor and threatenning to kill the governors father, why should Joe Schmo worry about beating his wife?

This is funny

Funny in some 'Six degrees of Kevin Bacon' sort of way. Let's see, there's a candidate in this election who is tied to an actual terrorist bomber. Wonder who that is...

 

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

Sarah Palin's Alaska, This gets lost she is the Governor

She is the Governor of the largest State in our Union, and has strategic assests,  the rest of our Nation relies on. Couple that with her high approval rating if Sarah Palin is Wrong, I don't want to be Right :)

http://bellalu0.word...

Yet another member of the

Yet another member of the country's protected academic ghetto expressing her ignorance for all to see.

The major media report only half the news. Why are they surprised they have only half the potential audience?

Live From Idaho

I have lived in Idaho for the past 20 years, and this whole because-you-live-in-an-all-white-region-you-must-be-racist claptrap is just nonsense. I heard far more racist comments - from both blacks and whites - when I lived in D.C., certainly the most diverse city I have ever seen.

 People here don't think about blacks because we don't see any. You can't hate that which you never come in contact with. To be fair, relations between Idahoans and some of the native tribes are strained, but this is due to political, and not cultural, reasons.

This woman speaks of something she knows nothing about. My guess is she has never been out here.

And hopefully - God willing - she never will.

Naa all you folks are racist

Just ask the common sense challeged like the prof.I might be mistaken but isnt the Stock showing her prejudice.

: preconceived judgment or opinion (2): an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge b: an instance of such judgment or opinion c: an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics.

I think she is jealous because she doesnt live in the Northwest.We dont want her either.

out here in West Virginia...

I grew up in the DC area (MD, not the eeevil VA side ;-P) and have been out here in WV for 15 years now.  If I had wanted diversity, I would have stayed where I was.  What a bogus argument by the so-called "intelligencia." BTW, black American here, "certified black enough," according to my parents! :-)  I'm sure there are some of those racist groups here in WV, but they keep a low profile. As long as they do that, I'll be fine.

 

Go Mac/Sarah! 

Well, El

at one time we did have one of the "godfathers" of the white power movement residing here in good ol' WV. His name was William Pierce. He was the guy who wrote the Turner Diaries.

If we use the logic that the supposedly "intelligent" professor that wrote the above piece used, then since Pierce lived in Mill Point, WV, and since Sen. Jay Rockefeller owns an estate in the same county, then by golly, ol' Jay is a racist white power advocate, right?

No, he's not. Wait, what do you mean that the logic can only be employed against white women Republican Governors from Alaska? Well, that sucks. I was all ready to link EVERY elected politician in the country to white power groups in their home states. Regardless of the politicians race,color or creed, they can all be associated with white power groups if we use Stocks logic. 

See, Barry not only supports terrorists, but white power groups too! Stocks logic at work.

I wonder if I can post an entry in Wiki called Stocks logic? 

Oh, and El, here's a map to see if any of the racist groups are in your area.

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love youBut if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Don Marquis 1878-1937

HK

Good job on the research.Years ago they were talking about expanding a bomb range for the Air Force.I think I have some prime locations.They even have a sorta X on them.Well close enought.

w99,

yeah, I can find 7 of them that could use an "accidental release" here in WV.

As for the research, not a big deal. But, thanks for the thought. Now if only we can find out a way to pass along the info to the Air force.... :-} 

 

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love youBut if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Don Marquis 1878-1937

HillbillyKing

You fooled me. I thought most of them would be in the People's Republic of California.

C, the PRC

IS the primary mission.:-}  But, if they got any left over ordinance then they can drop a few on "select" areas on their way home. 

Btw, what would be high-value target # 1 in PRC? There are sooooo many to choose from. :-}

 

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love youBut if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Don Marquis 1878-1937

Berkeley and the California

Berkeley and the California legislature

Agreed,c.

But only if certain places in Hollywood can be #'s 3 thru 5. :-}

 

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love youBut if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Don Marquis 1878-1937

HK I think the number is

1-800-NUK-ARAC ext IST.Motto is If you got em we smoke em.

w99,

Ha! Good one. I'll give em a call in the mornin. You know those Air Force folks keep bankers hours. :-}

 

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love youBut if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Don Marquis 1878-1937

Flawed Logic

Pacific Northwest is Predominantly BLUE.

Seattle, one of the Bluest Areas in the country

Oregon has some of the looniest liberal policies in the country.

Palin was a member of a Pentacostal Church.  Pentacostals tend to be mostly African American.

Ted Kacynski (sp?)  was a Christian?

Also, the cannard that Terry Nichols was a Christian BEFORE the bombings (as well as implying that the other guy whose name escapes me) is demonstrably false.  Terry Nichols converted AFTER the bombings, right before the sentencing and received not only mercy from God but from the families as well, many of whom believed his conversion.

Any time someone brings up radical associations against McCain/Palin they have to throw Bill Ayers right back at them. 

 

The winds are changing

Go read the comments on that article. It seems that the oppressed conservatives are coming out en masse. I am in shock - happily! I bet this fraud Theologian and Newsweek are in shock in a bad way.

