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Media Matters, September 07, 2010 Since President Obama’s election, Fox personalities have expressed opposition to or called for the repeal of virtually every progressive achievement of the 20th century, including Social Security, Medicare, the Americans with Disabilities Act, portions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the 16th and 17th Amendments to the Constitution. [...]

letter in Daily Local News, Friday, July 23, 2010 A previous letter-writer asked for a definition of what constitutes the “far right.” It’s a fair question. Sadly for the many middle class residents of Chester County, particularly the many moderate Republicans who have been leaving their old party in droves, the answer is easily found [...]

In 2004, Congressman Ron Paul cast the lone vote against congressional commemoration of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the LBJ-era law than enabled substantial progress gainst race-based discrimination in this country. For background and commentary, see skeetervt1, “Like Father, Like Son: Ron Paul Also Opposes Civil Rights Act, Says It Violates Property Rights,” at [...]

letter from Jamie McVickar, Daily Local News, April 08, 2010 So, let’s review some of the roar from the far-right crowd in the Daily Local. According to various letterwriters, Congress is driving over a cliff and can’t be trusted with a dead dog; one writer has done his own math to find that the true [...]

by: William Douglas | McClatchy Newspapers, Sunday 21 March 2010 Demonstrators outside the U.S. Capitol, angry over the proposed health care bill, shouted “nigger” Saturday at U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia congressman and civil rights icon who was nearly beaten to death during an Alabama march in the 1960s. The protesters also shouted obscenities [...]

“We share a common purpose in stopping President Obama’s agenda….” – RNC Chair Michael Steele, statement after his 2/15/10 with about 50 tea party leaders, quoted at politico.com.

“There are roughly 170,000 Republicans in Bucks County, and they are a diverse group of voters. The Tea Party is an important part and they play an important role in the electoral process. They are the base of the Republican Party, and I believe many of the positions I hold … are issues they believe [...]

[N.b. well-documented data, from 3 months ago, showing that Bush had more "czars" than Obama -- but the right wing had not yet gone entirely crazy back then.] By Dick Polman, Phila Inquirer, 9/20/09 Inquirer National Political Columnist The latest fit of conservative paranoia is that Barack Obama, the alien in our midst, seeks to [...]

Rep. Joe Pitts (R – PA 16) likes to work behind the scenes as chair of the US House “Values Action Team,” but he came out from cover 2 weeks ago in co-authoring the Stupak-Pitts amendment, which is the focus of a rally tomorrow Nov. 21 at 10:30 a.m. at the Court House in downtown [...]

Alarming excerpts from “Rachel Maddow Interview with Former Evangelist Frank Schaeffer: Christian Right Is ‘Trolling for Assassins,’” AlterNet, November 19, 2009. “It‘s no fault of the president that he has no natural instinct or blood impulse for what the America of the 57 states is about. He was sired by a Kenyan father, born to [...]