By agreeing to attend this year’s Values Voter Summit, Rudy Giuliani will have to face up to the discrepancy between his views and those of the religious right. That may be the showdown Dobson and others are looking for.
Adele M. Stan
Adele M. Stan is a columnist for The American Prospect. She is editor of Right Wing Watch, and a winner of the Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism.
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Run, Newt, Run!
If the former speaker of the House enters the presidential race, he will be vulnerable to spattering by the very dirt he would sling. His potential candidacy also speaks volumes about the state of the Republican Party.
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BLACKWATER RUNS DEEP.
BLACKWATER RUNS DEEP. The thing I find most interesting about yesterday’s terrible news of the killing of civilians, allegedly by the hired guns of Blackwater USA, is that it actually made news. In fact, it seems that the matter of the military’s outsourcing of tasks ranging from security to interrogation is finally finding its way […]
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TED OLSON COULD BE EATING WORMS.
TED OLSON COULD BE EATING WORMS. First Harry Reid; now, the New York Times editorial board. Yesterday afternoon, the Senate majority leader issued a statement declaring his opposition to any potential nomination of Theodore B. Olson as the replacement for departing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and saying, “I intend to do everything I can to […]
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SEEMS I’VE HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE.
SEEMS I’VE HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE. All day, I’ve been racking my brain, trying to recall from which venomous right-wing media wag I had heard that term, “General Betray Us,” before — yes, long before the tin-eared folks at MoveOn.org got hold of it. I thought it was Limbaugh, but I could find no reference […]
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Pakistan on the Brink
Six years after the September 11 attacks, the Bush administration encourages more strife in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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THE DEVOLUTION OF MEAT INSPECTION.
THE DEVOLUTION OF MEAT INSPECTION. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is reporting that the farm bill passed by the House (H.R. 2419) last July will greatly reduce federal meat inspection, instead referring inspections of the meat processed by most plants to the purview of the states. AFGE represents federal meat inspectors. (I worked […]
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PODESTA: CONGRESS SHOULD PURSUE CONTEMPT CITATIONS.
PODESTA: CONGRESS SHOULD PURSUE CONTEMPT CITATIONS. At a meeting with journalists this morning, John Podesta, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress (and former chief of staff in the Clinton White House), urged congressional leaders in both chambers to pursue threatened charges of contempt of Congress against White House personnel who have refused […]
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SO MAYBE HE’S NOT RESIGNING.
SO MAYBE HE’S NOT RESIGNING. You knew there was something odd about Sen. Larry Craig‘s resignation announcement, but couldn’t quite put your finger on it, right? That’s because when public figures announce their resignations from a public post, they usually do so in definite terms, as in, “I will resign my office, effective such-and-such-a-date.” Today […]
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WE LIKE TO LOOK LIKE WE CARE ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION.
WE LIKE TO LOOK LIKE WE CARE ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION. In a mind-bendingly frustrating appearance yesterday on Fox News Sunday (transcript not yet available), the two leading figures of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chairman Patrick Leahy (Vt.) and ranking member Arlen Specter (Penn.), laid out the many constitutional transgressions of President George W. Bush, but […]