Conservatives

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  • How conservative greed and corruption destroyed American politics

    Abramoff, DeLay, Norquist, oh my! The spectacular misrule of the GOP was not an accident.
  • Conservatives worry about McCain backslide on immigration

    Obama's not the only presidential candidate with "base issues" this week. Conservatives are getty antsy about McCain's renewed talk of comprehensive immigration reform.
  • A GOP plan for reclaiming the burbs

    Two young conservatives famous for arguing that Republicans must consolidate their appeal to "Sam's Club" voters now offer a prescription for winning the Starbucks crowd.
  • Wielding the conservative veto pen

    National Review's John J. Miller strikes four possibilities from McCain's potential veep list as ideologically unsound.
  • Jesus loves you -- and your orgasm

    The religious right is celebrating sex to stroke its conservative message. Liberals better rise to a secular defense soon.
  • The bitter legacy of Jesse Helms

    There's a reason why so many Americans can't feel charitable about the passing of the virulent warrior of the Right.
  • McCain's scary economic advisor

    Not only is former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm a shill for special interests, his deregulation policies helped spur the mortgage crisis, among other financial disasters.
  • Duking it out to be London's head honcho

    Two eccentrics are competing for the London mayor's office. But does either man really want the job?
  • McCain's lack of candor on reproductive rights

    On issues like abortion and sex education, the candidate is neither as moderate nor as principled as some might think.
  • Requiem for a right-wing dream

    Mitt Romney preached about a degraded America -- then quit the '08 race. Now hardcore conservatives have to cozy up to John McCain.
  • Why McCain provokes paranoia on the right

    Not only does the Arizona senator mock conservative orthodoxy, but, even worse, his pro-immigration think tank took money from George Soros and other frightening liberals.
  • Betrayed by John McCain

    Republican hard-liners have a potent hatred for their front-runner. But soon he may be sitting prettier -- with a win by Hillary Clinton.
  • Conservative crackup over McCain continues

    Some on the right are simply unprepared to accept him as the Republican presidential nominee; a few would even cross the aisle in November over it.
  • McCain wins, and conservative heads explode

    A survey of right-wing bloggers' reactions to McCain's victory in the Florida GOP primary.
  • I'm a doubting teenager

    My experience contradicts what I have been taught. I feel guilty and alone.
  • "We're all fascists now"

    An interview with conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg, who argues that fascism is left-wing, not right-wing, and that contemporary liberals are fascism's intellectual offspring.
  • Our new friend is a racist -- should we dump him?

    My husband and he have so much in common -- but his beliefs are pernicious and wrong!
  • How Bush wrecked conservatism

    The American right has embraced Bush's catastrophic war in the name of "moral clarity." But where is it written that conservatives have to be stupid?
  • Good times for liberals

    GOP ascendancy is over, says Paul Krugman. It's time for progressives to seize the day and turn back economic inequality.
  • Right-wing bullies pick on children

    The wingnuts are savaging 12-year-old Graeme Frost and his family because they don't think he should get healthcare through SCHIP.
  • Will Congress denounce Rush Limbaugh?

    He calls Chuck Hagel "Senator Betray Us" and denounced antiwar Iraq vets as "phony soldiers," but don't hold your breath waiting for a Senate vote to condemn him.
  • Take it from me. Reform feels good

    If I can give up bottled water, then it's time for conservatives to face up to the disaster they visited on this country with the election of Bush.
  • Jesus is my dorm advisor

    Patrick Henry College grooms fundamentalist kids to be America's future leaders. A new book looks at how these elite students cope with the pressure to bridge secular and religious worlds.
  • Sex ed suppressed in India

    The federal government pushes for sex ed while conservatives oppose it.
  • Hot, homophobic pseudoscience

    It'll soon overtake the surgeon general's office if Bush has his way.
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