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OPINION

 GOP Needs Its Brains Back 


Jul 31, 09 1:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Republican sycophants may think Sarah Palin’s resignation was brilliant, “but don’t kid yourself,” writes Robert Eisinger in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “The GOP is in trouble.” The party has lost its intellectual coherence, and if it wants it back, it’s got to look beyond... More »

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Mitt Romney • Newt Gingrich • conservative • Rob Portman • Republican Party • John Sununu • academics • Sarah Palin • Mark Sanford • intellectual

OPINION

 Keys to Palin's 2012 Run 

Sophia Nelson offers the candidate-to-be some sage advice

Jul 3, 09 5:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - So Sarah Palin is going to run for president, writes Sophia Nelson for the Huffington Post—her ambition, stated when she announced her resignation today, to "affect positive change from outside government,” is merely “code” for a 2012 bid. So, as a fellow Republican woman, Nelson offers... More »

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Mitt Romney • presidential campaign • GOP • conservative • nominee • presidential candidates • Sarah Palin • Election 2012

 Obama Still 
 Scaring Up 
 Gun Sales 

FBI reports surge in background checks

Jun 20, 09 6:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - The surge in gun and ammunition sales that started with Barack Obama's presidency shows no sign of abating, NPR reports. In California, gun sales are up 32% from a year ago, and the FBI has reported a consistent rise in applications for background checks. Gun retailers and consumers continue to... More »

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Barack Obama • gun sales • conservative • Democrat • Second Amendment • Dick Durbin • guns

 Reader's Digest 
 Shifts to the Right 

Struggling magazine aims for new niche market

Jun 19, 09 8:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Reader's Digest is no longer going after Middle America, reports the New York Times. Instead, the slimmed-down magazine will be "aiming a little more to the right," hoping to carve out a niche among conservatives, writes Stephanie Clifford. “It’s traditional, conservative values: I love my family,... More »

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media • conservative • American media • right-wing media • magazine industry • Reader's Digest • conservative media

analysis

Mousavi's Iran Might Not Be Much Different

Ex-PM has conservative record; change likely tough under ayatollah

Jun 17, 09 9:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Observers have heralded the candidacy of Mir Hossein Mousavi as a step toward a more moderate Iran—but in fact, Mousavi’s record shows support for some "controversial policies" in Iran, the Wall Street Journal reports. As prime minister in the 1980s, Mousavi was a social conservative, and he... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • conservative • Obama administration • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi

(Newser) - The global recession has sparked a conservative, anti-immigrant impulse in Europe—see the right’s victory in European Parliament elections—and US liberals should take notice, Michael Lind writes for Salon. Though “it would be a mistake to read too much into the elections” as the “European Parliament... More »

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immigration • European Union • conservative • United States • recession • racism • Democratic Party • European Parliament

OPINION

Web Will Make Conservatives Miss the Times


May 27, 09 11:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Conservatives have delighted in making a piñata out of the New York Times, but they’re not going to like the post-Times world, writes Francis Wilkinson of The Week. “Like most powerful, entrenched institutions, the Times has a deep bias in favor of the way... More »

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New York Times • conservative • online news • journalism • media bias • Huffington Post

Analysis

What They'll
Say to Fight Sotomayor

Critics call nominee racially insensitive, lacking intellect

May 27, 09 10:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sonia Sotomayor’s opponents are already polishing their script, Politico reports. They’ll call her radical, racist, and stupid—albeit via softer buzzwords. She’s a “judicial activist” fond of “identity politics,” with a questionable “intellect.” Here are the charges against her:
  • She
... More »

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conservative • confirmation hearings • US Supreme Court • racial tension • judicial nominations • Sonia Sotomayor • Ricci v. DeStefano

(Newser) - Last night’s American Idol was more than just a reality-show finale: It was a symbolic victory of the religious right over the liberal left; red states over blue states. At least according to two bloggers. “For a theory about how Kris Allen pulled an upset over the wildly... More »

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religious right • entertainment • American Idol • conservative • celebrity • blogger • red state • liberal • blue states • Kris Allen • Adam Lambert

Interview

Krauthammer: Right's Thorn in Obama's Side

Post columnist the only coherent voice in a fractured opposition

May 20, 09 11:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - In 2006, Charles Krauthammer urged Barack Obama to run for president, guaranteeing he’d lose. That didn’t exactly work out, but Obama’s rise has been good for the Washington Post columnist, who has become the central anti-Obama voice, writes Ben Smith in Politico. His writing drips with a... More »

