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Global warming skeptics plot new strategies
Monday, 17 March 2008, 12:31 am | Bill Berkowitz
Kert Davies, a campaigner for Greenpeace, called it "the largest convergence of the lost tribe of skeptics ever seen on the face of the earth." Frank O'Donnell, head of Clean Air Watch, told The Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin that the conference ... More >>
The Heritage Foundation's smackdown of liberalism
Tuesday, 11 March 2008, 10:45 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Washington, D.C.-based tax-exempt "non-partisan" Republican think tank celebrating three-plus decades of saying no to government and yes to privatization, deregulation, wars, intervention and 'traditional family values' More >>
Global Warming deniers meet, greet, eat & whine
Saturday, 8 March 2008, 5:21 pm | Bill Berkowitz
"Ignored, and often even censored and demonized" is how the promotional materials for the Heartland Institute 's recent conference "The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change," described the way "distinguished scholars from the U.S. and around ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Goeglein Resigns Over Plagiarism
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 9:51 am | Bill Berkowitz
Tim Goeglein, who had been with the administration since 2001, resigned "after admitting that he repeatedly plagiarized from other writers," for his occasional guest columns for his hometown newspaper, The News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne. More >>
Berkowitz: Oral Roberts Uni Under New Management
Tuesday, 26 February 2008, 10:31 am | Bill Berkowitz
Before there was a Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Benny Hinn or Joel Osteen, Oral Roberts was televangelism. He, along with a few other pioneers brought the tent revival into the age of mass communications. More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Israel and Iran, After the NIE
Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 10:30 am | Bill Berkowitz
“Iran is today the world’s leading state-sponsor of terror,” declared President George W. Bush in a speech given in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, during his January trip to the Middle East. “Iran's actions threaten the security of nations ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Will Netanyahu Surge Oust Olmert?
Wednesday, 13 February 2008, 9:16 am | Bill Berkowitz
Netanyahu, a close ally and friend of U.S. Christian Zionists, "is waiting in the wings, talking tough on Gaza and Iran, saying Olmert should strike hard and fast with 'disproportionate force' against Palestinian terrorists." More >>
Berkowitz: Oral Roberts Uni, Saved By Bail Out
Thursday, 7 February 2008, 3:32 pm | Bill Berkowitz
I first discovered Oral Roberts when I was a young boy growing up Jewish in the Bronx, New York of the 1950s. Roberts was different: He stalked the stage; he raised his voice; he had the crowd in the palm of his hands. More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Pushing Buttons, Raising Millions
Thursday, 7 February 2008, 9:38 am | Bill Berkowitz
Over the past couple of years, a number of right wing groups have been contending for the unofficial designation of the conservative version of MoveOn.org. These days, Freedom's Watch appears to have a leg up on them all. More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Defending Israel To The 'End Times
Friday, 1 February 2008, 3:40 pm | Bill Berkowitz
While possibly going against the desires of Christian Zionists regarding Jerusalem, on his trip Bush continued to throw them a bone, hammering away at Iran. At a stop in Abu Dhabi, the president called Iran "the world's leading state-sponsor of terror." More >>
Berkowitz: Will Christian Zionists Obstruct Peace?
Tuesday, 29 January 2008, 4:36 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Although Bush is upbeat, it has been business as usual in the Middle East. In recent days, Avegdor Lieberman, chairman of Yisrael Beitcinu, announced his party's resignation from Israel's coalition government, disenchanted with the peace process. More >>
Christian Zionists Feel Betrayed by Bush Road Map
Friday, 25 January 2008, 9:09 am | Bill Berkowitz
OAKLAND, California, Jan 22 (IPS) - President George W. Bush returned home from his trip to the Middle East optimistic about the possibility of a peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians before he leaves office in January of next year. More >>
Berkowitz: The Vanguard.org's Rod Martin unplugged
Thursday, 24 January 2008, 8:48 am | Bill Berkowitz
The Christian Right's inability to come together and back one presidential candidate underscores the reality that there are differences within the movement. The deaths in 2007 of longtime movement icons Jerry Falwell and D. James Kennedy, and the retirement ... More >>
Christian Zionists Gain Israel's Inner Sanctum
Thursday, 10 January 2008, 11:47 am | Bill Berkowitz
After raising more than two hundred million dollars for various projects in Israel, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein and his organization, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ), which he founded and is president of, has hit pay-dirt. More >>
Huckabee - Social Conservatism Plus Populism-lite?
Monday, 7 January 2008, 7:08 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Owing to his convincing victory in the Iowa Republican Party caucuses, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has become "viable." Over the next few weeks expect the mainstream media to both welcome the folksy/friendly Huckabee with open arms, and slice and ... More >>
Religious right meltdown? More fiction than fact
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 11:28 am | Bill Berkowitz
Despite rumblings in the traditional press about a religious right 'crackup,' key conservative Christian organizations are bringing in 'more money than ever' says Americans United for Separation of Church and State More >>
Mike Huckabee: Surging & Scrutizized
Tuesday, 11 December 2007, 10:29 am | Bill Berkowitz
Although several of the leading Republican Party presidential candidates have won endorsements from Religious Right leaders and organizations, no one has brought more Christian conservative leaders into their camp than former Arkansas governor Mike ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Wolfowitz on the rebound
Monday, 10 December 2007, 10:41 am | Bill Berkowitz
Despite being forced to resign in disgrace as president of the World Bank and helping lead America into the biggest foreign policy disaster in history, Wolfie is still useful to the Bush administration More >>
Push back against the right's "War on Christmas"
Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 1:54 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Over the past few years, the "War on Christmas" -- a shared project of the Religious Right and the Fox News Channel - has become as much a part of the holiday season as the showing of Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" and Charles Schulz`s "A Charlie ... More >>
The Coalition for a Conservative Majority
Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 9:54 am | Bill Berkowitz
When he was not out bashing the leadership of the Republican Party, expressing a desire to "bitch-slap" New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, attending David Horowitz's annual Restoration Weekend, promoting his book "No Retreat, No Surrender," or claiming ... More >>
