When Cliven Bundy took to a stage this April near where armed militiamen a year before backed down agents from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), it seemed that his 鈥淏attle of Bunkerville鈥� had truly been won. A year had passed and Bundy was still free, his cattle were still grazing on government lands, and his radical defenders remained unscathed.
He鈥檚 the 鈥渧elvet voice鈥� playing in your head deep into the night. Smooth and articulate, without anger or accent, talk show host Jeff Rense, 69, serves a six-hour smorgasbord of Jewish conspiracies, government-sponsored space alien abduction reports and an odd mix of New Age insights to tens of thousands of Internet insomniacs every weekday night.
鈥楶atriots鈥� in Texas worry that Walmart and FEMA are conspiring to impose martial law. The governor isn鈥檛 taking any chances
Twenty years later, the lesson of America's worst-ever domestic terrorist attack is to remember the homegrown threat.
This listing carries a selection of hate incidents from the first four months of 2015. Any additional listings can be found on the Intelligence Project鈥檚 website.
When two apparent Muslim radicals attacked a Muhammad cartoon contest in a Dallas suburb this May, a national spotlight was focused on the group that hosted the provocative event 鈥� the American Freedom Defense Initiative, whose leader is Pamela Geller, the country鈥檚 most flamboyant and visible Muslim-basher.
Tracy is a proud black transgender woman, determined since childhood that, no matter the price, she would never pretend to be anything other than 鈥渕y authentic self 鈥� the woman God made.鈥� The price has been high. All things considered, though, she鈥檚 been lucky. 鈥淣one of my crew, the girls I came up with, is still around,鈥� she laments. 鈥淢y grandmother is 90 and I have more dead friends than she does. A lot of my girlfriends didn鈥檛 even make it to 30.鈥�
