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Limbaugh Affiliate Reports Millions In Lost Revenue

Angelo Carusone, Media Matters for America. May 9, 2012.

Cumulus Media, a radio company that carries Rush Limbaugh's show on 38 of its stations, announced millions in losses directly attributable to Limbaugh's show.

6 Reasons the Koch Brothers Had a Very Bad Week

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. April 2, 2012.

An FBI investigation, a new documentary, and a negative court ruling: here's a look inside the Kochs' worst week in a while.

Culture Warriors vs. Sex for Pleasure: Why the Right Wing is Wrong When it Comes to Sex

Lara Riscol, AlterNet. March 25, 2012.

If prescribing to dogmatic absolutes worked, then the most conservative Christian red states wouldn’t have the highest rates of teen pregnancy, divorce and porn consumption.

Can Clear Channel Survive the Flight of Advertisers and Rush's $400 Million Payday?

Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. March 19, 2012.

How long will stations be able to sustain the ad losses on Limbaugh's show, and how does the host justify his $400 million pay in the face of the advertiser revolt?

Rush Limbaugh and the Right-Wing Nervous Breakdown

Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. March 7, 2012.

For a Republican Party already suffering from a yawning gender gap, Limbaugh's hijacking of the news cycle last week must have been unwelcome news.

Why the Era May Be Over for Blowhard Right-Wing Extremists

Leslie Savan, The Nation. March 5, 2012.

The death of Andrew Breitbart and the impending doom of Rush Limbaugh's career may have prefigured something about the future of right-wing extremism.

Are Conservatives Winning the War on Women? How the Religious Lobbying Industry Truly Threatens Our Rights

Sarah Posner, Salon. February 23, 2012.

Put aside opinion polls and the Komen and Virginia wins. The right's strategy is long-term and based in the courts.

How Deep Is the Republican Christian Right's Connection to the Anti-Gay Bills Sweeping Sub-Saharan Africa?

Kristin Rawls, AlterNet. February 7, 2012.

As the horrific "kill-the-gays" bill resurfaces in Uganda, Republican politicians deny connections, but their rhetoric is frighteningly similar.

3 Ways Conservative Christianity's Obsessions Promote Abortions

Valerie Tarico, Away Point. January 24, 2012.

One of the great ironies of American society is that most abortions in the U.S. are caused by conservative Christians.

Americans are Less Nationalistic than Jingoist Politicians Think

Lawrence Wittner, TruthOut.org. January 22, 2012.

Are American politicians out of sync with the public when it comes to foreign policy? There is considerable reason to believe so.

Is Your Senator Representing Charles and David Koch?

Robert Greenwald, Huffington Post. January 15, 2012.

Americans for Prosperity released its rankings this week of senators and congressman who toe the Koch line most, and it gave a total of 44 A+s for the 112th Congress.

Mitt Romney and the Tea Party: A Match Made in Greedy Capitalist Heaven. So What are They Waiting For?

Thomas Frank, TomDispatch.com. January 8, 2012.

Given everything the Tea Party represents, why won't they just line up behind quarter-billionaire Romney? Thomas Frank explains why Mitt is right for the Right.

How Christian Right-Wing Voters in Iowa Make Abortion a Central Issue in the Caucuses

Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. January 2, 2012.

To really understand Iowa, you need to understand the primacy of abortion as an issue to the Christian right.

To Conservatives, Climate Change is Trojan Horse to Abolish Capitalism

Naomi Klein, The Nation. November 27, 2011.

Deniers have concluded that fighting climate change can only happen by reordering our economic and political systems in ways antithetical to their “free market” belief system.

The War on Halloween: A Mixed Message from Fox News and the Right

Leslie Savan, The Nation. October 30, 2011.

Conservatives can't make up their mind: is Halloween Satanic or an all-American tradition being sabotaged by immigrants?

Has American-Style Conservatism Become a Religion?

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. September 15, 2011.

Fundamentalist religion plays a big role in today's Republican party--but has it gone even further, spreading dangerous beliefs as articles of faith?

The Failure of Welfare Reform Is 'Exhibit A' That the Right's Punish-the-Poor Philosophy Doesn't Work

Lizzy Ratner, AlterNet. August 29, 2011.

Our welfare reform experiment is little more than a confidence trick in which poor people get shuffled this way and that while their lives remain essentially unchanged.

How Obama Is Neutralizing the Left and Tilting Rightward

James K. Galbraith, Deutsche Welle. August 8, 2011.

Obama is a willful player in an epic drama of faux-politics.

The 10 Scariest GOP Governors: Bringing a Radical Right-Wing Agenda To a State Near You

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. July 6, 2011.

The 2010 election saw a right-wing sweep of many state governor's races, and those governors haven't been shy about pushing their conservative shock treatment.

9 States Where Awful GOP Policies Will Actually Drive Up the Abortion Rate

Amanda Marcotte, AlterNet. June 23, 2011.

Republicans, who claim to find fetal life precious and abortion horrendous, also favor the very policies that drive increasing numbers of women to seek abortions.

The Right's 'Big Lie' Strategy: When Losing, Simply Rewrite History

Chauncey DeVega, AlterNet. May 13, 2011.

Contemporary conservatives aim to disseminate an alternate version of reality through the media echo chamber and the schools.

Will Republican Voters Believe Anything? The Right's Hyperbolic, Dysfunctional World

Gary Younge, Comment Is Free. March 28, 2011.

To have credibility within the Republican party is to have none outside it. They act as if all their Kool-Aid has been spiked.

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.

How the Tea Party Thinks Sustainable Development Is an International Conspiracy to Take Away Our Personal Freedoms

Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones. November 20, 2010.

Conservative activists believe that the UN is secretly plotting to herd humans into crowded cities so that the rest of the world can be devoted to wildlife preservation.

Conservatives' Big Hypocrisy: Turning Women Candidates (Who Are Anti-Sex and Anti-Woman) into Sex Symbols

David Rosen, AlterNet. October 16, 2010.

The conservative right is happy for 'sexy' female candidates so long as they don't demand abortion rights, maternity leave, equal pay and equal sexual pleasure.

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