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Parents of Daughters Lean Left: Study

(Newser) - A new study shows that parents with daughters are more likely to align themselves with left-wing parties, FiveThirtyEight.com reports. Building on earlier research that showed that parents of daughters leaned left on gender issues, sociologists surveyed a nationally representative random sampling of men and women, mostly from Great Britain....

Fey's Inner Conservative Gets Out in 30 Rock's Drift Right

Show often presents conservative viewpoint as inevitable

(Newser) - 30 Rock will wrap its third season next week, with a ratings boost propelled by creator Tina Fey’s notorious Saturday Night Live impersonations of Sarah Palin. Yet for a show that owes some of its success to the takedown of a Republican politician, 30 Rock often sides with its...

For Rush's Cousin, It's All Relative

Life as a Limbaugh

(Newser) - Almost all her life, people have been asking Julie Limbaugh if she’s related to Rush. It’s a vexing problem for a teacher at a very liberal high school, but she doesn’t deny the connection. “He's the relative you don't see much,” she writes for Salon....

Dem Groups Loyal to Obama Despite Snubs

Prez won't kiss up to activists, but pushes liberal agenda

(Newser) - President Obama is publicly ignoring and even criticizing the liberal interest groups feverishly courted by past presidents. He has chastised the teachers’ union, skipped the State of the Black Union (again), and eschewed fanfare when restoring funding to groups that promote abortion. But activists remain loyal anyway, Politico reports, because...

Clarence Thomas Strays From Righty Line
Clarence Thomas
Strays From Righty Line
analysis
Mar 9, 2009 9:12 AM CDT

Clarence Thomas Strays From Righty Line

Slams Bush team, backs consumer protection in recent case

(Newser) - Clarence Thomas might be the Supreme Court’s rightmost justice, but he’s “never been shy about breaking with conventional wisdom,” writes David G. Savage in the Los Angeles Times. In the latest such instance, he upheld injured patients’ right to sue drug companies, arguing that “agency...

Moore: I'm Not Dems' Limbaugh
 Moore: I'm Not Dems' Limbaugh 
OPINION
Mar 6, 2009 11:56 AM CST

Moore: I'm Not Dems' Limbaugh

People agree with me

(Newser) - Just as Democrats are gleefully strapping Rush Limbaugh to the Republican Party, President Bush’s team once hatched a plan to tie filmmaker Michael Moore to Democrats. But, Moore writes for the Huffington Post, there’s one crucial difference between him and Rush: “The American people agree with me,...

Bloggers, Unions Team Up to Push Dems to the Left

Liberal coalition will fund competition for centrist incumbents

(Newser) - A new political action committee backed by liberal bloggers and labor unions aims to push the Obama administration and Democratic establishment to embrace more progressive politics, the New York Times reports. Called “Accountability Now” the group will recruit and promote liberal candidates to challenge centrists in Congress. Their goal...

Limbaugh Links Liberals to Murderers, Rapists

(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh today complained on his radio show that Democrats have morphed into "liberal socialists" and "must be stopped." That was the routine part. But he then "pushed the envelope," writes Sam Stein in the Huffington Post, with a rant that linked liberal ideas to...

Krugman Is Top Media Liberal
 Krugman Is Top Media Liberal
OPINION
Jan 24, 2009 1:36 AM CST

Krugman Is Top Media Liberal

Krugman tops Forbes ' list

(Newser) - Washington is beginning a new liberal era, and Forbes lists the 25 media lefties likely to be the most influential in the coming years. The top 5:
  1. Paul Krugman. The Nobel Prize-winner's "prose is as pungent as his academic credentials are impeccable."
  2. Arianna Huffington: The Huffington Post's founder
...

Cool Off, Lefties: Obama Won't Abandon You

(Newser) - Barack Obama's cabinet picks may have elicited howls from the left, but he won't sell out his progressive supporters, E.J. Dionne, Jr. writes in The New Republic. For starters, Obama never was a true economic lefty—that was John Edwards' role. Like John F. Kennedy 45 years ago, Obama...

Justice Stevens Is 88, and Not Looking to Play More Bridge

Lefty judge shows no signs of stepping down

(Newser) - Barack Obama can’t make his much-anticipated mark on the Supreme Court until a justice retires—and at 88, his most likely candidate, John Paul Stevens, has shown no mind to leave, the Washington Post reports. The second-oldest justice in Court history is in great shape, the Post notes, telecommuting...

