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Dick Cheney Keeps the Flame Aloft

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Dithering, Afghanistan, Frank Gaffney, Ronald Reagan, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Cold War, Center-for-Security-Policy, Dick Cheney, Politics News

It might be tempting to dismiss Cheney's remarks -- about Obama allegedly dithering when it comes to Afghanistan -- as so much conservative boilerplate. But that would be a mistake.

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Was "Ardi" a Liberal?

Frans de Waal | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Neocons, Bonobos, Evolution, Fossils, War, Chimpanzee, Politics News

What if we descend, not from a blustering chimp-like ancestor, but from a gentle, bonobo-like ape? What if we share characteristics with both of these relatives instead of the one favored by our political ideology?

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Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy Vision, in Need of Corrective Lenses

Frankie Sturm | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: American-Decline, Economics, Foreign Affairs, President Obama, Mitt Romney, Neoconservatism, Obama Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, Gdp, National Security, Neocons, National Intelligence Council, President Obama Administration, Neoconservatives, Neo-Conservatives, American Decline, Politics News

The fact that economies in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere have grown since 1945 is not a sign of American decline. It's a testament to US leadership.

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A "Liberal Jew" Responds to Norman Podhoretz

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Jewish Liberals, Norman Podhoretz, Conservatives, American Values, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Liberlas, Jewish Values, Democrats, America, Jewish, Republicans, Politics News

The American system did make good on its promises for Jews; this is why so many Jews refuse to support the conservative politics of exclusion and fear. Podhoretz would have us chop down the ladder behind us.

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Institutional Islamophobia and the Politics of a Minor's Choice

Abukar Arman | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home

Read More: Islamophobia, Frank Gaffney, Blake Lorenz, Global Revolution Church, Neocons, Robert Spencer, Right Wing, Rifqa Bary, John Stemberger, Florida Courts, Home News

The case of Rifqa Bary has set the stage for the ideological bankrupt neocons and right wing evangelicals to pursue another desperate attempt to resuscitate their all but defunct "clash of civilization" scare.

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Neocons Recruiting Palin To Pressure Obama On Afghanistan

Mother Jones | —Josh Harkinson | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Neocons Sarah Palin Afghanistan, Sarah Palin, Palin Afghanistan, Neocons, Neocons Palin, Neocons Palin Afghanistan, Sarah Palin Afghanistan, Politics News

Here come the neocons again--and this time with Sarah Palin. A group of conservative foreign policy advocates--including a bevy of neoconservatives...

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Government by Lynch Mob -- Obama Should Ignore Critics and Just Lead

Ray Hanania | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: War Crimes, Terrorists, President Obama, Goerge W. Bush, Terrorism, 2001, Sept. 11, Neocons, 9/11, World Trade Center, Iraq, Afghanistan, Right Wing Fanatics, Van Jones, Environment Czar, Dick Cheney, Politics News

On issue after issue, Obama is acting like he is soon to run for re-election, instead of being a president with a massive mandate still only months into his administration.

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Clinton Consulted With Republicans, Neocons On Big Foreign Policy Speech

The Plum Line | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has consulted with a surprisingly diverse ideological bunch in the course of creating the major foreign policy spee...

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What the Neocons Don't Get about Freedom

Mike Signer | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Charles Krauthammer, Iran Election, Demagogue, Freedom, Neocons, Democracy, Democracy Promotion, Jonah Goldberg, Barack Obama, State Department, Politics News

A key aspect of constitutionalism is that it begins and ends with the people, rather than rhetoric, institutions, or leaders. Thus the genius of Obama's policy of actual democracy promotion.

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The Latest Neocon Attack on Obama

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Iran, Foreign Affairs, Iran, Russia Human Rights, Russia Georgia War, Barack Obama, Pnac, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Project for a New American Century, Georgia, Iraq Iran, Russia, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Iraq, Obama Iraq, World News

Urging Obama to stand up for human rights is all well and good. But what, exactly, would he accomplish by upbraiding Vladimir Putin for his lapses?

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The Republican Summer Olympics of 2009

Gary Cohan | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Mark Sanford, Ted Stevens, Jack Abramoff, Ann Coulter, Olympics, Lobbyists, Blue States, Larry Craig, Eliot Spitzer, Dick Cheney, Adultery, Condoleezza Rice, John Edwards, Michael Savage, Gop, Newt Gingrich, Manchurian Candidate, Constitution, Republican Party, Bob Ney, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Jim McGreevey, Mark Foley, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Social Conservatives, Ted Haggard, Rush Limbaugh, Lobbying, Scandal, Barack Obama, Red States, Homosexuality, John Ensign, Sean Hannity, Oxycontin, Neocons, Hypocrisy, Homophobia, New York Times, Neoconservatives, Alberto Gonzales, Bill O'Reilly, David Vitter, Conspiracy, Contract With America, Prostitution, Mail-Fraud, Big Tent, Tax Evasion, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Tom Delay, Teenage Pregnancy, Divorce, Internet Porn, Fox News, Phil Gramm, Hal Turner, Al Gore, Summer Olympics, Pilonidal Cyst, Vietnam Draft-Dodger, Draft-Dodging, Vietnam War, Politics News

Republicans' private embraces are often in complete contradistinction with their own oft-trumpeted, Biblically-mandated "moral" guidelines for the rest of us.

