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“Too Often Ignored”: Radical-Right Wing Groups Reach All Time High
While the more mainstream anti-government Tea Party movement faded from view as the GOP co-opted it in the past few years, the action has moved to the fringes, where the number of radical right-wing...
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“Social Conservatives’ Misplaced Fury”: Republican Policymakers Are Already...
Officials at the Republican National Committee can read polls just as well as anyone else, and they realize their party’s social agenda is not popular with the American mainstream. Indeed, just this...
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“Between A Rock And A Hard Place”: Social Conservatives Threaten Revolt...
Social conservatives are threatening to revolt against the the Republican Party, in the latest sign that the Republican National Committee’s “Growth & Opportunity Project” has little to no chance...
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“A Right-Wing Demand For Garbage”: The GOP Politics Of Paranoia Won’t Go Away
If the pending legislation intended to prevent gun violence is as awful as critics claim, they should, in theory, have a fairly easy task ahead. After all, they simply have to point to the...
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“RNC Boosts Evangelical Outreach”: The Religious Right Is Not Too Pleased...
In the wake of the party’s election setbacks last year, the Republican National Committee has focused on outreach to a variety of constituencies that have been turning towards Democrats: Latinos,...
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“Meet The New Republican Party”: GOP Leaders Recommit To Same Old Far-Right...
Earlier this year, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus accepted the fact that his party’s social conservatism had alienated many young voters, women, and moderates. The party would...
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“Tax-Exempt Hatred”: The IRS Should Strictly Police Hate Groups Seeking...
A few weeks ago, Forbes magazine published an intriguing column by Peter J. Reilly that asked an important question: If the Southern Poverty Law Center calls the Family Research Council a hate group,...
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“From Backyard Barbeque To Food Fight”: CPAC, The Right-Wing Woodstock Or A...
Like at a family reunion, the infighting at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) started long before anybody arrived. First, the group American Atheists announced that it would...
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“WTF Is ‘Natural Marriage’?”: When You Don’t Like The Way A Debate Is Going,...
Today’s Politics 101 pop quiz: In the course of a fierce ideological battle, when it becomes clear that one side is getting its butt kicked, what are leaders of the losing team expected to do? A....
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“What Could Possibly Go Wrong?”: Cotton Sees Bombing Iran As No Big Deal
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) has made no real effort to hide his support for a military confrontation with Iran. But in an interview yesterday on the Family Research Council’s radio show, the right-wing...
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“Josh Duggar And The Purity Lie”: ‘Pure’ And ‘Godly’ Because They Police And...
Josh Duggar, the oldest son of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, stars of “reality” TV and the real life conservative movement, has resigned his position as executive director of FRC Action, the political...
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“Oh, Please!”: Roy Moore Wants Ruth Bader Ginsburg Impeached
The U.S. Supreme Court probably won’t rule on marriage equality until the end of June, and when it does, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is likely to side in support of equal-marriage rights. For the...
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“Mike Huckabee’s Confused Morality”: White Privilege And The Limits Of Public...
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee speaks in Iowa in April. The GOP presidential candidate was quick to voice his support for Josh Duggar, who this past week admitted to having molested children...
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“Anti-LGBT ‘Minister’ Franklin Graham Hates For Jesus”: Denigrating A Faith...
“My house will be called a house of prayer. But you are making it a den of thieves!” I often think of this famed passage from the New Testament when I hear hate spewed by so-called Christian ministers....
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