Archive for the Leonard Pitts Category
Separate fact from prejudice
Not to startle you, but you have a narrative in your head. Dozens of them, in fact.
`Fury’ of the right turns into shameful hoax
Last week, the conservative outrage machine tried to chew up Shirley Sherrod.
A mosque to be built on our principles
They want to build a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero.
Drug sentences create racial caste system
Ron Allen probably thinks Alice Huffman has been smoking something.
2010’s summer madness
An open letter to 24th century historians.<p/> I've left this note for you as a public service. Three hundred years from now, when you study the things that dominated American thought in the summer of 2010, I suspect one pressing question will rise above all others:
The ‘facts’ according to Glenn Beck
Ascene from the near future:<p/> Augustus Merryweather IV glanced up at the tapping on his office door. Harvey Carbunkle stood there in bow tie and shirt sleeves, smiling eagerly from behind horn-rimmed glasses. Augustus sighed. He hated this part of the job. It was never fun to let people go.
`No-fly’ list often snares wrong persons
On the face of it, they'd seem to have little in common.
`No-fly’ list often snares wrong persons
On the face of it, they'd seem to have little in common.
Strong opinions on immigration get in the way of fact
We all know that President Obama was secretly born in Kenya.