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RedditThe firing of the air traffic controllers, winnable nuclear war, recallable nuclear missiles, trees that cause pollution, Elliott Abrams lying to Congress, ketchup as a vegetable, colluding with Guatemalan thugs, pardons for F.B.I. lawbreakers, voodoo economics, budget deficits, toasts to Ferdinand Marcos, public housing cutbacks, redbaiting the nuclear freeze movement, James Watt.
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Jesse Helms, American Bigot
Conservatives & The American Right
Lisa Duggan: In death it's easy to dismiss Jesse Helms as a colorful buffoon or a relic of the bad old days of segregation and sexism, but that doesn't do his bigotry justice.
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Out of Place
Conservatives & The American Right
Corey Robin: How conservatives have turned a sense of exclusion into a powerful philosophy of self-styled truancy.
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Who Are They Calling Elitist?
Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Eric Alterman: Why do conservatives continue to feel oppressed by the "liberal elite"?
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The Spitzer Sting
Conservatives & The American Right
Alexander Cockburn: Was there a medium-sized right-wing conspiracy to nail Eliot Spitzer?
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Squire Willie
Robert Sherrill: Surveying the life and accomplishments of the "late" William F. Buckley Jr.
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Who Would Jesus Vote For?
Bob Moser: The new evangelicals are rejecting the religious right and embracing a broader social gospel.
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Hedges Vs. Hitchens
Conservatives & The American Right
Chris Hedges & VideoNation : The so-called "new atheists" may be as extreme as Christian fundamentalists, if not more.
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Fred Thompson, Neocon
Conservatives & The American Right
David Corn: He has a strong claim on the neoconservative heart, and if he ends up in the White House, the moribund neocons will rise again.
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George Tenet's Evasions
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
David Corn: His new memoir proves how hard it is to tell the truth about oneself but how easy it is to blame others.
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Trying to Stay Out of Iran
David Corn: Does Congress have the strength to prevent Bush from going to war with Iran?
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Cheney on Trial
David Corn: The Libby trial exposed the truth about who really pulls the strings in the Bush White House.
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Scootergate: The Trial
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
David Corn: In the case against Scooter Libby, the Iraq War is not on trial. But the integrity of the White House is.
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The Waiting Game
David Corn: Expect a flurry of hearings on Iraq when the new Democrat-controlled Congress convenes. But no real action from lawmakers or the President is likely to be taken.
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The Evil Abstraction
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
David Corn: Before Bob Gates's confirmation as CIA chief in 1991, the man now designated as Bush's Secretary of Defense was charged with forcing intelligence reports to conform to a tough anti-Soviet line.
Drug tests, lie detector tests, Fawn Hall, female appointees (8 percent), mining harbors, the S&L scandal, 239 dead U.S. troops in Beirut, Al Haig "in control," silence on AIDS, food-stamp reductions, Debategate, White House shredding, Jonas Savimbi, tax cuts for the rich, "mistakes were made."
Michael Deaver's conviction for influence peddling, Lyn Nofziger's conviction for influence peddling, Caspar Weinberger's five-count indictment, Ed Meese ("You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime"), Donald Regan (women don't "understand throw-weights"), education cuts, massacres in El Salvador.
"The bombing begins in five minutes," $640 Pentagon toilet seats, African- American judicial appointees (1.9 percent), Reader's Digest, C.I.A.-sponsored car-bombing in Lebanon (more than eighty civilians killed), 200 officials accused of wrongdoing, William Casey, Iran/contra.
"Facts are stupid things," three-by-five cards, the MX missile, Bitburg, S.D.I., Robert Bork, naps, Teflon.
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