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Sam Tanenhaus, The Death of Conservatism (Review)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: The Death of Conservatism, Sam Tanhenhaus, Civil Rights Movement, Joe Mccarthy, Ronald Reagan, Edmund Burke, Willam F. Buckley Jr., Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Sarah Palin, Communism, Martin Luther King, John Birchers, Tom Brokaw, Vietnam War, Benjamin Disraeli, New York Times, African Amercans, Rick Perry, Barry Goldwater, Newt Gingrich, Soviet Union, Books News
Joseph A. Palermo

Although a masterful writer, Tanenhaus gives his readers disembodied voices plucked from historical context, where the nexus of thought and action, theory and praxis, is either broken or simply ignored.

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William Safire: Wars Made Out of Words

David Bromwich | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Bill Clinton, Thomas Friedman, Joe Mccarthy, Wen Ho Lee, Rush Limbaugh, Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agnew, Maureen Dowd, Lebanon, Bob Woodward, Mohamed ElBaradei, William Safire, Richard Nixon, Vietnam, Ariel Sharon, Jimmy Carter, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, James Reston, Kenneth Starr, Baltimore, Media News
David Bromwich

William Safire's career took him from public relations to propaganda to column-writing in a single seamless progression.

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The GOP Deserves Its Current State of Isolation

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Joe Mccarthy, Jack Abramoff, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, President Barack Obama, Steven Griles, George W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Clinton Administration, Eric Cantor, Clinton, President Bill Clinton, Republican Leadership, Tom Delay, Adlai Stevenson, K-Street Project, Republicans, Grand Old Party, Republican Party, Ike Eisenhower, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

A loyal opposition would be a great thing; an opposition that added constructive ideas to the nation's political debate. But that's not where the GOP is today.

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Prosecuting Torture: How the Words of Poet WB Yeats Can Help

Lea Lane | Posted 05.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pundits, Cable Tv, Obama, O'Reilly, Poetry, Politics, Watergate, Prosecution for Torture, The Second Coming, Karl Rove, Joe Mccarthy, Newt Gingrech, Ann Coulter, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Michelle Malkin, Dick Cheney, Joe Scarborough, Sean Hannity, Rush Llimbaugh, Pat Buchanen, William Butler Yeats, Politics News
Lea Lane

The best of us must now show "all conviction" to hold hearings to prosecute those who authorized torture.

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First Ladies: Character to Caricature, Part One

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton First Lady, First Ladies, Women, White House, Michelle Obama First Lady, Michelle Obama, Nellie Taft, Tom Delay, Rosalyn Carter, Eleanor Roosevelt, Burma, Joe Mccarthy, Dick Cheney, Bush Women's Health, Laura Bush, First Lady, Clinton First Lady, Women's Health, Heart Attack Warning, Saudi Arabia, Women and Politics, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Bush, Heart Disease, Pro-Choice, Vice President Cheney, Pat Nixon, Mamie Eisenhower Hillary Clinton, Nancy Reagan, Politics News
Carl Sferrazza Anthony

Scanning Michelle Obama's post-election coverage makes it seem that the importance of being First Lady is about sleeveless dresses and puppy breeds. It isn't.

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Global Warming Deniers: The New 9/11 Truthers

Sahil Kapur | Posted 01.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Rising Sea Levels, Joe Mccarthy, Hurricanes, Ipcc, Christopher Hitchens, Liberal, Conservative, The Green Revolution, Republican, Melting Ice Caps, Wildfires, Climate Change, Climate Change Skeptics, Global Warming, 9/11 Truthers, Partisan, Right-Wingers, Green News
Sahil Kapur

Both groups are convinced they possess a uniquely superior grasp of reality. Facts and evidence are muffled by their messianic quest to inform society of its delusions and inadequacies.

