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Focusing on the Facile

Hannah Fisher | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

Read More: England, Conservative, Political Parties UK, Politics News, House of Commons, British Elections, Politics, Labour, UK Politics, British Politics, 2010 UK General Election, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Parliament, World News
Hannah Fisher

Political speeches in Britain now contain little more than empty repetition, all substance is lacking. The British public has lost respect and will not start listening until a new breed of politician arises.

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Health Care Reform Struggle Will Not End This Year

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Social Security, President Obama, Ronald Reagan, Compromise, Democratic, Obama, Reform, Ama, Republican, Reagan, Call to Action, 1935, Johnson, New Deal, Democrat, Congress, Conservative, Medicaid, Democrats, Barack Obama, Fdr, Socialized Medicine, Progressive, Chris Weigant, Health, Great Society, Medicare, Lbj, Republicans, Lyndon Johnson, Healthcare Reform, Third Rail, Senate, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Healthcare, Roosevelt, Politics News
Chris Weigant

No matter what healthcare bill passes, it is not going to remain static. It is going to be revisited again and again over the next few decades. That's how lawmaking works.

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Top-Down Blowback; The GOP Discovers That the Grassroots Bites Back

Rob Kall | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Top-Down-Bottom-Up, Gop, Teabaggers, Bottom-Up, Tea Party, Grassroots, Republicans, Michael Steele, Tea Party Protests, Health Care Protests, Rush Limbaugh, Conservative, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Paul Krugman, Health Care, Politics News
Rob Kall

Limbaugh, Beck and Palin tap the energy and emotions of the masses and flame their biases and bigotry. The web and the media have changed the rules. The grassroots are connected like never before.

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The Elections You May Not Have Noticed

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, President, Leadership, Elections, Demagogue, Campaign, Endorsement, Chattering Class, Sarah Palin, Republican, Third Party, Conservative, Marriage, Washington, Talk Show Hosts, Social Movements, Class, Rejection, Money, Mayor Bloomberg, Politics, Washington DC, Referendum, Election, Role of Government, Rush Limbaugh, Democrats, Domestic Partnership, Vote, Wall Street, Gay Marriage, Candidate, Glenn Beck, D.C., Partisan, Politics News
Jim Wallis

I think as people continue to see so much of politics as usual in this town -- partisan bickering and big money buying votes -- they are increasingly likely to vote against whatever represents the old politics for them.

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What's In A Name? Defining The Modern Conservative

Tim Ellis | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

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

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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Democrats Should Stay Off Fox Until It Confesses

Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Partisan Press, White House, Conservative Propaganda, Republican, Conservative, Media, Press, Fox News Channel, Barack Obama, Journalism, Media News
Cenk Uygur

Does anyone really believe that ACORN is the top story? Every day? Or is it possible that is Fox's obvious, ham-handed way of attacking the president daily? I can't believe we're having this argument.

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Our Frenzied Focus on Fox

Mike Papantonio | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Conservative, Abc, Air America, Pap Attack, Lies, Mike Papantonio, Bias, Fox News, Nbc, GoLeft.Tv, Golefttv, Roger Ailes, Ring of Fire, Republican, Slant, Media News
Mike Papantonio

Roger Ailes understands what other TV executives miss. He remembers that P.T. Barnum built his business around high-wire acts and circus freaks.

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What!? Racism Still in America?

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, President Obama, Voting, Racial Equality, Head of State, Racial, Black, White America, Civil Rights, Republican, African-American, Citizens, Conservative, Martyr, Inauguration, Justice, Health Care, Equality, Lying, Conservative Friends, Politics, Racist, Congress, Health, United States, First Black President, President of the United States, Minority Race, Race, Racism, Apologies, White, Disagreements, Party, Ethnicity, Rhetoric, Politics News
Jim Wallis

I see racial sub-texts in the intensity of the attacks on Obama -- not in the disagreements per se, but in the viciousness of the rhetoric.

