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AROUND THE WEB | pages 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21IRC Right Web The Rise and Decline of the NeoconservativesShortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks...an influential, neoconservative-led pressure group called the Project for the New American Century issued a letter to the president calling for a dramatic reshaping of the Middle East as part of the war on terror. Although many of the items on the neoconservatives' agenda, including ousting Saddam Hussein, were eventually adopted by the George W. Bush administration, the group's remarkable string of successes has gradually given way to a steady decline...the increasing isolation of this political faction coupled with recent political events in the United States point to the potential emergence of a more cautious, realist-inspired agenda during the final two years of the Bush presidency. Also see: Project for the new American Century [ link ] Read the story >
Power of Narrative Not to be Technical About It, but These People Are CrazyJoshua Muravchik, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, writes in Foreign Policy about what the neoconservatives should do now, and how they must "sharpen [their] game." Ahem. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
NY Times A Somber Annual Meeting for Conservative LawyersThe Federalist Society gathered last week for its convention, where two Supreme Court justices and Vice President Dick Cheney gave speeches....Senator Charles E. Schumer, a New York Democrat who has been outspoken in opposing Mr. Bush’s nominees, said Friday that the election results “dramatically changed everything.” Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post No Secrets Here: Federalist Society Plots In the OpenConservative Legal Group Focuses on Judiciary to ComeElection? What election? Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Reuters Chertoff tells Federalists International Law a threat to U.S.A top Bush administration official on Friday said the European Union, the United Nations and other international entities increasingly are using international law to challenge U.S. powers to reject treaties and protect itself from attack. Also see: Carpetbagger Report: Cheney’s Deeply Pathological Speech to the Federalist Society [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post Court Battle Likely on Affirmative ActionMichigan Voters Approved Ban, but Opponents of the Measure PersistIn the wake of a decisive Nov. 7 vote to prohibit race- and gender-based preferences in employment, education and contracting, leaders in government and academia who fought to preserve affirmative action are now hurrying to assess the impact. Officials said the response is likely to start with a court challenge. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
NY Times Preaching the Gospel of Small GovernmentThe Conservative Reach...Twice a year, ideological allies from across the globe travel to his [Lawrence W. Reed] program at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Mich., to study the tricks of the idea-peddling trade. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Salon.com Neoconservatism -- RIPThe moralistic ideology has utterly failed. But as long as Bush still abides by it, his disastrous "war on terror" will drag onThe neoconservatives who dreamed up America's Iraq nightmare are rushing desperately about, searching for scapegoats. Their favorite whipping boy is yesterday's jutting-jawed hero, Donald Rumsfeld, who has been unceremoniously tossed onto the scrapheap. But they also blame the National Security Council, Condoleezza Rice, George Tenet, Paul Bremer, Gen. Tommy Franks and George W. Bush himself. The only thing they don't blame is the actual culprit -- neoconservative ideology itself. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Eyeteeth Horowitz's vast leftwing conspiracy and me.Apparently, I keep interesting company: I'm like peas in a pod with Joseph Stalin, Garrison Keillor, Fred Phelps, Osama bin Laden, The Pulitzer Prize, and Bruce Springsteen, according to neoconservative David Horowitz whose website Discover the Networks (DTN) includes me in a recent update to its "Guide to the Political Left." Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
American Prospect Iran Hawks ReorganizeMeet the Iran Enterprise Institute. Its name might sound familiar.Unchastened by the catastrophe of the Iraq war or the setback delivered to the White House and Republicans in the midterm elections in part as a result of it, Iran hawks have organized new efforts to promote U.S. support for regime change in Tehran. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
New Jersey Record Faith-based aid not going to most black N.J. churchesThe Bush administration's faith-based initiative is reaching few black churches in New Jersey because it is not well publicized, churches are wary of federal involvement and smaller congregations lack the resources to apply for funding, local pastors say. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
MyDD.com "Faith Voters" Are Not Why Democrats Won on TuesdayDespite the fact that the data do not support the conclusion that a more mobilized religious base was the key to George W. Bush's win in 2004*, it still remains a commonly held assumption by the political media. So it should not come as a surprise then that both The New York Times and The Washington Post run stories today trumpeting the supposed importance of Democratic gains among religious and Evangelical voters in the party's win in Tuesday's midterm elections. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
InsideBayArea.com Pombo's ambitious agenda didn't yield much in the endFour years ago, the stars were aligned perfectly for Rep. Richard Pombo. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
The Jewish Week Faith-Based Program Could Be Target Of Democratic HouseProbes seen into use of funds; Jewish vote heavily Democratic; new faces on the Hill.This week’s Democratic wave, which swept at least six Jewish candidates into the U.S. House and two into the Senate and capsized the careers of several high-ranking Republicans, could also lead to probes of charges of corruption and misuse of funds in the Bush administration’s faith-based initiative. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post Board Seeks to Give Away Its Oversight of ChartersThe D.C. Board of Education voted yesterday to voluntarily give up its power to establish charter schools in the District.The decision does not immediately relieve the board of its charter responsibilities, but it sends a clear message to the D.C. Council and Congress -- two entities likely to get involved in the debate -- that the 11-member board wants to focus exclusively on the 58,000 students in the traditional school system. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
