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The Truth About the Conservative Mind: Why Reactionaries from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin Have Fought Real Liberty

Posted by N4CM Christian Right Watch 31 Jan 2012

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education. It’s been a rotten few months for the nation’s wealthiest 1 percent. From the senatorial candidacy of Elizabeth Warren to Occupy Wall Street, economic elites have faced a concerted attack on their riches and power, their arrogant and unaccountable ways. And you can hear it in their voices, or at least the voices of their spokesmen. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor declared, [...]

The great divide in U.S. politics

Posted by N4CM Features 22 Jan 2012

Source: thestar.com. It was a moment when reality met reality TV. On stage in Tampa, Fla., a slate of Republican presidential candidates, including physician Ron Paul. Facing them, an audience scenting blood. CNN host Wolf Blitzer’s question du jour: whether a 30-year-old man who was in a coma, but wilfully carrying no health insurance, should be given intensive care to save his life. “That’s what freedom is all about,” said Paul. “Taking your own risks.”

Don’t Be Fooled – Why the Tea Party Is More Powerful Than Ever

Posted by N4CM Opinion 16 Jan 2012

Source: Washington Monthly. Go to the panels with the boring names. That’s the secret to any political conference. Flashy names are candy floss meant to tempt you into meetings that at best will tell you what you already know, and at worst will bore you mindless. That’s the approach I take, anyway, at the 2011 Defending the American Dream Summit, the annual megaconfab put on by Americans for Prosperity. This is the Tea Party group [...]

Politics, Religion and the Tea Party

Posted by N4CM Christian Right Watch 19 Dec 2011

Source: Al Jazeera. With a powerful Tea Party movement framing Republican policy in Washington and across the US, Fault Lines looks into the links between the Tea Party movement, the Christian conservative movement and Republican politics ahead of the GOP primaries. As the race for the Republican presidential nomination for the 2012 elections heats up, Fault Lines follows the Iowa campaign trail to investigate [...]

The Koch Brothers

Posted by N4CM Features 4 Nov 2011

Source: Al Jazeera English. Charles and David Koch are each worth about $25bn, which makes them the fourth richest Americans. When you combine their fortunes, they are the third wealthiest people in the world. Radical libertarians who use their money to oppose government and virtually all regulation as interference with the free market, the Kochs are in a class of their own as players on the American political stage.

OWS: Fighting the politics of illusion

Posted by N4CM Christian Right Watch 26 Oct 2011

Source: Al Jazeera. For three long years since the financial crisis began, American politics has been dominated by the politics of projection, displacement and denial – three basic subconscious ego defence mechanisms that are tremendously powerful in defending the indefensible. On the personal level, such defence mechanisms – analysed by Anna Freud in her 1937 book, The Ego and the [...]

Rob Stein: The Grand New Alliance

Posted by N4CM Christian Right Watch 19 Oct 2011

Source: The Huffington Post. A profoundly significant new political alignment within the right flank of the Republican Party is becoming entrenched in American politics. For the modern, somewhat more mainstream economic and neo-conservative Reagan-Bush-Bush-Cheney Republican Establishment, it is a threat far more dangerous to its control of the Conservative-Right than, in their time, were [...]

The Rise of the Regressive Right and the Reawakening of America

Posted by N4CM Christian Right Watch 17 Oct 2011

Source: The Huffington Post. A fundamental war has been waged in this nation since its founding, between progressive forces pushing us forward and regressive forces pulling us backward. We are going to battle once again. Progressives believe in openness, equal opportunity, and tolerance. Progressives assume we’re all in it together: We all benefit from public investments in schools and health care and infrastructure.

Morgan Freeman: Tea Party Is Racist, They’re Out To Get Obama

Posted by N4CM News, Top Stories 24 Sep 2011

Source: The Huffington Post. Morgan Freeman laid down the chips on the Tea Party in a new interview with Piers Morgan that is due to air Friday night. The Oscar-winning actor sat down with the British TV host and, amongst other things, discussed his belief that the right wing Tea Party’s anti-Obama stance is rooted in racism.

What the Tea Party is – and isn’t

Posted by N4CM Christian Right Watch, News, Top Stories 13 Sep 2011

Source: The Washington Post. The tea party movement came into public consciousness sometime in the early months of President Obama’s tenure in the White House. Ever since, it has been an object of fascination, fear, scorn and admiration. It has also been the object of misunderstanding. The tea party was described as the new kid on the block of American politics, when in fact it was the extension of forces long at work in the political system.