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Three Cups of Teabaggers: Insight from the Right on Afghanistan

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Government, Army, Pashtunwali, Peacebuilding, US Marines, Right Wing, Conservatism, Afghanistan, Tea Party, Conflict Resolution, Peace, Barack Obama, Tea Bagging, Pashtuns, World News
Lorelei Kelly

The path of the Right leads to a place where there is nothing left to conserve. This particular dilemma of the American Right provides an angle of insight into the challenge that we face in Afghanistan.

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Protein Wisdom and the Radness of Crowds

Barrett Brown | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Rick Santorum, Blogosphere, Obama, Conservatism, Catholicism, Palin, Protein Wisdom, Media News
Barrett Brown

How will Americans look as the globalization of the internet brings a billion new foreigners in close contact with those of us who express our political views online, no matter the medium?

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Steven Hayward Laments 'Brain-Dead Conservatism'

Washington Post | Steven Hayward | Posted 10.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Republican Party, Conservatism, Steven Hayward, Republicans, Politics News

During the glory days of the conservative movement, from its ascent in the 1960s and '70s to its success in Ronald Reagan's era, there was a balance b...

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NYR: Something New On The Mall

The New York Review of Books | Michael Tomasky | Posted 09.29.2009 | Books

Read More: Tea Party, Tea Party Protests, Conservatism, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Right-Wing Rallies, Nyr, Books News

Michael Tomasky The New York Review of Books We have never seen, at least in the modern history of the United States, a right-wing street-protest mo...

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Between Blinders & Bible-Thumping, Fanciful Flights & Party Suicide, Where is America Heading?

Jane Devin | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fundamentalism, Religion, Magical Thinking, Radio Flyer Movie, Dogma, Conservatism, Democrats, Republicans, Politics News
Jane Devin

In the fantastical world of fundamentalist religiopolitics, it is acceptable for Glenn Beck to call Obama a racist, but not acceptable to question the racial motives behind the frighteningly ignorant attacks on Obama.

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How to Think

Terrance Heath | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ignorance, Far Right, President Obama, Right Wing, Conservatism, Barack Obama, Education, Critical Thinking, Intelligence, Obama Speech, Conservatives, Obama Education, Anti-Intellectualism, Republican Party, Free Market Ideology, Republicans, Politics News
Terrance Heath

One of our political parties now embraces that what one believes is more important than what one knows, and is where critical thought has been banished and"facts" are founded in belief.

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This Film is an Idiot's Version of Naomi Klein's Masterpiece

Johann Hari | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Chile, Debt, Depression, Salvador Allende, Naomi Klein, Mixed Economies, Apartheid, Conservatism, Michale Winterbottom, Capitalism, Pinochet, Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, Communism, Freedom Charter, Channel 4, Margaret Thatcher, Anc, Shock Doctrine, Cia, World Bank, Tianamen, Imf, Milton Friedman, Soviet Union, World News
Johann Hari

Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine is one of the most important political books of the past decade. But Michael Winterbottom's "adaptation" for film is garbled and mumbled to the point of meaninglessness.

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Jason Linkins

WorldNetDaily Gaining Influence As Sensible Conservatives Push Back

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Dave Weigel, World Net Daily, Jon Henke, Jerome Corsi, Media Criticism, Conservatism, Drudge Report, Republican Party, Media News

This past Tuesday, I posted an item on a recent effort launched by the conservative bloggers at The Next Right seeking to challenge WorldNetDaily, an ...

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Jason Linkins

WorldNetDaily Faces An Organized Challenge From The Right [UPDATED]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican Party, Media Criticism, Jerome Corsi, Jon Henke, Conservatism, World Net Daily, Politics News

If you've ever suffered yourself to visit conservative website WorldNetDaily, you've probably despaired at the collection of nonsense and mental deran...

