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...Bill O'Reilly hosted the president of the college Republicans and the editor of the Blue and White on Friday's show, tearing into Columbia's students and faculty, which he said are engaged in "a left-wing jihad." Also see a transcript of O'Reilly's "Talking Points Memo," in which he calls Columbia the "University of Havana, North." Not quite the "Kremlin on the Charles," but blistering nonetheless. The segments are a fascinating look at conservative critiques of the Ivy League...
...Hardly surprising, then, that right-wing conservatives see Bachelet's government as a menace to traditional values. "This is the ideology of liberation from taboos, blocks, burdens and traumas that promises happiness for all. A happiness that never arrives" says Gonzalo Rojas, a law professor, columnist and self-declared supporter of former dictator General Augusto Pinochet. He summarizes the new social ethic as "I demand, the State grants, society accepts, and critics stay away," and he likens it to the "me" generation of the United States in the 1970s. He laments what he sees as the failure of the sustained...
...Rojas a lone voice of despair. "This agenda goes against the fundamental values of the Christian Western society," says Marco Antonio Gonz?lez, director of Fundaci?n Jaime Guzm?n E., a right-wing think tank. He condemns liberals for wanting to put education and health under state control and for leaving personal morality to the individual...
G.O.P. leaders are so desperate to find someone else to blame that they have been reduced--with no indication that they see the irony--to blaming a vast left-wing conspiracy. "The people who want to see this thing blow up," Hastert told the Chicago Tribune, "are ABC News and a lot of Democratic operatives, people funded by George Soros," the liberal financier who has become a bogeyman of the right. Hastert went on to say, without producing any proof, that the revelation was the work of Bill Clinton's operatives. But that line of argument, of course, suggests that...
...resignations of Foley and Fordham sparked fears that other gay Republicans would also soon be forced out of both their closets and their jobs. "Kirk is the fall guy," says gay-rights activist Hilary Rosen. "It's going to be open season on gay Republicans. It's the right wing's perfect storm. They never wanted gays in their party anyway...