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...have pamphlets and membership applications on hand for any audience members who happen to share the Klansmen's views. Some examples of those views: Obama's election "could be the destruction of America," says Greene, who states categorically that he would not vote for a black candidate. Says the Emperor of the Mississippi White Knights (the group's ritual leader), who asked not to be identified: "Locally, every place that has come under black rule has declined, and has declined sharply." He cited Jackson, Miss., and Washington, D.C., as examples. "Not all black people are particularly bad people," the emperor...
...surprisingly, Taylor is one person on campus who worries that some students may be more receptive than they let on to the Klan's message. And indeed, the Emperor of the KKK claims that after the Daily Mississippian published a story containing his e-mail address, the Klan received "a number of inquiries" for new membership - including some from the university's students...
...choice of Palin as a vice-presidential running mate must be the worst political appointment since the Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a Consul. Christopher K. Sumner, London...
...classical Ubermensch, has lost all his purchase in these misguided States. Let us not forget that ours is the land that once acquitted Aaron Burr, a former vice president and notable murderer, of his active conspiracy against the United States and his plan to become the ‘Emperor of Mexico.’ Surely the same nation must tolerate a little overzealous acceleration? Even if not, shouldn’t the system be a little more meticulous and franker than the arbitrary placement of police cruisers beyond kinks in the road, under bridges and behind bushes...
...past century. Friday marks two years to the day from the most potent moment of his papacy, a provocative discourse at the University of Regensburg about how faith and reason can, and must, coexist. Though the Sep. 12, 2006 speech is best remembered for its citation of a Byzantine emperor's insults of the prophet Muhammed, which sparked Muslim outrage, the intended target of the Pope's words were the increasingly secularized Europeans...