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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

    • 0 Ratings
    • 81 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    When I Would Vote Republican

    MAY 25, 2012 11:09PM

    By Nathan Foster


    Topics: thought police, mind control, public schools, psychiatry, conservatism, conservative, republican, democrat, liberal

    • 2 Ratings
    • 137 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Discrimination, in the Name of Jesus

    MAY 18, 2012 11:48PM

    By Isaiah Carter


    Topics: lgbt, open call, gop, theocracy, p2, conservatism, black church

    • 5 Ratings
    • 326 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    Republicans Running Away From Their Own Party

    MAY 1, 2012 10:36AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, economics, republican party, scott brown, us senate, right wing, frank luntz, elizabeth warren, president obama, filibuster, tea party, george w bush, propaganda, michael gerson, social security, medicare, wall street reform, big government, budget cuts, conservative movement, obamacare, paul ryan, ayn rand, capitalism, supply side economics, catholic church, catholic bishops, social justice, new deal, keynesian economics, mitt romney, socialism, conservatism, liberalism

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    • 10 Ratings
    • 2212 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    History Repeats Itself in New Gilded Age

    APRIL 20, 2012 3:29PM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: occupy wall street, robber barons, 14th amendment, declaration of independence, constitution, new deal, conservative movement, alliance for justice, women's rights, health care reform, socialism, paul krugman, michael lind, corporations are people, mitt romney, progressive movement, john marshal harlan, plessy v. ferguson, kevin phillips, jeff rosen, george will, constitution in exile, capitalism, right wing, democrats, republicans, federal income tax, bush v. gore, citizens united, judicial activism, founding fathers, civil war, pollock v. farmer's loan and trust, supreme court, conservatism, liberalism, democracy, plutocracy, gilded age, economics, politics

    • 0 Ratings
    • 117 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Fail Gunner Allen West

    APRIL 12, 2012 6:42PM

    By Omnipotent Poobah


    Topics: wars on nomenclature, vermont, teleprompter, tail gunner joe, socialism, sarah palin, rick santorum, republican, mccarthyism, liberalism, karl marx, joe mccarthy, independent, house of representatives, herman cain, genghis khan, florida, facism, despoitism, democratic socialist, democrat, conservatism, communism, bernie sanders, are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party, allen west, 80 communists in the house

    • 7 Ratings
    • 476 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    War on Women No Hoax

    APRIL 12, 2012 2:36PM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, catholic church, birth control, women's rights, civil rights movement, martin luther king, conservatism, religious fundamentalism, war on women, planned parenthood, concerned women for america, human rights watch, saudi arabia, iran, israel, ultra-orthodox judaism, peter beinart, andrew sullivan, phyllis schlafly, equal rights amendment, jimmy carter, john stuart mill, on liberty, cardinal timothy dolan, dr. richard land, southern baptist convention, james dobson, focus on the family, tim lahaye, patriarchy

    • 1 Ratings
    • 185 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Why America deserves better than Puritan values

    APRIL 10, 2012 5:13AM

    By Ilya Shambat


    Topics: puritans, america, jefferson, conservatism, leadership, technology, arts, psychology, philosophy, business, science, spirituality, sustainability, longevity, future

    • 7 Ratings
    • 634 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    "Conservatives" Let Slip Their Radical Designs

    APRIL 5, 2012 1:51PM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, economics, right wing, republican party, supreme court, clarence thomas, conservatism, liberalism, strip search, paul ryan, safety net, military spending, ezra klein, deficit reduction, tax cuts, supply side economics, president obama, radicalism, mitt romney, neuropolitics, joe klein, charles fried, health reform, judicial activism, lewis powell, us chamber of commerce, vast right wing conspiracy, hillary clinton, bush v gore, citizens united, conservative movement, new deal, ayn rand, fdr

    • 3 Ratings
    • 657 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Nazi America - The Rise of the Koch Brothers

    MARCH 31, 2012 1:30PM

    By Newton Fortuin


    Topics: usa, elections, power, gop, conservatism, afp, politics, video

    • 7 Ratings
    • 498 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Everyone's biased; only liberals try not to be

    MARCH 29, 2012 12:22PM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: truth, impartiality, fairness doctrine, democracy, constitution, james madison, founding fathers, global warming denial, james inhofe, rachel maddow, liberal media, ann coulter, rationality, reason, the enlightenment, motivated reasoning, cognitive dissonance, science, prejudice, msnbc, rush limbaugh, fox news, chris mooney, neuroscience, cognitive science, bias, conservatism, liberalism, right wing, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 19 Ratings
    • 2911 Views
    • 36 Comments
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    Mitt Romney and GOP: Wiping the Slate Clean

    MARCH 22, 2012 10:19AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, republican party, mitt romney, eric fehrnstrom, etch-a-sketch, conservatism, george w. bush, gaffe, president obama, ohio art, rachel maddow, timothy noah, cnn, massachusetts, mike dukakis, social media, going viral, fraud, november election, massachusetts state house press gallary

    • 6 Ratings
    • 506 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Bishops Double Down on Attacks on Women's Freedom

    MARCH 16, 2012 1:36PM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, religion, catholic church, birth control, freedom, conservatism, liberalism, frank luntz, republican party, health insurance, michale gerson, john locke, religious freedom, authoritarianism, first amendment, griswold v connecticut, supreme court, cardinal richard cushing, democracy

    • 22 Ratings
    • 1127 Views
    • 67 Comments
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    COULD WE ACCIDENTALLY WORK OURSELVES INTO ANOTHER CIVIL WAR?

    MARCH 13, 2012 3:45PM

    By Frank Apisa


    Topics: liberalism, conservatism, obama, civil war

    • 9 Ratings
    • 716 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    "War on Women" Just Tip of the Iceberg

    MARCH 13, 2012 12:51PM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, sandra fluke, bill maher, rush limbaugh, right wing, christian fundamentalism, orthodoxy, israel, netanyahu, women's rights, dinesh d'souza, andrew sullivan, feminazis, war on women, birth control, catholic bishops, religious right, theocracy, liberalism, conservatism, book of revelations, west bank settlements, likud, patriarchy, hillary clinton, women of the world summit, misogyny

    • 2 Ratings
    • 183 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Theocracy

    MARCH 7, 2012 7:48PM

    By Isaiah Carter


    Topics: equality, civil rights, p2, conservatism, theocracy, gop, african american, politics, open call

    • 9 Ratings
    • 804 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

    • 0 Ratings
    • 150 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Kam Cho and Immigration

    MARCH 3, 2012 12:34AM

    By Ilya Shambat


    Topics: youth, immigration, conservatism, college shooting, kam cho

    • 0 Ratings
    • 82 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Where is the high standard for men?

    FEBRUARY 28, 2012 10:34PM

    By Carol Gerrin


    Topics: feminism, politics, conservatism, abortion, santorum

    • 7 Ratings
    • 759 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    A face full of right wing hypocrisy, up close and personal

    FEBRUARY 27, 2012 4:29PM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: heresy, r.j. rushdoony, reconstructionism, john birch society, white supremacists, biblical law, frederick clarkson, the bible, theocracy, iran, secularism, liberalism, conservatism, fox news, dennis prager, christian dominionist, right wing

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