Words have meaning, but the Beltway press is in the process of stripping "populism" of its descriptive value as pundits and reporters continue to misuse the word in connection with the right-wing movement that obsessively opposes President Obama.

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Glenn Beck, the guiding light for many in the conservative camp, is featured in this article that raises the concern that his methods may be arousing emotions that will lead to violence. :

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As the United States debates how to overhaul its health-care system, arguments have become increasingly outlandish -- perhaps none more so than former vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin's assertion that the Obama administration plans to implement state-sponsored "death panels" …

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The Demagogue Beast in Our Nation

This blog post is going to be a bit of a mini school lesson. Something that was missed in a lot of the education that we did not get or that if we got we must have missed that day. Since the President mentioned it and it had been on my mind for quite some time now.

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Grist's David Roberts has done a service to journalism by taking some time to help clear the air around Van Jones, special advisor for green jobs, enterprise and innovation at Council on Environmental Quality.

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Haven't we seen this soap opera before? Obama's numbers are crashing right now for exactly the same reason that Hillary and Bill went down in 1993. The Demagogues can't stop themselves from grabbing more and more power, so eventually they expose themselves for who they really are.

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When a politician announces, at the beginning of a major speech, that he is going to be entirely honest with you, you should stop trying to protect your wallet. For it is time to defend your soul.

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Is Rush Limbaugh dangerous?

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As millions struggle to make ends meet, pay the mortgage or rent, and put food on the table or gas in the tank, Republican governors are threatening to turn away federal aid rather than expand access to unemployment insurance programs in ways that many other states did a long tim …

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Except for the catastrophic events of 9/11, and the anthrax attacks, and terrorist attacks against U.S. allies, and the terrorist attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, Bush's record on counter-terrorism was top notch.

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You have to give Rush Limbaugh a perverse kind of credit. At least when he is demonizing Barack Obama, fabricating Obama policies, blaming Obama for single-handedly causing the recession and the stock market crash, he doesn't pretend to be fair.

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After assaulting Barack Obama's national service proposals as Hitler-like, Rep.

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Sore Losers and "Country-Last" Republicans Have Already Resumed Partisan Attacks, Obstruction: GOP Leadership Threatens to Sabotage Nation, Destroy Their Own Party

We are only a day removed from the voting and from the delivery of an historic acceptance by Barack Obama and a gracious concession speech by John McCain.

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Is Barack Obama a brilliant orator, captivating millions through his eloquence? Or is he deliberately using the techniques of neurolinguistic programming (NLP), a covert form of hypnosis developed by Milton Erickson, M.D.?

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Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first.

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"You can eulogize. You can mourn and ponder and do a lengthy retrospective, a political analysis, a sociocultural examination of a career and a legacy and a rather remarkable life. When remembering the dead, the journalistic options are legion.

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It is tempting - and convenient - to be illogical. This essay deals with some popular informal logical fallacies.

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Every journalistic medium produces a characteristic set of forms and attitudes; network news is—even now—about authority, and cable news, increasingly, is about itself.

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