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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 21ThinkProgress.org Hoover Gore smear picked up by Fox NewsEarlier this month, Peter Schweizer published a hit piece on Al Gore’s environmental habits. (Schweizer works at the Hoover Institute which has received nearly $300,000 from Exxon Mobile since 1998.) It was an obvious attempt to discredit Gore’s efforts to combat the threat of global warming. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Raw Story New Coral Ridge TV special featuring Ann Coulter blames Darwin for HitlerAn upcoming television special produced by a Christian broadcaster [Coral Ridge Ministries] that features conservative pundit Ann Coulter blames Charles Darwin for Adolf Hitler, RAW STORY has learned. Also see: The truth about Hitler and the Church: Good buddies [ link ] Read the story >
ThinkProgress.org AEI Fellow After Meeting With Bush: President May Take Military Action Against Iran In 12-18 MonthsReuel Marc Gerecht, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a member of a small group of analysts who were asked to discuss their views on the Middle East with President Bush at a private lunch this week, said this morning on ABC’s This Week that the mid- to long-term fallout from Israel-Hezbollah conflict could be a good thing because it may prompt Bush to take military action against Iran. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Minnesota Monthly Red State, Blue State, Old State, New StateMany credit the Center of the American Experiment with catalyzing Minnesota’s conservative shift. But after a dramatic shakeup, can it maintain its influence?...“There is a very definite threat to [CAE’s] future,” says [Vin] Weber, who credits the organization with establishing the “intellectual infrastructure” of Minnesota’s conservative movement. “They’ve lost a majority of their employees, they’ve lost their president—people have taken sides. The supportive community of activists and donors is divided now. They are going to have a hard time bouncing back.” Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Talk to Action Swift Boating Stem CellsFocus on the Family launched one of the most astonishing disinformation campaigns in the nation in Missouri in August. The subject was stem cell research, but the style was pure Swift Boat Veterans. Focus on the Family covertly distributed 90,000 brochures, stealing feminists' rhethoric and then using those feminists to argue against stem cell research. It's a switcheroo. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
SF Chronicle Traditional Values Coalition lobbyist hired by SchwarzeneggerGOP outreach under fireWe caught up today with the Rev. Lou Sheldon, head of the Traditional Values Coalition -- an evangelical Christian advocacy group -- at the state Republican convention, which is ramping up for the weekend at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. He would not confirm nor deny reports that Ben Lopez, TVC's California lobbyist and legislative analyst, has been hired by the state Republican Party with the idea of helping reach out to evangelicals for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's re-election campaign. Lopez, according to the TVC offices, is "on leave until November." [ link ] Read the story >
David Roberts Peter Schweitzer, Al Gore, and hypocrisyAbout a week ago, USA Today published a piece by Peter Schweitzer, who's a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. It accused Al Gore of hypocrisy, for asking viewers of An Inconvenient Truth to scale back their lifestyles and carbon emissions while ... well, there were a number of charges. According to Schweitzer, Gore owns three homes and stock in Occidental Petroleum, still receives royalties from a zinc mine on his property, does not participate in the green-power option his utility offers in Nashville, and lets Paramount pay for his carbon offsets.... Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post Charter School Closures Strand D.C. StudentsLess than two weeks before the first day of school, dozens of District parents are scrambling to find a school for their children after two popular charter schools closed this summer. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
NY Times Husband Takes Schiavo Fight Back to Politicians...Mr. Schiavo, who won a scorching legal battle to remove his brain-damaged wife’s feeding tube, also remains furious at lawmakers in Tallahassee and Washington who intervened in the case. Hence the creation last winter of TerriPAC, a federal political action committee aimed against politicians who tried to stop Ms. Schiavo’s death, and the debut of Mr. Schiavo, a newly remarried, self-described normal guy, as a political weapon in this year’s midterm elections. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Associated Press Religion-related fraud getting worse...Billions of dollars has been stolen in religion-related fraud in recent years, according to the North American Securities Administrators Association, a group of state officials who work to protect investors. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
People For the American Way Cutting Through Right-Wing Spin on Public EducationWhen the Going Gets Tough, Privatization Proponents Get Paul Peterson...A senior research fellow at the Milton and Rose Friedman Foundation, an organization that advocates publicly funded vouchers, implied that anyone who believes public schools perform better than private schools might be on drugs. Right-wing education scholar Chester Finn claimed that coverage of the study said more about the media than the state of public education... Also see: Paul Peterson: Three strikes and you’re out. [ link ] Read the story >
DailyKos (MI - Gov) DeVos Doctrine: Mission ala D. James Kennedy...While the real objectives of the DeVos Doctrine are basically simple self-enrichment and profit, the Doctrine and Dick DeVos for Governor campaign in Michigan are infused with a special sort of Christian Fundamentalist rhetoric and the ambitions of political power using organizations within the Christian Right, many of which were setup and financed directly by the DeVos Family for their select purposes and coordinated with other groups with likeminded agendas and goals. They form a cooperative network of burrowing idealogues and market fundelmentalists. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Atrios The wit, the wisdom, the profound inability to learn that is, B-I-L-L (Kristol)Why ever learn, if you never get shamed into admitting you have been wrong? Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Center for American Progress Heritage Foundation Fires Fellow For Criticizing BushLast month the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank, fired John Hulsman. Heritage refuses to say exactly why they let him go, but the New Republic reports the “reasons for Hulsman’s departure” are “perfectly evident”; he criticized the Bush administration’s foreign policy. Hulsman previously had kept his dissent to himself, but “years of insurgency, civil war, and general chaos” in Iraq led him to speak out. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org Echoing Lyndon LaRouche, Horowitz and Poe smear 14-year-old George Soros as Nazi "collaborator"; new book features doctored quotes, factual errorsEchoing the rantings of political extremist Lyndon LaRouche and his followers, David Horowitz and Richard Poe charge in their new book that George Soros was a Nazi "collaborator in fascist Hungary" and "survived [the Holocaust] by assimilating to Nazism" as a 14-year-old boy. Horowitz and Poe further smear Soros and other progressives by doctoring or distorting quotes and falsely or misleadingly portraying events and statements. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
