Neoconservatives

The Orphan Of The American Political Spectrum

Patrick Maines | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Free Market Capitalism, Liberals, Neoconservatives, Free Market, Libertarian, Social Issues, Libertarian Party, Free Markets, Free Market Ideology, Politics News

Were one to design a political philosophy calculated to appeal to large numbers of "conservatives" and "liberals," it might look very much like contemporary libertarianism.

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Neocons' Jihad against Liberal Parties in Egypt

Wael Nawara | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Neoconservatives, Obama Cairo Speech, Liberals, Barack Obama, Armageddon, World News

What does it mean to be an Egyptian Neocon? In their words, it means that they believe that the USA, has the right and the obligation to spread "democracy" and "capitalism," by force if necessary.

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From Caucus Room, Sen. Levin Slams Dick Cheney

Taylor Marsh | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Charles Krauthammer, Afghanistan, Neoconservatives, Right Wing, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, World News

All that Afghanistan needs is more troops, according to the Krauthammer crew. Well, yesterday, Sen. Levin, the last to speak at the event, made a point of putting them in their place.

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Present at the Cremation: The Long, Slow Death of the GOP?

Rob Diamond | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dede Scozzafava, Rush Limbaugh, Conservatives, Sarah Palin, Lou Dobbs, Gop, Neoconservatives, Glenn Beck, Ny-23, Doug Hoffman, Republican Party, Dick Cheney, Politics News

We are witnessing today an unmistakable emergence of deep fissures within the Republican Party. It begs the question, are we watching the beginning of the end -- the long, slow death of the GOP?

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GOP to Protest Mom and Apple Pie

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Neoconservatives, Nobel Peace Prize, Volunteering, Thousand Points of Light, John Kennedy, Volunteerism, Peace Corps, Republicans, Politics News

Conservatives are topping even themselves, as they actually complain about the President calling for Americans to volunteer. If this keeps up, they are going to put The Onion out of business.

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Obama Strikes Back -- First Year Agenda, Phase III

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Phase III: Obama Strikes Back. The Republicans are still leaderless and teabaggers have hung up their Lipton for the winter. Meanwhile, two-thirds of Americans still want health care reform.

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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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Commander in Chief: Yes He Is

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, National-Security-Network, Marines, Karl Rove, Bill Kristol, Frank Gaffney, National Security, Cheney, Neoconservatives, US Army, Cold War, Commander-in-Chief, Afghanistan War, World News

Obama and his team (and an increasing number of voices on Capitol Hill) know that, in today's world, security problems are beyond the purview of the military acting alone.

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Dear Capitol Hill: We Confess, Muslims Want to Serve America

Salam Al Marayati | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Conyers, Conservatives, Cair, American Muslims, Neoconservatives, Muslims, Gop, Mccarthyism, Right Wing, Political Satire, Loretta Sanchez, Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus, Interns, Politics News

What's next? Muslims trying to infiltrate the Congress by scheduling lobby days, or by simply meeting with their members of Congress?

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Frank Rich Slams McCain, Neoconservatives: 'Two Wrongs Make Another Fiasco'

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan War, Frank Rich John Mccain, Lindsey Graham, Frank Rich, Neoconservatives, Joe Lieberman, John McCain, Politics News

THOSE of us who love F. Scott Fitzgerald must acknowledge that he did get one big thing wrong. There are second acts in American lives. (Just ask Mari...

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Obama Should Adopt the "Public Option" in Afghanistan

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

Will Obama disappoint the foreign policy elites or will he, like Bush, send a "Drop Dead" message to the American people?

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Fear Of Fascism, "Gay Agenda" At Conservative Conference

The Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nazi-Obama, Michele Bachmann, Phyllis Schlafly, Mike Huckabee, Nazis, Conservatives, Todd Akin, Trent Franks, Neoconservatives, Tom McClintock, Kitty Werthermann, How to Take Back America Conference, Tom Price, Steve King, Politics News

ST. LOUIS -- Kitty Werthmann has made quite a career out of warning Americans that fascism is on its way. The 84-year-old native Austrian survived the...

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

Frankie Sturm | Posted 11.27.2009 | 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 11.25.2009 | 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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The Bile Boils Over

Tom Sullivan | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

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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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

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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Con Games: Conservatism In Reality

Michael Conniff | Posted 08.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Climate Change, Polling, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Resignation, Conservatives, Effects of Climate Change, Neoconservatives, Entertainment News

Two out of every three Republicans believe news of global climate change is "exaggerated" -- the same margin as those who want Sarah Palin to remain "a major national political figure."

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Post's Krauthammer Pushes Dangerous Fantasy

Joe Cirincione | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Nobel Prize, Richard Garwin, Nuclear Weapons, Charles Krauthammer, Missile Defense, George W. Bush, Union-of-Concerned-Scientists, Ted Postol, Start Treaty, Neoconservatives, Science, United States, Washington Post, Arms Control, Barack Obama, World News

Krauthammer wants Russia to build more nuclear weapons. Why? Because he thinks we can shoot them out of the sky like clay pigeons. This is simply not true.

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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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Iran's Do-It-Yourself Revolution

Stephen Zunes | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Iran, Iran Election, Iran President Ahmadinejad, Iran Protests, Obama Administration, Neoconservatives, World News

The future of Iran belongs in the hands of the Iranians. The best thing the United States can do to support a more open and pluralistic society in that country is to stay out of the way.

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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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On Soccer, Neocons Sound Like Anti-American Europeans

Max Bergmann | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Neoconservatives, Soccer, Us Soccer Beats Spain, Us Soccer, Politics News

Why would the neocons adopt such an isolationist view, at a time when the world is beginning to freak out at the prospect of the potential rising of America as a soccer power?

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Neocons Salivate Over the Chance for Another Middle East War

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, Neoconservatives, John McCain, Iran, Iran Protests, Politics News

"Standing up" for Mr. Mousavi would get him painted as an American puppet, a disaster for reformers.

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The Night Of The Living Neocons: Salon

Salon | Gary Kamiya | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Charles Krauthammer, Obama Neoconservatives, Danielle Pletka, Neoconservatives, Robert Kagan, Necons, John McCain, Politics News

Like Rasputin, the unhinged "Mad Monk" whom they sometimes seem to have adopted as an intellectual role model, the neoconservatives who brought us the...

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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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