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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…

A Far-Right Victory in the Netherlands

By | 03.04.10 | 10:05 am

I’ve written in the past about the evolution of the “anti-jihadist” blogosphere and intelligentsia. A few years ago, arguments arose between activists and writers like Pamela “Atlas Shrugs” Geller and Robert Spencer and supporters like Charles “Little Green Footballs” Johnson, with a sticking point being support for European far-right More…

Quote of the Morning

By | 09.14.09 | 9:12 am

From Peter Wallston’s piece on the conservative fringe, which contains a lot of stuff that should be familiar to TWI readers, here is the reason Lisa De Pasquale, the director of the Conservative Political Action Conference, declined requests from WorldNetDaily to schedule a panel on President Obama’s birth certificate. More…

Geert Wilders at CPAC?

By | 02.18.09 | 12:50 pm

Newsweek reports that Geert Wilders, the controversial Dutch critic of Islam who was recently banned from entering the United Kingdom, might show up at the Conservative Political Action Conference next week.

David Keene, the president of The American Conservative Union and an organizer of the conference, at first told

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