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With the president's poll numbers dropping and anti-Iraq war sentiment rising, the Heritage Foundation is sponsoring an event built around the premise that the anti-war movement is anti-American
Late in the evening of Wednesday, August 24, the Drudge Report featured the headline -- "ANTI-WAR PROTESTERS TARGET WOUNDED AT ARMY HOSPITAL" -- followed by this text:
"Anti-war protestors besieged wounded and disabled soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C, a new web report will claim!
"CNSNews.com (Cybercast News Service) is planning to run an expose on Thursday featuring interviews with both protestors and veterans, as well as shots of protest signs with slogans like 'Maimed for a Lie.'
"The conservative outlet will post video evidence of the wounded veterans being taunted by protesters, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. (Anti-war Protesters Target Wounded at Army Hospital)"
The following day, Cybercast News Service issued its report stating that, "Code Pink Women for Peace, one of the groups backing anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan's vigil outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford Texas, organizes the protests at Walter Reed as well."
...According to the website of Code Pink, their weekly vigils at Walter Reed Hospital -- which began in March -- actually bring together peace activists, soldiers, military families and neighbors," and are aimed at "remind[ing the public] that physically and psychologically wounded soldiers are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan every night."
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The GOP is counting on Bishop Harry Jackson and his High Impact Leadership Coalition to bring African Americans to the Party
In the group photo publicizing "Justice Sunday II," one man stands out among the group of Christian right luminaries. It is not because he is the only guy not wearing a dark suit or because he is one of the biggest folks in the room. Bishop Harry Jackson stands out because he is the only African American in the picture. Over the past year, Jackson, who was the featured African American speaker at the "Justice Sunday II" rally, has become one of the religious right's go-to-guys.
One month before the presidential election, Bishop Jackson envisioned the future, and it had a second term for President George W. Bush writ large all over it. In a commentary posted on The Elijah List (website) -- "Discover what God's Prophets and Prophetic People are Saying Daily" -- Jackson wrote that he "support[ed] George Bush" and he believed "that the Black vote will push him over the top."
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Catching wind of how hot the politics of immigration has become, Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture is teaming up with anti-immigration organizations to sponsor an upcoming conference in Beverly Hills
What do New York’s Democratic Senator, Hillary Clinton, New Mexico’s Democratic Governor, Bill Richardson, the only Hispanic governor in the country, and the Center for the Study of Popular Culture’s (CSPC) David Horowitz have in common?
The answer: the politics of immigration.
According to John Fund, writing in his Wall Street Journal column on Monday, August 15, 2005, Governor Richardson recently declared a “’state of emergency’ in four New Mexico border counties due to "a chaotic situation involving illegal alien smuggling and illegal drug shipments." The governor is also “pledg[ing] $1.5 million for stepped-up law enforcement and also asked Chris Simcox, the president of the volunteer border patrol group Minutemen, for a meeting.” According to Media Matters, however, "Richardson ... dismissed Fund's claim as a 'total fabrication,' and Simcox himself refuted Fund, stating it was the Minutemen who reached out to Richardson -- not the other way around."
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Israel offers evangelical Christians land near the Sea of Galilee in the hopes of solidifying their support and boosting tourism
After more than 30 years of organizing testimonial dinners for right wing Israeli politicians, handing out checks to Israeli charities, and forming alliances with conservative Jewish leaders and organizations to support Israel, Evangelical Christians may finally be getting a piece of the "Promised Land."
In a move geared toward solving Northern Israel's unemployment crisis, increasing tourism to the country, and solidifying relations with US Evangelical Christians, the Israeli government has offered 35 acres of land on the shore of the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) for development by Christian Evangelicals. The Israeli government is hopeful they will build a large conference center, complete with the requisite amenities, to attract hundreds of thousands of evangelical tourists from the US and other countries.
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Helping Move America Forward report the good news from its "Truth Tour" in Iraq, and working on PR for the Kurdistan Regional Government, has given the California-based firm an opportunity to shape public opinion one story at a time
 The so-called "war on terrorism" has been good to Russo Marsh & Rogers (RM&R), the Sacramento, California-based conservative lobbying and public relations firm. These days, it has a lot on its plate, including the recently completed "Truth Tour," and a new contract with the Kurdistan Regional Government.
