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The Right Shoves Obama Even More Rightward

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Van Jones, Rightwing, Taxpayer March, Conservatives, Henry Louis Gates, President Obama, Yosi Sargeant, Gop, Racism, Democrats, Townhalls, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The Right isn't just dominating the political debate. It has driven Obama -- not to the center; he was never really anywhere else politically -- but to the right of center on some issues.

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Why Isn't There a Left-Wing Conspiracy?

Bob Burnett | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Right Wing Media, Right Wing, Conservatives, Liberals, Barack Obama, Progressives, Politics News
Bob Burnett

Conservatives have an advantage because they only attack; they don't propose solutions to real problems or alternatives to Democratic initiatives.

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Irony Alert: Conservatives Ride Government-Run Transit to Protest Government Spending

John Petro | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Heritage Foundation, Mass Transit, Congress, Teabaggers, Conservatives, Dc-Metro, National Mall, Washington DC, Rep-Kevin-Brady, Libertarians, Wmata, Politics News
John Petro

Incredibly, the same people that rode Metro to the National Mall to protest taxes and government spending were upset about Metro's level of service.

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The Left Should Reclaim 'Freedom'

Thomas Frank | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care, Health Care Debate, Republicans, Conservatives, Politics News
Thomas Frank

There are few things in politics more annoying than the right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word "freedom." Equally annoying is the silence of Democrats on the subject.

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Corporatists vs. Capitalists

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, Conservatives, Public Option, Corporations, Corporatists, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Media, Democrats, Capitalists, Capitalism, Republicans, Health Care Industry, Capitalism: A Love Story, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

I don't blame the health care companies. I would do the same thing in their position. They'd have to be stupid and negligent not to buy Max Baucus. I don't blame them, I blame us.

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Conservative Protesters Show Their Liberal Side on the Streets of D.C.

Josh Rosenblatt | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Washington DC, Glenn Beck, Conservatives, Health Care, Tea Party, Protest, Politics News
Josh Rosenblatt

At this point the fears of white conservative America go beyond losing elections. They're losing the country, losing the culture and losing the future. Hence the three-ring circus that is American democracy in 2009.

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Czarist Nonsense

John McQuaid | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Glenn Beck, Conservatives, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Barack Obama, Czars, Politics News
John McQuaid

Demagoguery and aggrievement are nothing new in American politics. But what's strange is the scattershot nature and incoherence of the attacks on Obama. It's a communist-fascist-socialist word salad.

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"Get the Government Out of My Social Security!" Inside the 9.12 Teabagger Rally

Max Blumenthal | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conservatives, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Right Wing, 9/12 March on Washington, Constitution, Tea Party, Barack Obama, Extremism, Politics News
Max Blumenthal

2009-09-14-blumenthal_912_fp.jpgWhile Fox News cameras covering the so-called 9.12 Project on the National Mall lurched away from signs morphing President Barack Obama's face into Adolph Hitler's, I zoomed in.

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The Bile Boils Over

Tom Sullivan | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birthers, Worldnetdaily, Deathers, Father Coughlin, Rush Limbaugh, Death Panels, Matt Drudge, Crooks and Liars, Rep. Joe Wilson, Barack Obama, Jackie Robinson, OpenLeft.Com, Tea Baggers, Conservatives, Sean Hannity, David Neiwert, Neoconservatives, Gop, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Paul Krugman, Paul Rosenberg, Newt Gingrich, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News
Tom Sullivan

Conservatives bathed in daily lies -- from WMDs to "death panels" -- have become so comfortable spreading them that they treat it like good, clean fun for the whole family.

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Conservative Protesters Gathering For "Taxpayer March" In D.C. On Saturday

Washington Post | Dan Eggen and Perry Bacon Jr. | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Washington DC, Conservatives Protesters, Conservatives, Taxpayer March, Washington, Politics News

Conservative activists from around the country are gathering in Washington on Saturday, seeking to continue their momentum in shaping the national deb...

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Obama to Join the Republican Party?

Dave Astor | Posted 11.09.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Gop, Reagan Administration, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Satan, Change, Unemployment, Gay Rights, Bailout, Conservatives, Condoleezza Rice, Climate Change, Single Payer, Abraham Lincoln, Fatal Attraction, Polar Bears, Mount Rushmore, Health Care, Michael Steele, Michelle Obama, Elephants, Rush Limbaugh, Democrats, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Moderates, Bush Administration, Health Care Reform, Afghanistan, Bipartisanship, Republicans, Partisanship, Diversity, Republican National Convention, Comedy News
Dave Astor

Barack Obama has tried to make the GOP happy. He appointed Republicans to high posts, expanded the U.S. presence in Afghanistan and never pushed for a single-payer health plan

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ABC-TV, Why Do You Hate Amurika?

