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Swift-Boating Hillary Clinton
Sunday, 19 August 2007, 10:11 am | Bill Berkowitz
After years of systematically trying to destroy her reputation and derail her political career, GOP operatives and surrogates again have Hillary Clinton in their crosshairs. Has she already taken their best? More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Faith the Nation: Part 5-4
Sunday, 12 August 2007, 6:24 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Supreme Court limits citizens' ability to question state/religion connections, gives victory to president's religious patronage program More >>
Religious right lining up behind Fred Thompson
Sunday, 12 August 2007, 1:07 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Despite their differences, social conservatives appear ready to give two thumbs up to the former Tennessee Senator, cum Hollywood actor, touted as the 'Ronald Reagan of the South,' when he finally tosses his hat into the ring More >>
Jonathan Falwell: Here Comes The Son
Wednesday, 8 August 2007, 12:11 am | Bill Berkowitz
The Rev. Jonathan Falwell appears to be picking up from where his father, the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, left off. In his first contribution as a regular weekend columnist for the conservative online publication, WorldNetDaily, Falwell issued a dad-like ... More >>
US Evangelicals at Odds on Embracing Israel
Saturday, 4 August 2007, 1:45 pm | Bill Berkowitz
OAKLAND, Aug 2 (IPS) - It was business as usual during Christians United for Israel's recent "Israel Summit," its highly-publicised second summer sojourn to Washington. More >>
Evangelical Leaders & Domestic Violence Victims
Wednesday, 25 July 2007, 12:46 am | Bill Berkowitz
Dr. James Dobson and Dr. John MacArthur, two influential evangelical family counselors, 'blame' battered women for their plight, says Christian evangelical author Jocelyn Andersen. More >>
Wolfowitz: Return to Sender?
Monday, 16 July 2007, 9:25 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Recently forced out as president of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, one of the primary architects of U.S. President George W. Bush's Iraq war, is heading back to familiar surroundings. And the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute (AEI), one of ... More >>
Searching for love in all the Right's places
Saturday, 14 July 2007, 8:29 pm | Bill Berkowitz
While Giuliani and McCain register 'morally repugnant' on the religious right's traditional-values meter, Romney has a bigger problem: many conservative Christian evangelical leaders don't believe his religion measures up More >>
Promise Keepers try to regain the offensive
Friday, 29 June 2007, 1:54 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of "Stand in the Gap," evangelicals hope to bring 250,000 men to Washington to re-ignite the Christian men's movement More >>
Surgeon General to be...or not to be?
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 11:53 am | Bill Berkowitz
Dr. James Holsinger's nomination to be surgeon general colored by questionable deaths at a VA hospital where he was Chief Medical Officer, along with his record of homophobia and involvement in a questionable Kentucky land deal More >>
J. Steven Griles did the crime not the time
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 11:49 am | Bill Berkowitz
Former Interior Department Deputy Secretary who pleaded guilty earlier in connection with Jack Abramoff looking for 'sentence' of working for anti-environmental group instead of five years in the pokey More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Mooning Martin Luther King Jr.
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 3:53 pm | Bill Berkowitz
If there was an organization that received taxpayer money and appeared to be doing reasonably good things in the community, would you care whether that organization was a front group for a powerful political/religious enterprise? Would it matter ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Ken Blackwell Lands In D.C.
Thursday, 31 May 2007, 11:09 am | Bill Berkowitz
Over the years he's carried enough water for the GOP to fill up a good part of Lake Erie. He's done enough dirty work to pave the Interstate from Cleveland to Columbus. He is credited with being part of the team that helped double President George W. ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Jerry Falwell
Thursday, 24 May 2007, 12:11 am | Bill Berkowitz
The Reverend Jerry Falwell, who died Tuesday at the age of 73, is perhaps best known for his fundamentalist social positions and tirades against lesbians, gays and feminists, not to mention "pagans", "abortionists" and assorted other miscreants. More >>
Berkowitz: AFA Still Cranky After All These Years
Friday, 11 May 2007, 10:54 am | Bill Berkowitz
It has an annual budget of close to $17 million, net assets of more than $32 million, owns and feeds programming to nearly 200 radio stations, employs about 100 at its home-base, operates the Center for Law & Policy, a high-powered conservative legal ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Wade's Horn Of Plenty
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 9:59 am | Bill Berkowitz
Former Department of Health and Human services official signs on as a consultant with Deloitte Consulting LLP after questions are raised about federal government grants and abstinence-only sex education programs More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Anti-Environment 'Enviropreneurs'
Saturday, 7 April 2007, 3:17 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Right Wing foundation-funded Property and Environmental Research Center seeking a wider audience for its 'free market environmentalism' More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Neil Bush of Saudi Arabia
Friday, 30 March 2007, 10:16 am | Bill Berkowitz
In late February, only a few days after Saudi Arabia beheaded four Sri Lankan robbers and then left their headless bodies on public display in the capital of Riyadh, Neil Bush, for the fourth time in the past six years, showed up for the country's Jeddah ... More >>
Berkowitz: The Religious Right's New Bugbear Iran
Tuesday, 20 March 2007, 11:49 am | Bill Berkowitz
These days, while the Bush Administration and beltway neoconservatives doggedly crank up the volume against Iran, they are again being joined by several notable conservative Christian evangelical leaders. More >>
Bill Berkowitz: MoveOn For Conservatives?
Friday, 9 March 2007, 2:38 pm | Bill Berkowitz
The history of the modern conservative movement -- circa 1964 to the present -- is replete with its share of hucksters, snake oil salesman, rhetoricians, sexual deviants, mudslingers, marketers and one-hit wonders. But it also has had more than its fair ... More >>