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Ask an Average Conservative Blogger

Edward Murray | Posted 11.10.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Birthers, Liberal Media, Rush Limbaugh, Liberals, Bloggers, George W. Bush, 9/11, Obama, Conservative, Michelle Malkin, Obama Speech, Bush Administration, Tax Cuts, Evolution, Iraq, Health Care, 9/11 Truthers, Comedy News
Edward Murray

Average Conservative Blogger responds to readers' questions.

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A Stupid Made-for-TV Controversy

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conservative, Joe Scarborough, President Obama, Controversy, Children, School Message, Education, Media, Liberal, Conservative Republicans, Indoctrination, Republicans, Outrageous Statements, Rhetoric, Saddam Hussein, Msnbc, North Korea, School Speech, Republican Party, Florida, Fox News, Iraq, Glenn Beck, Politics News
Jim Wallis

News cycles thrive on controversy and the extreme, so those elements of our country are continuing to get more and more airtime.

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MSNBC's Rev. Joe Watkins Accuses President Obama of Breaking and Entering the Nation's Schools While Pastor Steven Anderson Prays For His Death

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Img, Joe Watkins, Education, Will Horton, President Speech to Children, Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church Philadelphia, Republican, Msnbc, ION-E Network, Socrates, Plausible Deniability, Christianity, Race, Stereotypes, Coded Language, Breaking and Entering, Conservative, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Obama Speech to Congress, Obamacare, Death Panels, Pastor Steven Anderson, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, Joe Wilson Comment, Obama Speech to Schools, Michele Malkin, Health Care Reform, Implicit Association, Politics News
Ronald B. Robinson

Rev. Watkins, what you and your ilk are doing is the antithesis of Christianity and Christ's teachings.

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Conservative Argument for Healthcare Reform: Part 4: Pop Torts

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Specter, Tort Reform, Conservative Argument for Healthcare Reform, Obama, Conservative, Joe the Nerd, Politics, Religion, Tort, Punitive-Awards, Obamacare, Healthcare Reform, Health Care Reform, Sestak, Toomey, Medicine, Politics News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

After attending the Sestak-Toomey debate in Allentown this week I struck up a conversation about medical malpractice with one of the people who questioned the two senate candidates during the forum.

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Conservative Argument for Healthcare Reform: Part 3: St. Matthew is on our side.

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Public Option, Teddy Kennedy, Obama, Conservative, Catholic, Health Insurance, Democrats, Joe the Nerd, Religion, Politics, Ted Kennedy Funeral, Health Care Reform, Single Payer, Christianity, Religion and Politics, Health Care, Right Wing, Right Wing Radio, Sestak, Home News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

The Gospel reading at Kennedy's funeral was a sharp stick in the eye of the Congresspeople sitting in the pews.

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Conservative Argument for Healthcare Reform, Part 2: What Is the Size Glove of Adam Smith's Invisible Hand?

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Adam Smith, Joe the Nerd, Conservative, Single Payer, Healthcare, Universal Healthcare, Mandates, Politics News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

We need the government to create the environment where small business can make a buck, just like Adam Smith would have wanted it.

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Conservative Argument for Healthcare Reform: Part 1:Get Rid of Unsightly Unfunded Mandates

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Adam Smith, Joe the Nerd, Conservative, Single Payer, Healthcare, Universal Healthcare, Mandates, Politics News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

I just don't get it. You get a guy in the White House who is offering business the biggest tax break of our lifetimes, and he gets snubbed by every right-winger.

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Obama as the Joker? Holy Dumbass, Batman!

Aemilia Scott | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Hall, Protest, Conservative, Socialism, Libertarian, Obama Joker, Batman, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News
Aemilia Scott

In the films, Batman is all about doing the dirty work that the public needs, but doesn't necessarily want. Sound familiar?