I believe that people who have just stayed silent for so long are finally feeling like they can stand up for what is right, and have an army behind them. It's scary to most people to stand alone. (I have done it for years, but I am a bigmouth!) Finally, people are seeing that they don't have to just nod and smile, and they just are not taking it anymore!

The libs have no clue what hit them, and they keep hoping that tomorrow will be the day that Palin-mania goes away. But it's not Palin-mania at all. It's integrity, and honesty. She is just the vehicle that has inspired many people with these concepts. And the MSM just can't understand or believe it.

"When a government robs Peter to pay Paul, they can always count on the support of Paul." ~ George Bernard Shaw~

From the article

"...pro-gun, pro-censorship, antichoice and antigay..."

Or, anti-home-intruder, anti-porn, pro-unborn-baby, and pro-hetero.

The East Coast academic world

I am from the North Western section of the United States. However, I attended and graduated from an Ivy League School. It does not shock me that those in the academic world of the Northeast tend to look at the Western United States with disdain and befuddlement. In my experience, the Urban cities of the East Coast tend to be highly fractured and disjointed. As such, the urban political machines have co-opted the academic communities, particular the liberal arts, the social sciences and behavioral sciences. Urban politics and rural politics as a result tend to clash. In my opinion, however, it is a danger for the urban academic elite to cast a negative and disparaging view of rural voters and some suburban voters. Granted, there are strong libertarian strains in the Western United States. However, some suburban voters and especially rural voters know their neighbors--they are close communities. It is very shallow view of the Western United States purported by the academic elite.

Whispering No More

I believe the greatest thing to come from Palin's nomination is that people are no longer whispering. They are shouting out and telling the media, college professors and New York Liberals (Wall Street?) that they are tired of being told what they should think. Jim DeMint's recent book "Why We Whisper" should be on everyone's reading list. It looks like he'll have to write a sequel "Why We Shouted" to tell the story of how the American people spoke and restored America.

That's like reading Marx to become an entrepreneur.

Checkout the dude who wrote this article about Palin

http://www.conncoll.edu/Academics/web_profiles/stock.html

  

"I am not a hunter, I am a whitetail deer population reduction specialist!!!

That's no dude

I chuckled after looking at that page. Dude, that's no dude. Not sure that's a lady, but it's got female parts *grin* Looks like a long haired dude, though.

She came off sabbatical in July, I wonder if it was a voluntary sabbatical, or if she was involuntarily committed to a facility of her choosing.

Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his imminent relationship with a superior law and with an objective will that transcends the particular individual - Mussolini

Ridiculous

As someone who was born and raised here in Washington, this is the most ridiculous and asinine statement I've heard since at least yesterday. 

 

Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July.  Democrats believe every day is April 15th ~ Ronald Reagan

Wow! What a news flash!

A liberal college professor from New England (is that redundant?) thinks that because Sarah Palin is from a small town and likes to hunt and fish she is automatically a right-wing-nutcase-terrorist with a compound in Montana.  What an idiot!

The other day I heard a professor do a rant on our troops in the Middle East.  He was saying that because all they do is kill people all day long that they will not be fit for civilian society when they get back and that companies should not hire them because they will go postal at the slightest problem.  Most of the (young) students who fear for their grades just sat quietly during this tirade, but since I am an older student who doesn't really care about grades I dressed him down as the 60's hippie throwback he obviously is, and reminded him that those brave men and women are fighting for his freedom to be an ass. 

Pay no attention to these "professors" who couldn't make it in the real world... 

That's a great story SC

You should post the whole thing.   Did he back down?

And here I thought the Dems

And here I thought the Dems couldn't stoop much lower!

Sarah Palin - Joe Lieberman - Hate Fest 2008

 

 

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so black people are the

so black people are the only minorities that count?  i would say (from experience, i have lived in 11 states, including Washington State) there are lots of diverse areas in the country and that region where there aren't lots of african-american residents. just glossing over the fact that there are lots of native peoples doesn't really help her "diversity" arguement.

I live in a small town with lots of Old Retired Peoples.

  Does that make me associated with AARP?

  Shut up you dad blamed whippersnappers! It does not. Now GET OFF MY LAWN!

bull sh*t

Funny how when it's a so-called "white supremacist group" it's prefectly acceptable to infiltrate and destroy it. But if it's an Islamic hate group or "inner city church" then it's totally off limits.

Having been associated with members (school is a wonderful place to meet folks with different ideas) of various so-called militia groups of the Pacific Northwest in the mid 90's, the whole "white supremacist" label was complete  fabrication. Local tribal members ("Indians") made up or created at least a third of the various groups. One of the first Federal "cyber" hunts to take down BBS and early WWW "hate groups" targetted and destroyed one created and run by an African American kid out of the University of Washington. Women made a very strong presence as well. I was introduced to the whole thing by a late-40's mother of two who was going back to school to start a new career after her youngest moved out. Her oldest was just starting a career in the USMC. Met lots of real veterans from both Vietnam and Korea, who saw the writing on the wall of how government was more concerned about foreign opinon and profit than it's own people, most having been personally screwed over in VA benefits and other ways.

