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Joe the Plumber not only has a book deal, but he has a whole online community! Joe the Blogger, Joe the Reporter, and (I kid you not) Joe the Forum. Costs only $19.95 to sign up for a "We...
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George F. Will - McCain in a Bear Market - washingtonpost.com
George Will is scathing on McCain. Seen on Cee Bee's Friendfeed stream.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100802926.html
Bobby May, McCain operative in Buchanan County, VA, says he's not a racist
You can't make this stuff up. If elected, Obama will "hire rapper Ludacris to 'paint [the White House] black... Mandatory Black Liberation Theolgy courses taught in all churches... Change...
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http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/10/why-we-campaign.html
Conservatives Try New Tack on Campuses - NYTimes.com
On the changing strategies used by conservative groups to increase their influence on curricular choices in U.S. higher education.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/education/22conservative.html?pagewanted=all
ChangeThis :: George Lakoff Manifesto
Seen on melmcbride's Twitter stream.
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http://www.changethis.com/5.GeorgeLakoff
From the horse's mouth: McCain's health-care advisor's personal blog
McCain's health-care advisor, John Goodman, thinks we should deal with the problem of uninsured Americans by ordering the Census Bureau to stop calling people "uninsured." I kid you not. ...
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http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/uninsurance-problem-solved-by-executive-order
US election: It's the most vicious election campaign ever - and here's why | World news | The Observer
The Observer (from the UK paper The Guardian) profiles the "Republican attack machine" -- its practiced and effective operation for developing and disseminating negative and often very pe...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/31/uselections2008.barackobama
Looking for anti-Palin bile? Here's your roundup
I don't have a great deal of faith in this source, but if you're in the market for anti-Sarah Palin ammunition, it's all conveniently collected here in one place.
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http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%E2%...
Frederica Mathewes-Green, "Let's Have More Teen Pregnancy," National Review (Sept. 20, 2002)
This article really amazed me when I first read it, not because I so much either agree or disagree (I mean for the most part I disagre, but it's more at an intuitive, gut level), but beca...
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http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzY0NTZmMWVkMWFhNmJlYTgxNThkM2ViZWY2ZWVlNzI=
Gov. Palin speaks to the Wasilla Assembly of God church, June 2008 (Huffington Post)
Gov. Palin addresses a Pentecostal church with which she was associated until 2002. The speech was given in June 2008. Excerpt: "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do...
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/palins-church-may-have-sh_n_123205.html
Ohio GOP plans to challenge voters on the basis of home foreclosures
The Ohio Republican Party is stationing volunteer "election challengers" at polling places around the state and arming them with a list of foreclosed homes. Anyone on the list who tries t...
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http://www.michiganmessenger.com/4076/lose-your-house-lose-your-vote
Obama Waffles.com: Edible Election 08 Souvenir
Check out the little details -- Obama in an Arab-style headdress on the top flap, and, according to one description, wearing a Mexican sombrero on the back (along with a recipe for "Open ...
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http://www.obamawaffles.com/pages/about_us.html
FactCheck.org: Energetically Wrong
Palin's preposterous "twenty percent" claim and the real facts. And here's the woman McCain claims "knows more about energy than almost anyone." If that's true, then she also knows less a...
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http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/energetically_wrong.html
U.S. mainline Protestantism and the Institute for Religion and Democracy
Frederick Clarkson, in a 2006 article, outlines the activities of the Institute for Religion and Democracy since the eighties. Mainly funded by right-wing think tanks, he says, it has att...
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http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v20n1/clarkson_battle.html
Ronald Reagan: Remarks in New York City Before the United Nations General Assembly Special Session Devoted to Disarmament
Reagan's use of the "citizen of the world" line. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.presidency.ucsb.edu%2Fws%2Findex.php%3Fpid%3D42644
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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=42644
Breaking: David Addington appears before Congress, acts like a jerk
A very strange little piece. Addington was subpoenaed before Congress and, along with John Yoo, pushed to new limits the practice of obfuscating the Congress in their attempts to exercise...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603456.html
The Obama "White" House? -- button spotted at Texas GOP convention
Speaks for itself, if it's genuine.
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http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/06/stick-a-pin-in-it.html
AlterNet: Christian Reconstructionists Are Trying to Take Dominion in America -- and They Have Powerful Friends
Another alarmist (?) article on Christian Reconstructionists and how they are taking over everything, from Alternet. Probably ought to read it.
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http://www.alternet.org/stories/55717
Polygamous sect ousts boys for worldly vices - International Herald Tribune
Odd story about the fate of young boys expelled from "fundamentalist" (usually polygamous) Mormon communities for offending against the very strict moral standards. Kind of depressing.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/09/america/polygamy.php
What exactly does Ron Paul stand for?
Ron Paul has published regular newsletters since the late 70s. They espouse some very bitter and virulently bigoted positions on race, among other issues and portray him as a real conspir...
