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The 'Pro-Family' Scam

Wayne Besen | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Glbt, Progressive, Lesbian, American Family Association, Truth Wins Out, New York Times, Right Wing, Gay, Wayne Besen, Politics News
Wayne Besen

Right wing organizations can be considered many things -- but certainly not advocates for the family. They inhale money, exhale anti-gay pollution and have done absolutely nothing for the traditional families.

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How Jesse Helms Ruled North Carolina

Erik Ose | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jesse Helms, Jesse Helms Legacy, Jesse Helms Death, North Carolina, Racial Politics, Direct Mail, Harvey Gantt, Campaign Spending, Right Wing, Attack Ads, Bigotry, Politics News
Erik Ose

Helms poisoned the ideological well of politics, calling MLK, Jr. a communist and the 1964 Civil Rights Act "the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced in the Congress."

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Focus on the Fallacies of James Dobson

Wayne Besen | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lies, John McCain, Social Conservatives, Distortions, James Dobson, Truth Wins Out, Religious Right, Ex-Gay, Right Wing, Focus on the Family, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Religion, Obama Religious Voters, Politics News
Wayne Besen

When James Dobson cites research or statistics in this election cycle, news reporters have an obligation to check with the actual researchers who conducted the studies.

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California Dreaming: Homophobia Will Not Determine this Election

Joe Solmonese | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: California Gay Marriage, Right Wing, Human Rights Campaign, Gary Bauer, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Joe Solmonese

By any tangible measure, Gary Bauer's vision of conservatives riding a wave of anti-gay fervor into the White House in 2008 is pure illusion.

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Why the Right in America is Dead

Dan Agin | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Greed, Middle Way, Right Wing, Conservatives, Pragmatism, Politics News
Dan Agin

The Right in America is dead because it allowed itself to be ruled by ideology rather than by reality, by dogma rather than by pragmatism.

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McCain Advisor's Terrorism Comment Highlights the Right's Historic Use of Fear: How Progressives Can Overcome It

Robert Creamer | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, War on Terror, Hope, War in Iraq, Progressives, 2008 Presidential Race, 9/11, Fear, Right Wing, Barack Obama, Charles Black, Breaking News, Charlie Black, Charlie Black Terrorist Attack, John McCain Charlie Black, Politics News
Robert Creamer

Fundamentally, the centuries-long battle between Progressives and the right wing has been a struggle between empowerment and domination.

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Ballot Initiatives in 2008: Change Vs. More of the Same

Kristina Wilfore | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Independent Voters, Ballot Initiatives, Election 2008, Voter Turnout, Wedge Issues, Progressives, Right-Wing, Politics News
Kristina Wilfore

In 2008, ballot initiatives could impact races up and down the ballot, including the Presidential campaign. While their value in mobilizing turnout ...

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Republicans Who Just Don't Get It

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dennis Hastert, Republican Party, Louisiana, Mississippi, Special Election, Dick Cheney, Gop, 2008 Elections, Illinois, Moderates, Right-Wing, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

If Republicans lose in deeply Republican districts as they did last night, they can literally lose anywhere. The whole electoral map can be redrawn.

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Newt Gingrich to GOP--Wake Up or Perish

Katrina vanden Heuvel | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Repuclican Senate, Gop, Senate Seats. Gingrich, Conservative Movement, Cheney, Extremism, Democratic Senate, Congressional Election, Right Wing, Newt Gingrich, Senators, Bill Moyers, Bush, Radicalism, Politics News
Katrina vanden Heuvel

Either Congressional Republicans chart a bold course of real change, Gingrich argues or the GOP faces a landslide defeat and disaster in November. It's hard to agree with him. But I think he's right.

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Amy Goodman is Wrong About Food Price Inflation

Max Keiser | Posted 05.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Amy Goodman, Right Wing, Left Wing, Fomc, Inflation, Fiat Currency, Business News
Max Keiser

The Left in America needs to beef up on its macro-economics understanding of money and credit before leaping into the fray of discussing global food prices

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The Question of Hillary Clinton's Guilt-By-Association Tactics

Carl Bernstein | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Weatherman, Communist, Left Wing, Weatherman Underground, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Right Wing, Clintons, Obama, Jessica Mittford, Barack Obama, Yale, Black Panthers, Guilt, Clinton, Communist Party, Hillary, Barack, Bill Ayers, Mccarthyism, Guilt by Association, Hillary Clinton, Saul Alinsky, Left, Bob Treuhaft, Right, Radicals, Weatherman, Associations, Blumenthal, Politics News
Carl Bernstein

The resort by Hillary and her campaign to guilt-by-association, of which the Bill Ayers allegations are but one example, is, even for some of her most steadfast advocates, particularly dismaying.

