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RIP Andrew Breitbart

REACTIONS

Mar 1, 2012 12:49 PM CST

RIP Andrew Breitbart

Death sets off both tributes and good-riddance shots

(Newser) - Andrew Breitbart's death continues to set off a wide range of reactions. Some examples:

'Liberals celebrate': The Washington Examiner rounds up tweets from the left under that headline, including one from Slate's Matt Yglesias, who says the "world outlook is slightly improved" now.
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Herman Cain Largely Ignored Civil Rights Movement as Student at Morehouse

Cain Sat Out
Civil Rights
Movement

Nov 25, 2011 9:16 AM CST

Cain Sat Out Civil Rights Movement

He became political only when government raised minimum wage, his taxes

(Newser) - Herman Cain came of age in the heat of the civil rights movement, but unlike many of his politically conscious peers at the predominantly black Morehouse College, he largely ignored it. “I wasn’t determined to make social change,” Cain tells the Wall Street Journal . “I wanted...

Conservative Groups Eclipsing GOP as Campaign Organizers

Shadow Campaigns
Taking Over GOP

Oct 30, 2011 4:20 PM CDT

Shadow Campaigns Taking Over GOP

Supreme Court allowed groups to spend freely

(Newser) - Conservative groups operating outside the public eye are carrying much of the water for Republican campaigns, the New York Times reports. Thanks to a Supreme Court decision that uncaps contribution limits, right-wing organizations like Americans for Prosperity and Karl Rove's American Crossroads are spending hundreds of millions of dollars—...

Joe Biden Complains After Conservative Ambush Interview

Biden Complains After Ambush Interview

Oct 25, 2011 2:14 PM CDT

Biden Complains After Ambush Interview

His office want to know: Were rules broken?

(Newser) - Joe Biden is not happy about the ambush interview that landed him on cable TV—and he’s letting the press gallery’s standing committee of correspondents know about it. Jason Mattera of the conservative blog Human Events caught Biden off guard last week by asking to take a photo...

Rick Perry's No Conservative

OPINION

Aug 19, 2011 4:28 PM CDT

Rick Perry's No Conservative

His record has often infuriated Texas right wingers: Dave Mann

(Newser) - Rick Perry’s been anointed as the conservative savior in the 2012 presidential race, but Texas Observer editor Dave Mann isn’t sure he’s a conservative at all. “The closer you look at Perry’s record in Texas, the harder it is to discern any coherent ideology at...

What Kids Learn at
Tea Party Summer Camp

Jun 15, 2011 3:16 PM CDT

What Kids Learn at Tea Party Summer Camp

Here's a look at the fun activities at Tampa 912's 'Liberty' camp

(Newser) - Are you tired of liberally biased summer camps? Well then the Tampa 912 Project has just the thing for your kids. This Tea Party group is running a camp this summer that instills 8- to 12-year-olds with principles such as “America is good,” “I believe in God,...

Charles Koch Op-Ed: Why We Fight 'Crony Capitalism,' Bloated Government

Charles Koch: Why We're Against 'Crony Capitalism'

OPINION

Mar 1, 2011 9:53 AM CST

Charles Koch: Why We're Against 'Crony Capitalism'

Koch brother stands up for his family's activism

(Newser) - With the heat intensifying around him and his brother, conservative fundraiser/oil tycoon Charles Koch penned an op-ed piece today to explain himself. “For many years, I, my family, and our company have contributed to a variety of intellectual and political causes,” he writes in the Wall Street Journal...

Conservative
Group Kicks
Out Ron Paul

Feb 13, 2011 1:32 PM CST

Conservative Group Kicks Out Ron Paul

'Rep. Paul is clearly off his meds,' says director

(Newser) - Ron Paul may have won the CPAC straw poll , but Young Americans for Freedom apparently doesn’t care. The conservative activist group booted Paul from its national advisory board over a disagreement on national security issues and a dispute regarding Paul’s anti-war activities, Politico reports. "It's a sad...

Twitter Shows Nation's
Regional Accents

Jan 11, 2011 4:52 PM CST

Twitter Shows Nation's Regional Accents

Linguists think that's pretty 'koo'

(Newser) - The constant stream of communication being published by Twitter users has provided linguists with a window into regional dialects, the AP reports. Carnegie Mellon researchers examined 380,000 tweets from a week in March and found different patterns of speech for different regions. "I think that it shows is...

Liberals, Conservatives
Have Different Brains

Liberals, Conservatives Have Different Brains

Or least different-sized parts, say scientists

(Newser) - Here's a study sure to stoke controversy—British researchers have found that political orientation correlates to the relative size of certain parts of the brain. Liberals can boast of thicker gray matter at the anterior cingulate, while conservatives can brag about their bigger amygdalas, reports the Sydney Morning Herald . How...

