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No More Drama

D. R. Tucker | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: John Derbyshire, William F. Buckley, Bill Clinton, Jack Kemp, Ward Connerly, National Review, Rush Limbaugh, Harold Camping, Boston Latin School, Leonard Greene, Clarence Thomas, Boston Herald, New York Post, Herman Cain, Bob Dole, Margaret Thatcher, Paul Ryan, Bv-Politics, Black Voices News

I could spend months detailing my differences with John Derbyshire regarding American race relations. However, one of his observations about politics and race is uncomfortably true.

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Mind Games

D. R. Tucker | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Chris Mooney, The Republican Brain, Rush Limbaugh, David Frum, Bruce Bartlett, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley, Montreal Protocol, Kerry Emanuel, Clarence Thomas, David Brudnoy, Charles Krauthammer, Ken Hamblin, Walter Williams, George Will, Jeff Jacoby, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Global Warming, Anita Hill, Lee Edwards, Hugh Hewitt, Glenn Loury, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Dinesh D'souza, Politics News

Facts destroyed 'motivated reasoning' in my case. Could this happen to other conservatives? That depends on conservatives being willing to subject the views they hear and read to strict scrutiny, to ask themselves if they're really hearing the truth from the talkers.

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4 Kinds of Republicans

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Abortion, Jack Kemp, Gerald Ford, Rascism, William F. Buckley, Olympia Snowe, Birther, Contraception, Anti-Woman, Republican Party, Politics News

The Republican Party elite is depending on uneducated aging frightened white males and radical anti-abortion females for their votes. Long term the party is doomed.

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Conservatives in Crisis

Brent Budowsky | Posted 03.13.2012

As conservatives prepare for an urgent meeting this weekend to discuss their options in the 2012 campaign, they face an epic crisis of identity and el...

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Is Rick Perry Smarter Than A Fifth Grader? Not When It Comes To Science

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D. | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Intelligent Design, Evolution, Creationism, The Clergy Letter Project, Science Education, Rick Perry, William F. Buckley, Science Religion, Religion and Science, Religion News

Perry's past record clearly demonstrates both a dangerous misunderstanding of the nature of science and a willingness to jettison science when its conclusions are at odds with his politics.

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With Release of Atlas Shrugged Movie, a Rise in Rand Rants on Reason

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Ayn Rand Politics, James Joyce, Ayn Rand, William F. Buckley, Atlas Shrugged Movie, Ayn Rand Objectivism, Ayn Rand Government, Paul Krugman, United States, Alan Greenspan, Atlas Shrugged, Nathaniel Branden, Ayn Rand Philosophy, Objectivism, Books News

The idea that sides must be chosen in advance of the release of the film Atlas Shrugged feels a little frivolous. With the look of a TV movie, I doubt that the "leftists" will be out in force telling Rand fans how bad this movie it is.

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Creeping Socialism at The National Review

Harvey J. Kaye | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education, Socialism, Conservatives, The National Review, William F Buckley, American Conservatism, payscale.com, Ivy Chase, Socialism Is Back, Tea Party, Kevin Williamson, Media News

I don't like to psychologize. But from what I can tell, the magazine's new ambivalence is nothing less than what conservatives in the 1950s referred to as "creeping socialism."

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The Palin Problem (It's Not What You Think...)

Erica Payne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Breitbart, Dick Armey, Tea Party, Koch Brothers, Conservative Political Action Committee Conference, Not a Witch, Freedom Works, Ann Coulter, Agenda Project, Rick Santorum, Conservatism, Jim Demint, Russell Kirk, Sarah Palin, Christine D'Donnell, American Politics, Erica Payne, Richard Hofstadter, Climate Science, Corporate-Ocracy, Anti-Intellectualism, Irving Kristol, William F. Buckley, Gabrielle Giffords, Glenn Beck, Leo Strauss, Conservative Ideology, Vitriol, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Rhetoric, Politics News

The real crisis in American politics isn't about one tragic shooting, its about a cultural phenomenon -- the celebration of stupidity -- that has taken over this country.

