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Did the Jewish Vote Trend Republican in 2010?
Monday, 15 November 2010, 11:49 am | Bill Berkowitz
During the run-up to the mid-term elections, conservative Jewish groups were hopeful that they would finally be able to break the historic lock that the Democratic Party has had on Jewish voters. To achieve that end, they tried to inject concern over ... More >>
The Fall and Rise of Juan Williams
Wednesday, 3 November 2010, 2:20 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Despite being fired by National Public Radio over a bout of public Islamophobia, Williams has land on his feet with a $2 million Fox News Channel contract. In addition, look for him to be used as the poster child for the next conservative-led attack ... More >>
The Tea Party Spreads to the Likud in Israel?
Saturday, 30 October 2010, 5:28 pm | Bill Berkowitz
On Sunday night, right wing Israelis will launch its own Tea Party movement. With 'Saying no to Obama' as its organizing slogan, its main goals appear to be the destruction of the peace process, more building on the West Bank, and a more muscular response ... More >>
Venal, Vile, Vulnerable Newt Gingrich Presses On
Tuesday, 21 September 2010, 1:05 pm | Bill Berkowitz
These are good times for Gingrich who is in demand as a speaker, recently produced an anti-Islam film with his third wife, has taken to religion and is palling around with some of the more extremist Christian conservatives in the country, and is raking ... More >>
Christian Action Network's Islamophobic Agenda
Friday, 27 August 2010, 11:18 am | Bill Berkowitz
The Christian Action Network, a long-time anti-gay/National Endowment for the Arts organization is back on the scene with ‘Islam Rising,’ a film, it claims, 'exposes the dangers of radical Islam to the Western world.’ More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Prison Rape In The US
Wednesday, 25 August 2010, 5:35 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Organizations from across the political spectrum are calling on Attorney General Eric Holder ‘to adopt prison rape elimination standards mandated by 2003 legislation and completed 14 months ago.’ More >>
Super Bowl XLV: Will Ronald Reagan Ride Again?
Thursday, 8 July 2010, 1:29 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday coincides with Super Bowl XLV. Will conservatives be partying like its 1980? In late June, the state Legislature of California passed a bill to permanently declare Feb. 6 Ronald Reagan Day in California. According to ... More >>
Right-Wing Uses Declining Birthrate to Stoke Fear
Monday, 5 July 2010, 12:22 pm | Bill Berkowitz
If you’ve been following the debate over population growth, you’re probably familiar with the argument that it is economically unfeasible for the earth to sustain an unlimited population. You might subscribe to that argument, or you might believe ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Hunting for the Next ACORN
Friday, 14 May 2010, 1:29 pm | Bill Berkowitz
After three decades, it took a pair of right-wing movement activists masquerading as a pimp and prostitute, equipped with a hidden camera and a phony storyline, and access to Andrew Breitbart’s well-traveled websites to finally take down ACORN. ... More >>
Oklahoma Tea Party Asks State to Create Militia
Thursday, 15 April 2010, 11:43 am | Bill Berkowitz
"Is it scary? It sure is": Oklahoma Tea Party leaders want an armed militia to combat the federal government Oklahoma Tea Party leaders are talking about creating a new volunteer militia to defend the state against encroaching federal government Coming ... More >>
Gay Marriage Checkmates Bishop in D.C.
Wednesday, 24 February 2010, 6:17 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Bishop Harry Jackson, a full-time fighter against gay equality, has raised a fair amount of money from national Christian conservative organizations to combat same-sex marriage in Washington, D.C. More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Dueling Declarations
Friday, 19 February 2010, 2:02 pm | Bill Berkowitz
In a crowded universe of conservative mandates, declarations, and statements, two more, ‘The Mount Vernon Statement,’ which aims to unify the three legs of the conservative movement, and the ‘Contract From America,’ which wants nothing to ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Race and the Tea Party Movement
Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 11:52 am | Bill Berkowitz
The Tea Party movement has been one of the most interesting political developments over the past year. The raucous rallies, the shout downs at Town Hall meetings, the gun-toting demonstrators, the offensive signage have all drawn the attention of the ... More >>
Move over Michael Moore, here comes ‘TEA PARTY'
Monday, 23 November 2009, 1:29 pm | Bill Berkowitz
“It began as a ripple; an online whisper; a grassroots awakening to a new threat on freedom. … Lady Liberty faces her newest challenge and across this great nation a new generation of patriots stands ready for her defense. … They were ignored, ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: NEA Funding “Pornography”—Again!
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 4:06 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Fox News has reported that a portion of the Obama administration’s stimulus money wound up supporting gay porn in San Francisco—the religious right is clamoring again to stop arts funding. More >>
Christian Men's Movement Making a Comeback?
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 11:27 am | Bill Berkowitz
If it seems like it was another century, that’s because it was: almost twelve years ago Promise Keepers – then the most visible and audacious of Christian men’s organization – brought nearly one million men to Washington. More >>
Planned Parenthood ‘Stung’ By Lila Rose
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 2:02 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Lila Rose, a 20-year-old UCLA student, is taking on Planned Parenthood with a phony story, video equipment, and support from a host of Christian Right media outlets and organizations. More >>
"White Nationalists Find A Home In The Military"
Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 11:49 am | Bill Berkowitz
OAKLAND, California, Jun 19 (IPS) - A recent report issued - and later withdrawn - by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis warned of the possibility of an up-tick in violent activities by right-wing extremist ... More >>
Are religious sects/cults invading the UN?
Thursday, 28 May 2009, 2:00 pm | Bill Berkowitz
A French government agency called MIVILUDES (Mission interministérielle de vigilance et de lutte contre les dérives sectaries -- Interministerial Mission for Monitoring and Combating Cultic Deviancy) recently issued a 199-page report charging religious ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Move over Joe the Plumber
Monday, 11 May 2009, 1:56 pm | Bill Berkowitz
In what some like to think of as "post-culture war" America, consider the case of Carrie Prejean. Responding to a question about same-sex marriage asked by Perez Hilton, a pageant judge and celebrity gossip uber-blogger, on April 19, during the nationally ... More >>
