In Illinois the Republicans will have an actual holocaust denier running for a state congressional seat.

Arthur Jones in the front here wearing his MAGA hat in support of Donald Trump.

Courtesy of the Chicago Sun Times:  

Arthur Jones — an outspoken Holocaust denier, activist anti-Semite and white supremacist — is poised to become the Republican nominee for an Illinois congressional seat representing parts of Chicago and nearby suburbs. 

“Well first of all, I’m running for Congress not the chancellor of Germany. All right. To me the Holocaust is what I said it is: It’s an international extortion racket,” Jones told the Chicago Sun-Times. 

Indeed, Jones’ website for his latest congressional run includes a section titled “The ‘Holocaust Racket’” where he calls the genocide carried out by the German Nazi regime and collaborators in other nations “the biggest blackest lie in history.”

Jones is running unopposed in the primary, which means he will certainly be the nominee. 

But let's face it, even if he did have an opponent he could still emerge victorious.

After all this IS the age of Donald Trump, where white supremacists no longer have to hide in the shadows.

Google removes Holocaust denying website from top search results.

Courtesy of Digital Trends:  

After facing considerable backlash over its most popular product, Search, Google has made some major changes. 

Earlier this week, we reported that the first result for a query in the U.K. on whether the Holocaust happened claimed it did not — and that the result was returned from a white supremacist website. Now, Google has changed its algorithm to remove that result (and other denial sites) altogether. 

This is an improvement over a previous fix, which simply bumped the search result down a bit in popularity. Now, it appears to be completely gone. Of course, it’s unclear how lasting a fix this is, and this certainly won’t be the only problematic query (with even more problematic search results) Google will have to reckon with. 

Here is how Google explained how they are making the search engine more accurate and less antisemitic.

When “non-authoritative information” ranks high in its results, the company says it develops scaleable and automated methods to fix the problem, “rather than manually removing these one by one.” 

“We recently made improvements to our algorithm that will help surface more high quality, credible content on the web,” the spokesperson said. “We’ll continue to change our algorithms over time in order to tackle these challenges.” 

Well good for Google. Returning results that are based in facts instead of propaganda is the first step toward moving us away from fake news and toward...you know...news news.

And for those who want their news with a slight racist or antisemitic bent, I guess there is always Bing.

(Of course I'm just joking, I'm sure Bing is also interested in providing fact based content as well. Seriously, does anybody actually use Bing?)

White supremacists plan armed march in Montana town.

Courtesy of Think Progress:  

The Daily Stormer, a popular American neo-Nazi website, is organizing an armed march in Whitefish, Montana, home of white nationalist leader Richard Spencer’s mother. 

In a recent blog post that features Hilter’s face as its banner image, Andrew Anglin, publisher of the white supremacist website, announced he’s planning an armed march in the town for the second week of January — days before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. 

“Montana has extremely liberal open carry laws, so my lawyer is telling me we can easily march through the center of the town carrying high-powered rifles,” Anglin wrote, adding that he plans to be there personally. “Currently, my guys say we are going to be able to put together about 200 people to participate in the march, which will be against Jews, Jewish businesses and everyone who supports either. We will be busing in skinheads from the Bay Area.”

I wrote earlier that this same group was targeting Jews in Montana and releasing their personal information onto the internet.

This of course is just another example of what it will be like in Donald Trump's America, where no minority group is safe from intimidation, harassment, or physical endangerment.

Mark Levin, or as Sarah Palin calls him "The Great One," is none too happy with her attacks on Ted Cruz.

Courtesy of Mediaite:

Conservative radio host Mark Levin criticized Sarah Palin this afternoon for sinking too low in trying to score “cheap shots” against Ted Cruz. 

Palin linked to the website The Conservative Treehouse, which brought up the OpenSecrets list of Cruz’s biggest contributors, including the Club for Growth and Goldman Sachs. 

Now, that led to Levin––who has consistently praised Cruz as a principled conservative––to respond to Palin on Facebook:

I'd discourage Governor Palin from linking to an anti-Semitic website to score cheap shots against Cruz. How about we debate the substantive issues that matter to the nation?
Posted by Mark Levin on Saturday, February 13, 2016

Damn, this endorsement of Donald Trump is really working out well for Palin, don'tcha think?

I swear if this keeps up we may all someday have to look back and not only thank Donald Trump for exposing the hypocrisy of the GOP, but for pounding that final nail in Sarah Palin's coffin.

Hang on a second, that idea of thanking Trump for anything made me gag a little.

Ted Nugent might finally have gone too far.

Courtesy of the National Review:  

Ted Nugent should resign from the board of the National Rifle Association. And if he does not, he should be pushed from his position. 

This week, in the course of “defending” the right to keep and bear arms, Nugent enthusiastically shared a choice piece of anti-Semitic propaganda. Then, shamefully, he refused to acknowledge or to address his mistake. If Nugent wants to behave like a fool, that is, of course, his prerogative. But he must do so in quarantine, a long, long way from the rest of us. 