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MTV's Video Music Awards Make Me Feel 100-Years-Old

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al Jolson, Charo, Kanye West, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Blue Man Group, Usher, VMA's, George Clooney, Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, Pauly D, Pearl Jam, Blackface, Will.I.Am, John Rzeznik, J-Lo, Kings and Queens, Taylor Swift, Cher, Snooki, William F. Buckley, Chelsea Handler, Ne-Yo, Nicki Minaj, Lady GaGa, MTV Video Music Awards, Drake, Goo Goo Dolls, Justin Bieber, Sofia Vergara, Entertainment News

Outside of the awesome Eminem and Mary J. Blige, the room at the Video Music Awards seemed all style and no substance.

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Too Ignorant To Articulate Their Own Ideas

David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Liberties, Ronald Reagan, James Baldwin, Arizona, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Tea Party Movement, Jan Brewer, Rand Paul, Sarah Palin, Jesus, William F. Buckley, Sharron Angle, Arizona Immigration Law, Tea Party, Cambridge University, Politics News

Although one is not supposed to enjoy watching a train wreck in progress, I must say that the Arizona gubernatorial debate between Gov. Jan Brewer a...

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PHOTOS: Check Out William F. Buckley's Upper East Side Duplex...It's For Sale

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manhattan, Slidepollajax, Real Estate, William Buckley, New York Real Estate, New York City, New York, William F. Buckley, New York News

The duplex that belonged to the late conservative thinker and National Review founder William F. Buckley is back on sale... after a big slash in price...

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Where is the Outrage?

William Fisher | Posted 02.20.2010

Read More: Guantanamo Suicides, Scott-Horton, Glenn Beck, Cpac, Mickey Edwards, Dahlia Lithwick, William F. Buckley, Politics News

The media are not the only culprit here. We, the electorate, deserve a substantial part of the blame. Because most of us don't pay serious attention to much of anything that's going on in the world or in our country.

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Phyllis Schlafly Drooling on My Shoulder and Other CPAC Memories

Lea Lane | Posted 05.25.2011

The plane took off, and after awhile Schlafly's tightly coiffed head was resting on my shoulder. She lightly snored. Her usually vituperative red mouth was slightly open. And she was drooling.

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Why Americans Must Defeat the Right's Culture of Hate: Understanding the Science And History of Demonizing Hate

Marcella Mroczkowski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rush Limbaugh, Ronald Reagan, Rush Dozier, William F. Buckley, Republicans, Hatemongers, Politics News

Hate-based "reasoning" is rampant in the contemporary Republican conservative base, but its giddy, self-deluding savagery also lives in Republican leaders.

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Matt Osborne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Racism, David Koch, Msnbc, Larouche, Wingnuts, Teabaggers, Manufactured Outrage, Breitbart, Media, Tea Parties, Santelli's Chicago Tea Party, Illuminati, Tax Day Tea Party, Tea Party Movement, John Birchers, Ayn Rand, Nontroversy, Americans for Prosperity, Koch, Direct Mail, CBS News, Rick Santelli, Media Criticism, Racism, Tea Party, Astroturf, Fox News Channel, Andrew Breitbart, Teabagging, Tea Party Protests, Barack Obama Racism, Freedomworks, Cnbc, Rick Santelli Rant, Racist, 9/12 Tea Party March, Racism in Politics, Lyndon Larouche, LaRouche Hitler, John Birch Society, Obama Wingnuts, Wingnutosphere, Charles Koch, Cnn, William F. Buckley, Koch Industries, Fox News, Council of Conservative Citizens, Atlas Shrugged, Media Bias, Media News

Don't tell me that nontroversy doesn't matter. With nearly as many Americans approving of Palin as Obama, nontroversy really, really matters.

