Charles Krauthammer, the ultimate bleating-heart neoconservative, is all atwitter over Barack Obama's foreign trip. Where most observers saw a U.S.

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Gaffney said, "When he uses the word respect in the context of a waist bow to the King of Saudi Arabia, for example, and talks about respectful language which is code for those that adhere to Sha'aria that we will submit to Sha'aria." Gaffney said that the code is receive …

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Neoconservative David Frum criticiizes Limbaugh and Republicans of that ilk. "There are voices in the Republican Party who say it's not important to win elections; it's important to stand up for principle," he observes.

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Excerpt: On Fox News Sunday this morning, Kristol picked up where he left off in his column and continued to whine about Obama's move, calling it "a weak and embarrassing statement by the President of the United States." Fox News's Brit Hume piled on, complaining that i …

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The Gap Between Intention and Impact

Following the tradition of talented Newsvine writers, I will repost a comment made on my seed "Fox News Primes Itself for a Shift" and without further corrupting that thread, elucidate my thoughts here: ***

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Come Out, Come Out, Whomever You Are! It is Thanksgiving!

One of the results of the recent US elections, at least outside of the bright red states, is that many people are feeling as if a gag has been removed from their turning-blue faces.

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The age of Neocapitalism has come to an end.

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America has Fallen (but it can get up) Contra Fukuyama

Francis Fukuyama, that prodigious fraud and dilettante has again risen to his hind legs to declaim the End of Something or Other. It is his specialty. This time it's in Newsweek magazine, in The Fall of America, Inc.

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Watching The Big Lebowski in 2008, it becomes clear that appreciating Walter is essential to understanding what the Coen brothers are up to in this movie, which is slyer, more political, and more prescient than many of its fans have recognized.

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Does the liberal-left have a clue? I sometimes think not.

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A neoconservative architect of President Bush's Iraq occupation could be preparing to personally reap the spoils of war, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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Few of McCain's top advisors are well known to the general public, and even fewer are directly linked to the highly unpopular Bush administration.

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The Iraq War will always be linked with the term 'neoconservative,'" George Packer wrote in his book on the war, and he is probably right.

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Eleven years ago, the neoconservative Project for a New American Century (PNAC) set out its statement of principles advocating the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, putting the country on the road to a preventative invasion of Iraq.

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There are always economic incentives for kids to sign up, but if the larger society saw soldiers for what they are – hired killers of those who've done nothing to harm our country – instead of buying into the myth that all our freedom is granted to us by the State when we all …

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Instead the Mahdi Army has not disintegrated, nor has it laid down its arms. It continues to fight - a war of survival - against Maliki and many uniformed Iraqi troops have laid down their arms and decided to stop fighting.

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Ron Paul says the legions of newcomers his presidential campaign brought to the Republican Party are getting the cold shoulder from John McCain and from the party.

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Mimicking the Beach Boys, McCain has joked about "Bomb, bomb, bomb—bomb, bomb Iran" and urged the expulsion of Russia from the G-8. He wants to expand NATO to bring in Georgia and the Ukraine. This could mean confrontation between Russia and the United States.

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On December 30, the New York Times published a brief item on its inside news pages bearing the nondescript headline "The Times Adds an Op-Ed Columnist." The columnist in question, the article reported, is William Kristol, whom the newspaper described as "one of the nation …

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The man crowned by Tommy Franks as "the dumbest [expletive] guy on the planet" just made the dumbest [expletive] speech on the planet.

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RICHARD PERLE said he was game for a reconnaissance mission. Mr. Perle, the neoconservative and former adviser to Donald Rumsfeld, offered to walk through his local Costco, pointing out the products that he said were increasingly drawing D.C. power shoppers like himself.

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"(The) foreign policy advisers he has signed up make the Vulcans of Bush look like Howard Zinn and Ramsey Clark."

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One of the founding fathers of neoconservatism has privately urged President George W Bush to bomb Iran rather than allow it to acquire nuclear weapons.

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Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern: 'The Iraq war IS about oil. It should have been obvious early on, when every one of Bush's senior national security officials spoke verbatim from the talking-point sheet, "It's not about oil." Sobering look at dangerous neocons.

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An ultra-secret conservative group -- so secret that members don't even use the group's name in communications -- will feature Vice President Dick Cheney as a speaker at a meeting in Utah today.

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