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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 21NY Times An Outspoken Conservative Loses His Place at the TableWhat happens if you're a Republican commentator and you write a book critical of President Bush that gets you fired from your job at a conservative think tank? Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
LA Times Abramoff's Charity Began at HomeThe lobbyist admits he used nonprofits to evade taxes, pad his pockets and bribe officialsNon-profits abused by Abramoff include the conservative philanthropy supported National Center for Public Policy Research ("Tom Delay's Right Arm"), and Toward Tradition. Also see: Related: Did Grover Norquist commit tax fraud? [ link ] Read the story >
Huffington Post Ann Coulter at CPAC on "Ragheads" and Assassinating Bill ClintonOn Friday, February 10, the rock star of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was none other than Ann Coulter. Before an overflow crowd of at least 1000 young right-wing activists, Coulter took her brand of performance art to new heights. Afterwards, I caught up with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to ask him about Coulter's characterization of Muslims as "ragheads." Also see: Earlier: University of St Thomas hearts Ann Coulter [ link ] Read the story >
AmericaBlog CNN's new employee, William Bennett, slanders Islam over cartoon issueWell, I think CNN just bought itself a few more riots with their wonderful new employee, far-right conservative William Bennett, and his blanket slander of the world's one billion Muslims.. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post Bush's Social Security Sleight of HandIf you read enough numbers, you never know what you'll find. Take President Bush and private Social Security accounts. Also see: Kevin Drum: My prediction: this proposal won't even die a sad death. It will just be ignored. [ link ] Read the story >
BradBlog.com 'Not Fit to Live! - Ann Coulter's Gospel of Life'The Second in a Series of Short Anti-Coulter Video Presentations by 'Citizens for Principled Conservatism', A -- yes -- conservative organization!Compilation of Coulter's Greatest Hate Speech 'Hits' Draws Comparison Between the Extremist Rightwinger and Osama bin Laden... Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Max Blumenthal Who's Really Addicted to Oil?The GOP is addicted to the oil industry's money. According to the Center for Public Integrity, the GOP has accepted 73% of the whopping $67 million the oil industry made in political contributions between 2000 and 2004. Bush himself is the oil industry's largest recipient, having taking over $1.7 million from the oil industry from 1998-2004. The wheels of the conservative movement, meanwhile, are lubricated by Koch Industries, the largest privately held oil company in the US. The anti-government think tank, the Cato Institute, was created by the Koch brothers, who remain its largest funders. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
NY Times Republicans used tax-exempt Federalist Society to take over federal judiciaryIn Alito, G.O.P. Reaps Harvest Planted in '82...In 1982, the year after Mr. Alito first joined the Reagan administration, that movement was little more than the handful of legal scholars who gathered at Yale for the first meeting of the Federalist Society, a newly formed conservative legal group...With grants from major conservative donors like the John M. Olin Foundation, the Federalist Society functioned as a kind of shadow conservative [Republican Party] bar association, planting chapters in law schools around the country that served as a pipeline to prestigious judicial clerkships... Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Talk to Action Dick DeVos, son of Amway scion, running as Republican for Governor of MichiganPundits say DeVos may spend $100 million on race...my eyes almost popped out when I read ...about the announced Republican candidate for governor [of Michigan]...if Richard ("Dick") DeVos wins, Michigan will have fallen prey to religious right fervor in the worst case scenario. You wouldn't know from the Michigan media, but the DeVos family, and Dick DeVos lock-step with them, are among the most prominent funders and fans of the religious right. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Bene Diction Paul Weyrich - changing the Canadian Public Ethic with dominionism“The people of Canada have become so liberal and hedonistic that the public ethic in the country immediately could not be reversed,” Weyrich says in an email analysis to allies. “It will take time. But with leadership it well may be possible to change the public ethic.” Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times Public-School Students Score Well in Math in Large-Scale Government StudyA large-scale government-financed study has concluded that when it comes to math, students in regular public schools do as well as or significantly better than comparable students in private schools. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Raw Story Norquist protege's push for charter school privatization plan in Southern California worries educatorsRon Nehring, protege of conservative strategist Grover Norquist, Vice-Chairman of the California Republican Party and former colleague of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, has introduced a proposal to convert all east San Diego County schools in the Grossmont Union High School District into charter schools, RAW STORY has learned. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org LA Times continues to publish David Horowitz despite his history of misinformationThe Los Angeles Times printed an op-ed by David Horowitz regarding academic freedom on college campuses despite his history of false statements and unsupported allegations on this very topic. The op-ed marked the 29th time Horowitz has been published in the Times, according to a Nexis search. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
MediaCitizen Fox News Drifting Left?Arch-conservative watchdog Cliff Kincaid worries that Fox News Channel has turned coat and is now a propaganda front for "extreme" liberal views -- like the harebrained notion that global warming is real. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
ABC News Supreme Ethics Problem?High Court, High LivingAt the historic swearing-in of John Roberts...last September, every member of the Supreme Court, except Antonin Scalia, was in attendance. ABC News has learned that Scalia instead was on the tennis court at one of the country's top resorts, the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Bachelor Gulch, Colo., during a trip to a legal seminar sponsored by the Federalist Society. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org Stossel presented skewed 20/20 segment on "stupid" public schoolsABC's John Stossel presented a "special report" on the failure of American public schools that included a series of misleading claims, a lack of balance in reporting and interviews, and video clips apparently created primarily for entertainment to argue for expanding "school choice" initiatives such as vouchers and charter schools. Also see: Daily Howler: Stupid is as John Stossel does [ link ] Read the story >