The "Truth Tour" -- a seven-day carefully calibrated trip to Iraq by a group of conservative talk-show hosts -- was intended to spread the "good" news about what is happening on the ground. The tour was organized by Move America Forward (MAF - website), an organization that, according to the Washington Post, owes much of its existence to the good offices of Russo Marsh & Rogers.
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Neoconservatives and Greens join forces to 'Set America Free' from US dependence on Middle East oil. Are new nuclear power plants coming down the pike?
Mainstream U.S. environmental groups, stymied by political defeats, public indifference and budget cuts, are weighing alliances with neo-conservatives. In the struggle to rein in global warming and reduce US dependence on Middle East oil, some greens are reconsidering their longstanding opposition to nuclear power.
This realignment comes at a time when environmental-friendly initiatives of the administration of former President Bill Clinton are being reversed, enforcement of environmental regulations are being slowed and stymied, and privatization of U.S. public lands is proceeding at a rapid clip.
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Pizza magnate is building homes in a Florida sanctuary for orthodox Catholics called Ave Maria, where there won't be any porn, condoms, or television smut
 In late March, at the first annual Boston Catholic Men's Conference held at Boston College High School, Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino's Pizza who has become a major league conservative philanthropist, was feeling the spirit. He triumphantly told the enthusiastic crowd of more than 2,000 men (including over 80 priests) in attendance that construction of Ave Maria University -- the first Catholic university built in 40 years -- was moving forward. According to published reports, "the $240 million first phase of the campus plans to be centered around the 'Oratory of Ave Maria,' a 60,000 square-foot church with aluminum and glass arches, and will include the nation's largest crucifix in stained glass with a 60 foot high bleeding Jesus. Officials say the church would be the largest fixed-seating Catholic church in the nation, with room for 3,333 to 3,500 worshipers "
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Media supply much of the ammunition used against it
In early May, Newsweek magazine reported that some U.S. military had desecrated the Koran at Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. The White House responded with withering criticism of Newsweek and news media in general, claiming that they were unscrupulously using anonymous sources “to generate negative attacks” on the administration.
In response, Washington Post political columnist E.J. Dionne wrote: “[T]his particular anti-press campaign is not about Journalism 101. It is about Power 101. It is a sophisticated effort to demolish the idea of a press independent of political parties by way of discouraging scrutiny of conservative politicians in power.”
Dionne is right. But his words may be too little, too late. As with most matters in American public discourse these days, conservatives are winning this battle — with the help of media themselves.
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Ralph Reed, the former Golden Boy of the Christian Coalition, and George Bush’s longtime political adviser, is under investigation in Washington and taking fire at home
Ralph Reed had it all going for him in the 1990s: Boyish good looks, soft-spoken demeanor, and an image as a squeaky-clean spokesperson for the religious right.
As Executive Director of Pat Robertson’s powerful Christian Coalition, Reed offered an articulate and often calming television persona. Reed was smart, media savvy and a remarkable political strategist. Time magazine called him "the right hand of God" in a 1995 cover story.
These days Time readers might be wondering which God Reed was really worshipping. He is locked in the grip of a scandal focused on his longtime friend, lobbying titan Jack Abramoff, involving taking money from one Indian tribe to kill the gambling operations of another tribe. At the same time Reed is now being urged by a former Georgia Republican state representative and House minority leader to withdraw from the race for lieutenant governor.
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The Bush Administration tries again to institutionalize its Faith-Based Initiative with legislative action
 One of the first orders of business for George W. Bush in January 2001 was to establish a White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, thus kicking off the cornerstone social policy of his presidency. At a ceremony attended by numerous religious leaders Bush announced executive orders that instructed the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, Justice, Education and Housing and Urban Development, to set up Centers for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives within their agencies.
That done, Bush moved to cement his executive actions in congressional legislation. There he was rebuffed, however, over objections that government money would be used for religious proselytization, and that recipients of government grants would be allowed to discriminate in their hiring based on religion.
