Sen. Larry Craig Joins the CCC Honor Roll
Republican Idaho Senator Larry Craig is the latest Conflicted Conservative in Crisis (CCC) to be caught with his pants down. According to Roll Call, Craig was arrested in June at a Minnesota airport by a plainclothes police officer investigating lewd conduct complaints in a men’s public restroom.
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Jamie Kirchick has had a rough debut at the Daily Dish. Now, Scott Horton and Dish co-blogger Steve Clemons have rebuked him for his out-of-the-blue attack on me. Horton and Clemons are leading experts in foreign policy and human rights, and more than that, they are real mensches. I hope Kirchick learns something from them.
Horton [...]

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Hateration
I hung out with Andrew Sullivan this year’s CPAC and he has posted my videos on several occasions. He is presently on vacation. One of the people keeping The Daily Dish warm in Sullivan’s absence is Jamie Kirchick, a self-described “homocon” who serves at the pleasure of Marty Peretz. I hear from a TNR source [...]

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Why My Blogging Will Slow Down Until Next Year
I have made a verbal agreement with Nation Books to author a book for them that will (hopefully) appear next summer, during the height of election season. Our contract has not yet been finalized, but it should be completed shortly.
My book will encapsulate much of [...]

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Federal Funding for GOP S&M
Looks like the White House’s Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives has been sending your tax dollars to Love Demonstrated Ministries, the evangelical S&M youth camp where a counselor dragged an allegedly lackadaisical teenage girl from a truck. This is from the 2003 White House budget for HHS:
Partnering with Faith-based [...]

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More GOP S&M
Call me old fashioned, but I thought camp was supposed to be fun:
A San Antonio pastor and an employee of his Christian boot camp were arrested today on aggravated assault charges, accusing them of dragging a girl behind a van after failing to keep up with others during a running exercise.
Investigators with the [...]

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S&M, OSU Style

A shirt on sale at Operation Straight Up’s website, courtesy of Jonathan Hutson, the man who exposed the Left Behind videogame.
Hutson writes:
And given the Pentagon’s policy of discrimination against gays in the military, it is ironic that the Christian missionary group that they promote sells T-shirts that display what can only [...]

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Common Sense 101
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To: maxblumenthal3000@yahoo.com
Subject: U R A Traitor Jew
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 16:35:22 -0400
Max Blumenthal,
You are a moron. The Christian Right is the only people in the world supporting the [...]

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My Q&A With The Forward
Last week I was interviewed by Daniel Treiman of America’s oldest Yiddish-language daily, the Forward. The interview is now up:
How did you wind up starting to make these political videos? What was the impetus behind it?
I’ve been covering the conservative movement, the religious right, the anti-immigration movement for well over four [...]

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