Al Levie is a Wisconsin social studies teacher and community activist. He's also one brave and principled guy: When Paul Ryan tried to give him a Congressional certificate honoring a Martin Luther King humanitarian award Levie had just won, Levie refused it, calling out Ryan out as "a lackey for the 1%" whose policies are an insult to King's stands for civil rights and economic justice. Bravo. Video.

Stickers with an image of rifle crosshairs were found on the offices of six Missouri legislators - five of them Democrats, half black women. After staff removed them, larger ones turned up in their place. This, after a Democratic operative in Arkansas found his family cat killed with "LIBERAL" scrawled on the corpse. More, outraged and eloquent, on a violent climate and rhetoric fed daily by the likes of Limbaugh and Hannity - who have yet to take back, or own the repercussions of, any of it.

"They'll probably arrest some teenagers sooner or later. Just kids. Just kids who learned this behavior somewhere...Nothing to see here. Move along. It was an isolated incident."

The NYPD has been caught in a mess of lies about their "training" using The Third Jihad, a vicious film that presents religious killings, car bombs and executed children as "the true agenda of much of Islam in America." When the Village Voice first broke the story, the NYPD spokesman dismissed it as a "wacky movie" mistakenly shown "a couple of times." Turns out the film was shown "on a continuous loop" for up to a year to 1,500 officers. This sure will help their already-strained credibility.