On AlterNet: conservatives
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Roy Edroso, Alicublog AlterNet: PEEK. November 5, 2009.
Is there anything they won't whine about?
Booman, AlterNet: PEEK. November 4, 2009.
Hard-core conservatives aren't trying to win hearts and minds. They're trying to yank back control of the White House, plain and simple.
Muriel Kane, Raw Story. October 31, 2009.
GOP Rep. Michele Bachman may have revealed more than she intended when she recently crowed that the attacks on ACORN were just the start of a campaign to "defund the left."
Joseph Laycock, Thomas Fabisiak, Religion Dispatches. October 27, 2009.
The new version will sing the praises of the free market and call young women "floozies" and "bimbos."
Joanna Brooks, Religion Dispatches. October 22, 2009.
With Glenn Beck now a mainstay in the national debate, the public is getting exposure to a peculiar strain of religious political conservatism rooted in Mormon culture.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. October 21, 2009.
Horrifying.
Isaiah J. Poole, Blog for Our Future. October 21, 2009.
A report issued Friday by Democracy Corps shows that the most conservative Republicans consider themselves part of an underdog minority.
Anna Hartnell, Comment Is Free. October 17, 2009.
It's easy to paint American Christians as right wing free-marketeers -– but the truth is far more complex.
Max Blumenthal, Fresh Air - NPR. October 8, 2009.
Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah, argues the right is incapable of anything but scorched-earth politics, and are trying to delegitimize the Obama presidency.
Think ProgressOctober 6, 2009.
The conservative majority has immediately begun stripping women's reproductive freedom, entrenching public school segregation, and undermining equal work pay.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. October 2, 2009.
Thomas Sowell's latest column for National Review notes that President Obama and his team are "brainy." He sees this as a problem.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. September 29, 2009.
From Florida to California, members of conservative groups are trying amend the constitution. Meanwhile, they still love the death penalty.
Steve Benen, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. September 28, 2009.
The line between the analysis offered by "serious" conservative voices and the unbalanced tirades of the nutty conservative fringe has all but disappeared.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. September 24, 2009.
The long-suffering American children confront yet another Leftist threat.
Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet. September 21, 2009.
The ugly side of Evangelical Christianity is very much to blame for the anti-Obama hyperventilating.
John Petro, Drum Major Institute AlterNet: PEEK. September 17, 2009.
Irony alert.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. September 17, 2009.
Conservatives needed to take a break from incessant moralizing about sex, and required a new ideology to take the place of their family values cant.
Rob Boston, Church & State Magazine. September 16, 2009.
Will financial and sex scandals sink the hopes of middle-age culture warriors Ralph Reed and Randall Terry? Don't count them out just yet.
Josh Silver, Free Press. September 11, 2009.
The danger of unchecked misinformation from media extremists is not to be underestimated. They lead the march against progressive policies that comprise a functional modern state.
Booman, Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. September 10, 2009.
One way for the Blue Dogs to avoid criticism is to stop humping the leg of insurance companies. Since that isn't going to happen, they just try to make us shut up.
Chris Bowers, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. September 10, 2009.
It looks like I may have spoken too soon about House Progressives successfully forcing their way into key health care negotiations.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. September 8, 2009.
Obama's nefarious plan for the nation's genitals? His evil designs on your children? Here are the most absurd right-wing assaults on the president -- and logic and reason.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. September 4, 2009.
What is it about Obama speaking to schoolchildren that has them all excited?
Jamison Foser, Media Matters for America. September 4, 2009.
It has come to this. Right-wingers are telling children to skip school as a protest against Obama's encouragement of students to stay in school.
Daniel Schultz, Religion Dispatches. September 3, 2009.
Conservatives in this country are undergoing an existential crisis, but this is not the time for liberals to sit by smugly and watch.
