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One of this year's nominees for Israeli TV's "Man of the Year in Politics" award doesn't speak Hebrew. He has vast wealth and a shady past. He was once a circus worker. He isn't even a politician, at least not yet. But over the past several years Arcadi Gaydamak, an enigmatic Russian-Israeli billionaire, has managed to become a widely influential figure in Israel. And he is now at the center of a right-wing political alliance - featuring Israeli über-hawk Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu - that could dramatically influence the country's direction. If the rising alliance takes power in the next election,...

What is a right winger? Here are some of the comments on Yahoo. Here is a reprise of something I did a few years ago. Skip to comments.(reprise, and change) DADDY, WHAT IS A RIGHT WINGER? -- change to "Middle American"dfu | 11-2004 | dfu Posted on 11/08/2004 7:22:46 AM PST by doug from upland NOTE: I am bringing this back for those who missed it. Unlike the DemocRATS, we are not afraid to let people know what we believe. The other side wants to fool people and are afraid that they will learn what the left believes. We are...

WASHINGTON – When first lady Hillary Clinton famously lashed out at foes as a "vast, right-wing conspiracy," there was no question in the minds of Democrats as to who was directing it, funding it and pulling the strings. It was Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to fortunes made in banking, oil and aluminum who subsidized the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and underwrote countless conservative and Republican causes – including "the Arkansas Project," specifically designed to expose Clinton scandals. But that was then. This is now.

Maybe you missed this but the Desert News in Salt Lake City didn't. Harry Reid had some harsh words for Evangelicals calling millions of them "anti-Christian". Read portions of the article below: (the key qote is bolded)Some past prominent LDS Church leaders wrongly pressed conservatism on church members, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday during a press conference at Brigham Young University. The Nevada senator attacked President Bush and evangelical Christians while saying members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints need to worry less about abortion and gay marriage and more about health care, global...

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March 31 - Theodor Stolojan, leader of the ruling Liberal Democrat Party (PLD), showed his support toward president Traian Basescu, criticizing those blaming the political turmoil in Romania on the conflict between the president and the premier. Stolojan told the PLD congress held at the Parliament Palace that the crisis was triggered by the struggle between those willing to eradicate the “perverted system” and those who want to preserve the “transition swamp.” Legitimated as the Alliance’s inheritors, the liberal-democrats will continue the “fight” to impose the values of the ruling Alliance, Stolojan further said. “We are the successors of the...

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'Free to lose' isn't good philosophy for the right wing November 19, 2006 BY MARK STEYN Sun-Times Columnist If Milton Friedman had to die, then a week after the defeat of a Republican Congress that had apparently forgotten every lesson Friedman taught in Free To Choose is eerily apt timing. As it happens, had ill health not intervened, Professor Friedman would have been disembarking round about now from a National Review post-election cruise with yours truly and various other pundits and commentators. Instead, we were obliged to sail without him, and in the days that followed I found myself wondering...

Latin America: Sunday's surprising gains by the right in Brazil's election are a sign the region's great wave of leftism is peaking. Global forces are trumping the allure of greater government. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Latin America's election results this year show a shift away from the left — not toward it. It began in earnest when Peruvian and Mexican voters defied forecasts to elect center-right leaders in June and July who vowed to respect free markets. But Brazil's election Sunday, where center-right challenger Geraldo Alckmin forced a runoff in the presidential race on Oct. 29, is especially significant. Although...

Bill Clinton's Rage As He Angrily Defends His Handling Of Bin Laden: Did He Do Enough To Get Al-Qaeda? http://www.vote.com/vote/60412193/ Yes: Bill Clinton said in an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, "I tried and I failed to get bin Laden. I regret it, but I did try and I did everything I thought I responsibly could." Blaming Clinton for failing to get Osama is a right-wing conspiracy! NO: Fox News' Chris Wallace asked former President Bill Clinton a legitimate news question about bin Laden and Clinton freaked out. It’s obvious from the attacks on the U.S. on September 11,...

. Coultermania! Leno smackdown preview (Update: Video added) posted at 10:58 pm on June 14, 2006 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly Her and Carlin, mano a mano on the Tonight Show. Or not: they’ll both be on but maybe not at the same time. If it happens, I’ll post the video here soon after.To whet your appetite, here’s Michael Smerconish laying down the law on AC tonight on Scarborough Country. I should have had video of that too, but my goddamned computer malfunctioned. Expose the Left will probably have it later. Also, John Hawkins interviews Coulter; Patterico...

