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Representative Peter King wants to hold hearings about Un-American Activities Amongst the Mohammedans on these shores. Does the fact that he supported the IRA make him a hypocrite? Maybe

For Representative Peter T. King, as he seizes the national spotlight this week with a hearing on the radicalization of American Muslims, it is the most awkward of résumé entries. Long before he became an outspoken voice in Congress about the threat from terrorism, he was a fervent supporter of a terrorist group, the Irish Republican Army.

But more importantly, as we've pointed out before, the search for domestic enemies gets real messy, and real fanciful, real fast.

[NY Times]

your weekly af(sw) update

The waters keep rising.

Our friends and family keep coming through, helping us build a base of funds to continue our campaign into the fall. Of course, we need you to join up sooner rather than later.

There will be some chances for you to join us before the main event. We are an official selection as a staged reading in the 2011 Planet Connections Theater Festivity, and keep tuned to this space for more details on that and other opportunities for you to rub elbows with our spectacular cast and crew.

In the meantime, toss a couple nickels our way, wont you?

All’s Fair (Six Western) is made possible through the generous support of the Puffin Foundation, Centrum, Anonymous, Leonardo Giadone, Andrew Grosso, Barbara Hohlt, Eunice Inquimboy, Aaron Isquith, Janet Isquith, Steven Leshnower, Esq., Jackie Miller, Cristian Ossa, and Laura Rubin.



Conflict of Interest theater company (COItc) is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of COItc may be made payable to Fractured Atlas. The value of various goods or services is variable depending on contribution level. Any contribution above amounts specified on the campaign page is tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

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TRUTH WILL OUT

As I am sometimes convinced that the powerful without scruples are completely shameless -- here's some heartening news. John Ensign apparently has a grain of shame left:

The decision to be announced in Nevada reverses Mr. Ensign’s stated determination to run again despite an ongoing ethics investigation into his admitted affair with the wife of a former staff member. Mr. Ensign’s parents eventually provided nearly $100,000 to the family of the aide, Doug Hampton, and Mr. Ensign also faced questions about helping with the lobbying career of his one-time chief of staff.

File under This is EXACTLY what it looks like

[NY Times]

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We're looking for a few good partners.

All's Fair (Six Western) is entering into long-term advertising partnerships for the duration, from now until our Fall 2011 premiere. If your business would like to raise its profile with vibrant, off-Broadway theater audience -- or if you know of a business that is -- drop us a line. We have slots available in our program, website, blog, podcast, as well as on-site academic and business residencies.

(We also do birthday parties.)

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your weekly af(sw) update

Let's keep it going, everyone!

Slow but steady wins the race, and our campaign for all's fair (six western) is a tortoise -- which is why the status bar for our graphic is green. (Uh, no. But it sounded good.)

It's early days, so we understand that it's hard to get excited about a project with very little to see. We're working on that; some visual and aural goodies are coming your way. (For now, you can go here, though.)

Come join the party; it's not a party until you get there...

All’s Fair (Six Western) is made possible through the generous support of the Puffin Foundation, Centrum, Anonymous, Leonardo Giadone, Andrew Grosso, Barbara Hohlt, Eunice Inquimboy, Aaron Isquith, Janet Isquith, Steven Leshnower, Esq., Jackie Miller, and Laura Rubin.



Conflict of Interest theater company (COItc) is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of COItc may be made payable to Fractured Atlas. The value of various goods or services is variable depending on contribution level. Any contribution above amounts specified on the campaign page is tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

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I think it's pretty safe to say all our work as a theater company is only trying to replicate this brilliance:



NSFW if your co-workers have any imagination while looking at that monster.

[via Boing Boing]

new podcast episode

A new episode of the COI podcast is ready for download as we continue our series of live podcast recordings: Tatiana Gomberg performs Sam Schreiber's "Corinthians."

As always, there are three ways to listen:

(1) Stream the episode below
(2) Visit our podcast page and listen online: conflicttheater.podOmatic.com
(3) iTunes users can click this link