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Democrats stood for nothing and fell for anything
Over the course of two years, President Obama and the Democratic Party achieved a remarkable feat: they passed significant, in some cases historic, legislation, yet managed not to tell the America...
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The awful power of Rush Limbaugh
There’s no denying that Limbaugh is a major player in American politics, feeding a stream of liberal-bashing propaganda to rapt listeners. Mike Stark describes it this way: Rush Limbaugh is heard by...
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The unbearable lightness of being a Tea Partier, part II
In The unbearable lightness of being a Tea Partier, I wrote: The Tea Party is another manifestation of a rightwing phenomenon whereby carefully crafted talking points are force-fed to the public...
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Eliminationism: how hate breeds violence
Hate breeds violence. Anyone who listens to the relentless liberal-bashing on rightwing radio and other conservative outlets will quickly realize that the level of vitriol and derision directed at the...
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Gabrielle Giffords and the rightwing hate machine (on the bogus equivalence...
Reaction to the horrific Arizona shootings, where six people were slaughtered including a 9-year-old girl, quickly congealed along clear-cut lines: a) The left blamed the right, pointing to violent...
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Epic irony: Mideast moves forward while America moves backward
The contrast between events in the Middle East and the political reality here in America is striking: as the people of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and elsewhere rise by the millions to protest injustice, and...
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America’s decline and the assault on women’s freedom and the environment
The right’s target list speaks volumes: from public broadcasters and scientists to health providers, unions, academics and women. Nothing drives the right into greater paroxysms of rage than NPR and...
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How the Democratic establishment shunned the left, spawned the Tea Party and...
In the aftermath of the debt ceiling fiasco, there’s a lot of head-scratching and soul-searching going on among activists, pundits and political observers. How can the Tea Party exert such outsized...
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GOP radicals and the end of American exceptionalism
Last November, Karen Tumulty wrote an interesting article titled American exceptionalism: an old idea and a new political battle: [T]he idea that the United States is inherently superior to the world’s...
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Climate change: our generation’s great failure
Future generations will look back with anger and disbelief at our recklessness. We’ve turned our planet into a garbage dump, while millions of Americans — led by a radicalized Republican Party — are...
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