All, I'm looking for that (in)famous cartoon of the fireman holding the baby in his arms, thinking "Damn Right Wing Talk Radio" or somesuch. I've Googled for over 20 minutes and just don't seem to have that magic touch this morning. Can anyone help? Thanks!

Apparently, the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy has even infiltrated children’s television, as Sesame Street was prepping future voters in the 80s to vote for none other than George W. Bush! You have to see this HORRIBLE indoctrination video!

Visitors to this site need to be warned of the site's attitude -- to wit -- This nation is in danger. Not from mythical "weapons of mass destruction" or from terrorist bogeymen. The danger facing us is far more real and lethal than either of these -- the danger is from the radical reactionaries who have taken control of the Republican Party, who have squelched political debate, who bully and threaten anyone who dares oppose them, and whose political program intends to destroy every bit of progress made in this nation since the Great Depression. When faced with an enemy...

Is America really FREE? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am asking this to find out how many people actually consider America free. I know that is a very controversial subject but this could be very interesting.

Man uses machete to chop off hand in front of Diet building A man almost completely severed his left hand with a machete in front of the National Diet Building on Tuesday, apparently to protest policies toward North Korea, police said. The 54-year-old man approached the front gates of the building by car, stepped out, silently placed his left hand against the hood of his car and swung the 40 centimeter blade down across his left wrist, according to Tokyo police official Hideyuki Yoshioka. The man, who identified himself as a member of a right-wing organization, then mumbled a few...

by Mark Finkelstein March 11, 2006 As has been well-documented by the Media Research Center, while MSMers are loathe to label anyone or anything 'liberal,' they don't hesitate to brand various entities or individuals 'conservative' or 'right-wing.' Well, folks, I believe we have a new world record in the category. In the course of discussing the case of Colorado teacher Jay Bennish, who compared President Bush to Hitler, liberal [there, I said it] Neal Gabler on tonight's Fox News Watch managed to utter the term 'right-wing' four times . . . in 14 seconds. Yes, I checked it by my...

'Right-wing' radio, TV guys split on control of U.S. ports Limbaugh, O'Reilly favor deal, while Savage, Hannity oppose ------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 24, 2006 4:00 a.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Rush LimbaughThe heated issue of turning operating control of six major U.S. ports over to a state-sponsored company based in the United Arab Emirates is splitting some of the biggest names in American broadcasting, including Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly who favor the transfer, and Sean Hannity and Michael Savage who oppose it. "I have been a profile in courage on this story," declared Limbaugh on his national radio show yesterday....

It's party time―again. It's time for all the good, little, right-wing boys and girls of the OC, Inland Empire, and Central Valley to strut their stuff at the California Republican Party convention―again. Seriously, how many of these things do these guys have every year? Still, this one ought to be interesting. The PPIC poll out today shows Schwarzenegger has failed to gain traction with the public, despite his infrastructure bond marketing tour. In fact, Arnold's approval rating has tumbled down to 35 percent among all adults, dropping five points since January. Arnold was hemorrhaging support from the left and the...

Came across this and thought I'd pass it along. If it's happening here, there are probably similar organizations in other states and areas. This is from their Web site: "Report Right Wing Signature Gathering Activity - Add A Button to Your Site Yesterday, I wrote the following: Progressive activists should be on the lookout for signature gatherers collecting signatures for Initiative 917 and other right wing initiatives. If you see petitioners collecting signatures for any right wing initiative, please use Permanent Defense's new reporting tool to tell us about it so we can more efficiently organize and mobilize. Permanent Defense...

Black Conservatives. Blogger extraordinaire, LaShawn Barber, has a thing or two to say about the NAACP, black leadership and the term "African American." LaShawn tells us the story of why this life-long liberal now calls herself a "right wing conservative!" Muslim Cartoon Controversy. Edina Lekovic, of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. Child Security. What you need to know about protecting your children from predators both online and at home! Listen to Mike Salcido of Child Security Network. MP3 audio links to all the interviews are here -http://www.justawoman.org/blog/2006/2/13/what-youve-been-waiting-for-highlights-of-just-a-woman-radio.html

Tale of Two Cities, or a Socialist Failure and a Right-Wing Success My wife and I went in to Manhattan tonight to see a Broadway play, the revival of “Barefoot in the Park”. The trip in brought forward many thoughts about New York as it was going during the show’s first incarnation during the 1960’s and the years thereafter, and contrasting it then to how it is now. Also, I thought about my trip last March to modern-day Montreal for the CPC Convention. A bit of history is in order. I was taken to the movie version of “Barefoot”...

