Right Views

I was observing the other day that the big problem conservatives are facing in the new media climate is that despite a plethora of outlets they don’t have the skills to generate original information and research products in nearly the same volume that generally progressive outlets manage. And to clarify, the issue here is a human capital deficit rather than a financial one. There are a great many people employed in conservative media, and thus conservative media could easily support the salar

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In an otherwise excellent article debunking Bush as a phony socialist [as he is being dubbed on right-wing talk radio], Joel Wendland writes the following theses that I think deserve “a deeper look.”

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The right - wing liberal. “I am not a conservative; I am a man of the right ” - Whittaker Chambers. Home · About · The Joe Murray Moneybomb … Website. The right - wing liberal supports. Alternatives to would-be blogger-suing weenies …

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Tax cuts? Really? Keeping a campaign promise?Really?How will the right complaint about this?

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A friend from Australia was reading my recent Statement of Conservatism and reminded me of this from Paul Johnson in The Spectator: “One of the great errors of political taxonomy is to classify Hitler as right-wing. He, and still more his closest colleague, Goebbels, were socialists, and the fact they were nationalists first did not orient them more to the right. There are six indispensable hallmarks of a conservative. First, firm belief in one, beneficent and omnipotent God. Second, absolu

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It’s that scurrilous rag Huffington Post.

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If you defend Israel’s right to defend itself, and accurately point out that Hamas is committing war crimes on an ongoing basis, you’re a “right-wing activist,” but if you are a member of International A.N.S.W.E.R, cheering on the terrorists of Hamas, you’re merely a “protester.” As is pointed out, apparently 80% of Israelis are “right-wing activists.” News to many of them, I’m sure. And here are some thoughts on Israel’s war objectives: Israel will stop the operations not when the rockets st

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It’s not a new thought but it’s worth saying - and repeating so we aren’t taken by surprise - that while Barack Obama’s election is (hopefully) going to mean major changes (like undoing the Bush Regression to the Robber Baron Era of the …

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Where American and Israeli Interests Meet A commenter on an Israel-Palestinian thread at Right Wing Nuthouse asked a very relevant question, and I want to answer it here. The question was, why do American politicians on both sides of the aisle never see American interests as different from Israeli interests? I see three answers: 1) As long-term guarantors of Israel’s existence, to suddenly, now, throw up our hands and simply let the chips fall where they may would wreck our ability to mak

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From Joe Romm, via Tom Nelson The finalist list is out for the 2008 Weblog awards “Best Science Blog,” and two of the ten finalists are anti-scientific websites primarily devoted to spreading disinformation (and noninformation) on global warming– just like 2007. The 2007 “competition” ended up being yet another classic exercise in the right wing perverting an otherwise reasonable web idea — online voting for the best science blog. As Desmogblog explained in a post titled, The “Vast Right Wing

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