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The Age of Propaganda?

The Program on International Policy Attitudes is a respected source for international opinion research. In the wake of the 2010 U.S. elections, it conducted a survey of voters, first looking to see...

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Red Riding Hood & The Big Bad Gay Wolf

Writing at Matt Barber’s virulently anti-gay BarbWire, Mark Creech (executive director at the Christian Action League, AFA’s North Carolina affiliate) rewrote the tale of Little Red Riding Hood to...

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Rush Limbaugh: “Obama Is America’s Number One National Security Problem”

From the October 13 edition of Premiere Radio Networks’ The Rush Limbaugh Show courtesy of Media Matters: Tim Peacock For virtually his entire life, Tim has been writing. Over the years he’s dabbled in...

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Democrats & Republicans: The Perils of “Balance”

I love Paul Krugman. Unlike most economists (apologies to certain of my academic colleagues), he writes clearly–as if he is actually interested in communicating, rather than impressing–and more often...

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Fox’s Stuart Varney: Democrats Are “Giving Stuff Away” And “They’re Buying...

STEVE DOOCY (HOST): Ok, so with all that free stuff they’re giving away, what’s it going to cost you, the American taxpayer? STUART VARNEY: A lot. DOOCY: Stuart Varney joins us live. You’re right, a...

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Rand Paul Backtracks on Anti-Gay Remarks After Outrage

After arguing LGBT people should stay in the closet if they don’t want to be fired for their sexual orientation or gender identity, 2016 GOP presidential hopeful Rand Paul appeared on CNN last night to...

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Rush Limbaugh: Democrats On Benghazi Committee Will Praise Hillary Clinton At...

Limbaugh: “It’s The Reason She’s Running. To Be The First Woman. So They’re Going To Praise Her Cervix. What Else Is There?” From the October 19 edition of Premiere Radio Networks’ The Rush Limbaugh...

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Houston Chronicle Pummels Dan Patrick Over HERO Attack

In a scathing editorial the Houston Chronicle called out Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick for his underhanded and misinformed attack on the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO). Calling Patrick’s attack...

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The CNBC GOP Debate: An Interstate Clown Car Pile-Up

Tonight’s CNBC-moderated GOP debate among the top GOP presidential hopefuls turned into what can only be described as a clown car pile-up carrying devastating political casualties. When not citing...

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Gliniewicz: Facts, Media Hype & the Fake ‘War on Cops’

When Fox Lake, IL police Lt. Joe Gliniewicz died while on duty at the end of September mainstream and far right media immediately began pointing fingers at the so-called anti-police crowd often (and...

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Ignorance is One Thing; Anti-Knowledge Another

I’ve run across several columns/posts recently focused on a distinction–one that is gaining in importance–between Ignorance and anti-knowledge, or what we might call intentional or stubborn ignorance....

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In Which I Agree With National Review…

When a conservative is right, s/he’s right. And over at the National Review, Kevin Williamson is right. His article, titled: Take a Bow, Species, rejected the constant drumbeat of what is wrong with...

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Trump Mocks Disabled NY Times Reporter Serge Kovaleski

During a campaign rally in South Carolina on Tuesday GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump mocked NY Times reporter Serge Kovaleski for his disability. Mimicking the involuntary gestures associated...

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Confirmed: Robert Dear Voter Form Gender Selection a Typo

After right-wing conspiracy blogs latched on to a voter registration form error in the ongoing investigation into suspected Colorado Springs shooter Robert Dear’s life, the El Paso County Clerk just...

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Fox’s Katie Pavlich: Concept of White Privilege is Racist

Speaking with Kennedy Montgomery and Bill O’Reilly on the The O’Reilly Factor earlier this week Fox contributor Katie Pavlich mocked the concept of white privilege claiming she confronts “whiteness” by...

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This Is a Test: America’s Racism & Xenophobia Problem

History doesn’t exactly repeat itself, but close enough. Yesterday, a friend sent me a link to an article from the LA Times that began: The year was 1915, and the strange new newspaper in Aurora, Mo.,...

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Carly Fiorina Snaps During Planned Parenthood Shooting CNN Segment

Speaking with CNN’s Chris Cuomo today flailing GOP presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina snapped while refuting her lies and anti-abortion rhetoric contributed to the environment that produced alleged...

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GOP in Crisis: A Wake-Up Call Too Late?

Finally, the alarms are going off in what is left of the rational GOP. The question is: is it too late? Has the party slept through earlier signals and bells, hitting the “snooze” button too often?...

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The Year of Lost Trust

[Today] we welcome a new year. It will come with significant challenges, among them, pervasive suspicion of our social and governing institutions. Ask the person on the street, who do you trust? and...

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That Quaint Thing Called “Ethics”

A recent article in New America Weekly argues that we Americans need to clean up our understanding of corruption. We tend to think of corruption as the sorts of outright bribery encountered in many...

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