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    • 9 Ratings
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    Another "Neo" conservative escapes right wing's Matrix

    MAY 30, 2012 11:36AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: lawrence wilkerson, richard clarke, bruce bartlett, david frum, barry goldwater, david stockman, george w bush, colin powell, weekly standard, forbes, washington times, national review, reagan administration, finance capitalism, wall street, plutocrats, robber barons, gilded age, liberty, freedom, allen west, clinton impeachment, authoritarianism, mike lofgren, traditions of civility, walter lippmann, democracy, nullification, fox news, iran-contra, watergate, bill clinton, barack obama, new deal, communist party, right wing extremism, alexis de tocqueville, edmund burke, bismarck, salon, mccarthyism, democratic party, liberalism, fascism, conservatism, michael fumento, neo, the matrix, republican party, economics, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 4139 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Joe Sarborough's Revisionist Reality

    MAY 11, 2012 12:16PM

    By Laura Wilkerson


    Topics: morning joe, massachusetts, mississippi, utah, 2012 presidential race, mitt romney, president barack obama, barry goldwater, william f. buckley, radical right, republicans, politics, gay rights, marriage equality, homosexuality, joe scarborough

    • 9 Ratings
    • 805 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    Republicans Were Grand Once Upon a Time

    MARCH 5, 2012 10:10AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, republican party, right wing, barry goldwater, racism, conservatism, olympia snowe, george wallace, civil rights act of 1964, everett dirksen, jim crow, lyndon johnson, democratic party, tea party, nelson rockefeller, moderate republicans, geoffrey kabaservice, founding fathers, bipartisanship, polarization, 1964 election, solid south, new deal coalition, dixicrats, compromise

    • Editor's Pick
    • 27 Ratings
    • 7094 Views
    • 34 Comments
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    Rick Santorum and the Closing of the Conservative Mind

    FEBRUARY 29, 2012 3:09PM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: liberalism, dennis prager, anti-intellectualism, richard hofstadter, christian right, lawrence welk, godliness, morality, liberal arts, good, evil, republican party, ayn rand, atlas shrugged, nazis, national review, william f. buckley, l. brent bozell, barry goldwater, freedom, virtue, francisco franco, fascism, liberal bias, truth

    • 2 Ratings
    • 807 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Reagan Left Republicans Unfit for Democracy

    FEBRUARY 3, 2012 10:15AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, democracy, right wing, tea party, ronald reagan, republican party, grover norquist, impeachment, no tax pledge, barack obama, occupy wall street, racism, richard nixon, constitution, barry goldwater, socialism, social security, medicare

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 1167 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Goldwater-Style Union Busting?

    FEBRUARY 2, 2012 9:31AM

    By Steven Rockford


    Topics: barry goldwater, alec, the goldwater institute, koch brothers, union busting

    • 2 Ratings
    • 437 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Ask Mr. Knownot About the 2012 Elections

    JANUARY 21, 2012 1:08PM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: satire, comedy, politics, economy, plutocracy, democratic republic, danagram, daniel rigney, citizens divided, new u.s. motto, everyone for himself, money talks, super pacs + scalia + koch, romney's tax rate, barry goldwater, 2012 elections, knownot

    • 2 Ratings
    • 512 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Barack Obama is the real conservative

    DECEMBER 27, 2011 9:23AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, economics, right wing, barack obama, newt gingrich, barry goldwater, capitalism, new deal, welfare state, wall street, occupy wall street, conservatism, liberalism, radicalism, republican party, democratic party

    • 12 Ratings
    • 733 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    Playing poker with Herbert Hoover, maybe

    SEPTEMBER 20, 2011 2:58AM

    By old new lefty


    Topics: barack obama, tea party, health care, budget deficit, gop, barry goldwater, nixon, impeachment, ronald reagan, george wallace, the great depression, cornel west, harvard, yale, the ruling class, bankers, politics, economy

    • 1 Ratings
    • 654 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Scott Walker's (Dis)Solution Strategy: A Tradition

    FEBRUARY 17, 2011 3:51PM

    By prismguard


    Topics: american labor movement, mafia, anti-union workers, air traffic controllers strike, barry goldwater, socialized health care, ronald reagan, nation's first red scare, 1937 strike, uaw, flint, charlie chaplin, august spies, albert & lucy parsons, gilded age, marshall field, 8 hour workday, james green, origins of may day, john wells the company men, eugene debs, mark ruffalo, diane keaton, robert carsen, candide, leonard bernstein, haymarket square police riot, hormel strike 1985, national guard, iww, big bill hayward, huffington post, noam chomsky, walt disney, david o norris, dan hall, g-sachs' lloyd blankfein's latest bonus, michael moore, ge ceo jerry immelt, smear campaigns, democracy now, juan gonzalez, amy goodman, child labor, lewis hine, animal farm, george orwell, the jungle, upton sinclair, emma goldman, studs terkel, al franken

    • 0 Ratings
    • 715 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Tidy Bowl v. Super Bowl: TV Ads in Context

