Secretive Right-Wing Group Vetted PalinSource: The Nation
Last week, while the media focused almost obsessively on the DNC's spectacle in Denver, the country's most influential conservatives met quietly at a hotel in downtown Minneapolis to get to know Sarah Palin.

A few days ago, I wrote one of the first articles out there regarding Sarah Palin's VP nomination as a "stealth dominionist"--a "stealther" with extensive Assemblies connections (and to particularly scary segments of the Assemblies, as we'll get into) as well as dominionist orgs …
Meet the Real Power Behind the GOPSource: Political Research Associates
The Council for National Policy (CNP) is a secretive right-wing nationalist group that was formed in 1981 to counter what its leaders saw as the excessive influence of purportedly liberal organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations.1 CNP, may of whose founding members hel …
Christian Conservatives Consider Third-Party Effort Source: The New York Times
Alarmed at the chance that the Republican party might pick Rudolph Giuliani as its presidential nominee despite his support for abortion rights, a coalition of influential Christian conservatives is threatening to back a third-party candidate in an attempt to stop him.