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Want to die young? Immerse yourself in conservative media and vote Republican. Seriously. We should have known, but, still, the science is shocking: when conservatives run governments, suicides and homicides go up; when liberals run governments,...
by thomhartmann
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 07:53 AM PDT
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One thing that really bugs me about modern day, Fox-watching ‘conservatives’ is how little interest they have in maintaining and expanding the institutions that have made America great. I receive blank stares or even hostility when I talk about...
by AChris
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on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 04:24 PM PDT
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The anti-anti-racist right is proceeding to build conspiracy theories around the new machine-learning services provided by big tech. This conspiracy theory seems to have more purchase among the ‘respectable’ conservatives than many others have (though...
by AChris
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on Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 07:43 PM PDT
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By John Patrick Leary for Economic Hardship Reporting Project This column is supported by the journalism nonprofit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. The evergreen questions raised by the label “conservative” are: conserving what and from whom?...
by Economic Hardship Reporting Project
194 comments
on Sat Feb 10, 2024 at 09:20 AM PST
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So, Nikki Haley — the nation’s currently most famous advocate for “limited government” — turned in a respectable showing in New Hampshire last night. What might that mean for our country? In New Hampshire, people confined to the state’s prisons stamp...
by thomhartmann
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on Wed Jan 24, 2024 at 09:01 AM PST
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Conservative Voices: Ross Douthat - Trump apologist; Bret Stephens - full panic mode; David Brooks.. The New York Times has a stable of regular opinion writers to present a range of views. This not unreasonable in normal times, when people may have differing opinions but still share some common values and assumptions. That is no longer the case in...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 09:13 AM PST
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Harvard President Claudia Gay resigned on Tuesday amid growing pressure from multiple scandals. The first Black woman to hold the position, her exit after just six months also makes her the shortest-tenured president in Harvard history, proving once...
by Blue Tuesday
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on Wed Jan 03, 2024 at 10:17 PM PST
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Thomas B. Edsall, an American journalist and academic, wrote an outlandish opinion piece in the New York Times that claims small-dollar donations to political candidates are the real problem, not big money in politics. His piece was titled “Small...
by frankfaiola
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on Sun Oct 22, 2023 at 03:28 PM PDT
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The Wall Street Journal has been a respected newspaper for a long time and it has always been clear their editorials have a conservative lean. It is sad to say that many of their editorials and opinion pieces are simply not fact-checked, some can even...
by frankfaiola
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on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 08:41 PM PDT
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Scott Morefield has written for all the worst conservative publications—Breitbart, Daily Caller, The Blaze, WND, something called “American Greatness” which just has to be the worst, and currently, Townhall. In 2020, he was singularly obsessed with...
by kos
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on Sun Oct 08, 2023 at 09:29 AM PDT
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While agonizing over the latest tragic and misguided decision handed down by the radically conservative Supreme Court majority, I came across an article written for The Hill. The author is interviewing Keith Ellison, one of a few black Muslims to serve...
by Eihenetu
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on Sat Sep 23, 2023 at 10:56 AM PDT
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Comedian Larry David reportedly confronted Elon Musk over the latter’s public statements in support of Republican candidates. According to the newly released Walter Isaacson biography of Musk, ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Sep 19, 2023 at 12:35 PM PDT
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Back on September 1, 2023 The NY Times editorial board used one of their headlines to do some implied false equivalence by omission. Partisan Politics Put a Huge Win for Public Health at Risk To make a long editorial short, it was all about how the...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Sep 06, 2023 at 05:46 AM PDT
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Some fading celebrity running for the Senate is a classic clickbait headline — and typical for the New York Post. So when I started reading ‘Tan mom’ Patricia Krentcil plans to run for US Senate in Florida — because I am a sucker for sensational if...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Thu Aug 17, 2023 at 04:15 PM PDT
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The business of the news media is to bring us truth and the latest news. Certain media outlets repeatedly tell you that they have the only truth and that you must watch them. When I hear that, I hear ‘propaganda’. Various religions make the same claim....
by iarnstein
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on Thu Aug 10, 2023 at 07:55 PM PDT
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Here’s a musing for my own purposes, as a way to better clarify my thinking. Perhaps some others might find it useful or amusing. My conservative friends think I'm a liberal, my liberal friends think I’m kind of conservative. For the most part, I’m...
by dlsamson
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on Mon Jul 03, 2023 at 11:57 AM PDT
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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. Robert Anton Wilson I first heard that quote when I was high school in the 90’s. It made enough sense to me. Many .people advocate for change, get the change...
by RobertEnders
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on Sat Jun 03, 2023 at 06:13 AM PDT
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If Gender dysphoria and gun violence are about mental health, then let's make it about mental health I wonder if someone born with a heart defect thinks they should have a working heart? I wonder if someone born with a deformed limb thinks they should have access to health care that would solve that issue and give them a better life. Should a child...
by iarnstein
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on Mon May 15, 2023 at 08:22 PM PDT
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I hope it is all right to introduce myself here. As you can probably tell from the name, I used to be a card-carrying Republican\conservative. I watched FOX News and went to the website religiously. I HATED with a passion that cannot be described this...
by Former Republican Who Has Seen The Light
138 comments
on Sun May 14, 2023 at 04:13 PM PDT
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We must continue having Christian principles guiding the medical experts setting our laws to further conservative views that this country is a Christian based one. In that regard, the state of Texas is rightly ignoring stated positions by the American...
by iarnstein
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on Sat May 13, 2023 at 11:10 PM PDT
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