"We should resist the temptation to identify
our religious convictions with the platform of a party
or the platitudes of favored politicians. I want to be invisible.
I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night.
You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.""
--Ralph Reed, 1996
Right Wingers Marching in DC Is Big News
But the Same Old Faces Are Pulling the Strings
By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet
The men behind the religious right make a comeback with the Tea Party
Same ole Teabogs Different Day
Burning books for Hitler, Beatle albums, Dixie Chick CD's, Brooks Bros vote recounts, Swiftboat or Robertsons Fortune 700 Club all herding Teabaggers like sheep to the slaughter...
Health Reform Will Create a Dieting Revolution
By Michael Pollan, The New York Times
Look out fast food; when insurance companies can't dump the sick, they will have to strongly support healthy diets, or lose money.
"I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you.
I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you.
Yes, hate is good...Our goal is a Christian nation.
We have a Biblical duty, we are called by God,
to conquer this country. We don't want equal time.
We don't want pluralism."
--Randall Terry, Founder of Operation Rescue,
The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 8-16-93
Porn, Glenn Beck and Nudie Pics: Is Our Mass Culture Turning Kids Into Sex Crazed, Right-Wing Automotons?
By Branwyn Lancourt, The Faster Times
Kids today are exposed to vast amounts of sleazy, pornified media at the same time they are hammered with silly puritanism. The future doesn't look good.
Feel the Hate: 912 Sign-Makers Target Obama
Photos: By Adele Stan, AlterNet
The 912 march sponsored by FreedomWorks and Glenn Beck was about a lot of things, but mostly hatred of Obama
"We're going to bring back God and the Bible
and drive the gods of secular humanism
right out of the public schools of America."
--Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan
addressing the anti-gay rally in Des Moines, 2-11-96
Republicans & Their Small Angry Tent
By Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show
Their path to political irrelevance continues unabated.
The Tea Baggers' Strange Brew
If nothing else, the conservative movement is an irony producing machine. Aided and abetted by their echo chamber at Fox News, on Tax Day next week members of the raging right will gather at so-called Tea Parties around the country. There, the protesters, at least 95% of whom received a tax cut courtesy of President Obama and Democrats in Congress, will in essence decry "no taxation with representation." And if their misunderstanding of the Boston Tea Party wasn't bad enough, their choice of tea bagging as metaphor is more unfortunate still.