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July 25, 2011 2:12 pm
The Right Wing Playbook on Anti-Muslim Extremism
Introduction Under the guise of defending freedom and American values, right-wing anti-Muslim activists are campaigning to prevent Muslim-Americans from freely worshiping and practicing their religion, curtail their…
April 20, 2012 1:00 pm
Big Bullies: The Right Wing’s Anti- Anti-Bullying Strategies
…from school that day. Jerry Newcombe of Truth in Action Ministries maintained that the Day of Silence will “indoctrinate children” into “a deadly lifestyle,” and even linked supporters of the…
July 31, 2009 3:54 pm
To Hell with Health Care Reform: Religious Right Leaders Attack Obama, Spout GOP Dogma about “Socialism” While Fanning Flames on Abortion
Introduction Religious Right leaders have enthusiastically joined Republican-led opposition to health care reform efforts. Much of the Religious Right’s organizing energy has been devoted to incendiary and…
November 16, 2017 12:23 pm
Roy Moore: A History of Bigotry, Extremism and Contempt for the Rule of Law
…and follow state protocol in judicial decisions.” Jerry Falwell Jr., James Dobson, Mike Huckabee and Phil Robertson are all on Moore’s team of Christian conservatives. Among the figures supporting Moore’s…
February 1, 2016 9:31 am
The Anti-Immigrant Lobby: The White Nationalist Roots of the Organizations Fighting Immigration
…major anti-immigrant groups can be found at People For the American Way’s Right Wing Watch blog. History John Tanton, who was described by the American Prospect as the “architect” of…
August 19, 2013 9:21 am
Congressional Republicans’ Clear Choice on Immigration: Stand With Pro-Reform Majorities or Cave to Anti-Immigrant Extremists
…proposal “looks a whole lot like amnesty.” The Drudge Report linked to a story about Obama’s proposal with the banner headline, “COMING: AMNESTY FOR 11 MILLION.” On National Review’s blog,…
July 20, 2009 5:58 pm
Right Wing Attacks on Sotomayor Gain Little Traction
…the President’s efforts to put people on the bench who will follow his philosophy of judges not as constitutionalists but jurisprudential therapists.” From the same blog post: The Founders…realized that…
November 5, 2009 4:57 pm
The Right Plays the Race Card
…in the room who are disenfranchised when their votes are cancelled out by the supposed voter fraud carried out by ACORN and its allies. On right-wing pundit Michele Malkin’s blog,…
December 15, 2010 9:47 am
Meet the Leadership: Corporate America and the Religious Right’s New Team in the House
…the prominent conservative blog RedState wrote that McCarthy’s Pledge was “perhaps the most ridiculous thing to come out of Washington since George McClellan.” Despite the GOP’s avowed commitment to balancing…
February 1, 2010 11:49 am
Manhattan Declaration: Old Poison, New Packaging
…from the “clarion call” Colson describes that Jonathan Merritt, a younger evangelical, wrote on the Newsweek/Washington Post “On Faith” blog that “this declaration has relegated [all those other issues of…