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Soda Is the New Right-Wing Issue--and Fatsos the New Base

Michael Wolff | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Michael Wolff, Soda, Soda Tax, Right Wing, Obesity, Health Care, Overweight, Politics News

The soda tax is being tried out as a potential wedge issue, a populist theme. Super groovy cool self-satisfied yuppie people don't drink soda. But gross fat compulsive lacking-all-self-control normal Americans do.

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A New Year's Resolution

Larry Gellman | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Commandents, Yom Kippur, Right Wing Media, Nazi, Bible, Hitler, Chofetz Chayim, Judaism, Bloggers, Rosh Hashanah, Propaganda, Temple, Right Wing, Obama, Hebrew-Bible, Barack Obama, Michael Gerson, God, Mind.Body.Soul, Jewish, Torah, New Year's Resolution, Washington Post, Repentence, Confession, Hate Speech, Slander, Adolf Hitler, Loshon Hara, Ira Forman, Living News

This Yom Kippur there is reason for concern. The politics of rumor, innuendo, and lies -- sinat chinam -- is on the rise in our community and it hurts us all.

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Back to the Future -- The Tension Over Tense

Larry Gellman | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

With investments, mob psychology takes over. People get greedy at the top and afraid at the bottom. At the end of the day, they almost always default in favor of sleeping at night.

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My Brother Loves Glenn Beck, But I Still Love My Brother

Suz Redfearn | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

My brother rolled into D.C. from Boston on a chartered bus, arriving in the dark outside a Marriott. I scanned the pack of fairly nondescript folks ...

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Census Worker Hanging... What Pelosi Warned?

Landon Ross | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Murder, Conservatives, Nancy Pelosi, George Tiller Murder, Fox News, Census Worker, Glenn Beck, Right Wing, Democrats, Right-Wing Extremism, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News

We don't have all the facts regarding Bill Sparkman's death. Yet the fact that, upon hearing of this incident, politically minded people wonder whether the death was a result of right wing invective is telling.

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Hugo Chavez on Obama and the 'Recalcitrant Right'

Greg Grandin | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras Zelaya, Right Wing, Hugo Chavez, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Brazil, Barack Obama, United Nations, World News

The Venezuelan president believes that what the right fears most about Obama is his attempt to rehabilitate the idea that "public policy" can solve social problems, as opposed to the market.

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Does This Misspelled Tea Party Sign Make My Butt Look Big?

Beth Armogida | Posted 09.28.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Stress, Rallies, Tea Party Protests, Cnn, Sarah Palin, Anderson Cooper, Right Wing, Tea Party, News, Barack Obama, President Barack Obama, Comedy News

Every time I see those handmade signs at the Tea Parties displaying anti-Obama phrases filled with hate, fear and misspelled words held by flocks of pallid agitators my stress level reaches a new high.

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Sparkman: Casualty of Methland, USA? Or Victim of Anti-Government Bile?

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Latinos, White House, Hate Crimes, Teabaggers, 2042-Minorities, Crime, Violent Crime, Tax Protests, Michele Bachman, Census Boycott, Immigration, Right Wing, Race, Working Class, Census, 2010 Census, Immigration Reform, Latino Politics, Illegal Immigrants, Bill Sparkman, Methamphetamine, Right-Wing Extremism, Anti-Government, Lou Dobbs, William Spakrkman Hanged, Lou Dobbs Immigration, Politics News

Sparkman's workaday life and violent death -- whatever the cause and whoever the culprit -- highlight the precarious struggles of the white working class and the brewing storm surrounding the 2010 Census.

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Roots of Right-Wing Populist Rage -- Reds to Beds

Chip Berlet | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Homosexuality, Values Voters, Populism, Family Values, Evangelical Christians, Sociology, Anti-Abortion, Christian Right, Right Wing, Right-Wing Populism, Sex Education, Politics News

There are tens of millions of conservative Christian evangelicals who read, watch, or hear crazy messages on a weekly basis. Stop laughing and start organizing.

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In Washington State, Yes means No to Hate

Lane Hudson | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: LGBT Rights, Right Wing, Washington State, Domestic Partnerships, LGBT Families, Referendum-71, Politics News

Yes, that is correct. In Washington State, we want to approve a domestic partnership ballot measure the crazies worked for. I know it sounds weird.