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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
Scott Foval

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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Americans Still Undecided on How Much to Hate Undecided Voters

Jason Notte | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Decided Voters, Michele Bachmann, Charles Keating, Bill Ayers, Sarah Palin, Nancy Pfotenhauer, William Ayers, Charles Keating and John Mccain, Joe Mccarthy, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin Reaction, Voting, Samantha Bee, Politics News
Jason Notte

Observers from both sides of the aisle should seize upon this opportunity and focus their collective rage at its source: undecided voters.

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So, You're Anti-American. Is There a Cure?

Jamie Frevele | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain Attack Ads, John McCain, Anti-Americanism, Sarah Palin, 2008 Election and Race, Palin Pro-American Areas, Socialism, Joe Mccarthy, Barack Obama, Michelle Bachman Anti-American Views, Socialists, Politics News
Jamie Frevele

I can't do anything about where I live to cure myself of being "anti-American." But what about my family and friends? Some of them are "anti-American," some of them actually are "pro-American."

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Paint McCain a Red-Baiter

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Free Markets, Joe Mccarthy, John McCain, Hewlett-Packard, Communist, Commie, Credit Default Swaps, Barack Obama, Ubs, Aig, Red States, Golden Parachute, Wall Street, Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, Ceo, Deregulation, Phil Gramm, Glass-Steagall Act, Joe Mccain, Class Warfare, Carly Fiorina, Red-Baiting, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

The "small government" Bush and Republican Congress increased spending, thus replacing the budget surplus bequeathed them with deficits.

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Joe Klein: McCain's Attacks "Anachronistic"

Time | Joe Klein | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Joe Klein, Presidential Debates, Joe Mccarthy, John McCain, Politics News

I'll have more to say about the debate in my print column, which releases later today. But I did want to say a few things about my colleagues--in gene...

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Palin Fans Flames Of Fear And Hatred

Denise Dennis | Posted 11.15.2008 | Home

Read More: Race Politics, John McCain, Father Coughlin, Palin Mccain, Huey Long, Joe Mccarthy, Barack Obama, McCain Palin, Campaign 2008, Palin Mccarthy, Sarah Palin, Politics Race, Racism, Election 2008, Home News
Denise Dennis

During times of extreme insecurity, people can fall easy prey to the fiery rhetoric and xenophobia of folksy characters like Sarah Palin, Huey Long, Charles Coughlin and Joe McCarthy.

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John McCain, Joe McCarthy and a Code of Honor

Martin Nolan | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Communism, Joe Mccarthy, John McCain, Dwight Eisenhower, Guilt by Association, Terrorism, William Ayers, McCarthywasm., Joseph N. Welch, Barack Obama, Politics News
Martin Nolan

Today, amid economic trauma which he does not seem to understand, McCain has conjured up the Stygian gloom of ultraconservatism's darkest hour.

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By Any Means Necessary

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, White House, Al Gore, 3 a.M., Swiftboating, Chicago, November, John Corzine, Contributors, Bush, Willie Horton, 2008, Richard Nixon, Reverend Wright, Pat Buchanan, Joseph Welch, Florida, John McCain, Karl Rove, Joe Mccarthy, Michael Bloomberg, Texas, 2000, Presidency, Machiavelli, Boss Tweed, Decency, Lee Atwater, Ross Perot, Campaign Funds, Skullduggery, Moralist, Realpolitik, $270 Million, Lyndon Johnson, Steve Forbes, Bring Us Together," Howard Beale, Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, "Landslide Lyndon, Hypocrite, Politics News
Jonathan Leigh Solomon

Barack Obama has gone back on his word, Barack Obama is a hypocrite ... I couldn't be happier. Truth is, if what's necessary to win in November is some outright cheating, I'd be all for that, too.

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HE'S BACK: Bill Clinton's Campaign Remarks

Posted 03.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, McPeak Clinton, Joe Mccarthy, Hillary 2008, Hillary, Hillary Clinton 2008, Bill Clinton Joe McCarthy, McPeak Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton 2008, 2008 Elections, Hillary Clinton, McPeak Obama, 2008 Election, Bill Clinton McCarthy, Politics News

The New York Times reports that a top aide to Barack Obama accused former President Bill Clinton of employing "divisive attacks" to promote his wife's...

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