Jonah Goldberg

Conservative Author Jonah Goldberg Drops Pulitzer Nominations Claim

Open Channel | Bill DedmanInvestigative Reporter, msnbc.com | Posted 05.09.2012

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On the dust jacket of his new book, "The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas," best-selling conservative author and commentato...

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White Nationalism: A Scourge That Won't Go Away

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Ed Schultz, White Nationalism, White Supremacists, Anti-Defamation League, Cpac 2012, Peter Brimelow, Kevin Macdonald, Sam Francis, Jared Taylor, Southern Poverty Law Center, Jonah Goldberg, Anti-Immigrant, Ed Schultz MSNBC, Politics News
Menachem Rosensaft

So who, precisely, is Peter Brimelow, and why should the rest of us be concerned when a white nationalist racist like him appears at the same event as Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Sarah Palin?

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When Romney Talks, Mitt Happens

Jason Stanford | Posted 05.05.2012

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Jason Stanford

But unlike the caricature of a politician who's the bastard child of pollsters and focus groups, bad things happen for Mitt when he ignores his script and orders off the teleprompter. What if Mitt's real problem is that he just can't stop being authentic?

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WATCH: Conservative Writer Breaks Down Over Breitbart's Death

Posted 03.01.2012

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Conservative writer Jonah Goldberg got emotional talking about Andrew Breitbart's death during an appearance on Fox News on Thursday. Breitbart, a ...

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What Can Obama Learn From Bill Clinton?

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Danny Groner

Bill Clinton's brief appearance last week excited both members of the media and Washington, but the question now is whether Clinton's presence can help Obama turn things around.

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WATCH: C-SPAN Panelist Seeks Awkward Romantic Revenge On Live TV

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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An awesomely awkward incident graced the airwaves of C-SPAN 2 earlier this month, when a member of a book panel burned a fellow panelist over a past r...

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Does the Tea Party Take the Constitution Seriously?

John Paul Rollert | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Paul Rollert

The Supreme Court building is the Yankee Stadium of constitutional interpretation, and Tea Party members have been waving our founding document for a while now.

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The Draft to End All Drafts

Dave Astor | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dave Astor

If the draft was reinstated, the U.S. would have a harder time fighting unpopular wars like the one currently being waged in Antarctica.

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360-Degree Turn -- Now the Right Is Attacking Shirley Sherrod for Calling Breitbart a Racist

Alvin McEwen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alvin McEwen

I fail to see how anyone can make Breitbart the victim in this situation when he was the one who tried to ruin Sherrod's career and name as part of a vindictive attack on the NAACP, which he has yet to apologize for.

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Jason Linkins

Jonah Goldberg Has Issues With Dragons

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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O-kay, here is how we are going to deal with this, in three easy steps: Step One: Michael Brendan Dougherty, January 21, 2010: First, you're obsesse...

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Are Compassion and Community Evil?

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mike Lux

To my conservative friends: The fact that I care about keeping you from starving, freezing to death, and dying due to lack of good medical care does not mean that I eventually want to send you to a death camp.

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Glenn Beck: "Historian" for a Troubled America

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph A. Palermo

Beck's shtick is a backhanded nod to the relevance of history as a discipline and to historians not only as educators, but also as the keepers of the nation's myths.

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Victory in Iraq at Last (Not!)

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sunnis, Palestine, Iraq, WMD's Al Qaeda, Jonah Goldberg, Robert Kagan, Thomas Barnett, Bush, Iran, Shiites, Mission Accomplished, Kurds, Israel, Neoconservatives, Washington Post, Newsweek, World News
Leon T. Hadar

Would the Bush administration have been able to win support from Congress and the American people to invade Iraq in order to liberate the Shiites and the Sunnis there while considering the costs of such a "victory?"

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Historians vs. Jonah Goldberg

David Neiwert | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Neiwert

Anyone who's been watching Glenn Beck's show the past year is aware that his continually building thesis about Obama is largely built on Jonah Goldberg's fraudulent Liberal Fascism.

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Jason Linkins

"Avatar" And Religion: Jonah Goldberg's Take

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over at the LA Times, Jonah Goldberg sets about attempting to decode the quasi-religious aspects of James Cameron's "Avatar". I've not seen the movie...

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Are We 'Hard-Wired' for God?

Phil Zuckerman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Phil Zuckerman

Conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg asserted that religion is a natural, innate component to being human. All people, he claims, have a religious need or spiritual proclivity.

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Jason Linkins

Random Thoughts From Jonah Goldberg

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over at "The Corner", Jonah Goldberg appears to be pondering his options. In related news, even fewer British women have experienced the beauty of ...

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What the Neocons Don't Get about Freedom

Mike Signer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mike Signer

A key aspect of constitutionalism is that it begins and ends with the people, rather than rhetoric, institutions, or leaders. Thus the genius of Obama's policy of actual democracy promotion.

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Palin, The Press, and Her "No Mas" Moment

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eric Boehlert

How can it be the so-called liberal media's fault that Palin gets bad press when conservatives were out front giving Palin bad press?

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Jason Linkins

National Review Cover Story On "The Beauty Of Drilling" To Be A Disappointment

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Oh, the delights of the National Review's cover stories! Earlier this month, I think we all enjoyed ourselves immensely when the magazine, in their r...

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Jason Linkins

Jonah Goldberg: 'I Hope Obama Fails, Too'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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If the war over Rush Limbaugh truly is "tired," then why are people like Jonah Goldberg still fighting it, in insipid little columns, like the one he'...

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Jonah Goldberg Is Still a God-Awful Media Critic

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eric Boehlert

It's telling that Goldberg never addressed the fact that I called him out for concocting a story about how Obama allegedly "walked into an Oval Office window."

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Conservatives Sowing The Seeds Of Their Own Demise

Bill Scher | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bill Scher

Conservatives continue to be addicted to misinformation, and allergic to new ideas that recognize the failure of their past policies.

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Thomas B. Edsall

Some Conservatives Air Concerns Over Palin

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 05.25.2011

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The McCain campaign's desperate gamble on Sarah Palin, aimed at reversing the Arizona senator's downward spiral, has met with decidedly mixed reaction...

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The Far-Right's Patriotism Problem

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 05.25.2011

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Larisa Alexandrovna

Jonah Goldberg continues to demonstrate how the right-wing is manipulating public discourse in order to confuse and conflate patriotism with rabid nationalism.

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