Latest Articles: Neocon Nuttery
St. Louis U. Cancels "Islamo-Fascism Awareness and Civil Rights" Speech(by activist David Horowitz)
Post Date: 2009-10-04 18:56:26 by Brian S
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Conservative activist David Horowitz will not be speaking at St. Louis University this month after school officials raised objections about the title and content of his speech, "Islamo-Fascism Awareness and Civil Rights." The SLU College Republicans, a student group, had invited Horowitz to speak on campus. The event would have been paid for out of student activity fees. SLU said in a statement that it did not "ban" Horowitz from campus. Rather, the school was concerned that the event could be viewed as "attacking another faith and seeking to cause derision on campus." Horowitz, reached by phone on Friday, called the university's decision ...
Second-Ranking Senate Republican Silent On Whether Ensign Should Stay
Post Date: 2009-10-04 12:31:24 by Brian S
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The second-ranking Senate Republican offered no support Sunday for embattled Sen. John Ensign, facing renewed criticism over an extramarital affair with an aide and the actions he took on behalf of her husband. Asked on CNN's "State of the Union" if Ensign can serve effectively or should step down, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., did not address his colleague's future and said he would await a Senate Ethics Committee investigation. Kyl's sidestep followed on Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell's repeated refusals on Friday to answer questions about Ensign or pledge any support. The New York Times reported in Friday's editions that the woman's husband, Doug ...
Palin, Limbaugh, Beck … Now It’s Republicans Seeing The Downside
Post Date: 2009-10-03 14:40:37 by Brian S
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Some moderate conservatives see danger in the vociferous right, especially among broadcast pot-stirrers. They want to advance the GOP by changing the tone. “I am not a member of any organized party,” Will Rogers famously quipped. “I am a Democrat.” Then there were those old jokes about Democrats forming “circular firing squads.” But these days, it seems like Republicans are the ones duking it out with each other … or at least examining where they are and where they should be headed after recent electoral drubbings. Mainstream Republicans are looking at the loudest of the conservative voices — Sarah Palin and the most prominent of the talk-show types ...
Washington Times, Bushes Hail Rev. Moon
Post Date: 2009-10-03 13:28:01 by Brian S
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Since journalist John Solomon decamped from the Washington Post to become executive editor of the right-wing Washington Times in 2008, the newspaper has tried to shake its image as a political front for its founder, right-wing South Korean theocrat Sun Myung Moon.The 27-year-old newspaper even wrested a “correction” from the New York Times for describing it as “decidedly opposed to Mr. Obama,” in the context of an NYT article about Washington Times’ editorials that compared Barack Obama’s health care plans to Nazi euthanasia policies. The Washington Times insisted that its news columns were objective and independent from the editorial opinions. So what is one ...
Blockbuster Report on GOP Senator John Ensign Affair May End His Career
Post Date: 2009-10-02 15:52:57 by Brian S
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The scandal over Senator John Ensign's affair with a staffer is heating up in a big way. A massive New York Times investigation reports, "in trying to clean up the mess from the illicit relationship and distance himself from the Hamptons, he entangled political supporters, staff members and Senate colleagues, some of whom say they now feel he betrayed them." Ensign used his office extensively to benefit Doug Hampton, Ensign's staffer and the husband of his mistress, in an apparent desire to buy Hampton's silence and keep the affair secret. In addition to the story's many salacious details, it implies possible violations of lobbying laws by both Ensign and ...
Republican: Palin Would Be A Catastrophe For GOP In 2012
Post Date: 2009-10-02 14:56:02 by Brian S
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John McCain's 2008 Presidential Campaign Manager and GOP strategist, Steve Schmidt, thinks if Sarah Palin were to win the Republican nomination in 2012 than it would be a disaster to the Republican Party. On Friday, speaking at The Atlantic's First Draft of History Conference, long time GOP strategist and former George W. Bush aide Steve Schmidt predicted that if the former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin were to win the Republican nomination in 2012 it would be a “catastrophic election,” according to The Huffington Post. Schmidt, however, was one of the staff members who picked Senator John McCain’s 2008 Presidential running mate but, nevertheless, he thinks ...
