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14 unusual facts about Conservatism in the United States


Alan Burke

Alan S. Burke (September 15, 1922 - August 25, 1992) was an American conservative television and radio talk show host who was on the air primarily in New York City from 1966 to 1969 on WNEW (now Fox Broadcasting O&O WNYW).

Capital Research Center

Capital Research Center (CRC) is an American conservative non-profit organization located in Washington, DC.

Jim Vicevich

Vicevich, a self-labeled social libertarian and political conservative, often frames his commentary between bumper-music from upstart Americana performers.

Joe Kulbacki

Kulbacki is also author of America...A Nation That's Lost Its Way, a conservative critique of modern American politics and society in the context of its Judeo-Christian values, and paralleling the rise and fall of past civilizations, particularly Ancient Rome.

Mallard Fillmore

The strip follows the exploits of its title character, an anthropomorphic green-plumaged duck who works as a politically conservative reporter at fictional television station WFDR in Washington, D.C. Mallard's name is a pun on the name of the 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore.

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation

The identities of donors are not disclosed, but some of its funding has been traced to conservative foundations.

Political ideologies in the United States

Persons in the U.S. generally classify themselves either as adhering to positions along the political spectrum as liberal-progressive, moderate, or conservative.

Swing state

For instance, a Republican candidate (the more conservative of the two major parties) can expect to easily win many of the Southern states like Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina, which historically have a very conservative culture, very religious, and a more recent history of voting for Republican candidates.

Tea Party Nation

Tea Party Nation is a conservative American political organization considered part of the Tea Party movement.

United States presidential election in Massachusetts, 1996

Like New England as a whole, Massachusetts is a largely secular and liberal society in the modern era, and thus it rejected an increasingly Southern and conservative Republican Party dominated by Evangelical Christians.

United States presidential election in Vermont, 1996

However Vermont had always favored a liberal, secular, Northeastern brand of Republicanism, and by the 1990s, the Republican Party had become increasingly dominated by conservative, Southern, and Evangelical Christian interests.

WBSM

Ken Pittman: afternoon drive time host (2004-2012), conservative broadcaster who has been spot-lighted on national television news shows such as Fox News Channel's O'Reilly Factor and Weekend Live, also appeared on CNN and New England Cable News (NECN) several times with Jim Braude, currently a fill-in host at WPRO (AM) in Providence.

WKVP

The station took the branding of "IQ 106.9" (for "Intelligence quotient"), and intended to go after CBS Radio's mainstay stations in Philadelphia, KYW (all-news) and WPHT (talk), with a combination of news, information, and conservative-leaning talk that at times would have an irreverent, us-against-them tone.

WPGX

The program is taped in advance and features topics that tend to be presented from a conservative perspective (owing to the South's traditional conservative values).


Business nationalism

Ultraconservative business and industrial leaders who saw the New Deal implemented in the United States between 1933 and 1936 as proof of an imagined sinister alliance by international finance capital and communist-controlled labor unions to destroy free enterprise became known as “business nationalists”.

Frank Chodorov

Chodorov continued to advocate non-intervention, but as the Cold War continued, he lost influence: the American conservative movement came to be a bastion of interventionist foreign policy in combating Soviet expansionism.

Holly Coors

Holland "Holly" Coors (August 25, 1920 – January 18, 2009) was an American conservative political activist and philanthropist who had been married to Joseph Coors, the president of Coors Brewing Company.

Howie Carr

(born January 17, 1952) is an American journalist, author, and conservative radio talk-show host based in Boston with a listening audience rooted in New England.

Jim Babka

Babka's father, an auto-parts company executive, was a conservative Republican who had supported Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.

Laos Memorial

Many Democratic and Republican members of the U.S. Congress, including key liberal and progressive Democrats, including Congressman Bruce Vento and Senator Paul Wellstone as well as Republican conservatives U.S. conservatives, rallied to support these landmark efforts to honor the Lao and Hmong veterans and their families with the dedication of the Laos and Hmong monument at Arlington National Cemetery.

MoneyTrack

In 18 May 2012, Katrina Trinko at the conservative website National Review Online noticed that Black's part of the first book Getting on the MoneyTrack shares text with Senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren's book, All Your Worth.

North Dakota gubernatorial recall election

The recall stemmed from the conflict between the socialist-leaning Nonpartisan League, of which Governor Frazier was a member, and the Independent Voters Association, a conservative and pro-capitalist faction.

OpinionJournal.com

The editorials (titled "Review & Outlook") reflect the Journal's conservative political editorial line, as do its regular columnists, who include Peggy Noonan, John Fund, and Daniel Henninger.

Talking Right

Nunberg argues that the problem runs much deeper, in that the entire political discourse in the United States today has been shaped heavily by conservatives.

The Evil Empire: 101 Ways That England Ruined the World

:For use of the phrase by Ronald Reagan and United States' conservatives, see Evil empire.

Unity08

Chris Bowers of the political blog MyDD called the group's supporters "rich, center-right, 'non-partisan' donors who trash progressives and never criticize conservatives in power," and claimed that the movement has no grassroots support.

Vermont Teddy Bear Company

Conservative radio hosts were seeing an uptick in listener numbers and advertising in the lead-up to the year's midterm elections.