rightwing extremists

After the murder of Dr. George Tiller nearly two weeks ago and yesterday’s shootings at the Holocaust Museum by a man with white supremacist ties, some civil rights organizations — including the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League — say that a Homeland Security report on rightwing extremism was correct in its focus.
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Rep. Michele Bachmann took to the House floor today, along with a stream of other Republicans, calling for the resignation of Janet Napolitano, director of Homeland Security over the recently leaked DHS report on rightwing extremists. She says a hearing should be held to determine if Napolitano believes that those espousing conservative values are “extremists.” [...]