The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Across the land, grindstones sing as axes are sharpened for the RINOs. For years, conservatives have railed against these moderate "Republicans in Name Only," launching...
threedonia.com (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
One of my favorite moments of schadenfreude occurs when liberals lament some certain group or people for “voting against their best interest.” Thomas Frank sputtered his confusion on the subject in his tome “What’s the Matter With Kansas,” which railed the people in the state for voting conservative. This doesn’t keep Frank from giving advice...
Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
The new 10-point RNC purity test intended to purge Republicans who aren't conservative enough makes about as much sense as hacking off your own limbs to cure a weak pulse, Thomas Frank writes in the Wall Street Journal . And after the "coming period of inquisition and excommunication," says Frank, the...
LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Conservatives Want Republican Purge Trials A 10-point purity test even Reagan would flunk. By THOMAS FRANK Across the land, grindstones sing as axes are sharpened for the RINOs. For years, conservatives have railed against these moderate "Republicans in Name Only," launching primary campaigns against them, pouring money into their opponents' campaign funds, and excluding them...
varnelis.net - network culture (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... embrace the changing terrain of the 1960s, a diabolical player in an alternate universe version of Thomas Frank's The Conquest of Cool ? Or is it destined to be wiped out by the juggernaut of sociocultural change that comprises the mid and late 1960s the way Philip Johnson was, at least for a decade? In the atemporal world of network culture , we often forget how commonly we still...
