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How to Fight Healthcare Fearmongers and Demagogues

Robert Reich | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Scare Tactics, Foreign Affairs, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, Right Wing, Universal Health Care, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Obama Health Care Reform, Advocacy, Politics News

Obama's health care problem is that the legislation is still in the works. It's always easier to stir up fear and anger against something that's amorphous than it is to stir up enthusiasm for it.

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Reading The Pictures: Grandma Must Die!

Michael Shaw | Posted 09.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Obama Psychopath, Wingnuts, Obama Right Wingers, Health Care Debate, Obama Gangs, Obama, Tpm, Right Wing, Obama Socialist, Arizona, Obama White, Obama Joker, Death Panel, Sarah Palin, Rachel Maddow Health Care, Joker, Obama Health Ledger, Obama Race, Obama Wingnuts, Rachel Maddow, Obama Newsbusters, Health Care Death Panel, Newsbusters, Peoria Arizona, Palin Death Panel, Shepard Fairey, Obama Violence, Obamacare, Newscom, Media News

Honestly, the whole "Death Panel" thing was so "out there," it didn't resonate with me until I came across this Newscom photo today.

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The Difference Between Criticism and Hate Speech

Larry Gellman | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

They are whack jobs or hard-wired haters, but their influence and numbers are growing among what's left of the Republican party, the news media, and the former Confederacy.

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G. Gordon Liddy Thinks Bill Clinton Brought Back a Dead Giant Panda and a Penis from North Korea

Disgrasian | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Bill Clinton, Dementia, Right Wing Media, Laura Ling, Gordon Liddy, Racist, Asian Americans, Conservative Talk Radio, Bill Clinton North Korea, G. Gordon Liddy, Fox News, Euna Lee, Right Wing, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, North Korea, Media News

While most of the country was busy heralding the safe return of American journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling from North Korea, Gordon Liddy appears to be losing his mind.

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The Guns of August: A Call to Arms for Progressives and Obama Activists

Richard Kirsch | Posted 09.05.2009 | Home

Read More: Health Care Reform, Right Wing Health Care Reform, Right Wing, August Recess, Health Care Town Hall, Town Hall, Health Care, Obama Health Care Reform, Home News

Since health care won't be decided at the popular ballot box, we can't just wait for the public to recognize the reality behind this nutty minority.

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Mobs R Us?

Marty Kaplan | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Protests, Birthers, Right Wing, Vietnam, Republicans, Politics News

Are today's protesters on the right doing anything different from what the left did in the '60s and '70s to stop the Vietnam War?

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Earth Calling GOP

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Karl Rove, Fred Thompson, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Obama Administration, Obama, Republicans, Right-Wing Extremism, Right-Wing, Politics News

Republican lies about the Obama healthcare plan should be no surprise to anyone with a memory.

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Right-Wing Group Attacks Working Families Party for Standing up on Healthcare Reform

Dan Cantor | Posted 08.24.2009 | New York

Read More: Health Care Reform, Right Wing, Working Families Party, Health Care, New York News

Yesterday, the Working Families Party launched an urgent action alert: five New York Democrats in the House were blocking President Obama's health care reform. The response was incredible.

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G-Force: Disney's Loveable Rodent Gets an AK-47

Tom Gregory | Posted 08.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Safety, Walt Disney, G-Force, War in Afghanistan, Alcohol. Tobacco, Right Wing, Militias, Hollywood, Tsa, Gang Violence, Mickey Mouse, Iraq War, Firearms, Disney, Video Games, Summer Blockbuster, Entertainment News

This week Disney launched its D-Day assault. With the advertisements for G-Force gracing every highway across America, big artillery has reached the "cute" stage.

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Punching the Tar Baby

Larry Gellman | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Confederacy, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Mark Levin, Right Wing Media, Congress, Audra Shay, Peggy Noonan, Colin Powell, Rush Limbaugh, Limbaugh, Jeff Sessions, Right Wing, Hispanics, Democrats, Democratic Party, Uncle Remus, David Brooks, Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor, David Frum, Racism, Hate Speech, Black, Glenn Beck, Republican Party, Right-Wing Extremism, Republicans, Politics News

From the moment Judge Sotomayor was nominated to the court, the Right wing made it clear that they were going to play the only card left in the Republican deck -- the race card.

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Far-Right Terror Attack Feared By UK Police, Mirroring Similar Warning By DHS in US

Guardian | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

Read More: Right Wing DHS Report, Scotland Yard, Far Right, United Kingdom, Terrorism, Janet Napolitano, Foreign Affairs, England, Right Wing, Far-Right Fundamentalism, Far-Right Terror, Right-Wing Extremism, Advocacy, World News

Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command fears the extreme right will stage a deadly terrorist attack in Britain to try to stoke racial tensions, the...

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New SPLC Report Details 75 Radical Plots, Rampages

Mark Potok | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: White Supremacists, Southern Poverty Law Center, Domestic Terrorism, Right Wing, Right-Wing Extremism, Terrorism, Politics News

This special report by the Southern Poverty Law Center shows that domestic right-wing terrorism is far more prevalent than most Americans realize.

