Bill Moyers interviewed George Soros in regard to the 2008 economic crash in the U.S. economy.  Soros expressed concern that Henry Paulson, economic advisor to President Bush at the time, acted too slowly.  He waited too long because he was such a free market person he refused to act.  According to Soros, this hesitation killed us.  He noted England acted quicker and saved more of their own economy.[1]  The new and growing wing of the Religious Right has emerged  with an economic agenda.  Some trace the roots of the movement to Civil  Rights rejection in the nation.  Many used the fear of government restrictions in the work place as a reason to reject Affirmative Action.  This theory might help explain the natural roots the Religious Right would have in laissez-faire economic beliefs.  The connection goes much further than a theory on race.  It is rooted deeply in the new concerns of the movement.  With renewed accusations that the nation is turning socialist, free market adherents find new fodder for the fires of the movement. The most popular Religious Right voter guide in Texas is a voter guide aptly named, the Free Market Voter guide.

Here's a question for you: Is it possible to be one of the biggest losers and one of the biggest winners at the same time? If folks like Karl Rove, Ralph Reed, Tony Perkins, Sheldon Adelson, the Koch Brothers, and, fill in the name of your favorite Tea Party booster, lost big on Election Day, no one lost any bigger than the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez. As one of the Republican Party's go-to guys in the Hispanic community, Rodriguez did a one-heck-of-a-Brownie-like job bringing home the Hispanic vote.

Nevertheless, Rodriguez's lack of immediate success may have insured that he will be an indispensible player for the Party for years to come, as many of his conservative comrades appear ready to moonwalk on immigration.  

Because they start salivating and can't seem to keep their mouths shut when ever they sense an opportunity, a handful of evangelical Christians are claiming that Hurricane Sandy is God's way of showing his wrath on a Godless nation, or as one noted author of apocalyptic fiction wrote; it's God's October Surprise.

In July 2011, after the horrendous massacre in Norway that took the lives of 77 -- mostly youngsters attending a Workers' Youth League summer camp -- radio talk show host Glenn Beck commented: "And then there was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler youth or whatever. I mean, who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing."

While you were blithely spending the summer with your children swimming and building sand castles at Orchard Beach, riding the Giant Dipper roller coaster at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Amusement Park, water-parking, and/or hiking in the wild, a bunch of conservative parents - with support from Beck -- were having their kids schooled in the Constitution and American history at Patriot Camps across the country.

For the better part of the past decade, Catholic organizations have played a major role funding anti-gay marriage ballot initiatives across the country. According to a new report by the Human Rights Campaign, the Catholic Church and related groups are providing more than half of the funds that have been raised so far in this year's fight against marriage equality in Minnesota, Maryland, Washington, and Maine.


A large chunk of that funding is coming from the leadership of the Knights of Columbus, which has, over the past few years, become a major funder in the war against equality.

Guess who is under investigation by his conservative Christian college over a report that he had a woman (who was not his wife) with him in a hotel room after speaking at a late-September conference in Spartanburg, South Carolina called "Truth for a New Generation?"

Dinesh D'Souza, a longtime conservative fact-twisting polemicist, prolific writer, president of The King's College -- a "Christian liberal arts" school -- and the man behind the enormously successful Obama-bashing documentary 2016: Obama's America, that's who!

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"My political leanings are far to the right....
Attila the Hun was too liberal for me."
--Sheldon Adelson, 2010

If you've been paying any attention to Election 2012, you have undoubtedly become familiar with Sheldon Adelson. The casino magnate and Republican Party benefactor - worth $20.5 billion according to Forbes magazine - is fully committed to defeating President Barack Obama, and to that end has pledged to spend as much as $100 million.

Beyond Adelson's anti-Obama advocacy lies two greater causes; un-wavering support for right wing Israeli politicians and organizations; and, urging the US government to take more muscular action against Iran.

In addition to dumping boatloads of money into Republican Party war chests, Adelson has almost single-handedly destroyed what has historically been a pretty vigorous newspaper culture in Israel.

If Sheldon Adelson were an ordinary guy, some might say that he is spending like a drunken sailor. But Adelson is no ordinary guy. The billionaire right wing casino magnate who is committed to expending perhaps as much as $100 million on this presidential campaign, is, as he recently described it, merely putting his money where his mouth is.

And both his money and his mouth are writ large over the Republican Party's campaign to win the presidency and grab total control of both houses of Congress.

Pastor John Hagee, who was deep-sixed from Senator John McCain's campaign in 2008 after a tape was found that had him bellowing about God sending Hitler to hunt the Jews so they would go to Palestine, is creeping back into this election cycle.

In 2008, Pastor John Hagee was a much sought after "get" for Republican Party presidential candidates. After a long courtship, McCain's  campaign team, trying to gain some credibility with Religious Right leaders,  nailed down the pastor's endorsement.

Three months later, disaster struck.

Like Chick-fil-A's president Dan Cathy, whose anti-same-sex marriage remarks set off a mid-summer kerfuffle, another very wealthy conservative Christian - also acting on what he says are his biblically-based principles -- has leaped into the battle over the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate.

David Green, one of the world's richest men and the founder and chief executive of Hobby Lobby, the privately held arts and crafts supply business, recently filed a lawsuit - along with fellow plaintiffs David Green, Barbara Green, Steve Green, Mart Green and Darsee Lett -- in U.S. District Court in Oklahoma City "challenging a mandate in the nation's health care overhaul law that requires employers to provide coverage for the morning-after pill and similar drugs," the Associated Press recently reported.

The suit argues that the Affordable Care Act's birth control mandate would force "religiously-motivated business owners," such as themselves, to "violate their faith under threat of millions of dollars in fines." "The Green family believes they are obligated to run their businesses in accordance with their faith," the complaint states. "Commitment to Jesus Christ and to Biblical principles is what gives their business endeavors meaning and purpose."

Jill Stanek, longtime anti-abortion activist and Obama antagonist headlines tour

In 2008, the anti-abortion crowd, led by an Illinois-based 527 organization called Born Alive Truth, launched a campaign it was certain would mobilize the base and turn undecided voters toward the McCain-Palin ticket. The campaign would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in key swing states on advertisements branding then-Senator Barack Obama as a supporter of infanticide. When the group registered with the Internal Revenue Service that year, it claimed that its mission was, "informing the public of Barack Obama's support of infanticide" (a statement it later amended). 



This time around, Students for Life of America -- another anti-abortion organization -- has come up with a different idea. It is taking the battle over abortion rights to college campuses in several swing states.

It wasn't all that surprising - given that they had no other place to go - that after months and months of "soul-searching," Mitt Romney finally has received his official acceptance letter from conservative Christian leaders. And although the letter, which was delivered Friday September 7, is focused mainly on support for the Republican Party's platform (titled "We Believe in America"), it should also be read as the Religious Right giving Romney its seal of approval.

Focus on the Family's citizenlink.com pointed out that, "Though some have been quick to criticize Romney for his Mormon faith," the letter put that controversy aside: "It is time to remind ourselves that civil government is not about a particular theology but rather about public policy, and the question we ask is this one: What are the policy principles that will govern your administration should you prevail on Election Day," the letter stated.