Comment on the Tea Party Movement

home.cc.umanitoba.ca by Bob Altemeyer | Apr. 20, 2010 (Comment)

Today's Tea Party movement began in early 2009 in reaction to the American government's efforts to stabilize the banking system and keep the nation from sinking into economic turmoil. In October, 2008 the Democrat-controlled Congress passed a “Wall St. bailout” bill (the “TARP” bill) proposed by the Bush administration, which Bush immediately signed. This bill deeply offended some economic conservatives who held a “let the chips fall where they ... Full Story »

The Guns of August, and Why the Republican Right Was So Adept at Using Them on Health Care

Robert Reich's Blog by Robert Reich | Aug. 31, 2009 (Editorial)

(Blog Post) What we learned in August is something we've long known but keep forgetting: The most important difference between America's Democratic left and Republican right is that the ...

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Postscript On The 2008 Election

members.shaw.ca, University of Manitoba by Bob Altemeyer | Dec. 1, 2008 (Research)

() Rick Roane of Cherryhill Media in San Diego has offered to produce an audio-book version of The Authoritarians and make it available at minimal cost. I wrote a brief analysis ...

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The Authoritarians

members.shaw.ca, University of Manitoba by Bob Altemeyer | Sep. 1, 2007 (Research)

() In the fall of 2005 I found myself engaged, most unexpectedly, in a heavy exchange of emails with the man who had blown the whistle on Watergate, John Dean. He was writing a ...

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This Week in Crazy: Clarence Thomas

Salon by Andrew Leonard | Jan. 22, 2010 (Opinion)

In his remarkably undistinguished 20-year stint as a Supreme Court justice, Clarence Thomas has rarely called attention to himself for original jurisprudential thinking. But ...

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When rightwing hate goes mainstream

The Guardian by Dan Kennedy | Apr. 7, 2010 (Opinion)

The right is ever fond of pointing out that leftwing extremists have also been among us for lo these many years, from the Weather Underground during the Vietnam war to the ...

Posted by Dan Kennedy

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