Conservative Movement

What Next in the Fight Over Who Our Economy Is for?

Dave Johnson | Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: Labor, Democracy, Conservative Movement, Occupy, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Plutocracy, Video, Business News

Who is our economy for, anyway? In the United States, We, the People are supposedly in charge, and our country and economy are supposed to be managed ...

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How Can Conservative Judaism Get Its Mojo Back?

Rabbi Jason Miller | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Conservative Movement, Conservative Judaism, Conservative Movement Growth, Zeigler Rabbinical School, Rabbinical Assembly Convention, Rabbi Jason Miller, American Jewish University, Jewish Movements, Modern Judaism, Problem With Conservative Judaism, Innovative Judaism, Rabbi Brad Artson, Religion News

Conservative Judaism has long waved the banner of "Tradition and Change." If that is to continue to be the mantra, then there must be a response to the change.

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Tea Parties: Are They Just A Whole Bunch Of Book Clubs?

Politerati | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Readers Guide, Coffee House, Martin Luther King, Civil Rights, Books, Sarah Palin, Conservative Movement, Dick Armey, Book Clubs, Tea Party, Books News

Media-types (okay, people like me) are having a lot of trouble wrapping our heads around the vast, leaderless structure of the tea party. You see, i...

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Feeling the Hate at CPAC 2010 With Andrew Breitbart, Hannah Giles and the Crazy Mob

Max Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Breitbart, Birthers, White Supremacists, Acorn, James O'keefe, Secession, Obama, Race, Porn, Cpac, Conservative Movement, Conservatives, Sex, Racism, Celebrity Skin, Max Blumenthal, Politics News

While I was filming at CPAC for a forthcoming project, I was confronted by Hannah Giles, Andrew Breitbart and a mob of crazed teabaggers.

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CPAC: The Cruelty Political Action Conference

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cpac, Conservative Movement, Bible, Guantanamo, Torture, Politics News

While there has always been a crazy streak in the conservative movement, the most wild extremists have never taken over the movement lock, stock and barrel before. Today they are thoroughly in control.

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Editing the Bible

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Progressivism, Conservative Movement, Jesus, Holy Bible, Liberalism, Conservapedia, Politics News

The folks at Conservapedia are re-translating the Bible to make it fit better with conservative ideology. Now there are no suggestions about what's to be done with all those inconvenient references to the poor.

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What's In A Name? Defining The Modern Conservative

Tim Ellis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conservative, Partisan Politics, Republican, Thomas Jefferson, Conservative Movement, Movement Conservatism, Politics News

Is conservatism good for America? The answer depends largely on what you mean by conservatism -- and what you mean by "good for America."

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We All Sink or Swim Together

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LGBT Movement, Conservative Movement, Progressive Movement, Ballot Initiative, Maine Marriage Equality 2009, Marriage Equality, No on 1, Politics News

Conservatives understand that a headline the day after the Maine initiative about them succeeding at rolling back the gay marriage bill helps them build momentum, and helps deflate and discourage progressives.

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Sarah Palin Spins Out Of Control: Pugnacious Revisionism Of Going Rogue Portends Her Fall From Grace

Mario Almonte | Posted 05.25.2011

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In Going Rogue, Palin flirts dangerously close to morally dubious grounds, and it is making supporters wonder if she too isn't spiritually corrupt and undeserving of their loyalty.

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Pat Buchanan, William F. Buckley Jr., and Right-Wing Anti-Semitism

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Msnbc, Pat Buchanan, Rush Limbaugh, Rachel Maddow, William F. Buckley Jr., Racism, Conservative Movement, Hitler, Politics News

World conquest was a pipe dream for Hitler, but Buchanan's whitewashing is an unconscionable distortion of the truth. Why did Hitler invade Poland? Easy. Because it was there.

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The Contrast

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Msnbc, Fox News, 9/12 Movement, Anti-Tax Movement, Conservative Movement, Teabaggers, Rachel Maddow, Politics News

I do worry about the 9-12ers. I mean, a lot of them are older, and this anger they carry around must be terrible for the toll it takes in terms of the high blood pressure, hypertension, and heart disease.

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U.S. Conservatives Riled Up But Where Do They Go?

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop, Republican Party, Conservative Crossroads, Conservatives, Where Do Conservatives Go, Conservative Movement, Anti-Tax Tea Parties, Tea Parties, Politics News

The Texas governor ponders secession from the United States, anti-tax "tea parties" are held and some states snub federal economic "stimulus" funds. ...

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Conservative Movement Throws Full Weight Against Sebelius

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Several key conservative movement leaders, in an attempt to jack up pressure against Kathleen Sebelius Wednesday, sent a memo to the Senate urging mem...

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Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot* -- Wants U.S. to Fail, Claims "Creator" Language in Declaration is Preamble to Constitution, Then Gets Constitution Award from CPAC

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rush made no bones about it. He wants the President of the United States to fail -- and he was wildly cheered at CPAC. Apparently, their "team" is the Conservative Movement, not the American people.

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David Brooks: Conservative Movement Has "No Leaders," "No Coherent Belief System," In A "World Of Pain"

Huffington Post via ThinkProgress | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011

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Conservative columnist David Brooks envisions very tough times ahead for conservatives. On "Face the Nation" this morning, Brooks says the conservati...

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The GOP's "Nah Nah Nah Can't Hear You!" Argument

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barack Obama, Conservatives, Liberals, Progressives, Conservative Movement, Reaganism, Politics News

Obviously, the Right understands what's really going on in America -- and is working to reinterpret that reality.

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