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Obama rips into ‘latest’ version of Romney

MIAMI — US President Barack Obama quipped Thursday that Mitt Romney must be “severely kidding” if he thought Americans would fall for his sudden “makeover” designed to hide extreme conservatism....

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Hard right group attacks mixing in school cafeteria

The culture wars don't take a lunch break.A decade ago the Southern Poverty Law Center (a Salon content partner) launched “Mix It Up” to get kids to spend time with classmates of different backgrounds....

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Tweeting pianist Say denies Turkish religious insult charge

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish concert pianist Fazil Say's exuberance has won him fans around the world, but it has also helped land him in court as a cause célèbre for those alarmed by Turkey's creeping...

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What a second-term Obama can — and can’t — accomplish

No matter which candidate wins on Election Day, both liberalism and conservatism will have lost.  This was supposed to be a moment of choice: Voters would be presented with two contrasting visions of...

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Mitt’s 10 most destructive policies

By now, in these last remaining days before the election of 2012, we have learned enough about the beliefs of the Republican presidential candidate to see them as a worldview all its own – a kind of...

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Huckabee: Republicans "Pathetic" At Reaching Out To People Of Color

“It's a group of people who should be, frankly, with us based on the real policy of conservatism.” View Video ›Read More

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Must-see monologue

On MSNBC, Rachel Maddow hopes the GOP will return to the reality-based community:Continue Reading...Read More

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Romney staffers stranded when campaign killed credit cards on election night

Staffers working for the Romney 2012 campaign got a sudden and unwelcome lesson in fiscal conservatism Tuesday night and Wednesday morning when they tried to check out of hotel rooms or travel home....

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Ron Paul bids farewell to “psychopathic authoritarians”

In his farewell speech, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, the libertarian hero and perennial presidential candidate, elaborated on the government's menacing ways:Continue Reading...Read More

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R.I.P. National Greatness Conservatism, 1997-2012

Politically speaking, conservatives didn't have much to be thankful for this November. After President Obama's re-election cakewalk, 2013 looks like a rebuilding year, a time for "soul-searching" by...

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Judge Napolitano on Republicans for Big Government

The Republicans in the House are largely more conservative than at any time since Wilson left office, writes Judge Napolitano. One would expect them to understand the intent of the voters who sent...

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The GOP Is Dying Because The Liberty Movement Is Thriving

The GOP is dying because it no longer supports the progress of true conservative values or the people who hold them.Read More

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I was a teenage conservative

Barry Goldwater was my first political hero. The most antiauthoritarian figure in mainstream American politics, who said what he thought without giving a damn, he looked and sounded as Western as...

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The 6 Members Who Should Fear Jim DeMint

The non-agression pact is over. Image by Alex Wong / Getty Images WASHINGTON — Jim DeMint's departure from the Senate for the Heritage Foundation will put an end to a key promise the confrontational...

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5 biggest threats to the middle class

One of the pleasures of a weekend away from the city is visiting with people who express points of view that are different from my own. A lot of them hate government. Their comments are sprinkled with...

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Salon’s Joan Walsh describes right wing honcho Dick Armey in plain English

Salon editor at large Joan Walsh cuts through the nonsense to discuss the right's internecine (but profitable) feuds in unusually frank terms, even for cable. The sparks start to fly around the 3:20...

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Sean Hannity lost half his TV audience after the election

Conservative mouthpiece Sean Hannity lost about half of his TV audience in the weeks after the election while his colleague Bill O'Reily's viewership only dropped by about a third, the Daily News...

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John Boehner Makes Peace With Conservatives At Republican Retreat

Republicans' debt ceiling proposal is the result of a détente reached in a Williamsburg resort that may not last long. One conservative aide see a Biblical comparison. Via: speakerboehner WILLIAMSBURG,...

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Sam Brownback’s Kansas is a resort for “makers”

Much like Bobby Jindal in Louisiana, Governor Sam Brownback is busy turning Kansas into a right-wing paradise, with low wages, few public services, and reactionary social policy. Since 2010, when...

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Are frat boys the new conservatives?

It’s long been a conservative truism that universities are enemy territory, stacked as they are with sandal wearing humanities professors and scientists whose research depends on empirical reality. But...

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Challenging the Concept of Sex Addiction

If you're skeptical about the ease with which addiction diagnoses are handed out these days, this study may be up your alley:This article takes a critical look at the recent history of the concept of...

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Todd Akin: Rove is “trying to get rid of conservatives”

Todd "legitimate rape" Akin finally weighed in on Karl Rove and American Crossroads' efforts to ensure that another Todd Akin doesn't make it through a primary. “It may be another example of...

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Right-wing journal quietly dies

When the conservative magazine Policy Review recently announced that it was ceasing publication after a 36-year run, few outside the Hoover Institution journal seemed to notice its demise. “The Hoover...

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Meet the man trolling America’s liberal elite

The New York Times has described Michael Goldfarb, the 32-year-old founder of conservative site Washington Free Beacon as an "all-around anti-liberal provocateur,"a "hawkish magnet of liberal scorn"...

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Steve King at CPAC quietly challenges Rove

In his speech to CPAC, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, touted his win in the 2012 elections despite his super conservative platform, in what was likely a quiet challenge to Karl Rove, whose Super PAC has...

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“Far less hokey and weird”

Does being back at CPAC, the annual gathering of conservatives from all over the country, feel weird?That’s the question I got everywhere I turned these past few days. I suppose it was a natural...

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David Frum and the “Unpatriotic Conservatives”

There's a lot of nuggets to be mined from David Frum's self-serving memoir of the Iraq war -- Jon Schwarz points to a notable one here -- but it's just as interesting to look for the things the author...

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Watch Rand Paul’s Howard University Speech at C-SPAN.org

Beginning any minute Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) will be delivering a speech at the historically black Howard University, on the subject of how Paul's libertarian version of conservatism might speak...

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Rep. Steve King calls immigration bill “outrageous amnesty”

Rep. Steve King (R.-Iowa), who's best known of anti-immigrant diatribes, that he apparently thinks are cute, released a statement on the most viable immigration bill currently under consideration in...

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TIME Puts Rand Paul on the Cover (and Sarah Palin’s Endorsement of Him Inside)

Granted, it's one of seven covers: ; And here's Palin's ode to Paul: ; When the Tea Party movement wanted to send a message to the Senate in 2010, it elected a clear-sighted eye doctor from the...

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“Parks and Recreation”: TV’s most progressive show

NBC’s PARKS AND RECREATION, never shying from political controversy, examines current beltway tensions in ways one might expect from a more overtly political program. This season more than ever, the...

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6 insidious ways you’re getting ripped off

In the wake of the financial crisis, there was a momentof hope that predatory businesses would no longer be able to pick at our bones like vultures. Instead, we've seen Dodd-Frank weakened and stalled,...

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Captain America does not like Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro

"Captain America" actor Chris Evans does not like right-winger and rising Breitbart.com star Ben Shapiro, a man who accuses news anchors of hating America. Evans dislikes Shapiro so much that the...

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