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The New Assassins Don't Use Guns

RJ Eskow | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Blogs, Bill Clinton, John Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Matt Drudge, Malcolm X, Hillary Clinton, Jfk, Media, Journalism, Rod Serling, Robert Kennedy, Mlk Jr Assasination, Conspiracy Theories, MLK Assasination, Conspiracy, Right Wing, Clintons, Assassinations, Mlk, Right-Wing Conspiracy, Character Assassination, Character, Martin Luther King Jr, Martin Luther King, Paulo Friere, Martin Luther King Assassination, Politics News
RJ Eskow

A new form of political murder has taken its place -- character assassination. Over the last two decades, the Right has learned how to destroy its enemies without leaving a body.

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MSNBC Opens The Door On Hillary's Participation In The Family

Steven G. Brant | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Religion and Politics, Fundamentalism, The Family, Right Wing, Hillary Clinton, Video, The Foundation, Hillary Clinton Religion, Andrea Mitchell, 2008 Election and Religion, Politics News
Steven G. Brant

I hope Andrea Mitchell and her fellow reporters at the other networks will work hard to help us all learn what The Family is and why Hillary is so involved in this group.

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The Audacity of Enlightenment

Deepak Chopra | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Right Wing, Dumbing Down, Hope, Bush, Religion, Enlightenment, Maharishi, Politics News
Deepak Chopra

The audacity of enlightenment reaches much farther than the audacity of hope, and until we are willing to reassert our right to aspire, America will remain crippled spiritually.

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The Bizarro Veeps?: Barack Obama and John Thune

Mark Joseph | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, President, Vice President, Right-Wing, Immigration, Left-Wing, Bizarro, Thune, Nominee, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Stephen Colbert, Barack Obama, Politics News
Mark Joseph

A Clinton-Obama vs. McCain-Thune race would be a fun one to watch and might provide the unusual spectacle of having the v.p. debates draw higher ratings than those of the candidates for president.

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2007 Eye on the Right

Andrea Batista Schlesinger | Posted 12.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: American Enterprise Institute, Public Policy, Heritage Foundation, Think Tanks, Right Wing Think Tanks, Family Research Council, Cato Institute, Consumer Safety, Hoover Institute, Right Wing, Manhattan Institute, Poverty, Politics News
Andrea Batista Schlesinger

The Heritage Foundation will celebrate its 35th birthday in 2008 (no need for a present -- last year, they declared total assets of over $213 million).

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Obama's 'Present' Vote Ignored Dangers of Sex Shops Near Schools

Taylor Marsh | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Pornography, Edwards, Zoning, 2008, Clinton, Right-Wing, Obama, Iran, Democrats, Iraq, Legislative Record, Republicans, Culture, Politics News
Taylor Marsh

For some reason, people seem to think that Mr. Obama's legislative career doesn't matter; that he deserves a pass on it. Do you think Republicans will give him a pass?

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Why We Wish The Clintons Would Just Go Away

Paul Jenkins | Posted 12.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: Jesse Helms, Ron Paul, Right-Wing, Abuse of Power, James Carville, Drugs, Iraq, Mark Penn, Bush, African-American, Primaries, Marriage, Gay Rights, Dennis Kucinich, Cynthia McKinney, Black, Green Party, Bill Clinton, Women, Karl Rove, Michael Bloomberg, Clintons, Gay, Feminism, Democrats, New York City, Rudy Giuliani, Trent Lott, Sex, Arkansas, Iowa, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Sista Souljah, Gay Marriage, Heterosexuals, Socialist, Racism, Barack Obama, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

Because they have spun us into complete exhaustion. Because she's a feminist until it is her own husband who abuses his power. Because we don't have to settle for them.

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The Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins With One Schlepp

Steven Weber | Posted 12.02.2007 | Politics

Read More: Right Wing Media, Bbc, Cnn, Fox News, Religious Right, Right Wing, Media, Abc, Fox, Nbc, Politics News
Steven Weber

There's a reason why CNN is now a high profile pariah alongside its bullying brother-in-low FOX, its over the hill uncles CBS, NBC and the shiftless, perpetually late ABC.

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Malkin and Limbaugh and O'Reilly! Oh my!

Eric Boehlert | Posted 10.17.2007 | Media

Read More: Media, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, Bill O'Reilly, Bloggers, Schip, Right-Wing, Media Matters, Fox News, Media News
Eric Boehlert

The mighty right-wing media machine is in the process of driving American conservatism right off a cliff.

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Google Logos Draw Conservatives' Ire

Los Angeles Times | Jim Puzzanghera | Posted 10.09.2007 | Business

Read More: Right Wing, Social Conservatives, Conservatives, Google, Business News

Should the world's most-used search engine be more of a Yankee Google Dandy? Google Inc. occasionally features light-hearted doodles on its colorful ...

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