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Gore Vidal Knocks His Longtime Rival, Bill Buckley, During National Book Awards

Huffington Post | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

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At Wednesday night's National Book Awards, honoree Gore Vidal got in one last dig at his arch-rival, conservative intellectual William F. Buckley, who...

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Stop Teabagging Jay Nordlinger -- He Has Enough Problems

Chris Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jay Nordlinger, National Review, Teabaggers, Conservatives, Tea Party, William F. Buckley, Republicans, Media News

Jay Nordlinger, over at the National Review, is tired of teabagging and wants to try something different. Or at least he wants it called something different.

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Perfecting the Paranoid Style in 500 BC and 2009

Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ancient Greeks, Glenn Beck, William F. Buckley, Media News

If Glenn Beck's days as the center of attention are numbered, as David Brooks claims they are, it will not be because of his coarseness or his rejectionism, but because of his imperviousness to doubt.

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Buckley Family Fights Over Trust Fund

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aloise Buckley Heath, Buckley Family Lawsuit, Buckley Family, Benjamin Heath, William F. Buckley Jr., William F. Buckley, Media News

HARTFORD, Conn. — Six children of the sister of the late conservative columnist William F. Buckley are accusing their father of stealing money f...

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Change, Not a Restoration: The Death of Conservatism and Rebirth of Reform

John R. Bohrer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: William F. Buckley Jr., William F. Buckley, Morning Joe, George W. Bush, Health Care Reform, The Death of Conservatism, Health Care, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Sam Tanenhaus, Politics News

The lies and the screaming that captured the health care discussion in August have a lot of Republicans thinking they've got the Democrats right where they want 'em. They are wrong.

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FDR's New Deal, JFK's New Frontier, Barack Obama's New Foundation

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Jr., The New Deal, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The New Frontier, Barack Obama, William F. Buckley, Politics News

The benefit of the decay of the old is that it provides space not to rebuild the foundation so that it fits with the modern world.The "New Foundation" is the theme of the Obama presidency.

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William F. Buckley Considered Suicide In Final Months: Son

New York Post, W | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christopher Buckley Parents Book, Christopher Buckley, Christopher Buckley Book, William F. Buckley Suicide, William F. Buckley Dead, William F. Buckley, Media News

Conservative icon, National Review founder, and devout Catholic William F. Buckley, who died in February 2008 while battling emphysema, reportedly con...

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Sarah Palin...If You Don't Read, You Don't Lead

Stefan Sirucek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Kathleen Parker, David Brooks, Katie Couric, William F. Buckley, Sarah Palin, Fox News, 2008 Election, Reading, Home News

As many know, in her Oct. 3 "do-over" interview with Carl Cameron of Fox News, Sarah Palin claimed to read the New York Times and the Economist. Then...

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Buckley, Michael Steele Abortion, Abortion, Financial TImes, Rush Limbaugh, William F. Buckley, Michael Steele, Gop, Pro-Choice, Republican Party, Rnc Chair, Politics News

Hot on the heels of his Reversal on Rush, RNC Chairman Michael Steele this week delivered his U-turn on Choice -- first saying women "absolutely" have the right to choose abortion then, after having his knuckles rapped, asserting his pro-life bona fides: "always have been, always will be." At a time when there is a serious discussion around the world about the future of capitalism, including a must-read series in the Financial Times, the GOP is so devoid of actual ideas that spineless lightweights like Steele -- and cartoon characters like Rush Limbaugh, Joe the Plumber, and Sarah Palin -- are able to step in and fill the intellectual void. Bill Buckley must be spinning in his grave.

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Why Are the Republicans Such Anti-Obama Liars?

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama, Financial-Recovery, William F. Buckley, Republicans, Right Wing, Religious Right, Politics News

The religious right infection (of wanting failure to prove a moral/religious point) has become the Republican illness: root for failure so "we" win ideologically.

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