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http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e2f15397-a3c7-4720-ac15-4532a7da84ca
Why Huckabee scares me: "We need to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards"
Yesterday in Michigan: "What we need to do is amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than trying to change God's standards..." Someone explain to me how this is not Chri...
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http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/1/15/143054/151
News Hounds: O'Reilly Defends Intelligent Design - Your Belly Laugh for the Day
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http://www.newshounds.us/2005/01/19/oreilly_defends_intelligent_design_your_belly_laugh_for_...
Salon.com | The undersecretary's dangerous trip
Blumenthal on Karen Hughes's recent trip to the Middle East and how destructive it was for genuine diplomatic efforts
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/09/29/hughes_diplomacy
Saudi Women Have Message for U.S. Envoy - New York Times
Karen Hughes is an idiot.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/28/international/middleeast/28hughes.html?ex=1285560000&en=ab...
Bush's Veil Over History
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/10/opinion/10kelley.html?ex=1286596800
George Bush, the Manchurian candidate >> .:thebusinessonline.com:.
A column from a pro-business, conservative British newspaper, condemnming Bush for almost "wrecking" the Reagan revolution. Linked via Dail
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http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Stories.aspx?George%20Bush,%20the%20Manchurian%20candidate&...
The Crisis of the Bush Code - New York Times
The "abortion code."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/weekinreview/09kirk.html?th&emc=th
OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today
A collection of pro-invasion amateur poetry collected by WSJ columnist James Taranto for his online column. Remarkable for its bloodthirstiness (fantasies about blowing up Saddam with cru...
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110003063
Troubled Waters - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
A rundown of the ethical problems currently facing the U.S. Republican leadership. And they're pretty bad.
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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9559095/site/newsweek
'An Islamist threat like the Nazis' - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
A Christian declares holy war on Islam.
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050912-122024-9420r.htm
Miers, the Rebellion's Latest Casualty
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/29/AR2005102901156.html
HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: French Riots Could Be European Turning Point by Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes really is crazy. Pay particular attention to this paragraph: These issues [i.e., presumably, those that have contributed to the current weak response to the riots] include a ...
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http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10132
CNN.com - Frist concerned more about leaks than secret prisons - Nov 10, 2005
Found via TPM.
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/10/frist.secretprisons.ap/index.html
Media Matters - Limbaugh on kidnapping of peace activists in Iraq:
Limbaugh says, "There's part of me that likes this." He then goes on to characterize the Christian Peacemaker Teams as a bunch of liberal wackos. Guess he's not really up on his Mennonite...
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http://mediamatters.org/items/200511300010
Worldandnation: Faith and consequences
How the Terri Schaivo case hurt the conservative movement.
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http://www.sptimes.com/2005/12/18/Worldandnation/Faith_and_consequences.shtml
Grand Forks Herald | 01/06/2006 | UND: Fargo man's suit against UND clinic gets new life
Martin Wishnatsky, a prominent Fargo Christian activist, fights to have a statue of Themis removed from a N.D. courthouse -- a sight he describes as "very distressing" as a Christian.
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http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/13561066.htm
FrontPage magazine.com :: The 10 Best Conservative Movies of 2005 by Don Feder
Ten "conservative movies."
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20714
The Revealer: Sam Brownback Is A Fruit
Jeff Sharlet writes about his experience profiling Sen. Sam Brownback for Rolling Stone. Brownback sounds like one seriously scary SOB.
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http://www.therevealer.org/archives/main_story_002408.php
'St. Jack' and the Bullies in the Pulpit
Washington Post profile of former Senator (and Episcopal priest) John Danforth, a "moderate" Republican who is fed up with the influence of hard-right political evangelicalism on the GOP....
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/01/AR2006020102393.html
The New York Times > Arts > Frank Rich: 2004: The Year of 'The Passion'
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/arts/19rich.html?ex=1261198800&en=9916361935a6c52f&ei=5089...
Princeton Tilts Right
On the Madison Program, a conservative-leaning think tank at Princeton. Published in the Nation, so it's pretty scathing.
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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060313/blumenthal
Salon.com Books | "Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism"
Book excerpt on "Christian nationalism." Should read.
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http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2006/05/12/goldberg
Fritz Stern Speech | Leo Baeck Institute, Nov. 14, 2005
Speech by Fritz Stern, profiled Jan. '06 in the NYT by Chris Hedges, making provocative comparisons between Nazi Germany and the contemporary U.S.
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http://www.lbi.org/fritzstern.html
The New York Times > New York Region > Public Lives: Warning From a Student of Democracy's Collapse
Chris Hedges profiles Fritz Stern, author of "The Politics of Cultural Despair," who in Nov. 2005 compared the rise of the Christian right in the U.S. with the rise of Nazism in Germany. ...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/06/nyregion/06profile.html/partner/rssnyt?ex=1147752000&en=31...
Contra-Contraception - New York Times
Russell Shorto on the new push to re-criminalize contraception (i.e., roll back Griswold vs. Connecticutt).
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/magazine/07contraception.html?ex=1304654400&en=fd9a772701a...