Bush called on Senators Ric Santorum (R-PA) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) to craft a legislative compromise. When they failed to win a consensus, the president went back to issuing executive orders. Now, House allies are trying to come up with a legislative package that will pass muster. One of the keys to the compromise is a "Sense of the Congress" resolution dealing with the religious hiring question.
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 In the current controversy over the possible elimination of Federal funding for PBS and National Public Radio, alleged liberal bias in public broadcasting and reports of Republican and White House meddling in the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, one of the hot points has been a study commissioned by CPB Chairman Ken Tomlinson.
The May 2 New York Times reported, "Without the knowledge of his board... Tomlinson contracted last year with an outside consultant to keep track of the guests' political leanings on one program, 'Now with Bill Moyers.'"
In a June 16 follow-up, Times reporter Stephen Labaton revealed that CPB's inspector general has been investigating $14,700 in payments to an Indiana man named Fred Mann under contracts "which Mr. Tomlinson took the unusual step of signing personally" for the report on the Moyers program.
...Now believed in poor health, Mann's most recent position was as director of the job bank and alumni services at the National Journalism Center in Herndon, Virginia. The National Journalism Center trains and finds internships and jobs for conservative journalists at newspapers, wire services and magazines, including the Washington bureau of Reader's Digest, of which Tomlinson was editor-in-chief.
The National Journalism Center is administered by the Young America's Foundation, which is, in turn, affiliated with the right-wing Young Americans for Freedom. The foundation describes itself as "the principal outreach organization of the Conservative Movement."
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Bus fares, rail pass fares on the rise
Here’s something to think about in the wake of the recent announcement that bus fares in the Twin Cities will be going up by a quarter on July 1st . If Minnesota Republicans do what they’ve said they want to do, the day will come when a lot of people in the metro area will be dropping their entire first hour’s wage into the fare box just to get back and forth to work.
Peter Bell, Met Council chairman, has stated that budget problems left him no choice, he did, however, manage to put off until next month a tougher decision on unpopular, money-saving cuts in bus service proposed for September.
But Bell also says he’s sympathetic to the plight of the “distressed customers” who will feel the pain.
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Before 9/11, David Horowitz attacked political correctness on college campuses across the country. These days, under the rubric of academic freedom, bands of Horowistas are waging a vigorous ground war against liberal academics
 In April, during a speech in Indiana, a student threw a pie in his face; two months later, his face appeared on the cover of the Western Massachusetts-based Valley Advocate under the headline, "American Gladiator." Florida Governor Jeb Bush has called him a "fighter for freedom." He claims that he's "changed the dynamics" of the debate about "academic freedom" on college campuses across the United States, while at the same time, he accuses the media and his opponents of waging a "malicious campaign" against him.
He's David Horowitz and he's on the road again. As part of his permanent tour in support of his so-called "Academic Bill of Rights," Horowitz recently lent his support to Florida State Representative Dennis Baxley's (R-Ocala) Academic Freedom Bill of Rights. Rep. Baxley's legislation, which in late-March passed out of the House Choice and Innovation Committee by an 8-to-2 vote (the only two Democrats on the committee voted against it) was a broad assault on academic freedom. Allegedly aimed at leveling the playing field for so-called beleaguered conservatives on the state's campuses, the devil was clearly in the details.
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Earlier this year, Tony Perkins, the President of the Family Research Council, spent a great deal of time rallying the troops in support of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman who died in late-March after being in a "persistent vegetative state" for more than 15 years.
On June 15, after Schiavo's autopsy was performed by Pinellas-Pasco County Medical Examiner Jon Thogmartin and was released to the public, Americans United for Separation of Church and State issued a press release lambasting the Religious right for their shameful behavior during the Schiavo Affair. Americans United's executive director, the Rev. Barry Lynn, had special words for FRC's Perkins:
"During the controversy Perkins repeatedly issued Schiavo commentaries that referred to her husband as 'estranged,' despite the fact that Michael Schiavo was caring for her, and [he] mention[ed] the 'questionable circumstances' surrounding her collapse, clearly implying foul play."
