Category Archives: CPAC

Back to the Future by Way of the French Revolution

I’ve remarked many times on the historical revisionism of right-wing theology and the implicit desire for a great rolling-backwards to re-fight every battle that reactionary conservatives have ever lost. Via Right Wing Watch, here’s Jeffrey Bell at a CPAC panel … Continue reading

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Morning Awful: CPAC Kulturkampf

Pay very close attention to what Kevin Deanna, founder of the white supremacist group Youth for Western Civilization, has to say for himself at the CPAC conference: It’s a cultural compound of Christian, classical, and then the folk traditions of … Continue reading

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The Teabagger Fail

Faux Noise minimizing the impact of Ron Paul on its party: Paulites are a big reason for the reenergizing of the conservative base. They came up with the “tea party” meme a long time ago and have essentially had it … Continue reading

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Morning Awful

Tell me again why I should be afraid of the culture warriors? “Natural rights” is a code phrase for Christianist politics. For this controversy to show up at CPAC is indicative of how the right’s wedge issues are now wedged … Continue reading

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CPAC

Cheney and Liz showed up, providing the usual tortured logic. Then Glenn Beck tortured history: “progressivism,” he said in his CPAC keynote, “is eating the Constitution.” He made no mention of unitary executive doctrine. In a room sponsored by John … Continue reading

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