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There were two terrorist attacks in America over the weekend, but don’t expect the mainstream media to call them that. On Friday, 48-year-old Georgia resident Dennis Marx was scheduled to appear at the Forsyth County Courthouse in Cumming, Georgia, to face charges on 11 different felony counts.

Forsyth arrived at the courthouse on-time, but while in his truck, he threw “homemade spike strips” onto the road, and tried to run over a policeman. After police opened fire on him, Forsyth began shooting at them from his truck, and proceeded to throw tear gas grenades, smoke grenades, and pepper spray grenades at them. After a three minute long firefight, a SWAT team surrounded Marx, ultimately killing him.

Meanwhile, yesterday in Las Vegas, an armed couple screaming about “revolution” opened fire and killed two Las Vegas policemen inside of a local pizza joint. After shooting and killing Officer Alyn Beck and Officer Igor Soldo, the couple took their weapons and covered their bodies with the Gadsden Flag, a yellow banner with contains a coiled snake around the words, “Don’t tread on me.” The flag is named for Christopher Gadsden, the Revolutionary War general who designed it. It’s also a very popular symbol with the Tea Party movement.

After killing the police officers, the couple then fled to a local Wal-Mart, where they killed an innocent bystander, before ultimately taking their own lives in an apparent murder-suicide. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, neighbors said the couple often spoke about mistrust for and killing of police officers, and “going underground” until the time was right. Neighbors also told the Review-Journal that the husband claimed he had been kicked off the Bundy Ranch during the protests there last month.

Read more here.

-Thom

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Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Las Vegas rampage leaves five dead, including two police officers " by John M. Glionna and Matt Pearce.

Article: "Report: White supremacist Walmart ‘revolution’ shooters kicked off Bundy ranch" by Reuters.

Article: "Chart: Almost Every Obama Conspiracy Theory Ever" by Asawin Suebsaeng and Dave Gilson / Illustrations by Steve Brodner.

Article: "The Rush to Demonize Sgt. Bergdahl" by The Editorial Board at the NY Times.

Article: "The Swiftboating of Bowe Bergdahl Turns Into a Republican Disaster With Torture Revelation" by Jason Easley.

Article: "2012 GOP threat: Sgt. Bergdahl swap will be Obama, Democrats’ ‘Willie Horton moment’" by Scott Kaufman.

Video: Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad.

Article: "Bowe Bergdahl said he was tortured, kept in a cage by Taliban, U.S. officials say" by Karen DeYoung.

Article: "Smedley Butler" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Microsoft’s Bill Gates rich enough to buy Boston" by Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein.

Quote: "A Lie Can Be Halfway Round the World Before the Truth Has Got Its Boots On" (various versions, attributions).

Article: "Reid calls Bundy supporters ‘domestic terrorists’" by Michael Quine.

Article: "2009 Fort Hood shooting" by Wikipedia.

CD: "Light Side: The Dark Side" by Dick Gregory.

Article: "The Bergdahl boomerang: GOP lawmakers who long urged a rescue now sour on the idea" by David Fahrenthold and Jaime Fuller.

Hour Two: America: Imagine a World Without Her
- Thom challenges conservative Dinesh D'Souza on his new book

Book: America: Imagine a World without Her by Dinesh D'Souza.

Book: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, Russell Kirk.

Article: "Port Huron Statement" by Tom Hayden (1962).

Article: "GOP struggles to recruit black voters, candidates" by Jesse J. Holland.

Site: Project 21.

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