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Why Are Hundreds Protesting Against A New Theater Director?

AP | Posted 02.01.2012 | Arts

Read More: Dubbing, Eddie Murphy, Bruce Willis, Budapest-Hungary, Theater, Theater Protest, Budapest, Right Wing, Gyorgy Dorner, Arts News

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Around 300 people gathered outside Budapest's New Theater on Wednesday to protest its new director, an actor with links to f...

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Former 'SNL' Actress Makes Wild Islamophobic Claims

Posted 12.30.2011 | Entertainment

Read More: Political Hollywood, Right Wing Extremism, Terrorism, Victoria Jackson Islamophobia, Right Wing, Victoria Jackson Glee, Victoria Jackson Muslims, Victoria Jackson, John Guandolo, Video, Victoria Jackson Web Show, Maj. Stephen Couglin, Victoria Jackson Politichicks, Entertainment News

Former "Saturday Night Live" actress Victoria Jackson, working on confidential information she has special clearance to obtain as a web talk-show host...

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Why the Right Wing Hates the Left Wing

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 12.26.2011 | Politics

Read More: Right Wing Media, Right Wing, Conservatives, Right-Wing Extremism, Right-Wing, Politics News
Mark Goulston, M.D.

Read my lips. Two words will explain why... "Fearful aggression." Fearful aggression is well-known to show dog and thoroughbred horse trainers. It oc...

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It's Time to Change Kleptocracy to Democracy

Deepak Chopra | Posted 12.19.2011 | Politics

Read More: Political Reform, Kleptocracy, Political Corruption, Democracy, Shift in Consciousness, Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street, Right Wing, Politics News
Deepak Chopra

Since it is based on the Greek word for stealing, the term "kleptocracy" sounds inflammatory. But as income gaps open up wider and wider, there is evidence of a serious rift in American democracy, and in that rift one finds untold greed, corruption, and cronyism.

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The Right Wing Message Machine Is Fumbling on the Economy

Madeline Janis | Posted 02.05.2012 | Media

Read More: Right Wing, Frank Luntz, Economy, Occupy Wall Street, Frank Luntz Speech, Frank Lunch Economy, Frank Luntz Memo, Media News
Madeline Janis

Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster and messaging guru, gave a recent talk where he described his 10 biggest do's and don'ts for talking about the economy in the post occupy Wall Street environment.

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The Hurtful Legacy of Herman Cain's "Suspended," "Brother From Another Mother" Presidential Campaign

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 02.04.2012 | Black Voices

Read More: Robert C. Smith, Mass Incarceration, Timothy McVeigh, Ann Coulter, Terrorism, Right-Wing, White Supremacy, GOP Base, Extremist, Conservatism, High Tech Lynching, High Tech Rape, Clarence Thomas, Colorblindess, Tim Wise, South, Driving While Black, Black Men, Koch Brothers, Conservatives, Ron Robinson, Christian Conservatives, Herman Cain, Pew Research Study, Racism, White Conservatives, Tea Party, Republicans, Hannity, Video, Black Voices News
Ronald B. Robinson

For a sustained period, Cain was the GOP candidate who most successfully stimulated the nostalgia for the good ole days of the "great communicator," Ronald Reagan, among "the base."

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Newt Gingrich Will Be the GOP Nominee in 2012 - Bet on It

Fernando Espuelas | Posted 01.21.2012 | Politics

Read More: White House, Bill Clinton, Oval Office, Right-Wing, Elections 2012, Establishment Republicans, Wapo, Mitt Romney, Bachmann, Barack Obama, President, Rick Perry, Politics, Newt Gingrich 2012, Obamacare, George Will, 2012 Election, Occupy Wall Street, Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, Donald Trump, redstate.com, Erick Erickson, Mormon, Gop, Romneycare, Newt Gingrich, Tea Party, Republicans Democrats, Politics News
Fernando Espuelas

The Tea Partiers have found their candidate. And in these times, where the Tea Party goes, as the debate ceiling debacle showed showed the world, so goes the Republican Party. Republicans, say hello to your nominee: Newt Gingrich.

