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Scenes from the Boston Tea Party

By | 04.14.10 | 5:14 pm

After the jump, a series of choice photos from the Tea Party Express rally on the Boston Common today:

Glenn Beck Attacks European Far-Right; American Right Pushes Back

By | 03.09.10 | 11:26 am

Here’s one repercussion of far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders surging in the polls and looking more and more like his county’s next prime minister. While Wilders has a robust community of support in America — in some circles he’s considered a hero for his campaign against Islam — Glenn More…

GOP Senate Candidate: New Deal Had ‘Much in Common with Mussolini’s Fascism’

By | 11.09.09 | 2:10 pm

I’ve been fascinated by the rise of Chuck DeVore, a Republican state assemblyman from California whose grassroots campaign against Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) — and against brand-new Republican candidate Carly Fiorina — has transformed the Republican primary from a coronation to a neck-and-neck battle between conservative activists and GOP More…

Fear of Fascism, ‘Gay Agenda’ Dominates Conservative Kickoff for Midterm Elections

By | 09.28.09 | 1:56 pm

ST. LOUIS — Kitty Werthmann has made quite a career out of warning Americans that fascism is on its way. The 84-year-old native Austrian survived the excesses of the Third Reich and, in her dotage as a leader of the South Dakota branch of the Eagle Forum, recorded tapes and More…

I Do Not Think You Know What That Word Means

By | 06.09.09 | 1:19 pm

National Review’s Andrew Stuttaford reports, in disgust, on protesters disrupting a British National Party press conference by tossing eggs and chanting “off our streets, Nazi scum.”

Fighting fascism the fascist way, I guess.

I suppose there are more polite ways of interrupting a Holocaust denier’s speech, but More…