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Bill Berkowitz: Bishops And Pawns
Monday, 7 November 2005, 2:14 pm | Bill Berkowitz
The GOP is counting on Bishop Harry Jackson and his High Impact Leadership Coalition to bring African Americans to the Party More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Wal-Marting Philanthropy
Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 2:57 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Upon the death of Helen Walton, the frail and aging widow of Sam Walton -- the founder of the Wal-Mart Empire -- the Walton Family Foundation (WFF) could receive as much as $20 billion, making it the largest and potentially most powerful foundation in ... More >>
Christian Right's piece of the 'Promised Land'
Friday, 14 October 2005, 11:53 am | Bill Berkowitz
Israel offers evangelical Christians land near Sea of Galilee to solidify support and boost tourism More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Michael Moore gets ready to roll
Tuesday, 11 October 2005, 10:46 am | Bill Berkowitz
As Moore prepares a new film on America's ailing health care industry, will it continue being open season on the 'scruffy guy in a baseball cap'? More >>
Berkowitz: Team Bush's African American Conundrum
Friday, 16 September 2005, 11:05 am | Bill Berkowitz
It took a rap star to dare speak truth to power. While the whole world was watching, shocked by the desperate plight of thousands of poor, and mostly black, folks stranded on rooftops across New Orleans and abandoned without food or water at the crumbling ... More >>
Berkowitz: Katrina Unleashes Corporate Vultures
Thursday, 15 September 2005, 10:12 am | Bill Berkowitz
As the toxic waters inundating New Orleans receded into Lake Pontchartrain, headed for the Gulf of Mexico, huge corporations circled the devastated Gulf Coast like vultures. Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), a subsidiary of the Houston, Texas-based Halliburton ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Deepening The Faith
Sunday, 31 July 2005, 5:05 pm | Bill Berkowitz
One of the first orders of business for George W. Bush in January 2001 was to establish a White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, the cornerstone social policy of his presidency. At a ceremony attended by numerous religious leaders, Bush ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Horowitz's Battlefield Academia
Friday, 22 July 2005, 3:06 pm | Bill Berkowitz
A specter is again haunting U.S. colleges and universities. At the beginning of the Cold War in the early 1950s, Joseph McCarthy, the infamous Republican Senator from Wisconsin, stalked the political landscape hurling reckless charges that hordes of ... More >>
Berkowitz: Tony Perkins' Family Research Council
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 11:39 am | Bill Berkowitz
Battling against same-sex marriage and activist judges, and raising hell over Terri Schiavo, Perkins has come a long way since his David Duke mail list-buying caper in Louisiana More >>
William Greene's Angry Rapid Response Machine
Wednesday, 6 July 2005, 12:28 am | Bill Berkowitz
Shortly after the Senate reached its "compromise" -- avoiding a Republican-imposed "nuclear option" to end Democratic filibustering -- William Greene was angry, yet again. The right wing founder of RightMarch.com called on its "base of over one million ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: How the Mighty Have Fallen
Friday, 1 July 2005, 3:09 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Ralph Reed, the former Golden Boy of the Christian Coalition, and George Bush’s longtime political adviser, is under investigation in Washington and taking fire at home More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Black-bag jobs in the Heartland
Friday, 24 June 2005, 2:46 pm | Bill Berkowitz
The revelation that W. Mark Felt, the 91-year-old former FBI deputy director, was "Deep Throat" ended a mystery that had lasted for more than thirty years. Felt's admission, in a recent issue of Vanity Fair magazine, brought out the Nixon remnants, ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Campus Crusader
Monday, 20 June 2005, 11:13 am | Bill Berkowitz
Before 9/11, David Horowitz attacked political correctness on college campuses across the country. These days, under the rubric of academic freedom, bands of Horowistas are waging a vigorous ground war against liberal academics. More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Paying To Play
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 1:21 pm | Bill Berkowitz
In an era where the Bush Administration characterizes its environmental agenda as "common sense" environmentalism, a slew of front-burner issues including global warming, drilling for oil in the Artic, new legislation aimed at lifting the ban on offshore ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Laura-Palooza
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 11:36 am | Bill Berkowitz
In less than a month's time, First Lady Laura Bush went from being riotous to nearly causing a riot. In her late-May visit to Jerusalem, both Jewish and Palestinian protesters had to be restrained by armed guards. A month earlier there wasn't a hint of restraint ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Getting its Buzz On
Monday, 23 May 2005, 10:47 am | Bill Berkowitz
As the deadline approached for naming its GOP Hypocrite of the Week for the Friday, May 13, edition of BuzzFlash.com , Editor Mark Karlin was faced with a daunting challenge. While some of the previous "winners" -- Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, House ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Tom Delay's Right Arm
Wednesday, 18 May 2005, 12:03 am | Bill Berkowitz
After weeks of haggling, it looks like the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (also known as the House ethics committee) -- loaded down with Republicans that have received significant support from Rep. Tom DeLay's organizations -- will ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Amway - 'Masters of deception'
Friday, 13 May 2005, 11:57 am | Bill Berkowitz
Like many others, Eric Scheibeler and his wife, Patty, were recruited to the Amway Corporation by close friends. Along the "guaranteed" road to success they met powerful politicians, dined with multi-millionaires and spoke to thousands of Amway members ... More >>
Earth Day 2005: Contrived Commercialized Co-Opted
Wednesday, 11 May 2005, 11:25 am | Bill Berkowitz
While the Bush Administration, the US Army, right wing think tanks and corporate polluters celebrated, environmental issues were given short shrift. More >>
Bill Berkowitz: The Minutemen And The Media
Monday, 9 May 2005, 11:16 am | Bill Berkowitz
Members of the Minuteman Project -- the armed group that patrolled a 23-mile strip of the Arizona-Mexico border throughout the month of April -- have gone home, but they are promising to return with "ten of thousands" more border volunteers in October. More >>