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Fascist America: Have We Finally Turned The Corner?

Sara Robinson, AlterNet. May 1, 2012.

The author offers one of her periodic assessments of America's potential to go fascist. And the news is better than it's been in years.

5 Craziest Conspiracy Theories Spread By Rush Limbaugh

Simon Maloy, Media Matters for America. March 9, 2012.

Limbaugh poaches material from obscure conservative writers and disseminates their feverishly conspiratorial and racially charged content to his national audience.

The Birth of the Right's Shameless, Nasty Smear Machine

Robert Parry, Consortium News. March 9, 2012.

Americans sometimes wonder how the nation’s political process got so vitriolic. Here's a look back at the history of right-wing hate-mongering.

How Conservatives Attack the Small-Town, American Values They Pretend to Love

Katie Ryder, Salon. March 2, 2012.

The Right's latest freak-out over the Girl Scouts of America is beyond hypocritical.

Why Teaching People to Think for Themselves Is Repugnant to Religious Zealots and Rick Santorum

Henry A. Giroux, TruthOut.org. February 27, 2012.

Democracy cannot function without an informed citizenry, and an ignorant public is just what Santorum and his allies count on.

Thomas Frank: How the Right Wing Hijacked Rage Over the Economic Collapse and Swindled America

Jefferson Morley, Salon. December 28, 2011.

Frank discusses one of the most important political developments of the Obama presidency: how the crash of 2008 served to strengthen the political right.

10 Stupidest Moments of Fox and Friends

Justin Berrier, Media Matters for America. December 16, 2011.

Fox & Friends punctuates its incessant campaign to promote conservative politics with some extremely absurd moments.

How the Right's Lame Attack on Occupy Wall St. Shows the Poverty of Conservative Ideology

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. October 15, 2011.

The Right's response offers us a microcosmic view of everything that's wrong with conservative discourse these days.

The Rise of the Pro-Ignorance Right Wing Puts us All In Danger

Stephen Pizzo, The Smirking Chimp. September 25, 2011.

Tea Party simpletons wrap themselves in prideful ignorance, and treat matters of life and death, like global warming, with dismissive derision.

Editorial/Appeal: It's Time to Really Support Our Team

Don Hazen, AlterNet. September 15, 2011.

Team Tea Party, led by the Kochs and other wealthy right-wingers, want an America for the wealthy, dominated by conservative religion and the extremist Ayn Rand fanatics.

Inside the Christian Right Dominionist Movement That's Undermining Democracy

Chip Berlet, Public Eye. September 1, 2011.

Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin have all flirted with Christian Right Dominionism, but there's lots of misinformation about just what that means.

Exposed: Right-Wing Think Tanks and Bloggers Conducted Secret 10-Year Campaign to Fan Fear of Muslims

Jim Lobe, IPS News. August 29, 2011.

Extremist foundations, think tanks, pundits, and bloggers carried out a 10-year-old campaign to promote fear of Islam and Muslims in the U.S.

Obama Is No Victim of the Right Wing -- He's Pandered to Corporate Interests for Years

Jeff Cohen, AlterNet. July 25, 2011.

The evidence is clear that Obama is an often-willing servant of corporate interests -- not serving their interests only because the GOP forced him to.

Right-Wingers Should Stop Underestimating Americans: Turns Out, Muslim Bashing Doesn't Win Elections

Stephan Salisbury, TomDispatch.com. July 17, 2011.

The vast majority of the electorate seems to be viewing anti-Muslim alarms as a distraction from other, far more pressing problems: real problems.

Inside ALEC, The Koch-Funded Group Behind Right-Wing State Laws

Beau Hodai, In These Times. July 13, 2011.

How ALEC, the Koch brothers and their corporate allies plan to privatize government.

The Inner Secrets of the Right-Wing Echo Chamber

Don Hazen, AlterNet. June 21, 2011.

Brave New Films has provided, with Bernie Sanders, a clear deconstruction of the origins and process of the conservative disinformation propaganda machine. It's scary.

What Shocking New Polls on Republican Attitudes Toward Slavery, Interracial Marriage Say About the Modern GOP

Chauncey DeVega, AlterNet. April 11, 2011.

In a recent survey, almost half of Mississippi Republican voters polled said interracial marriage should be illegal. Sad thing is, that's not even very surprising.

7 Things to Do When Right-Wingers Attack

Mark Howard, AlterNet. March 20, 2011.

America's right-wingers have orchestrated an aggressive assault on those they consider to be their enemies. Well, we don't have to lay down and take it.

Why Is Evil So Sexy, and So Profoundly Glamorous?

Terry Eagleton, Tikkun. March 15, 2011.

Whatever happened to the notion of goodness as exciting and exhilarating, and evil as empty and banal? We seem to see things the other way round.

Koch Brothers and US Chamber: Polluting Our Earth and Our Democracies

Bill McKibben, GreenBiz.com. March 13, 2011.

The Kochs are right up there now with the great plutocrats of American history, a 21st century version of the robber barons.

Democrats Call for Probe Into Chamber's Shady Plot to Sabotage Progressive Organizations

Brad Friedman, Brad Blog. March 1, 2011.

More than a dozen Dems have called on Republicans to investigate the Chambers' proposed $12 million smear, forgery, fraud, and disinformation campaign.

Hightower: Join the Resistance Against the Right-Wing Multi-Billionaire Koch Brothers

Jim Hightower, AlterNet. February 6, 2011.

The Kochs are used to running their nefarious network of political front groups from behind closed doors. But they've been exposed.

New Study: Tea Partiers Three Times More Likely to Say Violence Is Warranted. Exhibit A: Glenn Beck

Mark Howard, News Corpse. January 19, 2011.

When a survivor of the Tucson shooting told a Tea Party leader, "You're dead," he was arrested and committed. Why is Glenn Beck any different?

Americans Are Far Less Conservative Than the Right Wing Claims

Lee Drutman, Miller-McCune.com. January 17, 2011.

New research suggests that only a quarter of self-identified “conservatives” may actually be true conservatives on the issues. Many aren't conservative at all.

Why Right-Wing Fearmongers Have Blood on Their Hands

David Neiwert, Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. January 16, 2011.

The Right bears the lion's share of the blame for creating a toxic environment in which unstable people come to believe their political opponents are pure evil.

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