On June 15, after Schiavo's autopsy was performed by Pinellas-Pasco County Medical Examiner Jon Thogmartin and was released to the public, Americans United for Separation of Church and State issued a press release lambasting the Religious right for their shameful behavior during the Schiavo Affair. Americans United's executive director, the Rev. Barry Lynn, had special words for FRC's Perkins:
"During the controversy Perkins repeatedly issued Schiavo commentaries that referred to her husband as 'estranged,' despite the fact that Michael Schiavo was caring for her, and [he] mention[ed] the 'questionable circumstances' surrounding her collapse, clearly implying foul play."
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As he moves from spiritual to political renewal, Watergate felon can't escape his past
 Despite being named by Time magazine as one of the 25 most influential evangelical Christians in America, having a Presidential Chair established in his name at Calvin Theological Seminary, and running a $50 million dollar faith-based prison reform organization, Charles W. Colson is likely to always be remembered as one of President Richard Nixon's hatchet men during the Watergate years. In fact, since the recent revelation that W. Mark Felt was Watergate's "Deep Throat," Colson has received more media attention than at any time since the unfolding of the Watergate Affair.
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Following in the footsteps of Richard Viguerie, Greene, a 'conservative Internet guru' and 'rising star' is making his presence felt
He's there to defend Christmas from "attack"; when Terry Schiavo's parents needed some fundraising firepower, they called on him; he's currently advocating for the abolition of the filibuster in the US Senate, defending the embattled Rep. Tom DeLay and the beleaguered John Bolton, and promoting an outfit called the European Conservative Union. In 2002, Campaign & Elections magazine selected him as one of its "Rising Stars of Politics"; the Washington Times has called him a "conservative Internet guru"; and "Who's Who in America" recognized him in 2003 and 2004.
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On the evening of 9-11, George W. Bush quoted Psalm 23, declared the day's events to be the opening salvo in a cosmic struggle against evil, and vowed that the nation would "go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world"
Nine days later, before Congress and an estimated television audience of 82 million Americans -- the largest ever for a political event -- the president issued these powerful words: "The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them."
These statements, and many similar ones since, have spurred a heated public debate about this president's religious beliefs and language: standard and appropriate for a president, or unusual and dangerous?
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2004 was banner year for 'national clearing house for, and arbiter of, decency' on America's airwaves
 On April 18, L. Brent Bozell, the founder and president of the Parents Television Council, a subsidiary of his Media Research Center, appeared on the Fox News Channel's morning show, "Fox and Friends," to talk about the PTC's new report, "The Ratings Sham: TV Executives Hiding Behind a System That Doesn't Work."
The year following Janet Jackson's nipple-baring "wardrobe malfunction" during the Super Bowl half-time show has been a banner one for the PTC. It was a year in which it has bombarded the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) with indecency complaints and has garnered for itself an ample amount of headlines and attention.
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Tom Delay, Jack Abramoff, and the National Center for Public Policy Research
After weeks of haggling, it looks like the House Ethics Committee, loaded down with Republicans who have received significant support from Rep. Tom DeLay's organizations, will begin its investigation into the House Majority Leader's ethics problems. But don't expect much from the committee for between "six months to a year," the Los Angeles Times' Mary Curtius reported on April 29, 2005.
Charges against Rep. DeLay, the former exterminator, have been scurrying across the front pages of America's daily newspapers faster than the varmints he used to wipe out back in Texas.
A number of press accounts about DeLay's 1997 National Center for Public Policy Research - sponsored trip to Moscow focused on accusations that the trips were funded in part by private Russian companies and not by the National Center, as DeLay's staff claimed.
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How the multi-billion dollar worldwide corporation recruits ordinary folks into the 'system,' and uses well-connected politicians and pastors to become Masters of Deception
 Like many other people, Eric Scheibeler and his wife, Patty, were recruited to the Amway Corporation by close friends. Amway's GOPyramid Scheme Along the "guaranteed" road to success and wealth they met powerful politicians, dined with multi-millionaires and spoke to thousands of Amway members at gatherings throughout the world. Then, without warning, their house of cards collapsed: Eric Scheibeler discovered that the operation was committing massive fraud and he obtained the documentation to prove it.
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