Tax & Business Law Commentary Did Grover Norquist Commit Tax Fraud?...The information that is publicly available is still too limited to allow one to definitively answer that question. However, the facts that are publicly available point to systematic violations by Norquist of various provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Mpls Star Trib - Op-ed Minneapolis schools are worn to a threadTry teaching in the secondary schools for a day and facing the problems and lack of resources...Too many kids flood the classroom. Too few adults can address their social and emotional needs. Academic needs are lost. Those who are ready and willing are outnumbered and outshouted. Every day there are new students, looking fresh, hopeful and scared. After one day, their eyes glaze over and their faces turn sad...Our system of public education, once a source of great pride, is naked in the cold. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Roger Ailes More Oreo LiesIn a piece touting Ken Blackwell as the new Ronald Reagan -- which should come in handy if Blackwell's ever indicted -- a City Journal hack repeats the lie that Lt. Governor Michael Steele was pelted with cookies... Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Media Matters Gaffney dubiously asserted that obtaining warrants under FISA would have "tipp[ed] off our enemies"On CNN's The Situation Room, conservative columnist Frank J. Gaffney Jr. made the dubious claim that by attempting to obtain warrants for electronic surveillance of U.S. persons, as required by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), President Bush would have "tipp[ed] off our enemies" to the fact the U.S. government was spying on them. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Daily Howler Stupid is as John Stossel does. Here -- let ABC prove itHow stupid is the public discourse about America’s public schools? Consider John Stossel’s amazingly stupid 20/20 report. The hour-long effort -- titled “Stupid in America” -- aired on ABC Friday night. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Bradblog.com Pacific Research Institute Carries Fresh Water for the Electronic Voting Machine IndustryWho is PRI? Are They the Latest Incarnation of the ACVR? And Just Who Do They Think They're Messing with by Attacking the Pro-Democracy Movement with Easily Discredited Info-ganda?It looks like the Rightwing may have found a replacement for the American Center for Voting Rights (ACVR), the GOP front group set up to smokescreen against true election reform and transparent democracy... Also see: PRI calls the paper trail requirement one of California's top 10 policy blunders of 2005. [ link ] Read the story >
Editor and Publisher SHNS Drops Fumento in Latest Payola Pundit ScandalScripps Howard News Service (SHNS) announced Friday that it severed its relationship with Michael Fumento -- a senior fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute -- for taking payments in 1999 from agribusiness giant Monsanto. The payola was revealed by BusinessWeek Online, which also broke the story that columnist Doug Bandow had accepted bribes from Jack Abramoff. Copley News Service subsequently dropped Bandow. Also see: Earlier: Libby gets think-tank job (at Hudson Inst) $60,000 Olin Foundation grant to Fumento BusinessWeek: A Columnist Backed by Monsanto [ link ] Read the story >
Huffington Post Alito's Pro-Internment Witness: "You Can Forget About Civil Rights"If there's another terror attack on American soil, you can forget about civil rights. That's according to Peter Kirsanow, who will testify to Samuel Alito's civil rights credentials before the Senate Judiciary Committee today... Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Mid-Hudson Progressive Alliance Think Tank writer pushes for the vendor's perspectiveA conservative ultra-free market think tank (PRI) is pushing its agenda that paperless voting is the way to go. Find out who these writers are and where their money comes from. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Philadelphia Inquirer Hearing into bias falls short of billingThe probe of professors said to inject politics into classes at Pa. public colleges drew just one student speaker.Yesterday's hearing on academic freedom at Pennsylvania's public universities was hyped by conservative activists as a "historic moment," in which school administrators would finally be "called to account" in front of state legislators for allowing student "indoctrination and abuse" by leftist professors. Also see: Atrios: Absence of Evidence is Proof! [ link ] Read the story >
Columbia Journalism Review On Balance...to carry out [David] Horowitz’s program would require our asking prospective faculty members (and, perhaps, students, too) to tell us their political views, which we don’t do, and which seems intrusive to me...There is not a liberal or conservative way to teach students how to write clearly and accurately and quickly, or how to work by high ethical standards...To follow Horowitz’s prescription would be to make our school more ideological, not less...[taking] us away from our core assumption, which is that reporting can get you meaningfully closer to the truth.... Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
the cucking stool School vouchers reduxVouchers violate Minnesota constitution two ways...What was especially interesting...is that the Florida Supreme Court said the voucher plan was such a stinker under the uniform public schools requirement of the Florida Constitution that it didn’t even need to address the religious establishment issue. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
CampusProgress.org Pimp your dorm with right-wing pinup gals!The Young America's Foundation [direct grants - doesn't cover all to YAF], which attacks "liberal PC-ness" at universities and hosts right-wing speakers on college campuses nationwide, has opted for a new fundraiser sure to appeal to the young college conservative desperate to have their very own pin-up poster for their dorm room, but spare them from the hypocrisy of accepting that sex appeal isn't icky....purchase your very own glamour shot poster of Ann Coulter. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
The return of the ToriesI highly recommend the new Weekly Standard article by Harvard Government Professor (and long-time social conservative hero) Harvey Mansfield. It is entitled "The President and the Law" and makes the case as explicitly as it can be made that the Bush Administration really is claiming that the President has the constitutional authority to ignore and break the law. Mansfield explains why the Constitution allows, and why we should want, all-out Presidential law-breaking... Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
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