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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 21Center for American Progress Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi PropagandistSterling Burnett is a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, an organization that has received over $390,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998. This afternoon on Fox, Burnett compared watching Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, to watching a movie by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to learn about Nazi Germany. Also see: Earlier: NCPA analyst fired for speaking against George W. Bush [ link ] Read the story >
Center for American Progress Climate Scientist To CEI: Stop Misrepresenting My ResearchOn Wednesday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute – a front group funded by ExxonMobil and other big oil companies – launched two advertisements in response to Al Gore’s new movie about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Talk To Action The Salvation Army and Anne LownI got my copy of Michelle Goldberg's Kingdom Coming yesterday and started reading this superb book last night. Also see: Search this website for "Salvation Army" [ link ] Read the story >
Seeing The Forest Head of National Constitution Center named editor of TIME magazineRichard Stengel, who most recently was head of the National Constitution Center, has been named editor of TIME magazine. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Think Progress CEI Founder on Global Warming: ‘It Looks Pretty Good…We’re Moving To A More Benign Planet.’Josh Marshall linked to our earlier post on the Competitive Enterprise Institute – a front group funded by big oil – and their attack on Al Gore’s new movie. Josh mentioned he remembered that CEI’s founder, Fred Smith, was on Crossfire years ago talking about how “global warming was actually a good thing because of all the cool new crops we could grow.” Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
IRC Right Web AEI Scholars Call for Iran Regime Change and Possible WarAs tensions with Iran increase, many of the neoconservatives who laid the ideological and strategic frameworks for the invasion of Iraq are calling on the Bush administration to prepare for a preventive war against Iran and to immediately implement a "regime change" strategy. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Booman Tribune Shelby Steele: Cultured, Erudite RacistToday, we have our own version of Kipling in noted writer Shelby Steele, in this essay in which he bemoans our nation's "White Guilt" and asks us to transcend it in order to bomb the crap out of 21st Century wogs. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Judicial Watch Judicial Watch Compels Secret Service to Produce White House Logs Detailing Abramoff VisitsFederal Court Orders Logs Produced on May 10, 2006Judicial Watch...announced today that Judge John Garrett Penn of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ordered the United States Secret Service to produce White House logs detailing the visits of corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff to the White House. The logs are to be produced to Judicial Watch without redactions or claims of exemption by May 10, 2006. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
PZ Myers Are you ready for Coulter?...Coulter's research [method - supporting Creationism]: find the most wrong-headed fool around and parrot his ill-informed opinions. This [Coulter's new book] is going to be world-class suckage. This book is going to be a black hole of reason -- reading it is going be like sticking your brain in a Cuisanart. What we're going to find in there is all the lies and nonsense we can expect to hear echoed back at us for the next decade, the dishonest crap that every clueless wingnut bozo is going to absorb instead of real science. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Slate.com Judicial Watch v. Judicial WatchIt had to happen. Judicial Watch, the polymorphously litigious and mostly right-wing public interest group—best known for representing at least six women who claim to have been groped, or know others who were groped, by former president Bill Clinton—is suing itself. Judicial Watch's founder, Larry Klayman, is suing the nonprofit alleging breach of "various agreements and laws," including his severance agreement. Klayman famously once sued his own mother; now he is now in effect suing his own child. Klayman left the place in 2003 to run for the U.S. Senate in Florida. He lost in the primary to Mel "Mr. Cellophane" Martinez, a former housing secretary whom I once identified as the most forgettable member of the Bush administration. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Mpls Star Tribune Business Charter School created by US Sen. Norm Coleman, funded by Wal-Mart, closesThe Minnesota Business Academy, a fledgling charter school in St Paul is closing its doors. The school was created by Norm Coleman, Bill Cooper, and other Minnesota business leaders. It was partially funded with grants from the Walton Family (Wal-Mart) Foundation. Also see: Previously in City Pages: Q: What Happens When You Run a School Like a Business? A: You Go Broke. [ link ] Read the story >
The Demons of David HorowitzSince David Horowitz switched his political allegiance from the radical left to the authoritarian right, he has engaged in one embarassingly paranoid crusade after another. Each one is designed to stifle a liberal conspiracy which exists only in the hollow canyons of his own mind, and each one fizzles out in a mist of his own petulant frustration. Each time, insidious liberal influence is to blame for his own failures. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Center for American Progress What Some Call Treason, Others Call TruthConservative blowhard and CNN talking head William Bennett gave America’s top newspaper reporters a backhanded compliment on Tuesday when he complained that three 2006 Pulitzer Prize winners were “worthy of jail.” Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Think Progress Bush Meets Privately With Think Tank Promoting Military Strike On Iran"Bush traveled Friday night to Stanford University, where he met privately with members of the libertarian Hoover Institution to discuss the war. He concluded the day with a private dinner held by George P. Shultz, a Hoover fellow and former secretary of state." Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org David Horowitz debunks David Horowitz: a Media Matters analysis of The ProfessorsRight-wing activist David Horowitz has attacked Media Matters for America for noting -- contrary to Horowitz's denial on the April 6 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes -- that his recent book contains numerous instances in which he cited the purported extracurricular activities of the professors he criticized in the book. Horowitz has conceded that there is a "sliver of truth in the Media Matters statement" that documented his inconsistencies, but he downplayed this, claiming that "my book is a series of profiles of 101 professors" that includes "general perspectives, [that] may or may not be expressed outside the classroom." However, a detailed Media Matters study of the book shows that Horowitz's suggestion that his book does not rely heavily on professors' activities and speech outside of the classroom is false. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Editor & Publisher Bennett: Pulitzer Winners Risen, Lichtblau, Priest 'Worthy of Jail'On his national radio program today, William Bennett, the former Reagan and George H.W. Bush administration official and now a CNN commentator, said that three reporters who won Pulitzer Prizes yesterday were not "worthy of an award" but rather "worthy of jail." Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