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Pay for Play - Conservatives Busted Again

Dave Johnson | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Conservatism, Pay for Play, Fedex Pay for Play, Fedex, Ups, Politico, American Conservative Union, Politics News
Dave Johnson

How much of what we see on TV, hear on the radio and read in newspapers or online as "conservative" or "centrist" opinion is actually paid for by corporate interests?

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Conservatives (Re)acting Badly

Mike Lux | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, 4th of July, History, Thomas Paine, Conservatism, Progressive Movement, The Progressive Revolution, Gettysburg Address, Politics News
Mike Lux

What bothers these conservatives so much is the idea that progressive values are at the heart of the American ideal.

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Why do White People Have to Outscore Everybody Else on Tests? And Other Questions You've Wondered but Didn't Dare Ask!

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ricci v. Destefano, Whites, Supreme Court, Education, Conservatives, Judges, Sonia Sotomayor, Racism, Conservatism, Fire, Race, Prejudice, Politics News
Richard M. Benjamin

How can public institutions achieve "diversity" in a way that's fair and legal?

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Does the O'Reilly Factor Create Killers?

Nathan Robinson | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Abortion, George Tiller, Obama, Conservatism, Bill O'Reilly, Terrorism, Protest, Media News
Nathan Robinson

If those that disagree with us politically become monsters and murderers, shooting them can seem an act of great heroism. And it is O'Reilly, more than any other conservative host, who crafts the images of liberals and "abortionists" as monsters.

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Barack Obama and the Fear of God

Ed Kilgore | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Religion, Christian Right, Pluralism, Liberalism, Notre Dame, Christianity, Obama, Conservatism, Politics News
Ed Kilgore

In his Notre Dame speech, by insisting on the spiritual validity -- indeed, necessity -- of doubt, Obama is repudiating on religious grounds the very idea that appeals to Revelation should have presumptive value in political debates.

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Jack Kemp: Bleeding-Heart Conservative

Jim Wallis | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: President, Leadership, Football, Children, Economics, Washington, Common Ground, Conservatism, Congress, Legacy, Black, Bleeding Heart, Republican Jack Kemp, Compassion, Civil Rights, Republican, Conservative, Racism, White, Housing Projects, Housing, Bill Bradley, Political Leader, Development, Poverty, Housing and Urban Development, Partisan, African Americans, Politics News
Jim Wallis

Kemp was a fervent believer in "supply side economics," which I just as fervently oppose. But you do not have to agree with all of Jack Kemp's economic policies to be impressed and inspired with his life and leadership.

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Time for a Tea Party with the Right: Why Progressives Need a Transpartisan Strategy

Bill Shireman | Posted 05.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Tax Day Tea Party, Hate, Government Bailout, Conservatives, Liberalism, Protest, Government Spending, Fox News, Hate Speech, Conservatism, Paul Krugman, Right Wing, Tea Party, Barack Obama, Politics News
Bill Shireman

Let's sit down with the right for tea. Let them vent their anger and hate - and we can vent ours. Let's listen to the fear that lies beneath the hate, to the reasons they're afraid.

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Can Yogis Be Conservative?

Yuna Shin | Posted 05.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Yoga, Conservatism, Conservatives, Yogic Philosophy, Benefits of Yoga, President Obama, Living News
Yuna Shin

Having been immersed in yoga for a few years now, I just can't see how someone who practices yoga can have a conservative mind. Yoga teaches enlightenment within yourself.

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Key Difference Between Modern Liberalism and Conservatism: Nuance

Sahil Kapur | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dogma, Ideology, Crooks and Liars, Nuance, Jonathan Krohn, Rush Limbaugh, Personal Responsibility, Sean Hannity, Conservatism, Principles, Liberalism, Political Philosophy, Individual Liberty, Republican Party, Politics News
Sahil Kapur

The alleged tenets of modern conservatism are great; they just need to be tempered with reality. That's where liberalism steps in.

