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Why Fiscal Conservatives Should Love the Senate Health Care Bill

Why Fiscal Conservatives Should Love the Senate Health Care Bill

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. November 19, 2009.
If our political landscape were slightly saner, Republicans would embrace this bill with both arms.

Hoffman Manages to Blame ACORN for His Loss

Hoffman Manages to Blame ACORN for His Loss

BarbinMD, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. November 19, 2009.
Give it up, Mr. Hoffman. Swallow your loss and move on.

Sarah Palin Rules the GOP -- And She Will Destroy It

Sarah Palin Rules the GOP -- And She Will Destroy It

Max Blumenthal, Tomdispatch.com. November 16, 2009.
Palin's influence on a party largely devoid of leadership is expanding. If she doesn't become the GOP's future queen, she may be its future king-maker -- and its destroyer.

How Right-Wing Cult Leader Sun Myung Moon Bought Washington

How Right-Wing Cult Leader Sun Myung Moon Bought Washington

Rory O'Connor, RoryOConnor.org. November 13, 2009.
With money, media and promotion of a conservative political agenda, a self-styled Messiah and convicted felon became a frequent guest at the White House.

Relentless Pressure from Progressive Groups Pushes Hatemonger Lou Dobbs Out of CNN

Relentless Pressure from Progressive Groups Pushes Hatemonger Lou Dobbs Out of CNN

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. November 12, 2009.
Groups like BastaDobbs have done in Dobbs, who used his media platform to stir up racist, anti-immigrant hysteria for years.

Tea Partiers' New Hero: Ex-KGB Agent Who Thinks U.S. Will Collapse Next Year

Tea Partiers' New Hero: Ex-KGB Agent Who Thinks U.S. Will Collapse Next Year

Nick Baumann, Mother Jones Online. November 9, 2009.
Igor Panarin warns that the U.S. will splinter into separate states controlled by foreign powers in 2010. Conservative activists think he may be on to something.

In the Conservative Movement, the Personal Is Apparently Political

In the Conservative Movement, the Personal Is Apparently Political

Roy Edroso, Alicublog AlterNet: PEEK. November 5, 2009.
Is there anything they won't whine about?

What's Really Behind Conservative Infighting?

What's Really Behind Conservative Infighting?

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.

The Right Isn't Only Trying to Take Down ACORN, It's Got a 25-Year Project to 'Defund' the Left

The Right Isn't Only Trying to Take Down ACORN, It's Got a 25-Year Project to 'Defund' the Left

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."

Conservatives Are Rewriting the Bible to Free It From

Conservatives Are Rewriting the Bible to Free It From "Liberal Bias"

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."

How Mormonism Created Glenn Beck

How Mormonism Created Glenn Beck

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.

Glenn Beck's 912 Project Threatens Washington With Giant Snake Monster

Glenn Beck's 912 Project Threatens Washington With Giant Snake Monster

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. October 21, 2009.
Horrifying.

The Untouchables: Right-Wingers Put Themselves in an Uncompromising 'World Apart'

The Untouchables: Right-Wingers Put Themselves in an Uncompromising 'World Apart'

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.

The Rise of the Religious Left -- Why Christianity Isn't Just for Conservatives

The Rise of the Religious Left -- Why Christianity Isn't Just for Conservatives

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.

Republican Gomorrah: The Shattered GOP, Taken Over by Authoritarian Radicals, Is Incapable of Compromise

Republican Gomorrah: The Shattered GOP, Taken Over by Authoritarian Radicals, Is Incapable of Compromise

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.

Conservative Majority in Supreme Court Threatens Our Politics and Most Basic Freedoms

Conservative Majority in Supreme Court Threatens Our Politics and Most Basic Freedoms

Think ProgressOctober 6, 2009.
The conservative majority has immediately begun stripping women's reproductive freedom, entrenching public school segregation, and undermining equal work pay.

National Review Writer Takes Stand Against Intelligence

National Review Writer Takes Stand Against Intelligence

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.

Anti-Choicers Lobbying States for Wildly Unpopular

Anti-Choicers Lobbying States for Wildly Unpopular "Personhood Begins at Conception" Amendment

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.

National Review Writers Reach Glenn Beck Levels of Absurdity

National Review Writers Reach Glenn Beck Levels of Absurdity

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.

Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory: American Girl Doll an Agent of Political Indoctrination

Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory: American Girl Doll an Agent of Political Indoctrination

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. September 24, 2009.
The long-suffering American children confront yet another Leftist threat.

Right-Wing Hatemongering Fueled by Christianity?

Right-Wing Hatemongering Fueled by Christianity?

Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet. September 21, 2009.
The ugly side of Evangelical Christianity is very much to blame for the anti-Obama hyperventilating.

Conservatives Ride Government-Run Transit to Protest Government Spending

Conservatives Ride Government-Run Transit to Protest Government Spending

John Petro, Drum Major Institute AlterNet: PEEK. September 17, 2009.
Irony alert.

Sex Anxiety Replaced by Race Anxiety on Far Right

Sex Anxiety Replaced by Race Anxiety on Far Right

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.

Religious Right Has-Beens Try for a Resurrection

Religious Right Has-Beens Try for a Resurrection

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.

Glenn Beck: Stop the Insanity

Glenn Beck: Stop the Insanity

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.