The post-inauguration edition of odd things conservatives believe about Obama. Teleprompters! Hitler Youth! Satan!
By Salon staff Jun 8, 2009
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Praying the country will slip into chaos, to make Obama look bad, is not a good place for a political party to be
By Garrison Keillor
October 14, 2009
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The man most famous for being wrong about everything -- especially Iraq -- gets $250,000, proving there will always be welfare and affirmative action for sons of conservatism
By Joan Walsh
April 22, 2009
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Cop killer Richard Poplawski is an extremist. But amid the deafening din of the right wing's anti-government rhetoric, how extreme is he?
By Gary Kamiya
April 7, 2009
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The GOP is whipping up resentment of Obama and "loafers" who defaulted on home loans. But it crashed the biggest welfare Cadillac in history.
By Gary Kamiya
February 24, 2009
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The mighty right-wing Titanic is sinking, and McCain is desperately blaming Bush. But the problem isn't the captain -- it's the ship.
By Gary Kamiya
October 28, 2008
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In the 1980s, the Republican presidential nominee sat on the board of a group that was involved in Iran-Contra and had ties to neo-Nazis.
By Gabriel Winant
October 7, 2008
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On issues like abortion and sex education, the candidate is neither as moderate nor as principled as some might think.
By Joe Conason
April 11, 2008
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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.
By Joe Conason
February 7, 2008
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Right-wing activists have blasted the GOP Congress' pork barrel spending. It'd be easier to take them seriously if so many of their leaders weren't in the bacon business themselves.
By Michael Scherer
February 22, 2006
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A peek into the sex lives of moralistic right-wing blowhards, part 934: Horsley gets horsey, Hager is horrible!
By Rebecca Traister
May 13, 2005
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David Horowitz has a new project calculated to give the left apoplexy: A Web site that proclaims insidious links between latte liberals and murderous Islamists.
By John Gorenfeld
April 12, 2005
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Lacking Reagan's pragmatic streak, the president may find it impossible to unite a party deeply divided on social, foreign policy and budget issues.
By Matthew Dallek
November 30, 2004
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The future of GOP control of the Senate depends on Oklahoma Republican candidate Tom Coburn, a former doctor who has covered up a scandal from his past until now.
By Robert Schlesinger
September 13, 2004
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As Bush's military record comes under harsh scrutiny, the same smear campaign used against John McCain in 2000 is being rolled out against John Kerry.
By Joe Conason
February 10, 2004
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O'Reilly helps Bush explain the Arab street, and the Spectator's Mark Steyn insists bin Laden is dead. Plus: Buchanan says Gray Davis' recall strategy will cause traffic fatalities to skyrocket.
By Mark Follman
September 17, 2003
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A would-be boycott of French vintners is not likely to change drinking habits in the red or blue states.
By Michelle Goldberg
March 18, 2003
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How the conservative Washington Times helped create a myth about the teachers' union and Sept. 11 that has become conventional wisdom.
By Brendan Nyhan
September 5, 2002
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Before Sept. 11, right-wingers denounced politically correct "censorship." Now they're applauding the muzzling of left-wing war critics.
By Eric Boehlert
November 9, 2001
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Suddenly, the once-macho Bush White House is feeling everybody's pain.
By David Talbot
October 4, 2001
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The rise of Joerg Haider forces Austria to face the truth about its history -- and puts the European Union in a bind.
By John Marks
February 7, 2000
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Pat Choate, the man behind the strategy to craft a left-right-center coalition with Pat Buchanan out front, reveals the plan to seize the White House next year.
By Fred Branfman and David Weir
November 11, 1999
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American government-bashers like to wrap themselves in a constitutional flag. But Garry Wills argues that the Founders wanted a strong government, not a weak one.
By Gary Kamiya
November 3, 1999
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Bombs away: Dispatch from the frontlines of the new electronic battlefield. By Andrew Leonard.
By Andrew
Leonard
September 18, 1998
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One federal jurist has shocked even hardened Washington insiders by suggesting that Clinton has declared "war" on the U.S. in his battle with Ken Starr.
By Jonathan Broder
July 21, 1998