RawStory.com Former DeLay aide paid thinktank to advance Washington lobbying effortsPolicy nonprofit (NCPPR) where Abramoff was director funded DeLay's overseas junketsThe former deputy chief of staff to onetime House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) advised the manufacturer of Stoli Vodka to make a $20,000 contribution to the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative thinktank, which wrote an editorial supporting Stoli shortly thereafter, RAW STORY has found. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
The Hill Norquist seeks trademark on ‘K Street Project’ nameConservative activist Grover Norquist is seeking a trademark on “K Street Project,” saying Democrats and Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) have wrongfully acquired the term to describe unethical practices that have nothing to do with his organization. Also see: Daily Kos: Norquist: K-Street Project is Mine! All Mine! [ link ] Read the story >
US News Media critics need to look in the mirrorLeave it to the right wing to cross the preposterous line just when you think it reached that point long ago. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org Horowitz falsely claimed he doesn't attack professors' "political speech" outside the "classroom"Right-wing activist David Horowitz falsely claimed that although he has criticized what university professors teach in the classroom, he has refrained from criticizing "professors' political speech" outside the universities at which they teach. Horowitz added that he makes "a very clear distinction between what's done in the classroom" and "what professors say as citizens." In fact, in his most recent book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, Horowitz criticizes numerous professors for their political views and participation in political events outside the classroom. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
The New Yorker THE IRAN PLANSWould President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?The Bush Administration...has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack. Current and former American military and intelligence officials said that Air Force planning groups are drawing up lists of targets, and teams of American combat troops have been ordered into Iran, under cover, to collect targeting data and to establish contact with anti-government ethnic-minority groups... Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
NY Times Liberal Denomination Fires Salvos at RightAfter years of turning the other cheek, the United Church of Christ, among the most liberal of the mainline Protestant denominations, has recently staked out a more pugnacious stance toward the Christian right. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Media Matters Citing unnamed "experts" on Iran nuke threat, Kondracke, Liasson agreed "time is running out"On Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, Mort Kondracke claimed that "experts that I talked to think" that Iran will produce enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb by summer 2007. Kondracke did not inform viewers which "experts" he was referring to...NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson later added: "[A]s Mort said, time is running out. Pretty soon, Iran is going to have the bomb." Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Talk to Action Public Schools Outperform Private Ones, Conservative Christian Schools Rank Last Among PrivatesIn "The Manufactured Crisis: "Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools" Dr. David Berliner and Bruce Biddle argued that ongoing criticism of America's public schools is baseless and partisan. [ read review of book in Christian Ethics Today ]. A new study released January 2006, funded by the US Department of Education, by researchers at the University of Illinois at Champagne Urbana rebuts claims on the alleged low performance of public schools [ click here for PDF of full report ] Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
PublicEye.org The Battle for the Mainline Churches“Make no mistake,” wrote Avery Post, the national president of the United Church of Christ in 1982, "the objectives of the Institute on Religion and Democracy are the exact opposite of what its name appears to stand for. The purpose of its leaders is to demoralize the mainline denominations and to turn them away from the pursuit of social and economic justice." Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Slate.com Think Tanks for SaleAmy Ridenour, Abramoff Fellow....not all the money Abramoff directed from his clients to [the National Center for Public Policy Research]—which ran to the millions—was transferred to third parties. Some of it remained at NCPPR. We don't know how much, but apparently it was enough to make Abramoff address Ridenour less like a grantee and more like an employee. Ridenour, for her part, was eager to please her magnifico. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
The New Republic Without a Doubt[Richard Neuhaus and] The Christianizing of America...the one [Catholic writer] who has exercised the greatest influence on the ideological agenda of the religious right is Richard John Neuhaus..[who] has sought nothing less than to reverse the fortunes of traditionalist religion in modern America--to teach conservative Christians how to place liberal modernity, once and for all, on the defensive. Any attempt to come to terms with the religious challenge to secular politics in contemporary America must confront Neuhaus's enormously ambitious and increasingly influential enterprise... Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Casper Star Tribune Just who's writing Wyoming's laws?As national “Sunshine Week” winds down, we thought we’d squeeze in one more commentary on what elected officials do behind your back.If you think Wyoming’s “citizen legislature” is strictly a homegrown outfit, writing Wyoming laws in response to Wyoming’s needs, think again. As a story on Monday’s front page explained, many of our legislators may be getting their ideas from little-known national lobbying organizations. Also see: PLAN: Governing the Nation from the Statehouses: The Rightwing Agenda in the States [ link ] Read the story >
City Pages Friendly FireAt conservative think tank, staffers stand up for ex-boss, get canned...In its 15 years, the center [of the American Experiment]--whose staff, directors, and donors have made up a virtual who's who of Republican politics in Minnesota--has managed to maintain a stately public posture. At its biannual fundraisers (up to $2,500 a plate for a spot at the "chairman's table"), the organization has lured big-name speakers like George H.W. Bush, Ken Starr, and Henry Kissinger. In between, the center's staff and fellows have produced a stodgy quarterly, cranked out numerous public-policy papers, and penned newspaper op-eds by the gross. Throughout it all, the organization has deftly avoided the sort of public squabbles and infighting that might stain its reputation. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
TPMCafe.com The Rightwing's War on the Public SchoolsIt's no secret that one of the top priorities for the rightwing movement has been privatization of public education through vouchers and tax credits. But the raw fact is that the public has consistently rejected their initiatives when they've come to a vote-- every time the voters have faced ballot initiatives on the issue, they have overwhelmingly rejected them by a cumulative 68% to 32% margin in the 12 ballot initiatives from 1970 to 2000. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
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