Just wait until California gets our own Neo-Con Consensus

April 26, 2003 – 12:00 am

I’ve been scanning the Mirror World of Christian Conservative weblogs– of which, I may have more to say later –and found an entry at Josh Clayborn’s where the concept of Bay Area Seccession is pounced on and worried like a small furry mammal in the jaws of a pit bull.
California secession has been discussed here [...]

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The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Neoconservative

April 10, 2003 – 12:00 am

Salon had another in a line of articles similar to the Haaretz story on the origin of the New American Century Neocons, but this one raised an ‘ah ha!’ with the following:
Most neoconservative defense intellectuals have their roots on the left, not the right. They are products of the influential Jewish-American sector of the Trotskyist [...]

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Turning Teenagers into ‘Useful Idiots’

March 30, 2003 – 12:00 am

Under a steady barrage of conservative propaganda and doublespeak, American teenagers have allowed themselves to be lead down the garden path. [ NYT Login Required ]

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Anti-abortionist guilty of murder

March 19, 2003 – 12:00 am

Good riddance.
He should be thankful he wasn’t treated like the terrorist he is.

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Ampersand on the ‘Partial Birth’ bill

March 14, 2003 – 12:00 am

I can’t talk about the Senate’s ‘pro life’ bill without sputtering, so go read Ampersand instead. The ban’s not about ’saving babies.’

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I think pearl-clutching is an entirely appropriate response.

March 2, 2003 – 12:00 am

Kip savages Savage.

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Local Media in Denial: Film at 11

February 16, 2003 – 12:00 am

Dorothea describes the Madison NBC affiliate’s coverage of the march against the Iraq war:
Channel 15 (WMTV) mentioned the protest briefly, no sound-bites, no numbers–and coupled this so-called “story” with another about a SINGLE pro-war protest somewhere on the WEST COAST. Er, relevance, people? And then they had the audacity to call the west-coast event “supporting [...]

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An anti-idotarian takes on Jefferson

January 23, 2003 – 12:00 am

Anil imagines the Freepers giving the Founding Fathers a right good ‘fisking’.

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Tammy Baldwin keeps seat in Wisconsin’s Second District

November 6, 2002 – 12:00 am

Let’s take the good news where we can find it. Tammy Baldwin, actual liberal, won her third term in the House, holding on to her seat in the Second District of Wisconsin, also known as Madison.
Before you dismiss that, it helps to remember that GOP incumbent and ex-newsanchor Scott Klug held that seat for several [...]

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Fact Checking Ann Coulter’s Bony A**

September 6, 2002 – 12:00 am

[ via Altercation ] For the record, someone’s gone through and fact checked Ann Coulter’s book. Okay, but I don’t think it’ll make her any less popular.

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Avedon Defends MWO

August 16, 2002 – 12:00 am

Spinsanity went after MWO over their tone. That’s all nice and idealistic, but the ‘other side’ isn’t playing nice. They throw dirt in your face, dip their rapiers in the sewer, and in the case of The Blonde from Hell — turn both keys within five seconds of each other and let loose with rhetorical [...]

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NPR: Please don’t disturb the reactionaries

June 21, 2002 – 12:00 am

I haven’t written about NPR’s loopy you-must-get-our-permission-to-link policy because PNH and Cory have done a fine job of lambasting it thus far. Tom, over at IMproPRieTies, got a response from NPR when he asked them where they lost clue:
Second, as a journalistic organization we do not want our content associated inappropriately with, or appearing to [...]

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The Weekly Standard Gives into the Darkside

May 17, 2002 – 12:00 am

[ via the Muted Horn ] How does one interpret this paen to Imperial Hegemony by the Weekly Standard’s web editor Johnathan Last? Is he joking?
Make no mistake, as emperor, Palpatine is a dictator–but a relatively benign one, like Pinochet. It’s a dictatorship people can do business with. They collect taxes and patrol the skies. [...]

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The Left Didn’t Kill Fortuyn

May 7, 2002 – 12:00 am

Rightwing bloggers have been quick to take up Pym Fortuyn, the ‘rightist’ politician murdered yesterday in the Netherlands, as the latest bloody cudgel to smack around those of us on the Left.
Fortuyn’s apparent assassin was a member of a ‘vegan animal rights group’ — which somehow makes the asssassin a member of the Left. Sorry [...]

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Sins of Petition: the Left and Cloning

April 17, 2002 – 12:00 am

[ via Boing Boing ] Rumours of broad-based opposition by the Left to cloning and stem cell research are just that. A piece in the NYT left the impression that the Left had aligned with an anti-abortion Republican senator’s bill to ban all research in the field. Several Lefties had signed a petition circulated by [...]

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