Paul M. Weyrich (born October 7, 1942, in Racine, Wisconsin) is a US conservative political activist and commentator. October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... Racine is a city located in Racine County, Wisconsin, along Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Root River[1]. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 81,855. ... United States is the current Good Article Collaboration of the week! Please help to improve this article to the highest of standards. ... American conservatism is a constellation of political ideologies within the United States under the blanket heading of conservative. ...

He is widely considered one of the founders of the American New Right and an important strategist for the social and religious conservative movements. He is less well-known as an advocate for mass transit and rail transportation. He is an ordained protodeacon in the Melkite Greek-Catholic Church. New Right is used in several countries as a descriptive term for various forms of conservative, right-wing, or self-proclaimed dissident oppositional movements and groups that emerged in the mid- to late twentieth century. ... In the United States of America, transit describes local area common carrier passenger transportation configured to provide scheduled service on fixed routes on a non-reservation basis. ... A railway yard in Portland, Oregon. ... The term Melkite (also written Melchite) is used to refer to various Christian churches and their members originating in the Middle East. ...

Conservative activism

Born in Racine, Wisconsin, Weyrich became involved in politics while a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was active in the Racine County Young Republicans from 1961 to 1963 and in Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign. He spent his early career in journalism as political reporter for the Milwaukee Sentinel newspaper and, in radio, as a reporter for WAXO-FM in Kenosha and as news director of KQXI in Denver. Racine is a city located in Racine County, Wisconsin, along Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Root River[1]. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 81,855. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... The University of Wisconsin-Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin. ... Racine County is a county located in the state of Wisconsin. ... Young Republicans is the name of an organization for members of the Republican Party of the United States between the ages of 18 and 40. ... Bartholomew Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909 – May 29, 1998) commonly known as Barry Goldwater, was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–87) and the Republican Partys nominee for President in the 1964 election. ... Journalism is a discipline of collecting, analyzing, verifying, and presenting news regarding current events, trends, issues and people. ... The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ... Kenosha is a city in Kenosha County, Wisconsin. ... Nickname: The Mile-High City Location of Denver in Colorado, USA Coordinates: Country United States State Colorado City-County Denver (coextensive) Founded November 22, 1858 Incorporated November 7, 1861 Mayor John Hickenlooper (D) Area    - City 401. ...

In 1967, he became press secretary to Republican U.S. Senator Gordon L. Allott of Colorado. While serving in this capacity, he met Jack Wilson, an aide of Joseph Coors, patriarch of the Coors brewing family. Frustrated with the state of public policy research, they founded Analysis and Research Inc. in 1971, but this organization failed to gain traction. A press secretary is a senior advisor (usually to a politician) who provides advice on how to deal with the media and, using news management techniques, helps them to maintain a positive public image and avoid negative media coverage. ... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... Seal of the U.S. Senate The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. ... Gordon Llewellyn Allott (January 2, 1907 - January 17, 1989) was a Republican senator from Colorado from 1955-1973. ... Official language(s) English Capital Denver Largest city Denver Area  Ranked 8th  - Total 104,185 sq mi (269,837 km²)  - Width 280 miles (451 km)  - Length 380 miles (612 km)  - % water 0. ... Coors may refer to: People Adolph Coors (1847-1929) started brewery Adolph Coors III grandson was kidnapped and murdered Pete Coors Things Adolph Coors Company of Golden, Colorado Coors Brewing Company Coors Field This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Public policy is a course of action or inaction chosen by public authorities to address a problem. ...

Founding the Heritage Foundation

In 1973, with the financial backing of Coors, Weyrich and Ed Feulner founded the Heritage Foundation as a think tank to counterbalance prevailing sentiment on taxation and regulation, which they considered to be anti-business. While the organization was at first only minimally influential, it has grown into one of the world's largest and most respected public policy research institutes and has been hugely influential in advancing conservative policies. Edwin J. Feulner (born August 12, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois) is a founder and current President of the Heritage Foundation and was a recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal in 1989. ... The Heritage Foundation, a think tank located in Washington, D.C., is an influential public policy research institute whose stated mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. ... This article is about the institution. ...