Chicago Loses Olympics Bid; Conservatives Rejoice
Post Date: 2009-10-02 14:43:40 by Brian S
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It's not often that conservatives celebrate the U.S. losing out to countries like Brazil and Spain, especially not when the loss involves a prominent event like the Summer Olympics. But when the International Olympic Committee eliminated Chicago as a potential host for the 2016 games in the first round of voting on Friday, the right broke out the champagne.Chicago's attempt to secure the Olympics had become a partisan fight with the entrance of President Obama into his adopted hometown's efforts. Obama had flown to Copenhagen, where the vote was held, in order to lobby for Chicago, and from the moment of the announcement he'd do so, his opponents had suddenly turned into ...
Republican Tom DeLay Does Legal Limbo In Money Laundering Case
Post Date: 2009-10-02 14:32:10 by Brian S
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(10-02) 10:30 PDT Austin, Texas (AP) -- Republican Tom DeLay danced the cha-cha and the tango on TV, but he's tiptoeing through a legal web as his criminal case crawls through the courts in Texas. The former U.S. House majority leader who's competing on ABC's hit show "Dancing With the Stars" was indicted four years ago on charges of money laundering and conspiracy allegedly connected to 2002 state legislative elections. His case now hinges on how an appeals court rules on legal questions raised by DeLay's two indicted associates. It could be months before the case goes to trial, if it does at all. "Being in this limbo has been very tough on him," ...
Leaked video: Glenn Beck ‘Uses Vicks To Cry On Cue’
Post Date: 2009-10-02 12:41:52 by Brian S
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A video posted to YouTube a few weeks ago making the rounds across the internet apparently shows Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck having Vicks applied under his eyes in order to cry on cue for a photo shoot. One blog, Sensico, mocks, "This is only shocking video to those that love Glenn Beck and think he cries non-stop because he 'loves this country.'" The blog links to a montage of Beck crying jags put to the theme song of "The Crying Game" as sung by Boy George: YouTube link. In April, Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert mocked one of Beck's tear-ups, by pretending to be choked up about it: "I'm sorry. I just love Glenn Beck's sanity -- and I ...
GOP Senator Coburn Linked To Ensign’s Troubles
Post Date: 2009-10-02 12:35:42 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Offered the opportunity to support two embattled GOP senators, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell passed it up. McConnell repeatedly refused to answer questions Friday about reports that Sen. John Ensign of Nevada and his friend Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma were involved in the cover-up of Ensign’s affair with a campaign staffer. Ensign has admitted having an affair with the wife of one of his top aides. The wife worked in Ensign’s campaign office. Ensign eventually dismissed them both. McConnell was asked about a report in The New York Times that said Ensign then tried to get former chief of staff Doug Hampton a lobbying job to try to contain the ...
Lindsey Graham Hits Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly
Post Date: 2009-10-02 11:16:48 by Brian S
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Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham Thursday blamed the lack of civility in today's political discourse on voters' willingness to send confrontational representatives to Washington as well as the 24-hour news cycle, talk radio and organizations like MoveOn.org. "Can you imagine writing the Constitution today?" Graham said during a conversation with Jeffrey Goldberg at The First Draft of History, a conference in Washington, D.C. produced by The Atlantic, the Newseum and The Aspen Institute. He speculated that Fox News host Bill O'Reilly would complain that "Ben Franklin [is] giving in on something." Asked what he thinks of another Fox News personality, Glenn ...
The Congresswoman who makes Sarah Palin look like a wishy-washy Liberal [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-10-01 19:52:25 by IDon'tThinkSo
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On Friday evening, as the world media concentrated on the G20 leaders departing Pittsburgh, a bizarre political encounter was getting underway at the University of Minnesota where two Republican members of congress were sharing a platform. It could not have been an odder pairing: one was the anti-authority libertarian Ron Paul from Texas, the other Michele Bachmann, the local congresswoman whose flag-waving neo-con beliefs make Sarah Palin look like a wishy-washy liberal. In an apparently desperate effort to attract a good crowd, it was Bachmann who had persuaded Paul to make the journey. In the event – as any freshman student of American politics could have predicted – ...
