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HIPPIES STRIKE BACK

SF Store Gives Palin Profits to Help Save Alaska Wolves

100% goes to foundation fighting aerial hunting

Nov 17, 09 10:25 PM CST
(Newser) - A bookstore in San Francisco—probably not a locale Sarah Palin would consider “real America”—is donating all the profits from the sale of her book, Going Rogue, to an Alaska foundation that, among other things, helps to protect wolves from the aerial hunting the ex-governor ardently supports.... More »

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San Francisco • bookstore • liberals • Sarah Palin • Going Rogue • Sarah Palin Going Rogue • Sarah Palin book

Obama Scared to Show His Face in ...
San Francisco?

Crazy left has made it ugly for Dems before

Oct 14, 09 8:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Given the adoring crowds he’s attracted in, say, Berlin, one would think President Obama would have a number of public appearances scheduled during a quick jaunt to San Francisco beginning tomorrow. But evidently, his staff is so worried about rabid lefties that Obama’s just dropping in for an... More »

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Al Gore • San Francisco • fundraiser • liberals • Code Pink • President Obama • transvestite • left wing • Chris Lehane

OPINION

Swallow It, Liberals: Obama Needs to Compromise

Pragmatic president must reassure his supporters tonight, Tomasky writes

Sep 9, 09 8:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - "The summer has been a bummer for American liberals," writes Guardian America editor Michael Tomasky; after the heady optimism of President Obama's first 100 days, "reality has set in, and with force." Not only is conservative opposition "as Leninist as ever," but liberals... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • Congress • liberals • health care reform • Michael Tomasky • George W. Bush • conservatives

 O'Reilly: 
 Stewart's 
 Off the Rails 

'Secretly liberal' Fox News strikes back

Aug 21, 09 4:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bill O'Reilly hit back at Jon Stewart last night, saying the Daily Show host had gone "off the rails" with recent jokes about Fox News. Stewart Wednesday night sarcastically called Fox "secretly liberal," because commentators like O'Reilly are now doing all the things they attacked liberals for... More »

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Bill O'Reilly • Fox News • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • liberals

 Surprise! 
 Fox News 
 Is Liberal: 
 Stewart 



They are, after all, doing all the same things they used to complain about

Aug 20, 09 9:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jon Stewart made a discovery on last night's Daily Show: Fox News has turned into a big, fat liberal! As proof, Stewart showed a series of clips, including one of Bill O'Reilly praising conservative town hall protesters ("We don't describe the protesters as 'loons,'" he says) contrasted... More »

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entertainment • media • Fox News • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • liberals • liberal

 Bachmann: I'm Being 'Palinized' 

Calls for supporters' help against 'liberals' scorn'

Aug 14, 09 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - GOP Rep. Michelle Bachmann doesn’t want to be “Palinized”—that is, hammered with media attacks and “liberals’ scorn,” she writes in a fundraising letter to supporters. “Just as they did with Sarah Palin, the more I talk about the issues, the more they attack... More »

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Congress • media criticism • liberals • Sarah Palin • Michele Bachmann • fundraising

(Newser) - Barack Obama has done next to nothing for gay and lesbian Americans since coming to power, but liberals keep insisting that he's a closet supporter of same-sex marriage and open military service. That's ridiculous, writes James Kirchick in the Washington Post, who sees no reason to assume Obama will act.... More »

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Barack Obama • gay rights • gay marriage • Don't Ask, Don't Tell • liberals • gay activists

(Newser) - Blue Dogs had a good day, but now liberals are howling. After the conservative Democrats managed to shift health care legislation to the center, progressive Democrats say they might mount a rebellion of their own, report Politico and the Hill. They're mostly upset that Henry Waxman agreed to water down... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Congress • liberals • health care reform • Max Baucus • Blue Dog Democrats • progressives

(Newser) - With the 2006 and 2008 election victories, liberals have been cheering the end of the “ghastly interlude of conservative dominance ushered in by Ronald Reagan,” William Kristol writes in the Weekly Standard. Not so fast. “Only six months into the new administration, even a talented hot... More »

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Bush administration • liberals • Obama administration • President Obama • conservative movement • William Kristol • public opinion • big government

ANALYSIS

 Lefties: Obama's 
 Becoming Dubya 

Left feeling spurned by new president's policies

May 17, 09 9:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sorry, ladies: Hell has no fury like a political base scorned, and tensions are simmering among liberals, who feel spurned by President Obama, Josh Gerstein writes for Politico. With his reversals on military tribunals and releasing photos of abused detainees, and reluctance to tackle gay rights and immigration reform, some... More »

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Barack Obama • environment • gay rights • torture • military tribunal • immigration reform • liberals • health care reform • US Supreme Court • conservatives • Obama administration

