Back in April, America saw the birth of a new conservative protest movement. Although officially non-partisan, the anti-tax, anti-Obama Tea Parties — organized and advertised by conservative foundations, Fox News, and GOP leading lights like Newt Gingrich — drew overwhelmingly Republican crowds. Those who gathered to decry “Obamunism” were also overwhelmingly white, their numbers peppered with Latinos and blacks in about the same proportion one sees at the Republican National Convention or a Sean Hannity book-signing event.

It’s a good bet that on July 4, the (noticeably…

America’s leading white power extremists keep getting arrested in the strangest places. But some of them are wiggling off the hook.

Earlier this month, 33-year-old KKK activist and FBI fugitive Micky Louis Mayon was arrested in Tel Aviv on a tip from Interpol. Mayon had been on the Feds’ 100 Most Wanted list since leaving the country to escape arrest in November of 2007. He was promptly shipped back to the U.S. and persecuted for a series of violent crimes.

In April, former KKK Grand Wizard and current globetrotting freelance anti-Semite David Duke was detained in Prague, Czech…

Back in May, Germany’s domestic intelligence service issued a report that echoed a previous warning by America’s Department of Homeland Security. The allied agencies shared a concern: an increase in threatened and actual violence emanating from the far-right fringes of their respective democracies.

The summer of 2009 has more than justified these warnings. Here in the States, there have been two fatal shootings by members of far-right groups or movements, as well as a general rising mood of violence accompanying the national debate over, of all things, health care policy. In…