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David Brooks on Inequality, Part II: The Comedy Tour

Richard Brodsky | Posted 01.17.2012 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Right Wing, 9-9-9 Plan, Inequality, David Brooks, Media News
Richard Brodsky

Income inequality is the greatest domestic long-term threat to the American experience that we face. It ain't funny and it ain't trivial.

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The Occupy Movement: What Would Batman Do?

Zaki Hasan | Posted 01.14.2012 | Entertainment

Read More: Frank Miller Batman, DC Comics, Comics, Occupy Wall Street, Right Wing, Comic-Con, Batman, BATMAN: YEAR ONE, Frank Miller, Entertainment News
Zaki Hasan

With how much and how clearly Frank Miller seems to identify with the comic book realities he's spent his life toiling in, I'm surprised he hasn't put himself in the cowl of the character with whom he's most identified and asked, "What would Batman do?"

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Have Post50s Moved To The Right?

The Daily Caller | Posted 01.04.2012 | Fifty

Read More: Mitt Romney, Gop, Baby Boomers, Right Wing, Democrats, Barack Obama, Political Trends, Fifty News

Dustin Hoffman's graduate is rooting for Mitt Romney. Woodstock's attendees are donating the Republican National Committee. Haight Ashbury's residents...

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The Fourth Way

Al Checchi | Posted 12.31.2011 | Politics

Read More: Political Ideology, Leadership, Left Wing, Obama Leadership, Right Wing, Political Aristocracy, Non-Partisan, Barack Obama, Political Extremism, Declaration of Independence, Politics, Al Checchi, Bipartisanship, The Change Maker, Third Way, Obama Approval, Partisanship, Politics News
Al Checchi

We need to develop a "Fourth Way," the American Way -- neither left, right, or bipartisan, but a non partisan common sense program for American civic renewal.

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Comedy Relief

Steven Weber | Posted 12.24.2011 | Politics

Read More: Right Wing, Fox News, Roger Ailes, Politics News
Steven Weber

It's the most hilarious show in town: the rhetorical gymnastics executed by the Right, taking every hard-fought victory for the United States and twisting, hammering, chopping and screwing them into the feel-bad fabrications about that "evil other" Barack Obama.

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Five Reasons the Occupy Wall Street Movement Really Frightens the Right

Robert Creamer | Posted 12.12.2011 | Politics

Read More: Right Wing, Occupy Wall Street, Progressive Movement, Republicans, President Obama, 2012 Elections, Elections 2012, Politics News
Robert Creamer

None of them have to do with physical violence -- they have to do with politics. They're not really worried about ending up like Marie Antoinette. But they are very worried that their electoral heads may roll.

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Clashes Between the Young and the Old: The Right Wing's War on the Young

Michael Genecin | Posted 12.10.2011 | High School

Read More: Mitt Romney, Right Wing, Mitt Romney 2012, Rick Perry, Texas Governor Rick Perry, GOP Candidates, High School News
Michael Genecin

While the inanity of the Tea Party makes us laugh, the emergence of Rick Perry as a front-runner in the primary race means that we have to stand up and get involved.

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People: Get Ready

Steven Weber | Posted 12.05.2011 | Politics

Read More: Right Wing Machine, Right Wing Media, Right Wing Tea Party, Right Wing, Election 2012, Gop 2012, Right-Wing Extremism, Politics News
Steven Weber

Lacking actual creative imaginations (but mistakenly thinking "shrewd deception" is the same thing), the right-wing corporate machine may have bought up all the gullible Tea Party's concerns and transmogrified them with craven corporate cant.

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Is It Best to Buy or Borrow Books?

Dave Astor | Posted 11.28.2011 | Books

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Greed, Barbara Kingsolver, Libraries, E-Books, Eco-Friendly, Right Wing, Bookstores, Library Books, Government Services, Erich Maria Remarque, Sir Walter Scott, Corporate Greed, Independent Bookstores, Privatization, Buying Books, Harry Potter, Pay-Per-View, Jack London, Books News
Dave Astor

Now stepping into the ring: buying books vs. using a library! That bout might never make pay-per-view, but it's a contest often on the minds of avid readers.