The following year, again with support from Coors, Weyrich founded the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress (CSFC), an organization that trained and mobilized conservative activists, recruited conservative candidates, and raised funds for conservative causes.

Under Weyrich, the CSFC proved highly innovative. It was among the first grassroots organizations to raise funds extensively through direct mail campaigns. It also was one of the first organizations to tap into evangelical Christian churches as places to recruit and cultivate activists and support for social conservative causes. Indeed, they proved such a wellspring that, in 1977, Weyrich co-founded Christian Voice with Robert Grant and two years later founded with Jerry Falwell the Moral Majority. Weyrich coined the phrase "Moral Majority."^[1] Grassroots is a political movement for individual constituents of a community to voice their ideas and opinions. ... Direct marketing is a form of marketing that attempts to send its messages directly to consumers, often without the use of intervening media. ... Evangelicalism, in a strictly lexical, but rarely used sense, refers to all things that are implied in belief that Jesus is the savior. ... Formerly known as Repent UK, Christian Voice is a Christian fundamentalist organisation based in the United Kingdom which strives, through the basis of prayer and public campaigning, for national repentance. It is led by Stephen Green (a former Chairman of the Conservative Family Campaign), with Lord Ashbourne as its patron. ... Robert Grant was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. ... Jerry Lamon Falwell (born August 11, 1933 in Lynchburg, Virginia) is an evangelical pastor and televangelist from the United States. ... The term Moral Majority refers to the concept that there are often informal subgroups within many larger nations that pursue a strict moral agenda, usually based upon a deep belief in a religion, such as Christianity, Islam, or Judaism. ...

Over the next two decades, Weyrich founded, co-founded, or held prominent roles in a number of other notable conservative organizations. Among them, he was founder of the American Legislative Exchange Council, an organization of state legislators; a co-founder of the Council for National Policy, a strategy-formulating organization for social conservatives; co-publisher of the magazine Conservative Digest; and national chairman of Coalitions for America, an association of conservative activist organizations. The CSFC, reorganized into the Free Congress Foundation (FCF), also remained active. This article or section needs to be wikified. ... The Council for National Policy (CNP), is a conservative American educational group, membership of which is only available by invitation. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... The Free Congress Foundation (more formally the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, and Free Congress or FCF for short), is a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. founded and led by Paul Weyrich. ...

Under the auspices of the FCF, he founded the Washington, D.C.-based satellite television station National Empowerment Television (NET), later relaunched as the for-profit channel "America's Voice" in 1997. In 1997 Weyrich was forced out of the NET television network he had founded when the network's head persuaded its board to force out Weyrich in a hostile takeover. Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates says this was "apparently for his divisive behavior in attacking GOP pragmatists."^[2] Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C. in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia. ... MILSTAR:A communication satellite A satellite is any object that orbits another object (which is known as its primary). ... A television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts both audio and video to television receivers in a particular area. ... National Empowerment Television (NET), also known as Americas Voice, was a cable TV network designed to rapidly mobilize Religious Right followers for grassroots lobbying. ... John Foster Chip Berlet (born November 22, 1949) is the co-author of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort and editor of Eyes Right! Challenging the Right Wing Backlash. ... Political Research Associates (PRA) is a non-profit research group located in Somerville, Massachusetts, which studies the U.S. political right wing, as well as white supremacists, anti-Semitic groups, and paramilitary organizations. ...

From 1989 to 1996, he was also president of the Krieble Institute, a unit of the FCF that trained activists to support democracy movements in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Eastern Europe is the eastern region of Europe variably defined. ...

Frustrated with public indifference to the Lewinsky scandal, Weyrich wrote a letter in February 1999 stating that he believed conservatives had lost the culture war, urging a separatist strategy where conservatives ought to live apart from corrupted mainstream society and form their own parallel institutions: TIME magazines special report. ... The term Culture Wars has been used to describe ideologically-driven and often strident confrontations typical of American public culture and politics since the 1960s, but especially beginning in the 1980s. ...