HuffingtonPost.com Bush's "Accountability Moment" Should Also Include McCain, the Think Tanks, and the Corporate MediaWe should not only hold Bush accountable for this mess, but his army of enablers. We need to hold the right-wing think tanks accountable too. They should be taken out of the law-writing business. The Heritage Foundation dominated the wrong-headed thinking of Bush's domestic and foreign policies. The American Enterprise Institute "fellows" were cheerleaders for going into Iraq. The Hudson Institute, Hoover Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Americans for Tax Reform, and all of the others should be held accountable for being the brains behind Bush's dismal and murderous failures. They have shoved down our throats privatizing Social Security, cutting functioning government agencies like FEMA, and kick-down-the-poor "trickle down" economics. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Michigan Daily Affirmative action banned [in Michigan]Ward Connerly wins oneMichigan voters dealt a firm blow to the University's affirmative action programs yesterday, voting decisively in favor of Proposal 2, which bans the consideration of race, gender or national origin in college admissions, hiring and contracting. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Detroit Free Press Granholm beats DeVos, is ready to workGov. Jennifer Granholm steamrolled to a decisive victory over Republican challenger Dick DeVos on Tuesday, slapping an exclamation point at the end of a campaign that broke spending records and left voters weary from its intensity and nonstop TV ads. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Think Progress Ward Connerly - Leader of Michigan Initiative To End Affirmative Action -- Welcomes Ku Klux Klan SupportThe man leading the effort to ban affirmative action in Michigan, Ward Connerly, welcomes the support of the Ku Klux Klan. Connerly said, “If the Ku Klux Klan thinks that equality is right, God bless them. Thank them for finally reaching the point where logic and reason are being applied, instead of hate.” Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Kevin Drum Thomas Sowell: McCarthyish mendacity of the worst kindSURVEILLANCE....Speaking of Nancy Pelosi, here's part of the latest tirade aimed in her direction from desperate conservatives. This is from Thomas Sowell over at National Review: Also see: Sowell wins $250,000 "Bradley Prize" [ link ] Read the story >
NY Times What Torture Is and Isn’t: A Hard-Liner’s ArgumentReview of John Yoo's War by other means...[Yoo] has written a book that reads like a combination of White House talking points and a partisan brief on presidential prerogatives -- a book that is strewn with preposterous assertions, contorted reasoning and illogical conclusions. He writes that “because of our aggressive policies post 9/11, al Qaeda is no longer the threat it was.” He suggests that might makes right: “At this moment in world history the United States’ conduct should bear the most weight in defining the customs of war. Our defense budget is greater than the defense spending of the next fifteen nations combined.” Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
USA Today Abstinence message goes beyond teensNow the government is targeting unmarried adults up to age 29 as part of its abstinence-only programs...Wade Horn, assistant secretary for children and families at the Department of Health and Human Services, said the revision is aimed at 19- to 29-year-olds because more unmarried women in that age group are having children. Also see: Attytood: No sex, please: You're 20-somethings [ link ] Read the story >
Book excerpt: The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege How Jesus Endorsed Bush's Invasion of IraqGroup of Catholic theo-conservatives funded by conservative philanthropy helped convince the religious to endorse warFor much of the past 25 years, a small group of Catholic intellectuals has worked to inject its radical religious ideas into the nation's politics. The leader of this theoconservative movement is Father Richard John Neuhaus. In the pages of his monthly magazine First Things, Neuhaus and his ideological allies set the theocon agenda on a range of policies. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
DailyKos Joe Lieberman gets Richard Mellon Scaife political contributionScaife, Vast RightWing Conspiracy patron, funding LiebermanNo one was more of a factor in funding and fueling the witchhunt against the Clintons than Richard Scaife. This is a highly partisan, Wingnut, lying ass Republican. So far as we know, Lieberman has not given back this money, especially since Scaife's name appears on Joenertia's FEC report. Joe must answer for taking this money. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Brad DeLong Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?The Wall Street Journal editorial page strikes again. Eliot Cohen says that it is time for "Plan B" in Iraq. But then he refuses to tell us what his favored "Plan B" is. Instead he calls for an "honest debate." Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Consortium News Conservative philanthropy actors playing doctorsMedia turns to subsidized political pros to confront scientific study of Iraqi deadSince the media has been unable to find a scientist critical of the [Lancet ] study, they’ve turned to policy wonks with literally no expertise in the health sciences. Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute derides the study, but her advanced degree is in international studies. Nor does Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies nor Michael E. O’Hanlon of Brookings have a health background. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Talk to Action The Pizza-man Delivers: Monaghan's Dough for Radical Right Politicos...A review of [Domino's Tom] Monaghan's political donations since 1984 shows that of a total of $238,031 disbursed, only $6,000 went to Democrats, another $68,500 to special interests while (as of June 2006) a hefty $161, 531 went to Republicans. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Florida Baptist Witness Bible is standard for objectivity in journalism, Olasky saysAll journalists are shaped by their worldviews, and the only way to bring true objectivity to journalism is to be shaped by the worldview of the Bible, Marvin Olasky said at the Baptist Press Excellence in Journalism Banquet in Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 7. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Raw Story Accuracy in Media alleges gay GOP is really network of undercover liberalsConservative media watchdog Accuracy in Media is alleging that the Foley scandal is not the work of a gay Republican, but rather of a Democratic operative posing as a Republican to undermine the party. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Talk to Action Jewish Religious Right Agency Shuts Down in Abramoff Scandal[UPDATE: Apparently Lapin is going to stay in business.]Toward Tradition, one of the leading organizations of the Jewish element of the religious right is going out of business due to it's involvement in the still unfolding Abramoff scandal. Abramoff had been as much a part of the life of the organization as the cause of its demise. He served on the Toward Tradition board until 2004 and served two terms as chairman. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
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