Judge Orders Release Of Cheney Interview With FBI
Post Date: 2009-10-01 12:32:26 by Brian S
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(10-01) 09:13 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge ruled Thursday that the FBI must publicly reveal much of its notes from an interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative. Cheney agreed to be interviewed by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald in June 2004 during the investigation of the leak of Valerie Plame's identity after her husband publicly criticized the Bush administration. Both the Bush and Obama administrations said they wanted to keep the interview confidential because future presidents, vice presidents and their senior staff may not cooperate with criminal investigations if they know what they say ...
Maine Neighbors Honor Bush With Navy Anchor
Post Date: 2009-09-30 17:30:05 by Brian S
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(09-30) 13:35 PDT Kennebunkport, Maine (AP) -- Former president and World II naval aviator George H.W. Bush has been honored by some of his neighbors in Kennebunkport. The group unveiled a Navy anchor and a plaque acquired as a way to thank Bush for his service as president and for being a good neighbor. Bush spoke briefly Wednesday to his neighbors in Maine after they surprised him with the 6,000-pound anchor and plaque. They were placed at a turnout that overlooks Bush's Walker's Point coastal estate. Bush also was given a painting showing the anchor in the foreground with Walker's Point and his speedboat in the background. After talking with neighbors, Bush invited them ...
Who Is Advising Sarah Palin?
Post Date: 2009-09-30 12:01:03 by Brian S
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Who Is Advising Sarah Palin? When it comes to Sarah Palin, there are two big questions that everybody in Washington wants to know: Is she going to run for president in 2012? And who exactly is working for her these days? Since she resigned as governor of Alaska in July, Palin has been uncharacteristically quiet. She’s stayed largely out of the public eye—though she’s been posting messages on her official Facebook page and wrote an op-ed on health care for The Wall Street Journal. Last week, she earned her first paycheck as a paid speaker, receiving a reported low six figures for addressing a Hong Kong business group—a speech that was closed to the public. Yesterday, ...
Neocons Sensing Neocon Revival
Post Date: 2009-09-30 11:45:11 by Brian S
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By Carl Franzen on September 29, 2009 3:13pm Don't look now, but after a brief exile, neoconservatism may be mounting a comeback...or so claim some conservatives, anyway. Leading the pack today is Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens, who says the hawkish political philosophy that guided the Bush administration to glory holds growing allure for those dissatisfied with Obama. Stephens is not alone. With the administration facing major foreign policy challenges, a number of right-leaning pundits are making the case that neoconservatism is out of the dog house. Next challenge: convincing anyone else. Columnists debate whether or not neoconservatism should be given another ...
Sarah's Lectures A Tough Sell [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-09-30 11:25:41 by Brian S
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SARAH Palin is said to have pocketed a $7 million advance for the 400-page memoir she turned in four months early, but she might not have such an easy time on the lecture circuit. After quitting as governor of Alaska in July, Palin signed with the top-notch Washington Speakers Bureau, which also reps George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Condoleezza Rice, hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger, LA Dodgers manager Joe Torre and magician David Blaine. Palin's bookers are said to be asking for $100,000 per speech, but an industry expert tells Page Six: "The big lecture buyers in the US are paralyzed with fear about booking her, basically because they think she is a blithering idiot." Many ...
S.D. Ghostwriter Mum On Sarah Palin Memoir
Post Date: 2009-09-29 14:29:47 by Brian S
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One San Diegan knows all the details of Sarah Palin's soon-to-be released memoir, but don't ask her about it. She can't tell. Lynn Vincent, Palin's ghostwriter, has signed a non-disclosure agreement. She has been hard at work on the book for the past few months with Palin, the former Alaska governor and John McCain's running mate. So quick did their writing progress that the publisher announced yesterday that the 400-page memoir's release date, originally scheduled for spring, has been moved up to Nov. 17, with an e-book version following on Dec. 26. After resigning as governor in late July, Palin spent most of August in San Diego working with Vincent on the book, ...
Sarah Palin Is "Going Rogue" With Early Release Of Memoir
Post Date: 2009-09-29 12:13:40 by Brian S
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sarah Palin, last year's Republican vice-presidential candidate who became a figure of global fascination, is to release her memoir just four months after her book deal was announced. Publisher HarperCollins said Palin's memoir, titled "Going Rogue: An American Life", would be published on November 17 after originally being scheduled for release in spring 2010. The book will have a large first printing of 1.5 million copies, according to a statement from HarperCollins, a unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Senator Edward Kennedy's memoir "True Compass", published soon after his August 25 death, also had an initial print run of 1.5 ...
