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Republican Identity Crisis Forces GOP Politicians To The Right

Politics Daily | Jill Lawrence | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican Ideology, GOP Ideology, Right-Wing, President Obama, John Mccain Obama, Club for Growth, Rnc Strategy, GOP Conservatives, Palin Conservatives, Republican Party, Gop Obama, Gop, Republicans Obama, Tea Party, John McCain, Gop Strategy, Politics News

John McCain rails against a bipartisan global warming bill two years after sponsoring one himself? He says he's "dear friends" with Sarah Palin and en...

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Glenn Beck As Political Organizer: Fox News Host Sponsoring 7 Conventions

New York Times | BRIAN STELTER | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Conventions, Conspiracy Theories, Books, Right-Wing, Opinion, Conservative, Tv, Policy, Libertarian, Voter Drives, Politics, Glenn Beck Show, Political Activism, Republican, Gop, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Media News

Glenn Beck, the popular and outspoken Fox News host, says he wants to go beyond broadcasting his opinions and start rallying his political base -- for...

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The 26 Percent Solution

Will Bunch | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rush Limbaugh, Polls, Acorn, Sarah Palin, Health Care Reform, Obama Bow, Right Wing, Glenn Beck, Bush Approval Rating, Global Warming, Politics News
Will Bunch

If you ever needed proof that 26 percent of America is totally bat-guano out-of-their-freakin'-minds crazy, check out the new poll just out on Obama and ACORN.

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Imagine if the Today's Right-Wing Were Around for Nuremberg

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama-Bows-to-Japanese-Emperor, Right Wing Media, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Nuremberg Trials, Marshall Plan, Rush Limbaugh, Demagogue, George W. Bush, Bow-Gate, King Abdullah, Right Wing, Glenn Beck, Ksm, Bill O'Reilly, Barack Obama, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

The right-wing radicals, unanimous in their agreement that KSM should not be tried in the U.S. courts, aren't just crazy, they're un-American. We don't take people out and shoot them without trials.

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Newsweek Ed's Poem Skewers Lou Dobbs

John Lundberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Media Criticism, Glenn Beck, Immigration, Right Wing, Media, Criticism, Poetry, Lou Dobbs, Newsweek, Immigration Reform, Scott Whitlock, Cnn, Jerry Adler, Fox News, Poem, John Lundberg, Living News
John Lundberg

Lou Dobbs resigned from CNN on Wednesday night. Newsweek's longtime senior editor Jerry Adler published a poem in honor of the occasion entitled "Goodbye, Mr. Dobbs."

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Why The Right Is Wrong On Ft. Hood

Azam Nizamuddin | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sesame Street, Ft Hood Shooting, Michelle Obama, Right Wing, Michelle Malkin, Islamophobia, Iraq War, Rwanda Genocide, Iraqi Civilian Deaths, American Muslims, Fox News, Religious Right, Muslim, Sesame Street 40th Anniversary, Hindu-Militants, Christian Right, Military, James Allison, Politics News
Azam Nizamuddin

In the Ft. Hood aftermath, we shouldn't allow right-wing hooliganism, wherever it stems from, to dictate how we view tragedies and interpret human beings with cultures and religions separate from our own.

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No One Is More American Than I Am

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terry Nichols, Fort Hood, America, Muslim Americans, Nidal Malik Hasan, Scott Roeder, Right Wing, Tim-Mcveigh, Fort Hood Shootings, Eric Rudolph, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

Here is the unalterable fact that the right-wing of this country has to get used to: Muslim-Americans are 100% American. There are no degrees of how American you are.

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New York Voters Send Right Wing Packing in 23rd Congressional District

M. Tracey Brooks | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York

Read More: Family Planning, Dede Scozzafava, Reproductive Rights, Bill Owens, Right Wing, Ny-23, Doug Hoffman, Planned Parenthood, New York News
M. Tracey Brooks

The GOP failed to back its own candidate and allowed outside influences such as the Conservative Party and the Club for Growth to hijack the election. This is not good for the GOP or for women.

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Watch Long Island For the New Right Wing Groundswell

B.D. Gallof | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York

Read More: Long Island, Left Wing, Rush Limbaugh, Howard Beale, Tom Suozzi, Nassau, Right Wing, Democrats, Tea Party, Barack Obama, Election, New York, Republicans, Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, Bill O'Reilly, New York News
B.D. Gallof

Today we will see the crawl, but next year we will see the running. The bouillabaisse of discontent has been churning, and this year's minority will be a movement looking to step up.

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Sarah Palin Books Coming: Authors Hope Fascination Doesn't Fade

McClatchy | Erika Bolstad | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sarah Palin Memoir, Sarah Palin GOP, Sarah Palin Conservatives, Sarah Palin Books, Sarah Palin Right-Wing, Going Rogue: An American Life, Right-Wing, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Going Rogue, Gop, Sarah Palin Book Deal, Politics News

The envy of nearly every other first-time author, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's good fortune includes an advance upward of $1.25 million, an appear...