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Right Wing Hate Getting Out of Control

Mike Papantonio | Posted 07.31.2009 | Media

Read More: Tiller, Gop, Air America, Murder, Donnie Baker, Mike Papantonio, Right Wing, GoLeft.Tv, Golefttv, Barack Obama, Immigrant, Conservative, Muslim, Abortion, Hate Talk, Latino, David Neiwert, Joshua Cartwright, Republicans, Ring of Fire, Media News

About an hour's drive from where I live, a miserable 60-year old man by the name of Donnie Baker murdered two Chilean college students and wounded fiv...

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I Just Don't Get It

Larry Gellman | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Economy, Right Wing Media, John McCain, Global Economy, Rush Limbaugh, Iran Election, Cnbc, Economy, Economic Crisis, President Obama, Bank of America, Right Wing, Iran, Obama Economy, Lindsey Graham, Iranian Election, Barack Obama, Investment Banks, Goldman Sachs, Investing, Economic Stimulus Package, Finance, Larry Kudlow, Rush Limbaugh Obama, Fox News, Henry Paulson, Financial Crisis, Economic Stimulus, Saxby Chambliss, Fox, Citigroup, Politics News

It seems pretty clear that Obama is actually insisting that we change the approach that led the economy off a cliff. I just don't get it.

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Intelligence Bureaucracy, Not Clinton 'Wall,' Caused Intelligence Failures, Says Declassified 9/11 Commission Report

Frank Naif | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Intelligence, Right Wing Media, Joe Scarborough, Central Intelligence Agency, Conservatives, Cia, Counterterrorism, 9/11, Fbi, 9/11 Commission, Right Wing, Declassified Documents, State Department, Politics News

Different parts of the government had important clues about the 9/11 attacks well in advance, but didn't share them with intelligence or law enforcement units that could have acted on them.

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Iran Uprising Changes Nuclear Calculus

Joe Cirincione | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

Read More: Nationalism, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Negotiations, Regime-Change, Twitter, Joseph Cirincione, Nuclear Weapons, The Uprising, Economy, President Obama, Leslie Gelb, Right Wing, Iran, Richard Lugar, Iran Election, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News

Mousavi was always more open to dialogue with the West. If president, his discourse could now include the nuclear program with much less fear of attack.

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What Does an Extremist Look Like?

Geri Spieler | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Is an extremist tall, short, young, old, thin, fat? Would you know if the person standing next to you was about to pull out a gun and shoot? Scary ...

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Sotomayor: A Strong Choice for Supreme Court

Ira Forman | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jewish Community, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Sonia Sotomayor, Right-Wing Smear, National Jewish Democratic Council, Right Wing, Ira Forman, Politics News

The ridiculous Sotomayor bashing must stop. Republicans and Democrats should work together to review Sotomayor's record and work towards a confirmation this summer.

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Was Tiller's Murder Justice?

Eric Sapp | Posted 07.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Christianity, Right Wing, Far Right, Living News

When Christians decide lies are the best way to inspire the "faithful" to fight for justice, and when Christians demonstrate through our actions that we believe that any means are justified as long as the end is just, we are lost.

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What Is So Outrageous About Paying Our Bills?

Larry Gellman | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

I always thought that taxes were the way we paid our bills. In a democracy we have elected representatives who spend money on our behalf on things like defense, security, wars, bridges, and health care benefits.-

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100 Days of Competence Versus Crazy

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Glenn Reynolds, Michele Bachmann, Rush Limbaugh, Bobby Jindal, 100 Days, President Obama, Michael Steele, Glenn Beck, Right Wing, Michelle Malkin, Republican Party, Tea Party, Fox News Channel, Politics News

I'm reasonably certain that historians will peg the legacy of the president's first 100 days based partly upon this contrast between the crazy and the calm.

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A Reasonable Observer's Response to the Torture Memos

Martha St Jean | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Left Wing, Guantanamo Detainees, Sam Stein, Detainee Abuse, Right Wing, Waterboarding, Dietary Restrictions, Obama Tortue Decision, Torture Memos, Barack Obama, Detainees, Torture, Bush Torture Memos, Politics News

The Bush torture memos have provided more questions than answers. Where were the "reasonable observers" who should have given dissenting viewpoints based on legal and moral ramifications?

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The Immorality of Intolerance and Inconsistency

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Iran, Intelligent Design, Jesus, Cheney, Korea, Evolution, Gingrich, Bush, Left Wing, Right Wing, Partisan, Politics News

The inconsistent standards by which Gingrich, Cheney and Republicans are judging Obama are troubling.

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Lenin Rules!

Larry Gellman | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

It was Lenin, after all, who almost 100 years ago stated what has become the mantra of the angry Right and the deluded media nearly a century later: A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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Time for a Tea Party with the Right: Why Progressives Need a Transpartisan Strategy

Bill Shireman | Posted 05.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Tax Day Tea Party, Hate, Government Bailout, Conservatives, Liberalism, Protest, Government Spending, Fox News, Hate Speech, Conservatism, Paul Krugman, Right Wing, Tea Party, Barack Obama, Politics News

Let's sit down with the right for tea. Let them vent their anger and hate - and we can vent ours. Let's listen to the fear that lies beneath the hate, to the reasons they're afraid.

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