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Why American Neo-Cons Wanted Ahmadinejad to Win

Stephen Zunes | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Neocons, Neoconservatives, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Iranian Election, Iran Election, Neoconservatives Iran, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Heritage Foundation, Daniel Pipes, World News

It is unfortunate that Ahmadinejad is apparently remaining in office despite the fact that the United States now has a reformer in the White House.

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Bashing Obama On Iran's Election: Watch Out For Agent Provocateurs On The Neo-Con Right

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Iran, John McCain, Charles Krauthammer, Fred Barnes, Fox News, Neocons, Barack Obama, Richard Lugar, World News

The possibility that leaders could emerge in Iran who would be less easy to portray as lunatics has the Neocons worried.

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The Ultimate Divide

Wael Nawara | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

Read More: Neocons, Zionism, International Justice System, Islamists, Clash of Civilizations, Armageddon, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Extremism, Egypt, Lebanon Election, Iran Election, Pakistan, World News

The recent events in Iran, Pakistan, Lebanon and even inside the United States, show that we are experiencing a deep divide in our world.

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Odd News

Jeff Dorchen | Posted 07.10.2009 | Entertainment

Odd News and a new play: watch the preparatory video for Strauss at Midnight by Jeff Dorchen.

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The Victory of the Neoconservatives

Bernard I. Finel | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Robert Gates, Defense Budget, Counterinsurgency, Barack Obama, Politics News

Let us make no mistake; the new defense budget unveiled earlier this month marks the final victory of the neoconservative worldview.

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Dick Cheney: Through the Cracked Moral Compass, Darkly

Brian Ross | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Islam, Bill Clinton, President Obama, Islamic Terrorism, Fascist, George W. Bush, Barack-Obama-Dick-Cheney, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics, Fascism, Nazis, Bill Kristol, Richard Nixon, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Muslims, Politics News

Should it be surprising that Dick Cheney, the guy who is the chief architect of the morally and ethically bankrupt Bush Administration policies on eve...

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CON GAMES: Real Bonus Babies in Defense Budget

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Neocons, Neoconservatives, A.I.G., Defense Spending, Gao, Department of Defense, Government Accountability Office, Politics News

Earmarks and entitlements are chickenfeed compared to defense spending, but to conservatives the Defense Department has always been sacrosanct.

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The Radical Middle Wins in Iowa -- Gay Marriage and the Power of Progressive Centrism

Bill Shireman | Posted 05.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Liberal Media, Radical-Center, Liberals, Post-Partisan, Post-Partisanship, Liberal, KCRW Left Right & Center, Radical Center, Conservatives, Moderates, Liberalism, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Iowa Gay Marriage, Centrists, Republican Party, Gay Marriage, Republicans, Politics News

The Iowa decision illustrates that progress is possible when principled people on the left and right set aside their cultural preferences, and examine their beliefs at a deeper level.

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The New Neocon Alliance with Obama

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, John McCain, Jane Harman, Afghanistan, Bill Kristol, Project for a New American Century, Neocons, Pnac, Neoconservatives, Robert Kagan, Politics News

This morning leading neoconservatives such as William Kristol and Robert Kagan held a meeting at the Mayflower Hotel -- in support of President Obama's Afghanistan policy.

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Con Games: Cry, Beloved Neocons

Michael Conniff | Posted 04.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Iraq War, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Education Reform, Health Care, War in Iraq, Barack Obama, Politics News

Can you remember a recent example of an Administration using a crisis to pound through an unrelated agenda? Earth to neoconservatives: here we go again.

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Dick Cheney Believes There Are Witches in Gambia

Cenk Uygur | Posted 04.22.2009 | World

Read More: Witch Hunt, Conservatives, Gambia, Witch Doctors, Dick Cheney, Neocons, Neo-Conservatives, Republicans, Witches, Torture, World News

Is it possible that people will say absolutely anything to get you to stop torturing them, including admitting to being a witch?

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Defeating Freeman: A Patriotic Duty

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Neoconservatives, Chas Freeman, Charles Freeman, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Neocons, State Department, China, Politics News

Those who successfully challenged the nomination of Charles W. Freeman, Jr. to become chairman of the National Intelligence Council should be praised for an act of high patriotism.

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Neocons Win Big Victory Over Obama: Charles Freeman Resigns

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Neocons, Neoconservatives, Israel, State Department, Saudi Arabia, Charles Freeman, Politics News

Charles Freeman's withdrawal is a big victory for the neocons -- and an even bigger embarrassment for the Obama administration.

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Richard Perle's Apologia

Thomas Frank | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Neocons, Neoconservatives, Bush Administration, Richard Perle, Conservatives, Republicans, Politics News

Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.

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