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Barack Obama • New York Times • Washington Post • conservative • columnists • David Brooks • President Obama • Charles Krauthammer

(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.... More »

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gender • conservative • gender politics • liberal • daughter • party identification

(Newser) - Trouble in the land of right-wing radio. Michael Savage blasted Rush Limbaugh today as "the biggest phony of them all," reports Media Matters. Savage was speaking about the people who have supported him since Britain branded him a hate-monger and told him to stay away. Limbaugh, however, did... More »

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talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Michael Savage • right-wing media

(Newser) - George W. Bush’s historical reputation seems to be sinking by the day, but John Roberts, his slick, smiling appointee as the Supreme Court’s chief justice, remains as an “enduring and faithful reflection of the Bush presidency,” writes Jeffrey Toobin in the New Yorker. Though Roberts promised... More »

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Barack Obama • Antonin Scalia • John Roberts • conservative • US Supreme Court • George W. Bush • President Obama • William Rehnquist

Republicans Slam Party-Purist Outfit

Club for Growth backs unelectable righties,
say some in GOP

May 18, 09 2:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Some in the GOP have had it with the Club for Growth, an organization that identifies Republicans it deems weak on low-tax, small-government values, the Wall Street Journal reports. Party members argue that the Club backs Republicans too far right to win elections. “If their goal is to increase... More »

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Congress • conservative • Arlen Specter • Republican Party • conservatism • conservative credentials • Pat Toomey • Club for Growth

 Right-Wing Radio Host 
 Calls Maddow 'Little Boy' 

Andrew Wilkow also attacks Perez Hilton

May 15, 09 9:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - A right-wing radio host's rant on Tuesday got nasty—even for talk radio. Andrew Wilkow of Sirius/XM, filling in on the syndicated "Mark Levin Show," called MSNBC's Rachel Maddow a "nice little boy" and Perez Hilton a "vile sodomite," Salon reports. "It just sounds... More »

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satellite radio • Democrats • Sirius • talk radio • conservative • Rahm Emanuel • Perez Hilton • Rachel Maddow • Republicans • Andrew Wilkow • Mark Levin

(Newser) - With his moderate reputation and warm personal style, Charlie Crist’s Senate candidacy ought to be just what the doctor ordered for Republicans. But the party’s right wing is looking the gift horse in the mouth, writes EJ Dionne of the Washington Post. Conservatives have long distrusted Crist,... More »

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conservative • Republican Party • Charlie Crist • Senate race • Marco Rubio

OPINION

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

Show often presents conservative viewpoint as inevitable

May 7, 09 1:15 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Saturday Night Live • Barack Obama • Republican • Alec Baldwin • conservative • Tina Fey • Tracy Morgan • 30 Rock • liberal • Sarah Palin

Supermarket Magnate Wins Panama Election

Landslide offers rare right-wing victory in Latin America

May 4, 09 5:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - A conservative supermarket owner won a landslide victory in Panama's presidential election, in a rare win for the political right in the region. Ricardo Martinelli, a multimillionaire who financed his own campaign, vowed to expand investment in the Panama Canal and introduce a flat tax. "We can't continue to... More »

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Latin America • Panama • conservative • presidential election • Panama Canal Zone

OPINION

Republicans Building Big, Empty Tent: Noonan


May 1, 09 8:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - With Arlen Specter gone, it’s time for the "latest round of What Should the Republican Party Do," writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal. Call Specter an opportunist if you want, “but opportunists tell you something: which side is winning.” The Republican party... More »

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conservative • Arlen Specter • Republican Party • Peggy Noonan

right OPINION roundup

 After 100 
 Days, Obama 
 Remains Elusive 

Depending who you ask, Obama is 'elusive,' 'arrogant,' or 'preening'

Apr 29, 09 10:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Whoever the man in the Oval Office really is, he's not a traditional liberal, writes Gerald Seib in the Wall Street Journal. Rather than aiming to bolster government programs, President  Obama "seems to see government as the way to prompt the changes he wants in the economy or society.... More »

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Barack Obama • Republican • conservative • opinion • Obama administration • President Obama • 100 days

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