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Religious right’s Worldview Weekend rally coming to Rochester

By Andy Birkey | 02.22.10 | 10:55 am

brannonhowseThe Tea Party and religious right movements will collide — or coalesce — when the Worldview Weekend rally comes to Rochester April 9. Worldview Weekend founder Brannon Howse (pictured) will present his brand of evangelical Christianity, sprinkled with…

How did “spreading the wealth” become a dirty deed?

By Molly Priesmeyer | 10.28.08 | 2:37 pm

Of all the criticism lobbed at Barack Obama over the last week, the one that gets the biggest hoots and hollers from John McCain supporters is that Obama wants to, in McCain air quotes, “spread the wealth.” Crazy, right? Crazy that a candidate would invoke, as the New Yorker notes, the godfather of free-market capitalism, Adam Smith, who wrote in “The Wealth of Nations” that, “It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.”

Video: Fox anchor channels Bachmann, implies Obama’s a Marxist

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.28.08 | 8:36 am

Burnin’ up the internet this morning is an interview by Orlando Fox news anchor Barbara West and Joe Biden, who had to endure some positively Bachmannesque questioning. West, who is married to a GOP media consultant, is now…

Marxism: It’s medium hot!

By Molly Priesmeyer | 10.27.08 | 11:18 pm

Hotter than Tiffany jewelry but not quite as hot at “Senator Stevens” or a “pumpkin seed recipe,” the nearly 150-year-old Marxism is finding a resurgence on Google, albeit through simple searches instead of a long-time-comin’ proletariat uprising.
Thanks to…