MPs who wanted to escape from the hook of the second resolution and with a public never averse to a bit of frog-bashing.

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The SPLC report also offers a bit of good news: The number of "immigrant-bashing" extremist groups -- so-called nativism organizations -- is way down from 2011, falling by 88%.

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But there was a little bit of respite in what has become almost the national sport of bashing Bob Diamond, the chief executive of Barclays.

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