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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
Taylor Marsh

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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New Right Wing "Dirty Tricks" Campaign Tactic Being Tested in Washington State

Paul Abrams | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: King County Executive, Right Wing, Susan Hutchison, Dirty Tricks, Washington State, Political Campaigns, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Paul Abrams

Because of a benign-sounding charter amendment offered by right wing zealots, candidates are not known by their political affiliations. That removes the shorthand that busy people use to vote.

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The Missing Story in Democracy Corps' Analysis of the Conservative Right

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Authoritarianism, Democracy Corps, President Obama, Religious Right, Glenn Beck, Right Wing, Republicans, Politics News
Jonathan Weiler

The study is certainly worth reading in full, but I wanted to address Democracy Corps' dismissal of a "racial element" in this hard-core right wing opposition to Obama.

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Time for Progressives to Stand Up Proudly for Government

Robert Creamer | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Financial Sector, Government Takeover of Health Care, Barney Frank, Washington Post-ABC Poll, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Right Wing, Role of Government, Medicare, Role-of-Government, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News
Robert Creamer

Government is not always the solution, any more than it is always the problem. But in many cases, progressives know that it is more efficient, more effective and more consistent with the values of a democratic society.

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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
Salam Al Marayati

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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Is Glenn Beck the Future of Television 'News'?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Television, Fox News, Right Wing, Glenn Beck, Media, Media News
John W. Whitehead

Welcome to the "fear chamber" or "doom room," home to Fox News Channel's political commentator and television news host, Glenn Beck. Beck has becom...

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Don't Blame Obama for Creigh Deeds

Taylor Marsh | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bob Mcdonnell, Right Wing, Pat Robertson, Creigh Deeds, Bailout, Barack Obama, Politics News
Taylor Marsh

The real problem for Democrats is that by choosing Creigh Deeds they've diluted the Democratic brand as far as it can go. Let's face it, Deeds is no Jim Webb.

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Down with Demonology: The Left Can Do Better

Nancy Wadsworth | Posted 10.13.2009 | Denver

Read More: Politics, Racism, Left Wing, Right Wing, Tea Party Protests, Monster, Evangelical Christians, Religion, Fox News, Denver News
Nancy Wadsworth

In my division at DU of over 70 professors, I can count the number of tenure-track faculty of color on one hand. In DU's service and maintenance position ranks, the demographics are reversed.

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Tea Party Patriots Founder Forced Out Over Support Of GOP-Linked 'Astroturf' Group

Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tea Party Activists, Tea Party Pac, Tea Party Protests, Tea Party Conservatives, Tea Party Patriots, Amy Kremer, Tea Party Supporters, Right-Wing, Gop, Gop Tea Party, Kremer Tea Party, Tea Party Rallies, Tea Party Express, Our Country Deserves Better, Politics News

Tea Party Patriots did not want to lose Amy Kremer. The Atlanta activist had co-founded the organization. She'd helped organize some of the biggest ev...

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Three Cups of Teabaggers: Insight from the Right on Afghanistan

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Government, Army, Pashtunwali, Peacebuilding, US Marines, Right Wing, Conservatism, Afghanistan, Tea Party, Conflict Resolution, Peace, Barack Obama, Tea Bagging, Pashtuns, World News
Lorelei Kelly

The path of the Right leads to a place where there is nothing left to conserve. This particular dilemma of the American Right provides an angle of insight into the challenge that we face in Afghanistan.

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Bad News! Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nobel Prize, President Obama, Obama Nobel, Birthers, Norway, Right Wing, Nobel Peace Prize, Liberals, Politics News
Frank Schaeffer

The neoconservatives will trumpet this as the ultimate evidence of Obama being a socialist, embraced by notoriously socialist Norway.

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Treason and Sedition

Matt Osborne | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conservative Talk Radio, Treason, Right Wing, Michele Bachmann, World Net Daily, Newsmax, Rick Perry Secession, Sedition, Eliminationism, Politics News
Matt Osborne

Sedition is an attempt to overthrow the constitutional government of the United States. That's how far un-American rhetoric has penetrated the conservative movement.

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How Would the Right Know It's Wrong?

Marty Kaplan | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Science, Karl Popper, Philosophy, Right Wing, Enlightenment, Barack Obama, Politics News
Marty Kaplan

Whether they're cynical postures or sincere beliefs doesn't matter: ruthless opposition and dingbat delusions are the currency of right-wing success, and sand in the gears of democracy.

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Obama is Not God: the Projection Principle

Matt Osborne | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama Smears, Right Wing Media, Antichrist, Political Psychology, World Net Daily, Michele Bachmann, Right Wing, Right-Wing Media, Psychology, Obama Antichrist, Psychological Projection, Jon Voight, Barack Obama, Obama Smears, Politics News
Matt Osborne

There is a limitless supply of videos chronicling the August teabaggery, but this is the one I found most interesting: a woman declaring that "Obama i...

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GOP to Retake House in 2010? Maybe

Morgan Warners | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: 2010 Elections, Senator Lindsey Graham, Rep. Eric Cantor, Gop, Right Wing, Lindsey Graham, Right-Wing Extremism, Eric Cantor, Barack Obama, GOP Candidates, Politics News
Morgan Warners

To what extent does the GOP have to do anything substantive, as opposed to just changing tone and message, in order to get big gains?

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