Showing posts with label neo-conservatives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neo-conservatives. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Iraq Situation, the Media, and the "Festival of the Undead Wrong" (with Application to Recent U.S. Catholic Bishops' Meeting)

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To call the following a meme among commentators looking at American news and mainstream media in the last three days would be a vast...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

Jon Stewart: Pope Francis and the GOP--Two Holy Conduits No Longer on Same Page

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Gospel. Good News. Is What. It's All. About. Commentators Continue to Parse Pope Francis's Recent Interview

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Gospel. Good news. Is what. It's all. About.
Monday, March 11, 2013

Mainstream Media Reporting on Papal Transition: Neither Fair Nor Balanced

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I'm pretty sure I've told this story before here, but it bears repeating, I think: some two decades ago, I "won" a ...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

Frank Cocozzelli on Cardinal Timothy Dolan as "Neocon Cheerleader"

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As a complement to what I posted earlier today about the statement of the German Catholic bishops re: the morning-after pill and ra...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

David Frum's "Conversion": Neocon Morality Tales and History's Judgment

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Mark Oppenheimer's fascinating roadmap of the twists and turns neocon Wunderkind David Frum has taken in his talking-head career i...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Mark Silk to Ross Douthat: What about the "Nones" and the Growth of Non-Denominational Churches?

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At his Spiritual Politics blog, Mark Silk engages Ross Douthat's argument that liberal churches are withering on the vine--and h...

Marrying Well: Stable Families, Economic Success, and Morality Tales

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At the Commonweal blog right now,  Eric Bugyis offers a valuable discussion of Jason DeParle's recent New York Times   article w...
Saturday, March 10, 2012

Paul Krugman on GOP Investment in Ignorance: Whys and Wherefores

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Paul Krugman explains (very well) why one major American political party, the Republicans, have "made a hard right turn against...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Controlling Men: Katha Pollitt and Chauncey DeVaga Comment

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At The Nation , Katha Pollitt parses  what happened with Sandra Fluke when Rush Limbaugh grabbed hold of her story and distorted it for h...
Monday, March 5, 2012

Where Fools Rush In: Commentary on Limbaugh's Faux Pas and Right's Attack on Women's Contraceptive Rights

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At Alternet, Naomi Cahn and June Carbone  (rightly) note that Rush Limbaugh's recent slimy, misogynistic attack on Georgetown law...
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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Bill Scher Is Thankful Conservatives No Longer Pretending

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Here's what Bill Scher is thankful for this Thanksgiving season: 

Give Thanks and Shop Till You Drop: Coleen Rowley on Culture of Spiritual Death Dominating American Life

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Post-Thanksgiving Shoppers 2010 While the American right is furious that President Obama didn't mention God in his brief Thanksg...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

David Brooks on Obama's (Unproven) Break with the Center: Continued Special Pleading for the Super-Rich

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I'm glad to see David Brooks's overwrought cri du coeur on behalf of rich folks being bullied by big, bad Mr. Obama getting ...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Lady Thatcher's Friends Object to Meryl Streep's Granny-Gone-Mad Biopic

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Oh dear.  Close friends of Lady Thatcher are furious --furious, I tell you!--at Meryl Streep's soon-to-be-released Margaret Thatcher b...
Friday, August 19, 2011

David Bromwich on Obama's Pragmatism: Maxims That Ratify the Existing Order--Any Order

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I'd like to return briefly this morning to the article by David Bromwich to which I linked yesterday, about how the Obama presidency ...
Monday, August 8, 2011

Reflections on Rick Perry's Response Rally: Attack on the Love Ethic and Corporatist Puppet-Masters

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I didn't watch Rick Perry's Response rally this weekend.  I took last week as a kind of retreat-discernment week, and as I did so,...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Jon Stewart on American Conservatives' Claim That They're the Real Victims in the Norway Shootings

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Jon Stewart is brilliant re: how American conservatives have made the attempt to dissect the motives of Norwegian shooter Anders Breivik a...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Andrew Sullivan on Anders Breivik as Living Definition of Christianism

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For some inexplicable reason, American conservatives appear unhappy with the suggestion that Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik appeals to...
Thursday, July 7, 2011

Michael Lind and Julie Ingersoll on Triple Fundamentalisms Now Dominating the American Right

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As the workday ends (in my part of the world), I don't want to miss the opportunity to make mention of a recent essay of Michael Lind ...