Is Chuck Norris advocating desecration of the American flag?
Post Date: 2009-09-24 13:49:02 by Brian S
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For years, right-wingers burned under the collar as they watched protesters set fire to the American flag. Now, with conservatives on the outside of political power in Washington, it looks like it may be their turn to use the flag to score political points. Action flick star and conservative activist Chuck Norris seems an unlikely person to promote the desecration of the American flag, but in a recent comment piece he penned, he may have done just that. In an article published earlier this week at the conservative news site WorldNetDaily, Norris suggested that supporters of the Tea Party movement find historical flags, such as the 13-star Betsy Ross flag, to fly in front of their homes as a ...
Delegates Walk Out 'In Disgust' At Palin Speech; Questions are prearranged; 'It was awful,' one US delegate says
Post Date: 2009-09-23 18:10:18 by Brian S
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HONG KONG — Former US vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin said the US government was wasting taxpayers' money and could aggravate poverty, said delegates at her first speech outside North America on Wednesday. Palin, the former governor of Alaska, gave hundreds of financial big-hitters at the CLSA Investors' Forum in Hong Kong a wide-ranging speech that covered Alaska, international terrorism, US economic policy and trade with China. Her performance, which was closed to the media, divided opinion. Some of those who attended praised her forthright views on government social and economic intervention and others walked out early in disgust. "She was brilliant," ...
"Christian Leaders for a Nuclear-Free Iran" Call For Iran Sanctions
Post Date: 2009-09-22 17:54:25 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Four dozen prominent Christian leaders asked Congress and other world leaders to call for immediate sanctions on Iran. In an open letter, Christian Leaders for a Nuclear-Free Iran -- an ad hoc group that claims to represent more than 28 million evangelicals, Roman Catholics and other Christians -- calls for "immediate action to address Iran’s program to develop and deploy nuclear weapons" by imposing economic sanctions on companies which help Iran produce or import refined petroleum products, and by initiating a boycott of any arms sales to Iran. Among the signatories are Christian Broadcasting Network president Pat Robertson; Prison Fellowship ...
Condoleezza Rice: "If You Want Another Terrorist Attack In The U.S., Abandon Afghanistan"
Post Date: 2009-09-22 15:27:56 by Brian S
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Those in Congress who would like to see the U.S. begin to pull out of Afghanistan don't have a supporter in former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In a new interview with Fortune Magazine, Rice offered extremely sharp criticism of the idea of withdrawal and painted the consequences of this course of action with an almost Cheneyesque bluntness. "The last time we left Afghanistan, and we abandoned Pakistan," she said, "that territory became the very territory on which Al Qaeda trained and attacked us on September 11th. So our national security interests are very much tied up in not letting Afghanistan fail again and become a safe haven for terrorists. ...
GOP Senators Declare War On Net Neutrality
Post Date: 2009-09-22 14:05:00 by Brian S
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Plan to keep Internet free of interference from ISPs draws opposition from GOP, service providers Six Republican senators have introduced an amendment that would block the Federal Communications Commission from implementing its recently announced Net neutrality policy. Texas Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison introduced the amendment to an appropriations bill. It would prevent the FCC from getting funding for any initiative to uphold Net neutrality. According to The Hill, the co-sponsors are Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS), Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) Sen. John Ensign (R-NV), Sen. John Thune (R-SD) and Sen. David Vitter (R-LA). The move appears to be an attempt to pre-empt the FCC's ...
Huckabee Wins "Values Voters" 2012 Presidential Straw Poll
Post Date: 2009-09-21 20:11:59 by Brian S
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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on Saturday won a 2012 presidential-preference straw poll of social and religious conservative activists from 49 states gathered in Washington, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said at an afternoon press briefing at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. It was sweet revenge for Mr. Huckabee, who narrowly lost a similar poll in 2007 to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Only in-person voting was permitted in this vote Mr. Romney had won with combined Internet and in-person voting. On Saturday, Mr. Huckabee took 28.48 percent of the vote, while Mr. Romney was in a four-way tie for second place with Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, former Alaska Gov. ...
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