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No Joke, No Hyperbole: 2012 May Be America's Final Election

Paul Abrams | Posted 11.18.2011 | Politics

Read More: Florida, 2012 Elections, Wisconsin, South, Michigan, Voting, Scott Walker, Ohio, Medicare, Baker v Carr., Right Wing, Fdr, Rick Snyder, Elections 2012, Politics News
Paul Abrams

If anyone believed 2011 was the year of the direct assault on proponents of the middle class, clean air and water, public education, and respect for first responders, and democracy itself, just wait until 2013.

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The John Birch Society's Reality

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 01.09.2012 | Politics

Read More: Robert Welch, Conspiracy Theories, John Birch Society, Right Wing, Tea Party, Video, Politics News
Andrew Reinbach

Most Americans don't realize that the right wing's main ideas have been pushed for 50 years by the John Birch Society, a group Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley Jr once thought too extreme, but which has since become the intellectual seed bank of the right.

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What's Happening to America?

Ethan Casey | Posted 10.09.2011 | Politics

Read More: Us Credit Rating, Super Congress, Nazi Germany, Congress, Nyse, Debt Ceiling, John Boehner, Usa, Stock Market, Pakistan, President Obama, Standard & Poor's, Right Wing, Obama, Democrats, U.S. Credit Rating, Obama Debt Ceiling, House Republicans, Barack Obama, American Politics, Super Committee, Stock Market Crash, Dow Jones, Nazis, Wall Street, US Politics, Germany, Us Government, 112th Congress, New York Stock Exchange, Republicans, Politics News
Ethan Casey

A decade ago, I read a book that made a lasting impression on me. It was a memoir called Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner, who had recently passed ...

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When Ideology Becomes Pathology

Mark Olmsted | Posted 09.22.2011 | Politics

Read More: Ideology, Tea Party, Defense, Unemployment, Debt Ceiling, Pathology, George W. Bush, Jobs, Right Wing, Obama, Cancer, Dylan Ratigan, Bill Bradly, Politics News
Mark Olmsted

We all have belief systems -- religious, political, spiritual. Up to a certain point, they provide an indispensable architecture that allows us to op...

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Why We Were Attacked In Norway

Jalees Rehman, M.D. | Posted 09.22.2011 | Religion

Read More: Politics, Religion, Islam, Norway, Terrorism, Utoya, Right Wing, Right-Wing Extremism, Norway Bombing, Politics News, Breaking Politics News, News, World News, World, International, Religion News
Jalees Rehman, M.D.

One of the biggest shocks was that these attacks occurred in Norway, which is characterized by an open and peaceful society. However, Norway is exactly the kind of country that would offend religious or political right-wing extremists.

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The Right Wing Crumbles

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 09.17.2011 | Politics

Read More: Right Wing, Gop, Republican Party, Republicans, Politics News
Andrew Reinbach

It's not just the debt crisis, or the fall of the House of Murdoch; fissures great and small are appearing within conservative ranks caught between what it's promised and what it can deliver, and between what it's seemed, and what it is.

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President Ron Paul? Ron Paul and the John Birch Society

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 09.04.2011 | Politics

Read More: John Birch Society, Right Wing, Tea Party, Right-Wing Extremism, Ron Paul, Politics News
Andrew Reinbach

During the Vietnam War, an Army major famously told reporter Peter Arnett "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it" Welcome to Dr. Ron Paul's prescription for America. If he ever becomes president, you won't recognize the place.

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Only Wall Street Can Resolve the Debt-Ceiling Impasse -- By Pulling Money From Republicans

Paul Abrams | Posted 08.29.2011 | Business

Read More: Bill Daley, Right Wing, President Obama, Republicans, Chamber of Commerce, Debt Ceiling, Wall Street, Business News
Paul Abrams

Wall Street and the Chamber of Commerce bought this Congress. Fear and delusional beliefs ignited fervor, Wall Street money sustained it, and it worked -- to win. Governing has been a very different story.

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