Right Wing Texas State Board of Education Looks to the Left

Central Texas voters can help transform deep-red education panel

"...Texas State Board of Education, a perennial hotbed of right-wing ideology and clownery, could see a major political shift..."

Feb. 18, 2020 News Post by Mary Tuma

Right Wing Texas State Board of Education Braces Looks to the Left

Central Texas voters can help transform deep-red education panel

"...Texas State Board of Education, a perennial hotbed of right-wing ideology and clownery, could see a major political shift..."

Feb. 21, 2020 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Deep-Pocket Donors Fund Right-Wing School Board Candidates in the Austin Suburbs

Drama outside of town

"...In Georgetown ISD, three candidates aligned with right-wing values are running for the three open seats on..."

April 29, 2022 News Feature by Morgan O’Hanlon

It's Very Dangerous Right Now

"...Dear Editor, Despite insistence from our right-wing media and government that Israel is targeting Hezbollah and..."

July 24, 2006 Postmarks

The Right Is so Much Better Than the Left

"...liberty and limited constitutional government. The left is the ideology of power and the cult of the god-state. The..."

April 25, 2010 Postmarks

Page Two: Altered States

The new right's ever-loosening grip on reality

"...living in a true golden age of political dishonesty. Ideology, fantasy, pandering, and just outright lying don't simply outmaneuver..."

March 3, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Fact-Free Follies

More fun from the wacky world of right-wing zealots

"...than revolutionary, one who covered himself by conveniently espoused ideology. Rather than reaching for a grand observation, the comment..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Earth, Stones, and Thorns of the Wild Ground Growing

The poetry of the right-wing soul: an appreciation

"...kind of carefully reasoned arguments that simply reiterate dominant ideology...."

Jan. 27, 2006 Column by Louis Black

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When Rush Limbaugh reinvented the blindly loyal conformist as a daring, oppressed, truth-seeking revolutionary, he also re-created the mainstream in his image

"...is now the literary mainstay of a generation of conservative/Republican/right-wing champions. These letter-writers imagine themselves as dominating, right-wing, radio..."

July 2, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Righting Wrongs

A position checklist of pragmatic politics

"...column was about the almost bizarre idealism of some right-wingers – certainly of many of the neocons who have..."

April 11, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Music of the Spheres

We cannot work together unless we can talk to each other

"...if not its achievement, is to focus on issues, ideology, policy, and practice. Not only do I not believe..."

June 20, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Correlation Does Not Imply Causation

The lessons of Florida beaches, anti-drug education, and chain gangs

"...The suffocating ideological atmosphere was not due to hard right-wing conservative politics but rather the unexamined assumption of them...."

May 9, 2008 Column by Louis Black

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Watching the watchmen

"...many, party affiliation was determined more by geography than ideology. Especially in the post-Civil War, post-Reconstruction South, the party..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Name-Calling, Part II

Name-Calling, Part II: The proud badge of 'cowardice'

"...ago, this column was devoted to praising the hidden right-wing poetry in some of the letters the Chronicle receives...."

Feb. 10, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Texas Bill Gives Localities a Way Past State Obstruction to Medicaid

Lloyd Doggett looks to get Medicaid to more

"...his bill as a needed alternative to "hardcore, Repub­lic­an, right-wing ideology" for the millions of uninsured Texans. "We're trying..."

July 2, 2021 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Page Two: Prayer for the Common Man

In the religious right's new democracy, principles prescribed by man have no value in the war between heaven and hell

"...rhetoric, meaningless polemics, and secularly driven holy visions. Longtime right-wingers and conservatives are now loudly declaring that they find..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Get a Hog!!

"...would want us all to conform to a suburban, right-wing ideology. Unfortunately this cancerous mentality is already plaguing our..."

April 17, 1998 Column

Page Two: Sticks and Stones

The paradoxical pleasures of the religious right

"...shouting down of any speaker by anyone, regardless of ideology, is reprehensible). Other boycotts are designed to attack policies..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Column by Louis Black

The Hightower Report

How simple is Rep. Paul Ryan?

"...Yeah, let 'em eat right wing ideology! I wish it were an April Fool's joke –..."

April 11, 2014 News Column by Jim Hightower

Why Were We Lied To?

"...attempt on papa Bush's life? Or was it just right-wing ideology?..."

March 8, 2005 Postmarks

The Hightower Report

Leave No Hummer Owner Behind; Tax Cheats Get Corporate Welfare

"...but it recently smashed up against the rock hard, right-wing ideology of plutocracy that is the governing ethic of..."

June 27, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Lowdown

CEO pay surges, George W. recycles at the Pentagon, & Tom DeLay quacks like Daffy Duck.

"...from Sugar Land is not merely eaten up with right-wing ideology, he's messianic in his drive to foist it..."

July 13, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

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Free speech in defense of liberty is no vice

"...Marxism, suicidal pacifism, anarchic chic, equivocating multiculturalism, and whatever ideology the mavens of social fashion may deem as admirable...."

Nov. 11, 2005 Column by Louis Black

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Libby indictment evokes more scapegoating and hypocrisy from the right

"...who are then responsible not to solely impose the ideology of those who elected them, but rather to represent..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Column by Louis Black

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The touchy, touch Republicans have become the party of make-believe

"...the future. Disagreements aren't over principles, policies, diplomatic perceptions, ideology, and history. Instead – at best – I'm misguided,..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Inside Agitator

Fulani Follower Stokes Fires of Resentment and Reform

"...that Curtis harbors no heartfelt love for the quirky right-wing Texas billionaire who first became a lightning rod for..."

Dec. 12, 1997 News Feature by Audrey Duff

Page Two: Everybody Plays the Fool

Neither party is sainted, and dominance tends to encourage the worst of political habits

"...out that I then went on to castigate certain right-wing radio talk-show hosts, as well as the audiences that..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Eugenics Controversy Looms Over Natal Conference at UT’s AT&T Center

Speakers decry low birth rates, while some promote pseudoscience

"...A conference promoting pro-natalism – a belief in maximizing..."

March 21, 2025 News Feature by Lucciana Choueiry

'He's Forked Himself'

Our Full conversation with Louis Dubose about 'The Hammer'

"...has to have a Grover Norquist or a corporate right-wing Republican lobbyist. That's pretty remarkable. And then they were..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Page Two: Red-State Specials

In the current political climate, reasoned debate turns too easily to ideological hate

"...and the one knowable (by me) truth" approach transcends ideology, party loyalty, any kind of appreciation of those with..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Column by Louis Black

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