For years, California political reporters have written stories around the state Republican Party convention centered on one basic theme, the party's impressive ability to consistently consume their young. Whether it's burning Pete Wilson in effigy, as activists did outside the 1991 state party convention, or forcing showdowns on divisive social issues, conservative activists have controlled the party leadership and dominated pre- and post-convention headlines for as long as most Californians can remember. So it comes as no surprise that as the party is set to gather in San Jose next month, the same group of conservatives is making noise again....

LISBON (AFP) - Portugal wrapped up campaigning ahead of a weekend presidential election which is expected to select a right-of-centre leader for the first time since democracy was restored in 1974. Economics professor Anibal Cavaco Silva, who oversaw a period of economic growth as a centre-right prime minister between 1985 and 1995, has between 52 and 53 percent support, four polls published Friday showed. The 66-year-old candidate, backed by the Social Democrats and the smaller Popular Party, needs to get more than 50 percent of the vote on Sunday to avoid a runoff election between the top two contenders on...

Rightwing group offers students $100 to spy on professors · Republican graduate's site prompts witch-hunt fears· 31 academics listed as 'worthy of scrutiny' Dan Glaister in Los Angeles Thursday January 19, 2006 The Guardian (UK) It is the sort of invitation any poverty-stricken student would find hard to resist. "Do you have a professor who just can't stop talking about President Bush, about the war in Iraq, about the Republican party, or any other ideological issue that has nothing to do with the class subject matter? If you help ... expose the professor, we'll pay you for your work." For...

Just a quick announcement of my new blog: RightWinged.comI intend to be a slightly different kind of media watchdog, in addition to covering the regular news I will be busting the omissions, spin, and lies of the liberal media in places most wouldn't otherwise find. Plus, I'll serve up news with the proper framing, comentary, and analysis when it's required. I actually enjoy this stuff a lot too, so expect a lot of humor. I like photoshopping and political cartoons, so you should expect a bunch of that included in my posts. Anyway, again, just a new blog announcement if...

Israel's treatment by the main stream media is not exactly positive under any sane analysis, but not according to the Los Angeles Times columnist Robert Fisk. Of all the subjects he could pick to complain about, he claims that Western media is too soft on Israel -- a claim that can be easily disputed. The Jewish state has been hounded, collectively by the UN, and individually by European, Third World, and certain North American nations (The Great White North, eh?), for years regarding its "occupation" of the West Bank and Gaza. In contrast, asking someone on the street if they...

MIDI - ANNIE'S SONG She fills up the airwaves...with her sage right wing comments She has driven the leftists out of their foolish minds If she's not dodging pies thrown...she's enduring her critics Perky Katie Couric, she kicked your behind They match three liberals...in a battle with Annie Some say that is unfair...well, I guess I would agree At the end of the segment, they are bloodied and crying Hey, liberal airheads, you need more than three The favorite of FReepers...well aware of the warning If they don't post her picture, angry comments they'll hear For your voice we...

Countering Air America's recent success claims by Al Franken over Bill O'Reilly, the Radio Equalizer yesterday heard from a talk radio executive with additional information on this supposed battle. As part of recent internal company research on the strength of various syndicated hosts, the programmer learned that while O'Reilly's radio success varies somewhat nationwide, he's a powerhouse in Boston. Heard in the Hub on Boston's WTKK-FM, O'Reilly turns out to be one of the market's strongest national programs, crushing competition from Air America's two area stations, WXKS-AM and WKOX-AM.

The other day when I was watching various DUmbocrat senators whining about the right wing taking down the Harriet Miers confirmation, something HIT ME!I can't EVER recall hearing anyone in the media referring to DUmmies like Kennedy, Durbin, Leahy, Reid, or any other DUmbocrat as a left winger! On the other hand, I ALWAYS hear right wing this and right wing that!I was just wondering if ANYONE here has ever heard the media call any Dem left wing? Maybe my ears have a left wing filter on them after years of being damaged by their CONSTANT BS!

On The Oreilly Factor last night, in Bill’s Talking Points Memo, he alluded to the left-wing and right-wing ideologues and what they are saying about the Lewis Libby indictment. He began with an example of the right-wing by playing a clip of Rush Limbaugh. The clip (If anyone is a member of Rush 24/7, could you link to Fridays radio show?) he played was of Rush railing about the mainstream media’s scandalous anticipatory coverage of the Leakgate investigation. In that clip, he was implying that the mainstream media are trying to damage the Bush administration and bring down an American...