(Newser) - Barack Obama is not the incarnation of evil, David Horowitz cautions his right-wing brethren in FrontPage Magazine. Don’t get him wrong: Horowitz remains fundamentally opposed to Obama’s liberal leanings and thinks he’s shown “surprising ineptitude,” but he’s tired of fellow conservatives’ increasingly “hysterical”... More »

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liberals • right wingers • conservatives • President Obama

OPINION

Liberals Turn Against War in Afghanistan, Too

How swiftly 'good war' becomes 'another Vietnam,' says scribe

Mar 17, 09 9:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - When the Iraq war was going badly, Bret Stephens writes in the Wall Street Journal, American liberals always defended efforts in Afghanistan—the “good war” the US couldn’t afford to lose. But now many of those same lefties say it’s time to bow out instead of getting... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • liberals • Vietnam War • Iraq war • Afghanistan war

(Newser) - A California congressman thinks President Obama’s economic policies are leading the country down the path described in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, the Washington Independent reports. “The achievers, the people who create all the things that benefit rest of us, are going on strike,” Republican John Campbell... More »

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Barack Obama • California • congressman • socialism • liberals • Ayn Rand

(Newser) - Toughened by years in the political wilderness, liberal lobbyists are organized and ready to support President Obama on issues ranging from health care to taxing the rich, the New York Times reports. “This is no longer going to be Barack Obama standing by himself getting pilloried by the special... More »

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media • Clinton administration • liberals • health care reform • Center for American Progress • Obama administration • John Podesta • President Obama

OPINION

Is Obama Trying to Fix Too Much at Once?

Despite new prez's gifts, Brooks worries he's moving too fast

Feb 24, 09 8:35 AM CST
(Newser) - David Brooks is not a liberal, but the New York Times columnist doesn't hesitate to call himself "a great admirer of Barack Obama and those around him." Yet as the new administration has thrown itself at a dozen staggering problems, from fixing health care and the auto industry... More »

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Barack Obama • government • liberals • auto industry • health care reform • economic stimulus package • David Brooks • Obama administration

ANALYSIS

Lefties Yelp Over Obama's Rightward Moves

Cabinet positions, backtracking on taxes, Iraq not what some liberals envisioned

Dec 8, 08 11:17 AM CST
(Newser) - The Internet left, a cash cow for Barack Obama’s campaign, is now home to some of his sharper critics, Politico reports. The president-elect seems to be turning down the heat on some red-meat ideas, like a windfall-profits tax on oil companies. And, notes one prominent progressive blogger, “There... More »

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liberals • blogs • Obama administration • President Obama • Obama Cabinet

OPINION

Dems, It's OK to Use
'Liberal' Tag Again

Label is ready to make a comeback

Nov 24, 08 1:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Now that Democrats have started winning again, Michael Lind wants to go back to using the word “liberal” instead of “progressive.” Writing in Salon, he explains why:
  • A name change isn’t going to protect anyone from criticism in any case, so be brave. “Your
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liberals • Democratic Party • progressive

BOOK REVIEW

The Culture Wars, College Football Style

Michigan-Ohio State rivalry illuminates tale of  '60s, '70s upheaval

Nov 21, 08 5:00 PM CST
(Newser) - The cultural disconnect between conservative college football programs and America’s liberalizing culture in the late 1960s and early ‘70s is the theme of War as They Knew It, a book by Detroit Free Press columnist Michael Rosenberg. The survey of the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry (which continues tomorrow) through... More »

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rivalry • Richard Nixon • Michigan Wolverines • New Republic • liberals • Vietnam War • University of Michigan • book reviews • Jonathan Chait • Bo Schembechler • Ohio State University • Ohio State Buckeyes • 1960s • 1970s • conservatives • culture wars • Detroit Free Press • Woody Hayes • Michael Rosenberg

GOP Closes Wallet on NC Rep. Hayes

Remark that 'liberals hate real Americans' bites back in close race

Oct 24, 08 4:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rep. Robin Hayes is still struggling to get out from under a comment he made last weekend that “liberals hate real Americans,” and the Republican National Committee has cancelled plans to help in a tight re-election fight with an ad buy in his North Carolina district, the Charlotte ... More »

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Congress • North Carolina • liberals • gaffe • liberal • re-election • Robin Hayes • Larry Kissell

OPINION

Gossip Mags Bash Palin— But They'll Be in Love Soon

Running mate's star power may mean more favorable coverage

Sep 8, 08 3:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin has been an instant hit with gossip mags and supermarket tabloids, making the covers of US, People, OK!, and the National Enquirer, even before her knockout speech at the Republican convention. It hasn't been all that flattering—the US headline was “Babies, Lies... More »

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Republican • tabloids • Republican voters • liberals • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • OK! magazine • vice presidential candidate

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