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Six Degrees of Mike Huckabee 12/09/2008 by Kyle Mantyla We haven't really written much about the fringe figures alleging a conspiracy to cover up the fact that Barack Obama is not a natural-born US citizen and is therefore ineligible to be President of …

Two More Culture Warriors Seek RNC Chair 12/08/2008 by Kyle Mantyla Over the weekend, Family Research Council fellow Ken Blackwell announced that he was seeking to become the next chairman of the Republican National Committee: Ken Blackwell, a former U.N. …

The Bitterness That Drives Mike Huckabee 12/04/2008 by Kyle Mantyla There is a truly exceptional review of Mike Huckabee's latest book up on Religion Dispatches that argues that the driving forces behind Huckabee, his campaign, and his new book tour are …

Religious Right Tells GOP “We’re Not Going Anywhere” 12/01/2008 by Kyle Mantyla There have been several articles in recent days from conservative Republican and Religious Right leaders arguing about how the GOP can re-establish itself as a viable force in …

FRC Tells GOP: It's Us or Them 11/25/2008 by Kyle Mantyla for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee.One of the prevailing themes of the Republican Party at the moment is rampant finger-pointing in which just about every faction of the …

Heads We Win, Tails You Lose 11/25/2008 by Kyle Mantyla The Religious Right is understandably concerned about what a Barack Obama administration will mean for their influence and agenda in the coming years and its leaders are already hard at work trying …

The Huckabee Bitterness Tour Rolls On 11/24/2008 by Kyle Mantyla As Mike Huckabee travels the country promoting his new book, the overarching theme seems to be “It Should Have Been Me,” in that the book is essentially a 200 page gripe about how the …

There’s No Such Thing As Free Absolution 11/24/2008 by Kyle Mantyla It was just last week that the National Black Republican Association unilaterally absolved White Americans of their sins and guilt.  But now it looks like they didn’t just do it out of …

Kathleen Parker Invites More Hate Mail 11/19/2008 by Kyle Mantyla Conservative columnist didn’t win any friends among the right-wing die-hards in the Republican Party when she penned a column in September calling on Sarah Palin to drop out of the campaign …

Inside the Council for National Policy 11/19/2008 by Kyle Mantyla Sarah Posner sends a dispatch from inside the most recent Council for National Policy gathering, the secretive right-wing umbrella group that vowed to bolt the GOP if Rudy Giuliani was the …