The truth is, these groups were really about one thing: Do Not Trust Government. They were about government watchdogging, about surviving without Government help, on self-reliance, and about alterative, free media and dissemination of information. Many opinions from the conservative to the crackpot were voiced, and no one was shut down even if someone thought they were wrong or over the top-the debates were lively. The First and Second Amendments were practically Holy Writ, to be followed in life and fought for with everything, words and violence if necessary.

But bring along the Domestic Surveillance Act (leftys forgot about that huh?) and Clinton's heavy handed goons, and the lawyers and career liars and corrupt local and state politicos who were damaged by a true Free Speech movement, and everything was destroyed or pushed underground-only the "fringe elements" were hard-core enough to survive and continue, so no wonder there's lots of wackiness out in the woods. 

I first learned about Media Bias first hand at a meeting I attended. More cops (undercover and uniformed) than meeting attendees. Cameras recorded everything, but the local TV news showed an event I didn't recognize-they cut and pasted to make everything look psycho and paranoid.

But, that was my "college activism". Support for real freedom of choice-and the freedom to *not* choose. Freedom of speech, even if we didn't like what someone had to say. And most important of all, the freedom to own the tools that make sure no one is marginalized or ignored.

 

"to call an illegal immigrant an "undocumented alien" is the same as calling a streetcorner drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist".

"You spend your money anyway you want and respect other's rights to do the same"

Howard Dean: Grand Wizard of the KKK?

It's so obvious when you use liberal logic

#1. Vermont is DNC Chairman How's home state. Not only is is Vermont whiter than the driven snow, but unlike Alaska it doesn't even have any Eskimoes to sprinkle the diversity about. So while you can lose the entire whitey population of Vermont in a blizzard, you'd easily be able to spot the Alaskan Eskimoe population in the snow.

#2. By his own admission during the 2004 primaries, the only "black" folks Howard Dean met regularly in 99% white Vermont, worked in the servant classes: Busboys, Waiters, Shoe Shine boys, et al.

#3. Don't know about you, but that's all the proof I need to try and convict Howie KKK Dean. Oh -- and he's a lousy tipper too.

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

Why is Catherine Stock discriminating against the eskimo

population? I think Palin is showing great tolerance for minorities by choosing  to live amongst these native people let alone marrying one. Not very tolerant of Stock is it?

 

"I need more cowbell!" SNL

Disneyland for Liberal Elites

McNicol: "What few observers have said, however, is these beliefs are not just extreme - they are radical, and even bear a comparison with some of the most notorious "rural radicals" of our time."

Wow, I never knew that I was a radical for holding traditional values held by Americans since it was formed in 1776.  Thanks for opening my eyes to the truth Ms. McNicol.

Wait a second, don't most Americans oppose gay marriage?  Don't most Americans support gun rights?  Don't most Americans support limitations on abortion?  Suddenly I'm thinking that McNicol's is living in a different world than I am.  Perhaps Disneyland.  Put down the crack pipe for a second Ms. McNicols and sober up for a second.  If you and your elitist friends don't have any moral backbone, it doesn't mean that you represent the majority view of Americans.  You are proof that someone can get a degree but not an education.

DJD

Hello fellow radical.

Directions please!

Pro gun, anti statists? where do I sign up?

I wonder, does McNichol-Stock's thesis apply to Vermont? Still the 'whitest state in the union' isn't it?

 And what is it with libs and the hyphenated names?

What's so radical about the

What's so radical about the right to bear arms and protect one's self and one's property?  Liberals wish the Second Amendment would go the way of the Eighteenth Amendment.  They must curse James Madison for it.

Sooooo

the logical extension is that anyone living near David Duke is a racist? I think thousands of residents of the South would contest that.

Weathermen

William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, and radical Leftists of the 60s, are actual friends of Barak! Does this mean nothing at all to this supposed intellectual? Oh, I forgot, they are fellow travelers on the Red Train!

These known associates of Barak are unrepentent terrorists who attempted to destroy American Government property and promoted killing ones parents to further the Revolution! When will any of this get looked at under a microscope? Instead we have "Childgate", "Troopergate", and "Lack of Diversitygate".

What a crock! Catherine McNicol needs to take a road trip accross our wonderful country to meet some real Americans! My wife and I have traveled up and down and back and forth across this country during 30 years of vacations. Everyone almost to a person is friendly and open. This editorial sounds like a case of projection on her part.

Dem folks allah-time is jus puttin on Ayres

What no Timothy Mcvay, Godon Kahl or Ruby Ridge references? 

Why does the media give creedance to imaginary story lines and refuse to report real stories about unrepentant Pentagon bombing, friends and mentors of NObama  

Dem folks is  allah-time jus puttin on Ayres. William Ayres we just learned he wept when he received a ring made from metal of a downed US jet from the greatful Viet Cong . Wait, didn't John McCain go down in a jet and get tortured (Lib's hate torture you know) for five and a half years by these same VC Patriots? The news media and the lefties should get UN blue helmets ala Dukkakis as they are "in the tank" for Nobama

We cling to our guns and our religion because those on the left wish to separate us from them. If you don't believe that think WACO