This is not an enjoyable or typical thing for me to write. As a rule, I like hyperbole. As a rule, I don’t think that there is anything wrong with harsh, indignant defenses of fundamental rights. And, as a rule, I like eccentrics and wish dearly that our culture gave them a little more latitude to be themselves. But there is nothing hyperbolic or eccentric about Nugent’s post, and nor does it channel his righteous indignation in support of a righteous cause. Contrary to some of the protestations I have seen, this is in no way a question of “political correctness” or of effete “elite sensibilities”; it is anti-Semitism, plain as day. To anybody with eyes, his message was as clear as it was indefensible: Disloyal, money-grabbing, Israel-preferring Jews are “really behind” the gun-control movement, and they should be cast out of American society in consequence. 

Now make note that this is coming from the National Review, not exactly the kind of "liberal rag" that Nugent is always haranguing against.

These are usually his kind of people.

So for them to call for his resignation, well that might actually result in his resignation.

Whether it's his choice, or forced upon him, that is another matter entirely.

Oh well, you know he will always have at least one staunch supporter.

Well until Donald Trump commands otherwise of course.

GOP candidate Ben Carson accuses President Obama of antisemitism.

Here let me tell you about something else I don;t understand.

Courtesy of Bloomberg:

Ben Carson has a way with words. 

 In a Sunday interview with Fox News, the Republican presidential candidate doubled down on his assertion that a speech given by President Obama intended to sell the American public on his nuclear deal with Iran contained "coded innuendos employing standard anti-Semitic themes.” 

Carson's claim first appeared in an editorial that the retired neurosurgeon published Sunday in the Jerusalem Post, and Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace pressed the candidate to explain what, in particular, he believed to be anti-Semitic about the president's remarks. 

"I think anything is anti-semitic that is against the survival of a state that is surrounded by enemies and people who want to destroy them," Carson said. "To act like everything is normal there and that these people are paranoid, I think that's anti-Semitic." Carson added that on a recent trip to Israel, he "couldn't find a single person there who didn't feel that this administration had turned their backs on Israel."

Gee I wonder who Carson was talking to in Israel?

Israel's warmongering prime minister Netanyahu and his staff perhaps?

So to be clear the deal that keeps Iran from developing a nuclear weapon for at least the next ten years, and therefore decreases their ability to threaten Israel, who already has nuclear weapons, makes the President an anti-Semite?

Gee that makes all kinds of sense. 

You know just because President Obama does not genuflect at Netanyahu's feet like the Republicans in Congress, does not mean that he is anti-Semite. It simply means that he is well aware that Netanyahu uses the possibility of Iranians getting nuclear weapons to scare his people into keeping him in power and has decided to take actual steps to protect the people of Israel rather than buoy up their Prime Minister's political power base.

By the way would you be surprised to learn that this idiot is now right behind Donald Trump in the most recent Fox News poll? Well he is.

Ukrainian Rabbi calls antisemitic leaflets a hoax.

Courtesy of the Jerusalem Post:

A Ukrainian rabbi whose congregation was the target of an anti-Semitic leaflet that drew global media interest and condemnation from the US government believes it was a hoax and wants to put the matter to rest. 

On Monday evening, as Jews left a synagogue after a Passover service, masked men handed out fliers purported to be from pro-Russian separatists who seized the regional authority building in Donetsk and styled themselves as its government. 

In an echo of the Holocaust which devastated Ukraine's Jews, it ordered all Jews to register with them or face deportation. 

Denis Pushilin, head of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic, said it was a fake, presumably by supporters of the Ukrainian government, that was meant to discredit his movement. 

Pinchas Vishedski, chief rabbi of the Donetsk area's 15,000 Jews, told Reuters on Saturday that while it was initially shocking, he was now satisfied it was a political hoax - "a crude provocation" - though its authorship was still unclear.

This is why you wait to get all of the information before you make some ignorant statement about something that is way above your pay grade. 

You would think that a professional troll might recognize when somebody else is trolling another group hoping to cause some friction.

Arizona Senator Jeff Flake's son may be about to lose his access to Twitter.

"Hey what can I say? Boys will be boys/"

Courtesy of Buzzfeed:  

Sen. Jeff Flake’s high school-aged son Tanner used twitter to threaten the “faggot” who stole his bike that he “will find you, and … will beat the crap out of you,” joked about an acquaintance stealing one-liners because he’s Jewish, and went by the name “n1ggerkiller” in an online game. 

“I’m very disappointed in my teenage son’s words, and I sincerely apologize for the insensitivity. This language is unacceptable, anywhere. Needless to say, I’ve already spoken with him about this, he has apologized, and I apologize as well,” Sen. Flake said in a statement to BuzzFeed. 

Although Tanner has since locked his twitter account, a series of tweets from January and February show the Arizona Republican’s son repeatedly using the slurs.

Here are a few of the more inflammatory tweets:

As many of you may remember Flake is already in the doghouse for lying to the parent of one of the Aurora shooting victims about his support fro background checks.

Hmm now why does this incident seem so familiar?

Oh, that's right.