Has Obama Tipped Murdoch Left?
 Has Obama 
 Tipped Murdoch Left? 
analysis
Nov 17, 2008 9:35 AM CST

Has Obama Tipped Murdoch Left?

NY Post coverage trumpets president-elect

(Newser) - Media watchers have been tracking the post-election New York Post with particular interest: Instead of being dyspeptic over the Democratic presidential win, Rupert Murdoch's gleefully right-wing tabloid has treated Barack Obama to coverage ranging, as the New York Times puts it, "from warm and fuzzy to downright heroic."...

Fake NYT Declares War Over
 Fake NYT Declares War Over 
Nov 12, 2008 11:33 AM CST

Fake NYT Declares War Over

Among other liberal fantasies like, 'Universities free!' and 'Thomas Friedman to resign'

(Newser) - “IRAQ WAR ENDS” declares the New York Times—or at least, an amazingly realistic imitation. A group of pranksters blanketed New York City with a fake edition of the paper of record this morning, reports Gawker. Dated July 4, 2009, the paper sports other headlines spun from liberal fantasies:...

Election Really Does Signal a Move to the Left
Election Really Does Signal
a Move to the Left
Opinion
Nov 5, 2008 6:00 PM CST

Election Really Does Signal a Move to the Left

Dems have built a new coalition of professionals, minorities, women

(Newser) - Don’t believe the voices warning Barack Obama to go slow and stick to the center because America remains conservative. There’s every reason to believe we’ve undergone a fundamental realignment, writes John B. Judis in the New Republic. The long shift toward a post-industrial economy has rearranged the...

Liberals, Don't Be Afraid if This Guy Wins: Kristol

A McCain win isn't the worst thing for liberalism

(Newser) - OK, so John McCain isn't likely to win, admits Bill Kristol in the New York Times. But if he does, here are things liberals could cheer (if they're not heading for the Canadian border).
  • Shouldn’t liberals love it when the underdog pulls it off? “A McCain upset victory
...

Obama Court Would Threaten Foundation of US Democracy

'Left-wing ideologue' threatens representative governance if elected

(Newser) - Before electing a “left-wing ideologue,” Americans should reconsider who “moderate-posing” Barack Obama would put on the Supreme Court, Edward Whelan writes in the National Review. The Democrat will select ultra-liberals for a bench already “markedly to the left of the American public,” he cautions: “...

GOP Closes Wallet on NC Rep. Hayes
GOP Closes Wallet on NC Rep. Hayes
Oct 24, 2008 4:38 PM CDT

GOP Closes Wallet on NC Rep. Hayes

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

(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 ...

'Rupert Murdoch Is Becoming a Liberal'

Mogul held secret meeting with Obama to negotiate a truce: Wolff

(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch isn't what you've been told, Michael Wolff writes in Vanity Fair. He's not a destroyer of journalism—he is perhaps the last great lover of newspapers. And he’s actually turning liberal. Yes, he’s still a free-marketeer, but Murdoch has been seduced by his second wife’s...

Dems Should Fear 'Sarah Barracuda'
 Dems Should
 Fear 'Sarah
 Barracuda'

OPINION
Aug 30, 2008 2:52 PM CDT

Dems Should Fear 'Sarah Barracuda'

If McCain lets veep pick be herself, a 'mold-breaking example' will be born

(Newser) - Democrats will launch one patronizing strike after another on Sarah Palin in the coming weeks, but make no mistake: Liberals are—and should be—terrified of the GOP veep pick, William Kristol writes in the Weekly Standard. Palin is “a compelling and mold-breaking example for lots of Americans,”...

Lefty Ticket a Boon to McCain
 Lefty Ticket a Boon to McCain
OPINION
Aug 25, 2008 9:41 AM CDT

Lefty Ticket a Boon to McCain

US still leans center-right

(Newser) - Barack Obama has taken a big risk by choosing a VP almost as liberal as he is, writes Fred Barnes in the Wall Street Journal. In the past, Democrats have found success in politically balanced tickets: centrist Jimmy Carter and lefty Walter Mondale, moderate Bill Clinton and more liberal Al...

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