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Liberals Celebrate 'Decline of Conservatism' By Nathan Burchfiel CNSNews.com Staff Writer June 19, 2007 Washington (CNSNews.com) - Liberals who gathered for the fifth annual Take Back America conference in Washington, D.C., on Monday declared conservatism to be in decline -- even "on the way out, "in the words of some movement leaders. "Despite a decade ... of domination by the far right agenda in Congress and the media and the political arena, they have been unable to bring the American people along," Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said during a panel discussion on conservative politics....

Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series on the failure of conservatism as an ideology for moving America forward with a positive agenda for expanding freedom and reviving morality and restoring justice.When I wrote my last book, "Taking America Back," to be perfectly honest, Republicans weren't really excited about it. After all, Republicans controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress. They believed they had already taken America back. Only now are many of them awakening to the realization that freedom-loving, moral people have actually lost ground during the last six years with Republicans in control of...

A new book by David Horowitz and Richard Poe has enraged the Left and alarmed many conservatives. It exposes the machinations of a radical clique working at the highest levels of government and finance to undermine American power. That book is The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party. It hit the New York Times bestseller list in its first week in print. Here to tell us about The Shadow Partyis co-author Richard Poe, our esteemed colleague at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, where he serves as director of research. Mr....

Progressive journalists at the loopy "Take Back America" conference last month in Washington, D.C., said the conservative bias in the news media is a crisis easily solved if news organizations would strive for truth over balance. That was an obvious shot at the Fox News Network, which has confounded liberal journalists by dominating its niche. But to these lefties, conservative bias in the media is "the truth" even if most of America believes the media are decidedly liberal. Still, these progressives raise a fascinating point, but in the process reveal much about the way they approach their jobs and demonstrate...

The Republican Party's electoral dominance of the South is due to its willingness to employ "racial politics," according to a University of Maryland professor who also referred to the region as the "Old Confederacy," during remarks Friday at the liberal Take Back America conference in Washington, D.C. Gar Alperovitz, said the Republican Party represents "the dark side," and has been able to exploit southern states because "a radical shift has occurred in racial politics, a radical shift. "It isn't simply the moral issues. It is the fundamental implicit and explicit racial division of the working class" that allows Republican victories...

Thursday, June 2nd, '05, in a meeting of "deep core" Democrats, Howard Dean exhorted his followers to rise up and believe. Dean said, that the "Dark, difficult and dishonest days of the Republicans, are nearly over..." Howard Dean stated that; if you think that the average hard-working American can work all day, come home and get supper for their kids, and still find time and energy to go out (again) to the poll booths and vote, that you are mistaken. But, apparently, a lot of Republicans, did just that...." ...."if you believe that, then, a lot of Republicans never did...

'Los Angeles, Mexico' Is No More Billboards in Los Angeles advertising a Spanish-language newscast have created a controversy:New billboards advertising a Spanish-language newscast on KRCA-TV Channel 62 were intended as an attention-grabber for its core audience, but instead have struck a nerve with activists seeking to curb illegal immigration. The billboards show two cable newscasters sitting in front of the downtown skyline, with "Los Angeles, CA" printed above. The "CA" is crossed out, and "Mexico" is stamped alongside in bright red letters. Underneath are the Spanish words, "Tu ciudad. Tu equipo." — Your city. Your team. Not surprisingly, this ticked...

The Shadow Party: Part I By David Horowitz and Richard Poe FrontPageMagazine.com | October 6, 2004 Part 1: Origins "My family is more important to me than my party," declared Senator Zell Miller, a Georgia Democrat, as he spoke from the podium of the Republican National Convention on September 1. "There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush." [1] Many Democrats howled in outrage at Miller's "betrayal" - former President Jimmy Carter in particular. In an angry personal letter to the Georgia senator, Carter accused Miller of...

Left's Enthusiasm for Kerry Varies Greatly by Mary Clare Cardinale Posted Jun 22, 2004 Democrats can't seem to decide what they think about their candidate. Here are three examples from major newspapers in recent weeks which illustrate the varying degrees of excitement for John Kerry among liberals: The Washington Post Reports on Ambivalence: The Post noted that Democrats are much more passionate about defeating Bush than they are about electing Kerry. One reason for the ambivalence is that Kerry has not put forward much of a message beyond being opposed to most of Bush's agenda. In fact, Kerry's lack of...

Something to Yak About – Kerry Backers UnhingedJust when you think John Kerry’s core supporters can’t get any wackier, they do. At the left wing confab called the Take Back America Conference, billionaire lefty George Soros compared the Iraqi prisoner abuse controversy with the terrorist attacks of 9/11! “The picture of torture in Saddam's prison was a moment of truth for us," Soros said at Thursday’s TBA session in Washington, DC. "I think that those pictures hit us the same way as the terrorist attack itself.” ‘Outrageous’ Soros Comments Blasted by RNC Chief Upon hearing the remarks of George Soros...

SAN ANTONIO - The federal government will pay $2.15 million to the relatives of an undocumented immigrant, settling a lawsuit alleging the immigrant was paralyzed in a struggle with immigration officers. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery approved the deal for the five children and ex-wife of Serafin Olvera Carrera at a hearing in San Antonio on Tuesday. Olvera, who died at a Houston hospital in February 2002, was paralyzed March 25, 2001, during a raid at a Bryan home involving agents with the former Immigration and Naturalization Service, now U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In June 2003, a federal jury...

Chris Baker just announced a Houston-area Rally for America - Saturday, March 1, at (I think) Jones Hall. More details to follow!

Collier County property rights advocates knew they had to do something. A convoy dubbed the Sawgrass Rebellion had set out for Naples, all the way from Oregon and Ohio, in a show of unity against Everglades restoration and a new Collier County growth plan. Plans to cap the road show with a big, celebrity-studded rally had fizzled. Into the breach stepped the Property Rights Action Committee. The group announced Friday that it plans to throw a block party Oct. 18 in Golden Gate Estates to welcome like-minded farmers and ranchers from the West and Midwest. The committee applied for a...