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The Carter Statement

Hermene Hartman | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, Andrew Manis, Health Care Reform, Racism, Right Wing, Media, Post Racial America, Politics News

There is no comfortable time to discuss America's racial issues. There is no right time. There will always be something else more pressing. America needs to look its racism in the mirror.

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The Damage that Time has Done

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 11.22.2009 | Media

Time's cover is the beginning of a rehab job for Glenn Beck. The magazine is trying once again to make it okay for people to sponsor this "person".

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Roots of Right Wing Populist Rage -- Realignment

Chip Berlet | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Christian Right, Right Wing, Populism, Evangelical Christians, Right-Wing Populism, Sociology, Politics News

It is neither accurate nor useful to see the current Right wing as one gigantic top-down, corporate run, astroturf, revolt of ignorant wingnuts.

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The Shock and Awe of a Second Financial Meltdown

Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Reagan, Us Treasury, Right Wing, Obama, Clinton, Wall Street, Democrats, Financial Meltdown, Business News

I have this nasty feeling that on the right, the big boys are happier than ever -- no reforms, no meddling in the existing structure and the memory fast fading of who actually caused that last meltdown.

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Talk Radio Inciting Violence? What Happened to Listener Discernment?

Michael D. Brown | Posted 11.21.2009 | Denver

Read More: Holland Cooke, Left Wing, David Sirota, Talk Radio, Violence, Right Wing, Media Bias, Daily Kos, Chris Matthews, Dog Whistles, Denver News

We should never refrain from expressing our opinions with emotions and passions for fear that the nut case will hear it wrong and act out violently.

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Roots of Right-Wing Populist Rage -- the Christian Right

Chip Berlet | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religious Right, Christian Right, Right Wing, Values Voters, Right-Wing Populism, Values Voters Summit, Right Wing Rage, Politics News

Many of the ideas in the Political Right ignore about 50 years of social science -- but not in their book. Or on the TV they watch. Or the radio they listen to. Or the magazines they read.

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Fox News' Fave Man-Child Glenn Beck Hits The Big TIME!

Julie Farby | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fox News, Right Wing, Teabagging, Glenn Beck, Time Magazine, Media, Republicans, Politics News

Golden-haired angel of truth Glenn Beck has landed on the cover of TIME magazine!! Do you understand what this means, people? It means the true patriots of America have won!

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Why Isn't There a Left-Wing Conspiracy?

Bob Burnett | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Right Wing Media, Right Wing, Conservatives, Liberals, Barack Obama, Progressives, Politics News

Conservatives have an advantage because they only attack; they don't propose solutions to real problems or alternatives to Democratic initiatives.

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Vast Conspiracy of Leftist Parasites and Traitors

Chip Berlet | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Scapegoating, Right Wing, Right-Wing Populism, Demonization, Conspiracy Theories, Politics News

With a wink and a nod, right-wing apparatchiks are networking with the apocalyptic Christian right and resurgent armed militias to hobble the work of the Obama Administration.

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America, Then and Now

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ronald Reagan, Challenger, Immigration, Glenn Beck, Right Wing, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Right-Wing Extremism, Barack Obama, Politics News

In the thirty years following Reagan, the Overton window steadily moved to the right and the bottom, resulting in today's baboon shrieks from talk show hosts, financiers and politicians.

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You Think the Right Wing Is Mad Now? We Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

Miguel Guadalupe | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Right Wing, Immigration, Barack Obama, Republicans, Health Care Reform, 9/12 March on Washington, Politics News

The right wing has played their hand early in the "change game." By pulling out most of the stops against health care, we now have an idea of how they will attack immigration reform.

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"Get the Government Out of My Social Security!" Inside the 9.12 Teabagger Rally

Max Blumenthal | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conservatives, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Right Wing, 9/12 March on Washington, Constitution, Tea Party, Barack Obama, Extremism, Politics News

While Fox News cameras covering the so-called 9.12 Project on the National Mall lurched away from signs morphing President Barack Obama's face into Adolph Hitler's, I zoomed in.

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The Daily Szep -- The New Low or the New Standard

Paul Szep | Posted 11.11.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Paul Szep, Congress, Joe Wilson, Right Wing, Cartoon, Radio, Comedy News

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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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