Edward Murray | Posted 11.08.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Liberal Media, Lies, Rich Rodriguez, Conservatives, Family Values, University of Michigan, Neoconservatives, College Football, Blashphemy, Town Hall Meetings, America, Comedy News
Edward Murray

I am writing this letter to you, ABC-TV bulk mail paper shredder, because I demand that you erase this encounter from my memory with your classified alien technology.

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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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Newt Gingrich On Obama Back-To-School Speech: "I Recommend It To Everybody" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Controversy, Conservatives, President Obama, Newt Gingrich, Obama School Speech, Politics News

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich spoke out Tuesday in support of President Obama's "back-to-school speech" delivered to school children ...

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The FWDing of the Conservative Revolution

Keith Thomson | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Propaganda, Entrepreneurship, Conservatives, Email, Democrats, Youtube, Marketing, Political Bumper Stickers, Barack Obama, Mba, Politics News
Keith Thomson

If you have a computer, you've probably noticed the torrent of right-wing FWDed emails. Curious about the origins of these FWDs? I enlisted a systems analyst and followed the digital trails backward.

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What's Wrong With This Country?

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fox News, Right Wing, Education, Conservatives, Barack Obama, Back to School, Politics News
Joanne Bamberger

Somehow, right wingers have turned an innocuous speech by the President into an evil effort to brainwash and indoctrinate our children that *GASP* they should stay in school and work hard!

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Conservatives Back Obama On Afghanistan

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Max Boot, Gen. Stanley McCrystal, Troops, Conservatives, Bill Kristol, President Obama, Ryan Crocker, Randy Scheunemann, Afghanistan War, Fred Kagan, Politics News

Prominent conservative foreign policy thinkers and activists who backed the Iraq war are circulating a letter to President Obama supporting his engage...

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Exclusive Video: Conservatives Endorse My New Book, "Republican Gomorrah" (Sort Of)

Max Blumenthal | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Cpac, Conservatives, Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber, Christianity, Religious Right, Ralph Reed, John Ziegler, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Max Blumenthal, Republicans, Media News
Max Blumenthal

Republican Gomorrah shows that many of the radical Right's leading figures have more in common than just the power they command within GOP ranks.

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Group Launches Site To Debunk Conservatives' Viral Emails

Media Matters Action Network | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fact Check, Conservatives, Rnc, Viral Email, Michael Steele, Gop, False Advertising, Politics News

Today, the Republican National Committee released a new ad in support of its so-called "Seniors' Bill of Right." The ad features RNC Chairman Michael ...

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Blah, Blah, Blah, It's A Business

Nelson Davis | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Business, Talk Radio, Conservatives, Fairness Doctrine, Don Hewitt, Business News
Nelson Davis

Rule number one for current talk radio success seems to be to demonize a person, his or her belief system, or an entire political party.

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Common Sense: What You Guys Got on Capital Hill, We Want on Main Street!

Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Single Payer, Health Care, Obama, Conservatives, Benjamin Franklin, Liberals, Politics News
Stephen Gyllenhaal

Single payer health care is the only option that makes sense, which is why Congress has it, and why I want it.

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'Life' and 'Death'

Robin Lakoff | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pro-Life, Emotion, Health Care Debate, Conservatives, Death Panels, Persuasion, Rhetoric, Politics News
Robin Lakoff

Republicans have gotten the trademark on the two most potent words at our disposal. They are the ones who decide what those words mean: who can use them, about what, in what context.

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Who Runs The Death Panels, Again?

David Dayen | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Rush Limbaugh, Conservatives, Nhs, Linda Peeno, David Cameron, Britain, Health Care, Politics News
David Dayen

The truth is that you do not have health insurance, even if you think you're covered.

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Is Guilt a Good Thing?

Jay Michaelson | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Huckleberry Finn, Religion, Guilt, Conservatives, Judaism, Liberals, Christian Conservatives, Ethics, Dogma, Meditation, Liberal Guilt, Gay Issues, The Inner Life, Living News
Jay Michaelson

If tomorrow, you could completely free yourself from guilt -- if you'd never feel guilty again, no matter what you did -- would you do it? Americans ...

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Why Republicans Should Back Health Care Cost Remedies

Stephen Herrington | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government, Congress, Gdp, Social Security, Federal Budget Deficit, Conservatives, Budget, Gop, Marxism, Medicare, Health Care, Fiscal Responsibility, Veterans, Politics News
Stephen Herrington

Socialization of risk, a risk pool, is the very business model of private insurance for profit -- and government is simply the largest risk pool of all.

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