Jan 30 2012
The Truth About the Conservative Mind: Why Reactionaries from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin Have Fought Real Liberty By Corey Robin, January 29, 2012 … It’s been a rotten few months for the nation’s wealthiest 1 percent. From the senatorial candidacy of Elizabeth Warren to Occupy Wall Street, economic elites have faced a concerted attack …
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Jan 05 2012
Rick Santorum: bearer of the Christianist mantle By Peter Beaumont, Thursday 5 January 2012 12.51 EST … Writing in 2003 the US columnist Andrew Sullivan coined a neologism “Christianist“. A Republican and Christian himself, what Sullivan meant to describe, as he explained in his blog earlier this year, was “an accelerating shift … taking place …
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Jan 03 2012
Wife-beating? That’s fine – unless you’re a Muslim By Mark Steel, Wednesday 09 July 2008 … The Sun newspaper has come over a bit modest. Following a Channel 4 documentary about media reporting of Muslims, the paper accepts some of its stories were “distorted”. But they’re not doing themselves justice. They weren’t distorted – they …
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Dec 27 2011
Muslim Brotherhood Taking Over America, Six Hour FBI Meeting By Victoria Jackson, 12/27/11 08:19 AM ET … Former “Saturday Night Live” actress Victoria Jackson, working on confidential information she as a web talk show host has special clearance to obtain, has claimed that the United States is being overtaken by radical Muslims bent on bringing …
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Dec 25 2011
How to argue with right-wing relatives By Alex Pareene, Sunday, Dec 25, 2011 8:00 AM 17:20:33 CST … There comes a time at most large family gatherings when a heated political argument breaks out. And by “heated political argument” what I mean is “someone just repeats something they heard on Hannity’s radio show that you …
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Oct 16 2011
Catholicism has always been America’s foreign devil By Sam Haselby, Saturday 15 October 2011 09.00 EDT … At the Values Voter Summit in Washington DC last weekend, leading members of the American religious right rallied around the notion that the US is a Christian nation. One speaker, the leader of a Texas megachurch, cited the …
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Oct 09 2011
Capitalism’s heart occupied – where will it all lead? By Rupert Cromwell, Sunday, 9 October 2011 … Back in December a humble fruit vendor in Tunis, scorned and humiliated by those in power, set himself ablaze. With his deed he ignited an Arab revolution. Ten months later and 5,000 miles away, might something comparable just …
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