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Blue Dog Democrats and Republican Triangulation

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: House of Representatives, Gop, Mitch McConnell, Ann Coulter, Progressives, Afghanistan Occupation, Employee Free Choice Act, Conservatism, Obama Administration, Democratic Party, Economic Meltdown, Blue Doggery, Meghan McCain, U.S. Senate, Bush Doctrine, Triangulation, Laissez-Faire, Progressive Democrats, Grover Norquist, Capitalism, Republican Party, Blue Dog Democrats, Corporate Governance, Bretton Woods Accords, Evan Bayh, John McCain, North Carolina Representative Patrick McHenry, President Barack Obama, Economic Crisis, Iraq Occupation, Congress, Efca, Triangulate, Blanche Lincoln, Blue Dogs, Republicans, Free Market, Alan Greenspan, William Kristol, Senate, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

We must not allow the Blue Dogs to slow down President Obama's momentum or water down the sweeping reforms the nation needs in these trying economic times.

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A Child Preaches as Conservatism Dies

Brandt Goldstein | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Steele, Religion, Jonathan Krohn, Rush Limbaugh, Bobby Jindal, Conservatism, Neoconservatives, Republicans, Conservatives, Republican Party, Politics News
Brandt Goldstein

Once conservatism is seen as something of a religion it's not surprising that the various would-be saviors of the conservative movement seem more like preachers than politicians.

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Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream (Austin, Texas: PearlGate Publishing 2008) 192 pp.

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Joe the Plumber, Milton Friedman, Ann Coulter, Dick Morris, Michael Gallagher, George W. Bush, Conservatism, Wurzelbacher, Conservative, Jude Wanniski, David Brooks, Margaret Thatcher, Alan Bloom, Leo Strauss, The Huffington Post, Republican Party, Lord Acton, Plumber, MIchael Barone, Norman Podhoretz, William F. Buckley Jr., President Barack Obama, Stephen Moore, Wurzelbacharian Historicism, F.A. Hayek, Book Review, Sean Hannity, "Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream" Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Conservatives, Bill O'Reilly, Arthur Laffer, PearlGate Publishing, The Daily Kos, Plumbing, Wurzelbacherism, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

Wurzelbacher's deep understanding of the intellectual umbilical cords of modern conservatism is why Mike Gallagher and Sean Hannity have offered their high praise of his work.

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Debunking Conservative Health Reform Myths

The Progress Report | Posted 02.12.2009 | Home

Read More: Obama, Conservatism, Bush, Barack Obama, Tom Daschle Health Care, Health Care, Home News
The Progress Report

by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Satyam Khanna, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Ali Frick, Ryan Powers, and Igor Volsky To receive The Progress Repor...

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The Colossal Collapse of Conservatism

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Civil Rigths, Reagan, Conservatism, Liberalism, Bush, George Will, Conservative Economics, George W. Bush, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

Republicans have failed not because of poor execution, but because they are acting on a philosophy deeply and fundamentally flawed.

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The Conservative "Secular Problem" Deepens

Bill Scher | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Secular, Conservatism, Proposition 8, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Bill Scher

If conservatives want to prevent young voters -- two-thirds of whom support Obama -- from remaining liberal Democrats for their rest of their lives, hating on gays is not exactly the best way to do it.

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The Morning After

Jan Herman | Posted 12.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Conservative Media, Liberal Media, Right Wing Media, John McCain, Thomas Frank, Obama Wins, Obama Election Day, President Obama, Conservatism, Right Wing, Sarah Palin Media, Election Results, Retro Politics, Mccain Campaign Tactics, Wall Street Journal, Barack Obama, Election, 2008 Presidential Election, Presidential Results, Michele Bachmann, Bill Kristol, Obama Presidency, Sarah Palin, Obama Thomas Frank, Obama Campaign Tactics, Barry Goldwater, Presidential Election, Obama President, Media News
Jan Herman

It is the Journal, in a column this morning by Thomas Frank, an addition to the Journal's opinion pages to balance all the resident right-wingers, that puts Obama's victory in proper perspective.

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