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Policy & Elections, a tug-of-war between two right of center political parties

Watching this past week’s edition of Bill Moyers and Company, How Do... more

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Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice

There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may... more

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Scarborough: GOP ‘base is revolting’ against Romney

By David Edwards Sunday, January 22, 2012 Conservative MSNBC host Joe Scarborough... more

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Liberals are, less honest, less generous, lazier, and more materialistic than conservatives

Stanford—In Makers and Takers, a new volume by Peter Schweizer, a Hoover Institution research fellow, you will discover why

* Seventy-one percent of conservatives say you have an obligation to care for a seriously injured spouse or parent versus less than half (46 percent) of liberals

* Conservatives have a better work ethic and are much less likely to call in sick than their liberal counterparts

* Liberals are two and a half times more likely to be resentful of others’ success and 50 percent more likely to be jealous of other people’s good luck

* Liberals are two times more likely to say it is ok to cheat the government out of welfare money you don’t deserve

* Conservatives are more likely than liberals to hug their children and “significantly more likely” to display positive nurturing emotions

* Liberals are less trusting of family members and much less likely to stay in touch with their parents

* Do you get satisfaction from putting someone else’s happiness ahead of your own? Fifty-five percent of conservatives said yes versus only 20 percent of liberals.

According to Schweizer, the American left prides itself on being superior to conservatives: more generous, less materialistic, more tolerant, more intellectual, and more selfless. For years scholars have constructed—and the media have pushed—elaborate theories designed to demonstrate that conservatives suffer from a host of personality defects and character flaws. According to these supposedly unbiased studies, conservatives are mean-spirited, greedy, selfish malcontents with authoritarian tendencies.

Schweizer has dug deep—through tax documents, scholarly data, primary opinion research surveys, and private records—and discovered that these claims are a myth. Indeed, he shows that many of these claims actually apply more to liberals than conservatives. Schweizer argues that the failure lies in modern liberal ideas, which foster a self-centered, “if it feels, good do it” attitude that leads liberals to outsource their responsibilities to the government and focus instead on themselves and their own desires.

Peter Schweizer is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of numerous books, including the New York Times best seller Do as I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy. He lives in Florida with his wife and sons.
http://www.hoover.org/news/press-releases/29254Stanford—In Makers and Takers, a new volume by Peter Schweizer, a Hoover... more

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Puny Krauthammer ambushes a science giant

Then, from bad logic he shifts to chicanery, as my research failed to establish where... more

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Iowa nice, but the caucuses are still a huge problem

The scene in the caucus looked like an outtake from a Ma and Pa Kettle movie. I lived... more

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Gallup poll provides for a dismal outlook for liberalism in US

...the implication is that the conservative electorate in this country is actually... more

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Fired for 'Writing While Liberal'

FIFTH STORY IN THE SERIES, “Examiner Extremists & Facebook Foibles”... more

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Liberals more unhappy than Conservatives

According to polls — Pew Research Center, the National Science Foundation... more

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We’re still waiting to learn what Herman Cain meant

Let’s not muddle the messaging by suggesting Cain failed because of... more

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Frost/Nixon: The rehabilitation of Tricky Dick and what it says about the soul of modern America

The answer, then, to why Nixon, why now, seems fairly obvious: His presidency, as... more

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Newt Gingrich has “family values?” WTF?!?

Put another way, evangelicals would rather have a liar and a hypocrite and has been... more

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Must Watch: The Difference Between Democrats and Republicans (VIDEO)

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New Study: Conservative Value Judgments Tied to Antisocial Personality Traits

Tampa, FL (PRWEB) November 07, 2011... more

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Something for my Conservative friends!

Hi there, Conservative Friends! The holidays are approaching. Oops! Oops! I... more

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Republicanism is Political Heroin

Each time it's supposed to be different, imirite? You take another Republican hit... more

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Herman Cain's Planned Parenthood 'genocide' slur

Looks like Andrew Sanger is trying to rehabilate his grandmother's image after Herman Cain plays the race card in his anti-abortion stance.

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Andrew Sanger writes:

"Cain could use a history lesson. When my grandmother started Planned Parenthood in 1916, her first clinic was in Brownsville, Brooklyn, then a mixed neighborhood of primarily European immigrants. Within a decade and a half, her nascent organisation received the endorsement of several prominent African Americans, including Mary McLeod Bethune, WEB DuBois and Rev Adam Clayton Powell Jr. At their urging, in 1930, Harlem's first birth control clinic was opened, in partnership with the New York Urban League. In years to come, African American leaders endorsed her efforts to bring contraceptives to poor, rural black residents – the same services Planned Parenthood delivered to poor, rural white residents.

To think that my grandmother was clever enough to enlist prominent black religious and community leaders to exterminate their own race is not only nonsensical; it's racist. Throughout her career, my grandmother's driving force was to ensure that every child was a wanted child."

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I'm not defending Cain, and I know he is just playing up a wedge issue to distract from more important issues, but it appears that Andrew Sanger appears revise history lying by ommission. He forgot to include this quote from the elder Sanger regarding the Negro Project:

"We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."

This quote has been used by numerous Sanger detractors, including Angela Davis and the pro-life movement, to support their claims that Sanger was racist.[86] However, according to New York University's Margaret Sanger Papers Project, Sanger, in writing that letter, "recognized that elements within the black community might mistakenly associate the Negro Project with racist sterilization campaigns in the Jim Crow South, unless clergy and other community leaders spread the word that the Project had a humanitarian aim."[87]"Looks like Andrew Sanger is trying to rehabilate his grandmother's image after... more

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The Great White GOP Hope, in the wings

Yes, that McCain — but only if kept far from attractive, belligerently-ignorant... more

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Sarah Palin’s conflict of interest

New 'toon from Paul Szep.

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ALEC tied to British political scandal

British Conservative Party defense secretary Liam Fox is in the midst of scandal that... more

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