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November 5, 2009 4:57 pm
The Right Plays the Race Card
…of the Hispanic vote from 32 percent to 62 percent. But even Ronald Reagan never got over 44 percent of the Hispanic vote. Yet, he and Richard Nixon both got…
December 15, 2010 9:47 am
Meet the Leadership: Corporate America and the Religious Right’s New Team in the House
…Cantor, an ardent social conservative and the only Jewish member of the Republican caucus. Richard Land, the head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s political arm, recommended that John McCain select…
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…
February 2, 2014 2:33 pm
Globalizing Homophobia: How the American Right Supports and Defends Russia’s Anti-Gay Crackdown
…minds. However, his presence was mentioned by Revel in a blog post about the visit, in which he noted that Brown gave a “remarkable speech in the Duma.” The NOM…
March 15, 2016 1:38 pm
The Obstruction Lobby: What the Outside Groups Working to Block a New Supreme Court Justice Really Want
…been tremendously friendly to corporations, often at the expense of workers and consumers, while Roberts and Alito have been what Southern Baptist leader Richard Land has called “the gifts that…
April 18, 2011 5:56 pm
Barton’s Bunk: Religious Right ‘Historian’ Hits the Big Time in Tea Party America
…Barton’s ‘scholarship,’ like that of Holocaust denial and Atlantic slave trade conspiracy-mongering is rigged to arrive at predetermined conclusions, not history.” Historian Richard V. Pierard of Indiana State University has…
June 13, 2014 10:25 am
The Persecution Complex: The Religious Right’s Deceptive Rallying Cry
…that could give religious cover for anti-gay bullying in public schools. Richard Thornton / Shutterstock.com This new wave of legislation has come in response to a handful of high-profile cases…
July 25, 2011 2:12 pm
The Right Wing Playbook on Anti-Muslim Extremism
…“supposed to be FBI documents” describing mainstream American Muslim groups with alleged terrorist sympathies, according to the project’s lead writer, Richard Cole. One of the reporters uncovered an earlier, almost…
June 10, 2010 5:33 pm
Previewing the Right Wing Playbook on the Kagan Confirmation Hearings
…“surprising” and “troubling” lack of judicial experience. The story contrasted comments from Sens. Sessions, John Cornyn, John Thune, Richard Shelby, and Kay Bailey Hutchison praising Miers and dismissing criticism of…
October 7, 2016 4:26 pm
Return To Wichita: 25 Years After The Summer Of Mercy, The Rescue Movement Plots Its Next Steps
…edges of conservative politics. Rusty Thomas, the leader of OSA, met this year with Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former Graham County, Arizona, Sheriff Richard Mack, who, through…