Palin No Intellectual Match
for Obama: Juan Williams

Dec 27, 2010 12:22 PM CST

Palin No Intellectual Match for Obama: Juan Williams

Conservatives react to Fox correspondent's analysis

(Newser) - Conservatives rushed to Juan Williams’ aid when NPR fired him—but now, he’s taking heat from the right for saying Sarah Palin “can’t stand on an intellectual stage with Obama.” On Fox News Sunday, the onetime NPR commentator said the field of Republican candidates was “...

Top 5
Sarah Palin
Myths

OPINION

Oct 15, 2010 11:15 AM CDT

Top 5 Sarah Palin Myths

No, she's not ruining the GOP, writes Matthew Continetti

(Newser) - How well do you know Sarah Palin ? The former governor of Alaska is more than the caricature dreamed up by Saturday Night Live, argues Matthew Continetti for the Washington Post . "The real Sarah Palin is a complex woman who has risen in no time from obscurity to the...

Stewart Blasts Rove's
'Foreign Donor' Hypocrisy

Oct 13, 2010 4:37 AM CDT

Stewart Blasts Rove's 'Foreign Donor' Hypocrisy

Conservatives are not above fear-mongering, he says

(Newser) - Karl Rove and Fox News are outraged— outraged! —that the Democrats are running ads suggesting that GOP-backed groups take "secret foreign money." "Have these people no shame?" Rove asks. Right, jokes Jon Stewart on the Daily Show , because conservatives would never spread rumors about shadowy...

It's Tough to Be
Conservative
Enough in 2010

Dana Milbank

Oct 6, 2010 12:24 PM CDT

It's Tough to Be Conservative Enough in 2010

Bob Dole, Gerald Ford, and more wouldn't be: Dana Milkbank

(Newser) - When Dana Milbank had the temerity to call Lisa Murkowski and Bob Bennett “faithful conservatives,” readers let him have it. These weren’t conservatives, they argued—just look at their American Conservative Union scores! So Milbank did. “What I found was astonishing,” he writes in the...

Pundits Pan 'Pledge to America'

OPINION ROUNDUP

Sep 23, 2010 1:52 PM CDT

Pundits Pan 'Pledge to America'

Well, except the 'National Review'

(Newser) - The reviews are in for House Republicans' new " Pledge to America ," and mostly they ain't pretty. Here's what people are saying:

Erick Erickson of RedState hates it, calling it “a series of compromises and milquetoast rhetorical flourishes in search of unanimity among House Republicans. … It is

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Scott Brown
Shrugs Off
Palin Attack

Aug 30, 2010 2:47 PM CDT

Scott Brown Shrugs Off Palin Attack

'I don't know what the surprise is' Massachusetts Senator says

(Newser) - Don’t look now, but a feud is brewing between Sarah Palin and Scott Brown. The conservative it-girl slammed the GOP’s golden boy last week for not being conservative enough. Liberal Massachusetts might “put up with Scott Brown and some of the antics there,” she told Fox...

Poll: 29% Support Tea Party

Aug 27, 2010 7:42 AM CDT

Poll: 29% Support Tea Party

To 54% who do not

(Newser) - The Tea Party has gained ground with the public since April, with almost 3 out of every 10 Americans now supporting it, according to a new CBS News poll. Of course, that still leaves the other 7 in 10 Americans unconvinced—54% said they do not support the movement, while...

Meet the GOP's
2016 Nominee

Marc Ambinder

Aug 25, 2010 12:38 PM CDT

Meet the GOP's 2016 Nominee

Why Joe Scarborough is the perfect man for the job

(Newser) - Joe Scarborough insists he’s not running for president. He says he’s perfectly happy as MSNBC’s morning host, where, he argues, he has more influence than your average senator. But there’s a “studio apartment industry of conservatives” who think Scarborough is the man Republicans will need...

The Crash Taught Us Nothing

Thomas Frank

Aug 11, 2010 9:50 AM CDT

The Crash Taught Us Nothing

How have Republicans revived their old, worn-out ideology?

(Newser) - Thomas Frank turns in his last column for the Wall Street Journal today, and he’s feeling a bit depressed. Back when he started writing for the paper, the financial crisis had just hit, and though it was a terrible time, he took solace that “at least we were...

GOP Becoming
a Party of
'Crackpots'

OPINION

Aug 9, 2010 8:17 AM CDT

GOP Becoming a Party of 'Crackpots'

A good man goes down because he doesn't hate Obama enough

(Newser) - The Republican Party, once a great, intelligent institution, has been “hijacked by hustlers and extremists” out to destroy not only President Obama, but many in its own ranks, writes Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News . Lupica is furious over South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis’ primary loss to...