St Paul Pioneer Press Minnesota Republican Governor Pawlenty fires prison chaplain for opposing Charles Colson's religious prison programInnerChange Initiative already ruled illegal by judgeFour state senators have accused Gov. Tim Pawlenty's office of having a prison chaplain fired for speaking out against a controversial program to bring Jesus to inmates. Through a spokesman, Pawlenty, a Republican, denied the accusation by the four lawmakers, all Democrats. The state's top prison official declined to provide a reason for the termination of Kristine Holmgren, former chaplain at women's state prison at Shakopee. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Pittsburgh City Paper Private DickRichard Mellon Scaife’s divorce could be one of the “nastiest divorces in American history,” according to New York Daily News gossip columnist Lloyd Grove. But you’re not likely to hear much about the legal proceedings in the Scaife-owned Pittsburgh Tribune-Review — or anywhere else. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Crooks and Liars Coulter on Clinton and Gore: Gay and fagWhile talking about Clinton, Coulter responded, "I don’t know if he’s gay. But Al Gore — total fag." In concluding the interview, Matthews said of Coulter, "We’d love to have her back." Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
NY Times After the Bell Curve...A new generation of studies shows that genes and environment don’t occupy separate spheres — that much of what is labeled “hereditary” becomes meaningful only in the context of experience. “It doesn’t really matter whether the heritability of I.Q. is this particular figure or that one,” says Sir Michael Rutter of the University of London. “Changing the environment can still make an enormous difference.” [Editor's note: Apparently about 12 IQ points difference, according to research.] Also see: Slate (2005): The Bell Curve is a decade old. It's still wrong. [ link ] Read the story >
NY Times Most States Fail Demands in Education LawMost states failed to meet federal requirements that all teachers be “highly qualified” in core teaching fields and that state programs for testing students be up to standards by the end of the past school year, according to the federal government. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Boston Globe Federalist Society membership secret handshake for admission to Bush Admin Civil Rights Division...Since 2003 the three sections have hired 11 lawyers who said they were members of the conservative Federalist Society. Seven hires in the three sections are listed as members of the Republican National Lawyers Association, including two who volunteered for Bush-Cheney Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post With Insurance Policy Comes MembershipUnbeknown to Some, Those Signing Up With Firm Are Joining Conservative Group [FreedomWorks]...an obscure arrangement between a prominent Republican businessman, J. Patrick Rooney, and a free-market interest group...has netted the grass-roots organization hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of new members. Citizens for a Sound Economy -- now called FreedomWorks and headed by former House majority leader Richard K. Armey (R-Tex.) -- has netted more than $638,000 and about 16,000 members through the sale of insurance policies. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Editor and Publisher Columnist Ann Coulter Calls for Wiping Out All of South LebanonAnn Coulter, in her latest syndicated column, laments that all of South Lebanon hasn't been obliterated. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
NY Times Republicans Propose National School Voucher ProgramWith Education Secretary Margaret Spellings joining them in a show of support, Congressional Republicans proposed Tuesday to spend $100 million on vouchers for low-income students in chronically failing public schools around the country to attend private and religious schools. Also see: MyDD: Social Security Privatization Fails; GOP Turns to Public Schools [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Note George Will Excoriates The Weekly Standard in Rebuke of Bill Kristol, Condi Rice, and the Bush Administration's Middle East CatastropheGeorge Will gets the "Conservatives with a Conscience Award" today from The Washington Note. Also see: George Will: Transformation's Toll [ link ] Read the story >
NY Times Public Schools Beat Private Ones in StudyThe Education Department reported on Friday that children in public schools generally performed as well or better in reading and mathematics than comparable children in private schools. The exception was in eighth-grade reading, where the private school counterparts fared better. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Alternet.org Young (cowardly) conservativesA reporter fails the chickenhawk litmus testCampus Progress reporter and U. Penn student Julie Brinn Siegel was not only refused credentials to cover the Young America’s Foundation student conference, she was essentially told by spokesman Jason Mattera that even applying as a progressive was laughable. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org Horowitz baselessly suggested that domestic spying led to foiling of NYC tunnel plotIn his latest column, David Horowitz baselessly suggested that U.S. officials were able to uncover an alleged "attack by radical Islam" to bomb tunnels leading into New York City by monitoring the communications of Americans, an apparent reference to the controversy over The New York Times' reporting in December that the administration was monitoring domestic communications without a warrant. In fact, there is no indication, in any reports, that the FBI engaged in the kind of domestic eavesdropping on which the Times reported to uncover the alleged tunnel plot; the communications made in connection with the purported plot apparently did not involve a party inside the United States. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
truthdig.com American Enterprise Institute's Claim: Soldiers Faking Post-Battle StressThe American Enterprise Institute [Sally Satel] suspects that U.S. soldiers are fabricating instances of post-traumatic stress syndrome. Blogger Respectful of Otters dismantles the claims... Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
JOHN MURTHA: Anatomy of a Smear...Prior to 2005, The Cybercast News Service (CNS), purveyor of all things conservative and run by L. Brent Bozell III, had only one article about Rep. John Murtha. The headline was laudatory: Congressional Bill Would Establish Memorial for Victims of 9/11 (March 8, 2002). But on November 18, 2005, Bozell's team shot into action and hasn't stopped attacking Rep. Murtha since. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
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