After chugging down a rancid carton of Air America Brand milk, well past its sell-by date, MSNBC's Eric Alterman concludes we're the network's real problem. Hope he didn't give them all of his lunch money. MSNBC NewsYes, it's a right-wing conspiracy to silence the "progressive" alternative, led by yours truly, Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. It couldn't have anything to do with $875,000 in shady taxpayer grant transfers from a Bronx-based community nonprofit, to the liberal network and resulting city investigation, right? Or that we proved (after producing a signed, notarized document) Al Franken knew about...

The recently-released communications intercept between Iraqi al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and al-Qaeda No. 2 leader Ayman al Zawahiri, is filled with evidences that suggest they are losing the war. The most telling admission contained in the message was a plea from Zawahiri for money. On September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden's personal fortune was estimated to be in excess of $300 million. al-Qaeda had become a far-flung economic enterprise, with al-Qaeda investments funding hundreds of legitimate companies via dummy corporations. Using all that money, al-Qaeda was able to assemble a fleet of ships, creating a kind of terrorist 'navy'...

About CLP The Campus Leadership Program, a division of the Leadership Institute, fosters permanent, effective, conservative student organizations on college campuses across America. Trained field representatives go to college campuses to identify and recruit student leaders who create and oversee organizations on each campus. Each local campus organization identifies, recruits and trains conservative college students who will promote conservative principles effectively. While the Leadership Institute works initially to help students develop their own organization, each local campus group is completely independent and directs its own day-to-day operations and decision-making. Each campus organization is independent of The Leadership Institute and all...

"WAS Katrina a man-made storm for profits?" asked Michael Shore, a contributor at the Web site..... It's all part of a "hideous agenda," Mr. Shore wrote, to gain "total control of planet Earth." Of course. It probably shouldn't be surprising that as local, state and federal officials jockey on CNN to cast blame or otherwise spin the storm's ill-handled aftermath, a host of other, more colorful agendas are being burnished at the Internet's fringe - with Katrina serving as chamois. ...much darker musings have also emerged.... "That's the irony of this technological revolution," said Abraham H. Foxman, the director of...

There is a strange mix a-brewin' in America. The far Left and the Neo-Isolationist Right are combining to form a noxious brew. We saw the warning signs even before 9-11, when Pat Buchanan and Lenora Fulani working together hijacked the last remnants of the old United We Stand Party and turned it into a mangled mix of paleo-con anti-Semitism and hard-left sandal-thumping. But after 9-11, and certainly after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq began, the trickle became a flood. Hanson is absolutely correct in noting this convergence of anarchists, hard-left "peace" activists, hard-right racist and anti-Semite elements, and paleo-"libertarians"...

Multibillionaire commodities king Bruce Kovner is the patron saint of the neoconservatives, the new Lincoln Center's crucial Medici, owner of a vast Fifth Avenue mansion and the most powerful New Yorker you've never heard of. If no one knows anything about Bruce Kovner, it is because he likes it that way. Yet the unassuming manner is camouflage for one of the most powerful people in the country, culturally, financially, and politically. Kovner, 60 years old and divorced, manages the largest hedge fund in the world and every year ratchets higher on the Forbes list of the richest Americans (most recently,...

LEGACY Oh say do you recall his shining city on the hill Though strained and scarred by wickedness, that city stands here still A proud and grateful people watched his strength illuminate her That beautiful, bright city of the Great Communicator

The first woman to serve as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court should have been the first woman to serve as the chief justice of the United States. Sandra Day O'Connor would have been a brilliant choice for that symbolic position for many legal and political reasons. At a time when the court specifically and the federal judiciary in general could use a jolt of public respect and support, O'Connor would have taken the reins as Lady Justice, one of the most well- known and culturally in-tune major-league judges in recent history. A grandmother who looks like one, and...

Family: Bush's America killed loved one Stress of 'stolen election of 2000 and living with right-winged Americans' A 53-year-old Arizona man died this month due to the stress of "the stolen election of 2000 and living with right-winged Americans," according to a death notice published by his family. Corwyn William Zimbleman, of Tucson, was an accomplished artist, the notice said, and an "avid atheist, he studied the bible [sic] and religion with more fervor than most Christians." The notice then reads: He had strong political opinions and followed Amy Goodman's radio broadcast "Democracy Now." Alas the stolen election of 2000...

Most people find Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean's seemingly mad attacks of late hard to understand. He has called Republicans "evil," brain dead," "corrupt" and "liars." He has also said that Republicans are "not very friendly" people who "behave the same" and "look the same" and "never made an honest living in their lives." Trying to stir up racial and religious tensions (the bread-and-butter of Democrats), Dean also accused the GOP of being "a white Christian party," although he fits that description himself -- as do the other major leaders of that party, as well as most of the people...

