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State Looks To Ban Sustainability

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics

A Kansas legislator who last year led an effort to condemn the United Nations' sustainability agenda now wants to ban sustainability. State Rep. D...

John Celock

Lawmakers Ban U.N. Agenda 21 After Considering Outlawing Space Aliens

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics

The Missouri House of Representatives on Monday passed a ban on the United Nations sustainability plan Agenda 21 after a spirited discussion of space ...

Tea Party Threatens To Make GOP Lawmaker 'Laughing Stock'

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 04.03.2013 | Politics

An Oklahoma tea party leader has threatened to turn a Republican state senator into a "laughing stock" and "dig into" his family members and associate...

John Celock

New Backers Behind Constitutional Convention

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.28.2013 | Politics

Advocates for a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution have pinned their hopes on state legislatures calling for a new constitutional conv...

John Celock

Where Tea Party Lawmakers Get Their Wacky Ideas About Sustainability

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 02.07.2013 | Politics

In its ongoing quest to block implementation of the United Nations' sustainability agenda, the John Birch Society, a conservative advocacy group, is l...

John Celock

GOP Lawmakers Look To Ban 'Radical Plan'

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 01.17.2013 | Politics

Two Republican members of the Virginia House of Delegates have introduced legislation opposing the United Nations' Agenda 21, the international organi...

Oklahoma State Senator Aims To Block Non-Binding Sustainability Resolution

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 12.27.2012 | Politics

A Republican state senator in Oklahoma has introduced legislation seeking to block the implementation of United Nations Agenda 21, the international o...

John Celock

Lawmaker Seeks To Keep Out 'Dangerous' And 'Cushy' Program

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 11.27.2012 | Politics

The battle over Agenda 21, the United Nations' sustainability agenda, moves back to New Hampshire as a Republican state lawmaker has signaled her inte...

Feint Praise

Paula Gordon | Posted 11.24.2012 | Politics
Paula Gordon

When the plutocrats and their minions abuse the average citizen, it is called "oppression." When the oppressed presumed to assert their rights as citizens, the Republicans call it "class warfare." We call it justice ... or, the American way. No feints in that.

Agenda 21: Sustainability? You Mean the New World Order, says John Birch Society

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 05.17.2012 | Politics
Andrew Reinbach

The JBS is probably not expecting any dramatic rollback of the nation's environmental or sustainability laws in any event. More likely, it's playing moneyball -- staying in the game, feeding its fundraising machine, keeping its followers stirred up, and throwing sand in the government's gears.

Angst Over Extinction

Arthur Goldwag | Posted 05.15.2012 | Politics
Arthur Goldwag

Totalizing, programmatic hatreds are what Freud would have called thanatopsic obssessions -- they are driven by a fear of one's own extinction.

How the GOP Lost Its Mind: Rule and Ruin

Chris Ladd | Posted 04.16.2012 | Politics
Chris Ladd

An organization that always turns right can only move in circles, or more accurately, in an ever tightening spiral. Rule and Ruin aims to explain how the GOP came to be drawn into its accelerating tornado of extremism.

The Plot Thickens: Far-Right Group Joins Chorus for Keystone XL

Rose Marie Berger | Posted 04.10.2012 | Politics
Rose Marie Berger

Why is the JBS interested in this climate-killing pipeline? Because the fight happening in Congress over the Keystone XL has taken a turn. It is no longer about the tipping point of climate change or jobs, energy security or the Ogallala Aquifer.

The John Birch Society's Reality

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 01.09.2012 | Politics
Andrew Reinbach

Most Americans don't realize that the right wing's main ideas have been pushed for 50 years by the John Birch Society, a group Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley Jr once thought too extreme, but which has since become the intellectual seed bank of the right.

Giving Ron Paul the Media Attention He Deserves

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 10.28.2011 | Politics
Andrew Reinbach

Rep. Paul's earned the treatment by the press he's been complaining about, just on the merits, because his positions on many of his favorite issues just don't stand scrutiny.

President Ron Paul? Ron Paul and the John Birch Society

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 09.04.2011 | Politics
Andrew Reinbach

During the Vietnam War, an Army major famously told reporter Peter Arnett "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it" Welcome to Dr. Ron Paul's prescription for America. If he ever becomes president, you won't recognize the place.

Friday Talking Points [151] -- Obama's Speech

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Chris Weigant

To honor the fallen this week, we're going to refrain from our usual heated political rhetoric here for a change. It's only fitting, really, after su...

Boston Tea Party Group Lurches Far Right

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Chip Berlet

  Tea Party enthusiasts in Massachusetts are falling off the right side of the wharf.   A recent event featured a bevy of well-known aggress...

GOP's Climate-Change Prober Thinks It's a "New World Order" Conspiracy

Will Bunch | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Will Bunch

Instead of legislation aimed at reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases in the United States, some leaders of the incoming GOP majority have called for McCarthy-style hearings going after leading climate change scientists.

The "Mad" Party -- When the Base Goes Beserk

Mark Green | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Mark Green

With six weeks to go before the mid-term elections and 110 before the next presidential one, those who don't think we should go back to the '50s -- the 1850s or 1950s -- can get off the couch to do six things.

The Obama Backlash: Taking on the Radicals

Geri Spieler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Geri Spieler

The Backlash goes into the deep background and the bizarre rise of Glenn Beck in a series of personal and professional vignettes mixing his failed personal life with his success as a radio personality.

Koch Brothers Called Out for Waging War Against Obama

Janet Ritz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Janet Ritz

This is not the first time questions have been raised about Koch Industries' involvement with and funding of the extreme right wing and climate science denial.

America Descends to Phyllis Schlafly's Level

Asher Smith | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Asher Smith

At a recent fundraiser and again during an interview with Talking Points , Phyllis Schlafly sent Democratic activists hurtling toward their moral indignation machines™.

The Stakes This November

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Andrew Reinbach

Democrats may think their best line is to remind voters that at least they're not crazy; but it will take more than that. In the end, the fight has to be taken to the right; progressives have to remind the country of the truth.

Oklahoma to Sponsor Tea Party Militia?

Stephen Herrington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Stephen Herrington

The Tea Party has no right to intimidation and armed violence. The formation of a Tea Party Militia can be construed to serve no purpose other than that.