    FEBRUARY 4, 2011 5:34PM

    By prismguard


    Topics: aamco's atrocious tv ad, super bowl tv ads, the oscars tv show, bikinis, apple 1984 commercial, media, communications theory, beer guzzling, twitter, salon bloggers, progressive commercial spokesperson, capital one bank invader commercial, obnoxious tv ads, cheney, saw & hostel movie franchises, dancing cigarette pack, i love lucy, desi arnaz & lung cancer, bert & harry piel, bob & ray, brylcreem, bucky beaver, mr magoo, captain midnight, ovaltine, i want my maypo, stan freberg, r o blechman, bert lahr, buster keaton, speedy alka seltzer, dustin hoffman, richard dreyfuss, hawaiian punch, tony schwartz, marshall mccluhan, coke commercial, daisy commercial, barry goldwater, lyndon johnson, 1964 election, hertz, mad men tv series, tang, mikey likes it, jackson five, oscar meyer weiners, madge, jan miner, mr whipple, clara peller, john moschitta, calvin klein, brooke shields, dione warwick, feminine hygiene products, radio shack, cell phone ad, public service announcement, hiv, old spice men's body wash, budweiser, naomi campbell, mancrunch, cbs censorship, tim tebow, abortion, controversy, the view tv show, godaddy ad, dr pepper, democracy

    • 1 Ratings
    • 625 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    New GOP Ad Uses Old Ronald Reagan Footage to Sway Voters

    AUGUST 17, 2010 11:16AM

    By Acme Media


    Topics: a time for choosing, republican study committee, barry goldwater, liberal elite, out of context, barney frank, barack obama, nancy pelosi, ronald reagan, commercial, attack ad, gop, republicans, democrats, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 19 Ratings
    • 4345 Views
    • 30 Comments
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    The common thread is white supremacy

    AUGUST 12, 2010 2:12PM

    By Jimmy Zuma


    Topics: jimmy zuma, supremacist, americans, brewer, arpaio, southern strategy, politics, lee atwater, reagan, pat buchanan, barry goldwater, russell pearce, arizona, tancredo, dick armey, immigration, racism, tea party, muslim, obama, civil rights, facial fear, backlash, republicans

    • 10 Ratings
    • 1035 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Michele Bachmann’s Nation of Slaves

    JULY 15, 2010 8:53AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: news, politics, michele bachmann, nation of slaves, western conservative summit, john jay, government tyranny, right wing extremism, kstp/surveyusa poll, minnesota's 6th congressional district, constitutional conservative, barry goldwater, edmund burke, e.j. dionne, aspen ideas festival, morris fiorina, tea party, republican rhetoric, minnesota politics

    • 3 Ratings
    • 313 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Living in Goldwater Country

    APRIL 13, 2010 3:49PM

    By Steven Rockford


    Topics: wingnuts, barry goldwater, arizona politics

    • 3 Ratings
    • 716 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    I Wouldn't Keep Hitting You If You'd Just Do What I Say.

    MARCH 21, 2010 6:28PM

    By John L. Roberson


    Topics: obama, teabagger, tea party, gop, politics, white supremacists, glenn beck, violence, guns, congress, senate, washington, republicans, terrorism, teashirts, fascists, fascism, right wing, fox news, have you seen the little piggies, racism, conservatism, william f. buckley, barry goldwater, ronald reagan, healthcare, assassination, bastards

    • 1 Ratings
    • 3357 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Is Cindy sincere or is she just a poser?

    JANUARY 21, 2010 10:05PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: social conservatism, same-sex marriage, proposition 8, prop 8, posers, noh8, meghan mccain, libertarians, john mccain, human rights, gay rights, gay and lesbian rights, equal rights, civil rights, cindy mccain, barry goldwater, baby boomers, politics

    • 7 Ratings
    • 969 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Did the Inglorious N.O.P. Bust a Cap in Health Care Reform?

    AUGUST 18, 2009 12:55PM

    By Kimberly Krautter


    Topics: the-birth-of-a-nation, steven colbert, soviet russia, senator charles grassley, sarah palin, rush limbaugh republicans, rush limbaugh, ronald reagan, right-wing-echo-chamber, republican party, republican hypocrisy, president obama, nazi germany, medicare, jon stewart, jim demint waterloo, iraq war, health care reform, hate speech, hate mongering, grand old party, glenn beck, ghw-bush, g.o.p., evangelicals, equal rights amendment, eisenhower era, democrats, d.w. griffith, civil rights, chuck grassley death panels, chuck grassley, caribou barbie, bush cheney, big tent, barry goldwater, barack obama, abraham lincoln

    • 2 Ratings
    • 1043 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    The Crucifixion of Sarah Palin

    NOVEMBER 10, 2008 2:04PM

    By Ramsin Canon


    Topics: sarah palin, nixonland, john mccain, barack obama, election 2008, barry goldwater, election 1964

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 1940 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    New RNC "Terrorist" Flyer & The Goldwaters Endorse Barack

    OCTOBER 23, 2008 1:45PM

    By Hal_M


    Topics: campaign, mccain, sarah palin, biden, rnc, barack obama, mccain/palin, terrorist, smear, flyer, goldwaters, republican national committee, mail, cbs' early show, harry smith, negative ad campaign, socialistic, pals around with terrorists, barry goldwater, mr. conservative, granddaughter, cc goldwater, fear tactics, johnson/goldwater

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