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Right Wing Round-Up 07/27/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand tells The Daily Beast she has secured the commitment of Senate Armed Services Committee to hold hearings on “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” this fall. Box Turtle Bulletin : An estimated 10,000 …

LEADING GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO ATTEND BIRTHER CONFERENCE! 07/24/2009 by Kyle Mantyla The Washington Post released a poll today that it says shows that "as Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin prepares for the next stage of her political career, a majority of …

Right Wing Round-Up 07/24/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Our latest Right Wing Watch In Focus is now on-line: " Right Wing Attacks on Sotomayor Gain Little Traction. " Alvin McEwen explains why people should care about Paul Cameron's shoddy research and his …

Right Wing Round-Up 07/23/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Media Matters:  Meet The Birthers David Weigel : Maj. Stefan F. Cook, the reservist whose clever scheme to back out of his voluntary deployment by suing for proof of President Obama’s citizenship ended with …

Right Wing Round-Up 07/22/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Apparently, Fox News' Neil Cavuto thinks that the new Surgeon General nominee, Dr. Regina M. Benjamin, is "too fat" for the post. Think Progress reports that, a day before Gov. Bobby Jindal declared the …

Right Wing Round-Up 07/20/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Several progressive groups have joined a letter voicing opposition to several amendments offered by Senator Jeff Sessions to the hate crimes legislation. Lou Dobbs sure does seem to be dedicating a lot of …

An Exercise In Futility: Battling the Birthers 07/17/2009 by Kyle Mantyla David Weigel has boldly waded into the right-wing world of Birther conspiracy theories in an attempt to explain how something that started out on the far-flung reaches of the …

Right Wing Round-Up 06/29/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Pam Spaulding reports that Family Research Council has launched a campaign against Kevin Jennings' nomination to serve in the Department of Education. TPM notes that, in it's rush to get out a statement using …

The Birth of the Birthers 06/19/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Spencer Kornhaber of the OC Weekly has done us all a great service by taking on the unenviable task of trying to understand the motivations and history of the "Birther" movement by producing this …

Right Wing Round-Up 04/02/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Dahlia Lithwick dismantles the right-wing attacks, such as this one , against Harold Koh, President Obama's pick for legal adviser to the State Department. The Newsweek/Washington Post "On Faith" section has …