Jesse Helms

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Bible Quotes on "Worldwide Intelligence Updates?"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

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Bush proved that the blurring of the line that separates Church and State is not only unconstitutional, it is also wholly dysfunctional.

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Blaxploitation, GOP Style

Russ Baker | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics

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Tthe GOP is stepping up efforts to stress diversity, but is resorting to a tried-and-true W. tactic: the promotion of compromised, disreputable individuals -- a kind of lemon diversity that only highlights their cynicism and contempt for the public.

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My 2008 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 2]

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.26.2009 | Politics

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Love her or hate her, you have to admit that John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin for the Republican ticket this year was without any doubt the boldest political tactic of the year.

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A Godless Voter for Liddy Dole

Sherman Yellen | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Senate Races, Elizabeth Dole, Liddy Dole, Elizabeth Dole Hagan Godless Friends, Jesse Helms, Politics News

We godless admire a woman who has been forever marching rightward over forty years, confident in her belief that Jesus was a Republican.

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Republicans Use Fear to Win

Scott Foval | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Halloween, Race Politics, Fear, John McCain, Division, Ronald Reagan, Jesse Helms, Scare Tactics, Race, Joe Mccarthy, Lee Atwater, Barack Obama, Hatred, Joe the Plumber, Levi Johnston, Scare Tactics Republicans, Election 2008, Bristol Palin, Home News

It has been a long eight years, and this past week saw the politics of division pushed to the absolute limit of absurdity. We must not allow it to go on any longer.

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Top McCain Advisor Learned Slime Tactics From Jesse Helms

Erik Ose | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics

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During the '84 NC Senate race, one of Helms' top aides responsible for implementing a gay-bashing strategy was McCain advisor Charlie Black.

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McCain Urged Reagan Admin To Meet Terror Groups Without Pre-Conditions

Jacob Alperin-Sheriff | Posted 11.23.2008 | Home

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McCain's support and lobbying for the African terrorist group directly contradicts his attacks on Obama for having "worked closely" with Bill Ayers and for having "pledged to meet, without preconditions, the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea."

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Support for California Gay Marriage Ban Slipping?

John Henning | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gay Marriage, Polls, Proposition 8, Jesse Helms, Politics News

It was known as the "Jesse Helms effect": When a poll asks anything having to do with bias, lots of people just don't tell the truth.

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Condomizing Jesse Helms' House

Sean Strub | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

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We pulled up in front of Helms's house and jumped out of the truck like jackrabbits, racing to unload the ladders, blowers, generator and, of course, the condom.

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Elizabeth Dole Tries To Name AIDS Bill After Jesse Helms

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

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Republican Senator Dole introduced an amendment to name an HIV/AIDS relief bill after the recently deceased Jesse Helms. Helms, of course, was a strid...

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Jesse Helms' Shameful Legacy Can't Be Whitewashed

Erik Ose | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racial Politics, Right Wing Media, Civil Rights Movement, Jesse Helms, Homophobia, Jesse Helms Legacy, Jesse Helms Death, Bigotry, North Carolina, Civil Rights, Politics News

No amount of whitewashing Helms' legacy can erase the stain of his reliance on hate-filled, divisive politics, or the hurt he caused so many people in the process.

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Lieberman Must Go!

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Monica Crowley, John McCain, Sean Hannity, Jesse Helms, Barack Obama, Joseph Lieberman, Politics News

Yesterday, the New York Times sniffed at a new web site, LiebermanMustGo.com, writing that it "catalogues Mr. Lieberman's perceived sins," as if the t...

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American Hero? Worker Ordered to Honor Jesse Helms Quits Job Instead

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

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A state worker in Helms' native North Carolina named L.F. Eason III quit the only job he'd ever had rather than lower the flag to honor longtime racist Helms.

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The Upside Of Jesse Helms: Memorable Resistance

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jesse Helms, Segregationist Politics, ACT UP, Activism, Jesse Helms AIDS, North Carolina, Politics News

Throughout his lengthy career, Jesse Helms did the Republican Party no favors. A shambling, verminous bag of bigotry, Helms' presence at the forefron...

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How Jesse Helms Ruled North Carolina

Erik Ose | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jesse Helms, Jesse Helms Legacy, Jesse Helms Death, North Carolina, Racial Politics, Direct Mail, Harvey Gantt, Campaign Spending, Right Wing, Attack Ads, Bigotry, Politics News

Helms poisoned the ideological well of politics, calling MLK, Jr. a communist and the 1964 Civil Rights Act "the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced in the Congress."

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Identity Crisis

Lincoln Chafee | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jesse Helms Legacy, Republican Politics, Gop, Jesse Helms Death, Conservatism, Republican Party, Jesse Helms, Eisenhower Conservatism, Politics News

Jesse Helms' legacy is one of strong opposition to women's reproductive freedom, gay rights, foreign aid for diplomacy, and public funding for the arts -- priorities that run strong in today's GOP.

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Obligatory Jesse Helms Obituary Cartoon!

August J. Pollak | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

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Speaking, as applicable. To see more of August J. Pollak's cartoon "Some Guy With a Website," check out the archive....

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Conservative Icon Former Senator Jesse Helms Dead At 86

AP | WHITNEY WOODWARD | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic dec...

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Reverend Wright In Jesse Helms's North Carolina

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.06.2008 | Home

Reverend Wright is a problem in North Carolina. Down-ticket Dems hare already injecting race into their races. Jesse Helms was such a force in this state for so long that "some of that" is still lingering.

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