When Democrats and Republicans become so strikingly similar that distinguishing them requires much imagination and strong drink, it's time to ask where do conservatives (in media lingo that's code for Christian "right" et al., and vice versa) turn? There's been a "raging" battle between the red and blue "staters," but now it's time to get serious, the differences are not so much real as imagined. "Large-mouthed" talk plus seas of ink are spilt over the great divisions in society but the fact is, latter-day Republicans or RINOs (Republican In Name Only), have been knocking themselves out trying to "out democrat"...

John Kerry had a complaint: ...that voters can't hear Democrats above the roar of the GOP spin machine. The right, he groused, is far more effective than the left at making itself heard. To peddle their ideas, Republicans and conservatives have assembled an elaborate communication network, one that relies on the likes of "Cato and Heritage and Grover Norquist"... to make sure its messages get plenty of attention.... ...[The] complaint makes it clear that the paranoid style in American politics is alive and well. Thirty years ago, it was Richard Nixon who fumed at the media and compiled an enemies...

According to senate minority leader Harry Reid and his friends, democrats must block the constitutional appointment process in order to protect you from right-wing radical judges. They say they use the filibuster only in the most extreme situations, to block confirmation of extremely dangerous radicals to the bench for sake of all mankind. Heroes they are really, at least in their own minds… I can almost see their point too. Who would want some extreme right-wing wacko deciding justice in America? I mean, what if judges actually just stuck to the written law and constitution and applied them to cases...

In the absence of intellectual arguments, liberals in the media and in politics have increasingly reverted to name calling. When I was a boy, school children would inevitably begin calling each other names when frustrated or angry. "You're stupid," one would shout. "You're dumb," came the reply. "Well, well, you're so ugly your mother doesn't even love you." "She does too—and you don't even have a mother." As tempers flared, the kids searched for even more hurtful names, eventually stumbling into the aura of World War II which had engulfed the globe. "You're Hitler," was the "baddest" insult one could...

CRAWFORD, Texas — With a slight breeze blowing the ponytail that drapes halfway down his back, Ted Nugent draws his bow and aims at one of a dozen lifelike deer figures he uses for practice until hunting season begins. The arrow pierces the faux animal "right in the vitals" for a clean, quick kill, he says. Then he darts to the gun range on another part of his sprawling ranch, where he sets up bowling pins that soon will be blasted by a hail of bullets — another daily ritual. At 56, Nugent is ever the "Motor City Madman" —...

If the Jews know better than anybody else what kind of an unbalanced mind it takes to produce the sickness of prejudice, why do Jews so comfortably practice it themselves by making any member of the Republican Party a special target of prejudice – especially someone who is recognized as a far-right Republican? Somehow, Jews have always been enraptured by the words "liberal" or "Democrat." We convinced ourselves that the words "liberal" and "Jew" are a package made in heaven, ordained by God like a marriage, consecrated until death do us part. Love may be blind, but it does not...

WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security Department is focusing on possible terror threats from radical environmental and animal rights activists without also examining risks that might be posed by right-wing extremists, House Democrats said Tuesday. A recent internal Homeland Security document lists the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front with a few Islamic groups that could potentially support al-Qaida as domestic terror threats. The document does not address threats posed by white supremacists, violent militiamen, anti-abortion bombers and other extremists that Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (news, bio, voting record), D-Miss., called "right-wing hate groups." ALF and ELF "are the...

Monday, March 14, 2005 Mussolini's Granddaughter on Hunger Strike ROME (Reuters) - The granddaughter of Italian wartime dictator Benito Mussolini went on hunger strike on Monday after being barred from next month's regional elections over signature forgeries. Alessandra Mussolini, founder of the far-right Social Alternative movement, is appealing the ban in a Rome court. More than 800 signatures on her petition to stand in the election for president of Lazio region have been declared false. The list allegedly includes names of the dead and others whose existence was dubious, such as people who gave their birth date as Feb. 31....

A police informant initiated much right-wing incitement in recent weeks, according to Maariv newspaper. Similar police tactics were used in the mid-1990's against protestors of the Oslo Accords. Much of the "right-wing incitement" of recent weeks, attributed by the media to the national camp, was initiated by none other than an undercover police informant. So reports Maariv today, in an article featured in a front-page headline. The paper states that the police agent has initiated some of the more extreme protest acts of recent weeks - acts that were widely attributed to the entire national camp. The activities thus cast...