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May 10, 2009 1:01 pm
Right Wing Follows Deceptive Script On Supreme Court
…gay-baiting Pundits like Lou Dobbs and Pat Buchanan have mocked the president’s reported desire to nominate a woman for the high court, and for the speculation that he may seek…
July 1, 2006 10:42 am
Ralph Reed: The Crash of the Choir-Boy Wonder
…formed “Christian Coalition.” The Christian Coalition was born out of Rev. Pat Robertson’s failed 1988 campaign for president. Though Reed had volunteered for Jack Kemp’s campaign that year, he was…
March 15, 2016 1:38 pm
The Obstruction Lobby: What the Outside Groups Working to Block a New Supreme Court Justice Really Want
…more extreme judicial nominees. Sekulow is the chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, a right-wing legal group established by televangelist Pat Robertson to be a Christian…
July 25, 2011 2:12 pm
The Right Wing Playbook on Anti-Muslim Extremism
…million Muslims” are known to “support a holy war against Christians, Jews and other Muslims.” Religious Right leader Pat Robertson has likened Muslims to Adolf Hitler and said that Americans…
October 7, 2016 4:26 pm
Return To Wichita: 25 Years After The Summer Of Mercy, The Rescue Movement Plots Its Next Steps
…ended with a rally that attracted 25,000 people and featured Christian Coalition leader Pat Robertson.2 Soon afterward, disputes among the leaders of Operation Rescue tore the organization apart. It split…
August 2, 2017 9:00 am
POTUS Shield: Trump’s Dominionist Prayer Warriors and the ‘Prophetic Order of the United States’
…as the unofficial launch for Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s 2012 presidential bid. Subsequent rallies attended by then-Govs. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Nikki Haley of South Carolina and Pat McCrory of…
February 1, 2016 9:31 am
The Anti-Immigrant Lobby: The White Nationalist Roots of the Organizations Fighting Immigration
The issue of immigration is front and center in the 2016 presidential election. Republican Donald Trump launched his campaign by bashing Mexican immigrants, calling them “rapists,” “killers” and…
June 16, 2010 1:34 pm
Texas Textbooks: What Happened, What It Means, and What We Can Do About It
…the writing teams had stripped out key historical figures like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Pat Hardy, a Republican board member who has sat in on some of the writing-team…
February 2, 2014 2:33 pm
Globalizing Homophobia: How the American Right Supports and Defends Russia’s Anti-Gay Crackdown
…of Putin’s crackdowns on LGBT people and political dissenters. Conservative commentator and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan praised Putin for “trying to re-establish the Orthodox Church as the moral…
August 19, 2013 9:21 am
Congressional Republicans’ Clear Choice on Immigration: Stand With Pro-Reform Majorities or Cave to Anti-Immigrant Extremists
…xenophobia.” Then-House Minority Leader John Boehner called the 2007 Senate compromise legislation a “piece of shit bill.” In 2009, during the confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor, Pat Buchanan argued that…