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Disrupting Democracy

Robin Lakoff | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democracy, Conservative, Logical Fallacy, Political Rhetoric, Health Care Reform, Socialism, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News
Robin Lakoff

Liberals have devised ways to help the economically impoverished. Now we have to figure out what to do about the discursively impoverished.

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Puerto Rico -- the Next Red State?

Steve Garcia | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Statehood, Conservative, Obama, Republicans, Pedro Pierluisi, Natural Resources Committee, Democrats, HR 2499, Luis Fortuno, Politics News
Steve Garcia

If Puerto Rico becomes a state it would add 2 senators and 7 representatives to Congress; we can expect these members to come from the conservatives that hold office in the "state" legislature.

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Progressive Progress

David Horton | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blogs, Politics, Progressive, Conservative, Liberal, Politics News
David Horton

As a biologist I tend to observe the behavior of conservatives in the way that I would observe bird behavior, or the behavior of, say, skunks.

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Sotomayor and the Fundamentals of Diversity and Affirmative Action

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Justice Powell, Empathy, Perspective, Quota System, Justice Lewis Powell, Affirmative Action, America, Conservative, Image of God, Brian McLaren, Story of Creation, Justice, Constitution, Affirmative Action Policies, Hispanic, God, Tower of Babel, Confirmation Hearing, David Brooks, Hispanic Woman, Diversity, Race, Racism, Jonathan Sacks, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Segregation, Regents of the University of California v Bakke, New York Times, Inequality, Creation, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
Jim Wallis

In the story of creation in Genesis we see that the image of God is best reflected not through sameness, but through the breadth that exists within the grand diversity of creation.

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Right Wing Hate Getting Out of Control

Mike Papantonio | Posted 07.31.2009 | Media

Read More: Tiller, Gop, Air America, Murder, Donnie Baker, Mike Papantonio, Right Wing, GoLeft.Tv, Golefttv, Barack Obama, Immigrant, Conservative, Muslim, Abortion, Hate Talk, Latino, David Neiwert, Joshua Cartwright, Republicans, Ring of Fire, Media News
Mike Papantonio

About an hour's drive from where I live, a miserable 60-year old man by the name of Donnie Baker murdered two Chilean college students and wounded fiv...

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What To Choose After This Bad Week

Jim Selman | Posted 07.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Iran Crisis, Liberal, Conservative, Iran Supreme Leader, North Korea, President Obama, Living News
Jim Selman

Last week was not a good week for the planet and I've been taking it personally.

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Crist Named "Comrade of The Month" By Club For Growth

Politico | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pat Toomey, Club for Growth, Conservative, Charlie Crist, Mel Martinez, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, Crist, Politics News

The Club for Growth, the bane of Republican moderates, has taken another shot at Florida GOP Gov. Charlie Crist, this time nominating him for its Comr...

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Too Clever By Half: Obama, Sotomayor and The Politics of Abortion

Carol M. Swain | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Abortion Rights, Sonia Sotomayor, Conservative, Liberal, Obama Abortion, Hispanics, Barack Obama, Politics News
Carol M. Swain

(Sunday, May 31, 2009) - President Obama is a masterful politician who uses his intellect and popularity to confuse supporters and distractors. His m...

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A New President and a New Generation Seek a Nuclear Weapons Free Future

Jim Wallis | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: International, Bomb, Washington, William J Perry, Democrat, Evangelicals, Wall Street Journal, Evangelical, Weapons, Peace, Democrats, Movement, America, Barack Obama, Republican, Conservative, Sam Nunn, Non Proliferation Treaty, Bush Administration, Henry a Kissinger, Wall Street, Nuclear Weapons, Barack, George Shultz, Liberal, Russia, Nuclear Weapons Policy, Nuclear Testing, Republicans, Conservatives, Justice, Young Evangelicals, Politics News
Jim Wallis

A new generation of Evangelical Christians launched The Two Futures Project whose mission is "for the abolition of all nuclear weapons."

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