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VIDEO: Glenn Beck promotes Santorum’s campaign

By | 11.15.11 | 1:08 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

On his new GBTV network, conservative talk show host Glenn Beck made a point of saying he doesn’t give endorsements, but then appeared to hand an endorsement to former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann.

Occupy Movement may get free billboards

By | 10.11.11 | 4:42 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Occupy Wall Street and its many spinoffs may be on its way to getting at least one billboard. EpicStep will donate a billboard if at least 20,000 people go online and vote for a design and a city to place it in. If enough people vote, EpicStep has announced it More…

Glenn Beck says college should only be an option for those who can afford it

By | 10.08.11 | 3:10 pm

Glenn Beck, ardent supporter of the tea party movement, spent the majority of his speech at the Values Voter Summit Saturday attacking the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Prominent Florida Religious Event to feature Perry, Gingrich and David Barton

By | 10.07.11 | 3:50 pm | More from The Florida Independent

The Florida Renewal Project’s Pastors’ Policy Briefing, an event aimed at getting churches and religious leaders involved in elections, will be taking place on Oct. 20 and 21 in Orlando. The forum will feature some big names in the Christian right, including presidential candidates Gov. Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich.

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Group advocating church-state separation condemns ‘Pulpit freedom Sunday’

By | 09.30.11 | 1:17 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

A national group that advocates for the separation of church and state is urging members of the evangelical clergy to reject the Alliance Defense Fund’s “Pulpit Freedom Sunday” on Oct. 2.

“This is an appalling attempt by the Religious Right to turn houses of worship into house of partisan politics,” More…

Perry dines with embattled media mogul Rupert Murdoch

By | 09.20.11 | 2:35 pm

Gov. Rick Perry had dinner with embattled media mogul Rupert Murdoch Monday night in New York City, according to CBS and NBC news reports.

Redistricting in Colo. could change Rep. Coffman’s tune

By | 09.02.11 | 11:14 am | More from The Colorado Independent

Colorado Sixth District Congressman Mike Coffman is making national headlines for trotting out a Glenn Beck-style Obama conspiracy theory on Denver talk radio. He said the president is secretly working to grant citizenship to millions of undocumented residents who will return the favor by voting for Obama next November. That’s More…

How Agenda 21 hysteria seeped into mainstream Florida politics

By | 09.02.11 | 9:24 am | More from The Florida Independent

Image by: Matt MahurinFlorida right-wing groups are up in arms over a 19-year-old initiative launched by the United Nations in an effort to promote sustainable development in communities all over the world. The groups are convinced the U.S. is being held hostage in a secret plot by the U.N. to steal our sovereignty More…

The Blaze, CNSNews mislead by comparing Aug. 2-5 debt increase to that of the 1950s

By | 08.11.11 | 1:59 pm

The Blaze, the conservative news and opinion website founded by former Fox News host Glenn Beck, reports on a claim that the Obama administration increased the national debt more in four days than the Truman and Eisenhower administrations did during the entire decade of the 1950s. 

‘Red state’ residents like NPR, too

By | 04.15.11 | 11:38 am | More from The Colorado Independent

From Idaho Falls, Idaho, to the heart of Appalachia, conservative country folk have at least one thing in common: They want their National Public Radio.

Sure, they like a little Rush once in awhile, even a little Glenn, but at the end of the day it’s just not enough. They More…