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David Bossie's big play
Friday, 15 August 2008, 4:36 pm | Bill Berkowitz
It won't be a post-Labor Day blockbuster or win critical acclaim, but Bossie's Citizens United is rolling out 'Hype: The Obama Effect,' an anti-Obama documentary that aims to make waves More >>
Obama Foe Wants His MTV
Thursday, 7 August 2008, 2:21 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Back in the Spring of 2006, Colin Hanna was deeply involved in helping the Pennsylvania Pastors Network (PPN)—a project of Let Freedom Ring, Inc., his 501(c)(4) West Chester, Pennsylvania-based non-profit organization—get conservative evangelicals to the ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: McCain gets religion
Thursday, 24 July 2008, 10:24 am | Bill Berkowitz
Over the course of the past few months, Senator John McCain, the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee, accepted and then rejected the endorsements of the controversial pastors Rod Parsley and John Hagee, after media reports about Parsley's ... More >>
A president desperately seeking a legacy
Monday, 14 July 2008, 12:17 am | Bill Berkowitz
George W. Bush goes back to touting 'compassionate conservatism' and the 'successes' of his faith-based initiative More >>
McCain's Judicial Plans in Lockstep with Bush
Thursday, 12 June 2008, 1:05 pm | Bill Berkowitz
OAKLAND, California, Jun 8 (IPS) - While it isn't as eye-catching as the latest reports from Iraq and Afghanistan, or as headline-grabbing as rapidly escalating gas prices and the growing number of housing foreclosures, and few voters cast their ... More >>
McCain's Judicial Plans in Lockstep with Bush
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 12:22 am | Bill Berkowitz
OAKLAND, California, Jun 8 (IPS) - While it isn't as eye-catching as the latest reports from Iraq and Afghanistan, or as headline-grabbing as rapidly escalating gas prices and the growing number of housing foreclosures, and few voters cast their ... More >>
The ubiquitous Newt Gingrich slogs on
Tuesday, 20 May 2008, 12:07 am | Bill Berkowitz
Former House Speaker appeared in an Al Gore-sponsored anti-global warming ad with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but later backtracked More >>
POLITICS-US: Same-Sex Marriage Making a Comeback?
Saturday, 17 May 2008, 11:05 am | Bill Berkowitz
OAKLAND, California, May 16 (IPS) - Still not fully embraced by the religious right, Sen. John McCain, the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee, has been handed an opportunity to prove his loyalty to the party's most influential and powerful ... More >>
Embedding the Analysts: Modern-Day Propaganda?
Saturday, 10 May 2008, 5:19 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Over the course of the Iraq War, the Pentagon has used hand-picked retired military officers as “message force multipliers” to shape public opinion, a New York Times investigation revealed last month.1 According to the report, which was the product ... More >>
Is Immigration Off the Table in Election 2008?
Wednesday, 7 May 2008, 11:54 am | Bill Berkowitz
OAKLAND, California, May 6 (IPS) - These days, while you can still pick up a newspaper or turn on a radio or television gabfest and read, hear and see the issue of immigration batted around, it has become less of a hot-button political issue in the United States. More >>
Veteran SwiftBoaters Target Obama
Tuesday, 6 May 2008, 12:39 am | Bill Berkowitz
Floyd Brown and David Bossie have spent a good part of their political careers making life miserable for Bill and Hillary Clinton. Unlike Richard Mellon Scaife , the billionaire financier who was unremitting in his efforts to take the Clintons down during the ... More >>
Nipping at AIPAC's heels
Tuesday, 29 April 2008, 12:54 am | Bill Berkowitz
In its entry on the "The Little Engine That Could," Wikipedia notes that "the moralistic children's story ... is used to teach children the value of optimism." Like the little engine that could, "J Street," a new organization made up of prominent U.S. and Israeli ... More >>
Right Puts Obama in Media Crosshairs
Saturday, 26 April 2008, 11:12 am | Bill Berkowitz
OAKLAND, California, Apr 25 (IPS) - The unveiling this week of a new campaign advertisement by the North Carolina Republican Party -- using video of controversial remarks made by Senator Barack Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and attacking ... More >>
Is a Ten Commandments Weekend in your future?
Friday, 18 April 2008, 10:04 am | Bill Berkowitz
Is there a Ten Commandments Weekend in your future? By Bill Berkowitz , Talk2Action , April 17, 2008 More >>
Growing Pains, or Death Throes?
Wednesday, 16 April 2008, 12:20 am | Bill Berkowitz
OAKLAND, California, Apr 15 (IPS) - During a recent appearance at the National Religious Broadcasters conference, Dr. James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, expressed deep concern about the future of the conservative Christian movement he helped build ... More >>
Freedom's Watch: Right-wing juggernaut?
Tuesday, 8 April 2008, 8:50 am | Bill Berkowitz
Funded by wealthy Republican Party donors and former White House officials, the group may be accomplishing less than it claims More >>
Neil Bush, Moon, Paraguay & US Dept of Education
Saturday, 29 March 2008, 1:52 pm | Bill Berkowitz
President's brother flaks for Moon organization in Latin America while his curriculum on wheels is being investigated by the Education Department's inspector general More >>
Religious Right, "The Times They Are A-Changin'"
Friday, 28 March 2008, 4:21 pm | Bill Berkowitz
The old guard is wondering if 'the younger generation will heed the call' while the young Turks have other things on their minds besides abortion and same-sex marriage More >>
Bush's Faith-Based Initiative: Future Up For Grabs
Saturday, 22 March 2008, 12:43 am | Bill Berkowitz
After seven years both Democratic presidential candidates express support for and reservations about Republican religious patronage system More >>
Future unclear for Bush's Faith-Based Initiative
Tuesday, 18 March 2008, 1:38 pm | Bill Berkowitz
After seven years both Democratic presidential candidates express support for and reservations about Republican religious patronage system More >>
