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April 20, 2012 1:00 pm
Big Bullies: The Right Wing’s Anti- Anti-Bullying Strategies
…called “Bullying: Crisis or Panic?” in which he asked if bullying is an “exaggerated epidemic.” WallBuilders president and Republican operative David Barton falsely claimed that “the leading pediatric association in…
February 23, 2011 2:57 pm
Citizenship in the Balance: How Anti-Immigrant Activists Twist the Facts, Ignore History, and Flout the Constitution
…apply to freed slaves. Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), a leading opponent of constitutional citizenship in the Senate, said that the authors of the Citizenship Clause “drafted the 14th Amendment to…
July 1, 2006 10:42 am
Ralph Reed: The Crash of the Choir-Boy Wonder
…program and urging listeners to contact Secretary Norton to oppose the casino.”86 Reed also worked with then-Representative David Vitter of Louisiana, reporting to Abramoff that Vitter was “feeling the love”…
November 2, 2022 12:29 pm
Conspiracy Theorists With Badges and Guns: Pro-Trump Sheriffs Vow to Police Elections
…electoral fraud. Such declarations are a “significant overreach of authority,” David Mahoney, a former president of the National Sheriffs Association, told The Guardian. So what role, if any, should sheriffs…
March 15, 2016 1:38 pm
The Obstruction Lobby: What the Outside Groups Working to Block a New Supreme Court Justice Really Want
…David Hamilton, a “hard-left political activist.” In particular, Long declared the nomination to be “payback” to the community service group ACORN (which many Republicans absurdly claimed stole the 2008 election…
December 8, 2010 12:36 pm
Glenn Beck: Irresponsible And Indifferent To The Violent Consequences of His Dangerous Rhetoric
…called the president’s views on the nature of salvation “evil” and “satanic.” Beck and David Barton, the Religious Right pseudo-historian he promotes, claim that their views of limited government and…
July 28, 2011 1:49 pm
ALEC: The Voice of Corporate Special Interests in State Legislatures
…Thrives, for Now,” David Margolick, New York Times. November 1992. ↩ “State-Sponsored Global Warming Litigation is Weighing Down on American Business,” Phil Goldberg, Inside ALEC. March 2011. ↩ “Rage Against…
March 17, 2010 2:47 pm
(P)reviewing the Right-Wing Playbook on Immigration Reform
…built by and for white people, whether from David Duke or Pat Robertson, are not only historically inaccurate, they also violate basic American values and principles of decency. Politicians who…
February 27, 2013 3:05 pm
The Lobby Against Common Sense: The Right’s Campaign Against Gun Violence Reform and How We Can Defeat It
…like taxes as well as issues involving privacy and sexuality. Discredited Religious Right “historian” David Barton calls the Second Amendment “the biblical right of self-defense” and says it requires that…
July 20, 2009 5:58 pm
Right Wing Attacks on Sotomayor Gain Little Traction
…that the Obama administration might have an opportunity to make, and they have doggedly followed their script through the announcement of David Souter’s intention to resign, the announcement of Judge…