conservatism

Opinion: Beware of Anti-Trump Republican Apostates Claiming Conservatism Isn’t Racist

Opinion: Beware of Anti-Trump Republican Apostates Claiming Conservatism Isn’t Racist

Defending conservativism against charges it is an inherently racist ideology has become de rigeur among not just that sector of…

5 years ago

Steve King Says ‘We Can’t Restore Our Civilization With Somebody Else’s Babies’

Steve King tweeted that "culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies."

7 years ago

Dana Perino Explains Why She is a Conservative – And She is ALL Wrong

Feel free to laugh: "I gravitate to facts, logic, and reality, whereas to me, liberalism is based on theory, and…

8 years ago

Conservative Attitudes Toward Women Haven’t Evolved in 2000 Years

Women stood up for their rights in the Roman forum 2000 years ago, and women today are forced to do…

8 years ago

Donald Trump Drops the Reagan Bomb: Says He Has Evolved Like Reagan

Donald Trump is now evoking Ronald Reagan to explain the dramatic "evolution" of his political views from liberal to wacky…

8 years ago

NY Times Columnist David Brooks Missed The Mark Slamming Cruz’s Non-Christian “Brutalism”

Brooks slammed Cruz for manufacturing "an atmosphere of menace" but Cruz's scorched-Earth religious agenda is right out of the Old…

8 years ago

The Liberal Project Goes into Another Year, Weathered but Unbeaten

The liberal project's foe is a conservative ideology that de-legitimizes other modes of thought, compromise and a thought for the…

8 years ago

Book Review: The Future of Whiteness

I don't like to overuse the term "must read" but Linda Martin Alcoff's The Future of Whiteness (2015, Polity) is…

8 years ago

The Right Attacks Bernie Sanders As Michael Savage Calls Candidate a “Liberal Weasel Jew”

According to Michael Savage, Sanders is not only a "liberal weasel Jew" but secretly a front man for Clinton to…

9 years ago

Yale Instructor David Brooks Says “Campus Crusaders” Are Moral Zealots, Anti-Free Speech

In a post-9/11 world, self-styled "moderate" conservative and New York Times Op-Ed columnist David Brooks has carved out a cottage…

9 years ago

The Revolution is Not Over, My Friends

Conservatives have for a long time controlled the discourse on freedom and liberty, but these are liberal ideals, and we…

9 years ago

On His Birthday Remember Reagan’s Extremism Drives Republicans’ Agenda

Instead of celebrating B-movie actor Ronald Reagan's birthday today, Americans should reflect, deeply regret, and grieve that they and their…

9 years ago

Lace ‘Em Up: Why Neo-Conservatives Are So Anxious To Put Boots On The Ground

Republicans are itching to bring in ground troops against ISIS. The reason stems from an incessant desire to prove American…

10 years ago

The Republican Party Has Become a Haven For All Forms of Right Wing Extremism

The Pew survey should disabuse Americans of the notion that the teabagger or Republican movements are not havens for right…

10 years ago

What Conservatives Fear Most Is a Well Educated America

Conservatives are terrified of a well-educated populace, and for over a year the terror du jour is Common Core that…

10 years ago

Another Conservative Plan to Take Their States and Go Home

Loathe what the liberals stand for, meet their agenda with animosity, cultivate a visceral desire to wipe it from the…

10 years ago

Republicans Insult America by Making Paul Ryan the Face of Compassionate Conservatism

To put Ryan's face on the new compassionate conservatism is an affront to any American familiar with his contempt for…

10 years ago

A Tale of Two Heroes: How Nelson Mandela Was Truly the Anti-Reagan

Nelson Mandela was everything that Ronald Reagan wasn't. For Conservatives today, that simply means that Mandela was clearly in the…

10 years ago

Can The Conservative Mind Be Changed?

Accumulating research suggests political beliefs are hard-wired into our biology, so can conservatives change their minds?

10 years ago

The Tea Party Adds the GOP to its List of Enemies to be Destroyed

The Heritage Foundation's Tim Chapman says, "We have an opportunity to take over the party and it will be in…

11 years ago

Left-Leaning American Majority Sees Views Consistently Ignored

The mistakes legislators make tend to fall in one direction, giving U.S. politics a rightward tilt compared to what most…

11 years ago

Conservatives Are Terrified By America’s Rising Surge of Liberalism

It's funny that it took conservatives this long, or rather one conservative, this long to arrive here. But here he…

11 years ago

What are ‘Liberals,’ What are ‘Progressives,’ and Why the Difference Matters

Not all liberals are progressive, and not all progressives are liberal. And when we discuss politics, we must recognize and…

11 years ago

Gov. Phil Bryant’s Working Moms Comments Are Why GOP Ignorance Must Be Run Out of Office

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant's comments blaming the nation's education troubles on women joining the workforce are exactly why Republicans must…

11 years ago

Gay Marriage Has Created a Rift Between the Religious Right and the Republican Party

Support from religious conservatives is in jeopardy as Republicans are accepting the idea the gay community deserves the same right…

11 years ago

Conservative Christians Lose It and Threaten President Obama, the GOP, and the Supreme Court

conservative Christians, did not limit their threats to President Obama and the Supreme Court, and set their sights squarely on…

11 years ago

Right Wing Propaganda Has Done Nothing But Incite Fear and Hatred of All Americans

What Americans are witnessing today is the culmination of four years of ultra-right wing propaganda inciting fear of change and…

11 years ago

Repeating Their Past Mistakes, Republicans Urge a Return to Cowboy Diplomacy

Neo-con leaders are warning that Republicans have to pressure President Obama to return to George W. Bush's cowboy diplomacy by…

11 years ago

Why Conservatives are Wrong When They Say Liberalism Will Fail

Conservatives have convinced themselves of libearlism's illigitimacy; now they have convinced themselves liberalism will fail

11 years ago

A Revealing Look at Racism’s Role in Which Party White People Support

Ever since Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act and championed policies supporting minorities, whites have been defecting from the party.

11 years ago

Why Will So Many of the 47% Still Vote for Romney-Ryan?

It would be self-defeating for members of the 47% to vote for Romney-Ryan, so why are so many still going…

12 years ago

Voter Contempt for GOP is High so Let’s Thank the Liberals for Saving America

According to new polling contempt for the GOP is pushing Democrats across the country into the lead, so as Alan…

12 years ago

Shut Up, Know Your Role, or Die – the GOP’s 2012 Platform

The conservative mind is focused on a sense of privilege and possession of rights nobody else gets to enjoy, whatever…

12 years ago

Elizabeth Warren a Communist Because She Supports Everything Conservatives Hate

Hate group president Brian Carmenker says that Elizabeth Warren is a communist because she supports everything conservatives hate

12 years ago

Stripping Bare the Conservative Deception of Liberty

The evidence is all around us, that change is real, that it is part of life, and that it yields…

14 years ago

Sarah Palin Glenn Beck And The Conservative Hero Myth

The conservative demand for heroes is more intense than ever. There can never be enough dead heroes, Reagan, McCarthy and…

14 years ago

Tea Party Tories: How the Right Hijacked the Founding Fathers

The Right and the Tea Party like to think of themselves as freedom fighters in the mold of the Founding…

14 years ago