"I believe that we probably have lost the culture war. That doesn't mean the war is not going to continue, and that it isn't going to be fought on other fronts. But in terms of society in general, we have lost. This is why, even when we win in politics, our victories fail to translate into the kind of policies we believe are important. Therefore, what seems to me a legitimate strategy for us to follow is to look at ways to separate ourselves from the institutions that have been captured by the ideology of Political Correctness, or by other enemies of our traditional culture. What I mean by separation is, for example, what the homeschoolers have done. Faced with public school systems that no longer educate but instead 'condition' students with the attitudes demanded by Political Correctness, they have seceded. They have separated themselves from public schools and have created new institutions, new schools, in their homes. I think that we have to look at a whole series of possibilities for bypassing the institutions that are controlled by the enemy. If we expend our energies on fighting on the "turf" they already control, we will probably not accomplish what we hope, and we may spend ourselves to the point of exhaustion." -- Paul Weyrich Letter to Conservatives by Paul M. Weyrich, February 1999^[3]

This was widely interpreted as Weyrich calling for a retreat from politics, but he almost immediately issued a clarification stating this was not his intent. In the evangelical magazine World he wrote:

". . .when critics say in supposed response to me that 'before striking our colors in the culture wars, Christians should at least put up a fight,' I am puzzled. Of course they should. That is exactly what I am urging them to do. The question is not whether we should fight, but how. . . .in essence, I said that we need to change our strategy. Instead of relying on politics to retake the culturally and morally decadent institutions of contemporary America, I said that we should separate from those institutions and build our own." -- Paul Weyrich ^[4]

By 2004 Weyrich was reportedly more hopeful, given trends in public opinion and the reelection of President George W. Bush. In spite of his initial support for Bush, he often disagrees with Bush administration policies. Examples of disagreement include the Iraq War, immigration, Harriet Miers and fiscal policy ^[5]. The presidential seal was used by President Hayes in 1880 and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American businessman and politician, was elected in 2000 as the 43rd President of the United States of America, re-elected in 2004, and is currently serving his second term in that office. ... For other uses, see Iraq war (disambiguation). ... Harriet Miers Harriet Ellan Miers (born August 10, 1945 in Dallas, Texas) is an American lawyer, currently serving as White House Counsel. ...

Spinal injury and disability

In 1996, Weyrich was diagnosed with a spinal injury. Since 2001, the injury has left him in a wheelchair and in constant pain. Complications from a fall in September 2004 required the amputation of his legs in July 2005. The spinal cord is a part of the vertebrate nervous system that is enclosed in and protected by the vertebral column (it passes through the spinal canal). ... The international symbol of access depicts a person in a wheelchair A wheelchair is mobility device that takes the form of a chair on wheels, used by people for whom walking is difficult or impossible due to illness or disability. ...

Rail transit activism

Unlike many of his allies on the U.S. political right, Weyrich has a long history of ardent support for rail mass transit, although like those allies, he opposes bus transit [1]. FCF publishes a newsletter on trolley and rail systems entitled The (New) New Electric Railway Journal and he has written numerous op-ed columns in favor of proposed light rail and metro systems. He has also served on the national board of Amtrak and the Amtrak Reform Council, as well as local and regional rail transit advocacy organizations. Weyrich is widely recognized as one of the nation's leading experts on rail passenger service. Rail can mean: Rail tracks, see also third rail Rail transport A Railroad-related periodical For the group of birds called rails, see Rallidae For the Mayfair Games board games, see Crayon Rails For rail in electronics, see . ... Skytrain Bangkok. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... This article is about light rail systems in general. ... Metro is: a general term, synonymous with rapid transit, subway or underground, for an urban underground rail public transit system (see list of rapid transit systems); any of several specific public transport systems, including: Bi-State Development Agency in Missouri and Illinois, d/b/a Metro since 2003 Buffalo Metro... Acela Express in West Windsor, NJ Amtrak Cascades service with tilting Talgo trainsets in Seattle, Washington Amtrak train in downtown Orlando, Florida For other uses, see Amtrak (disambiguation). ...

Controversy

In its October 27, 1997 issue, The New Republic published an article, Robespierre of the Right--What I Ate at the Revolution, by David Grann calling Weyrich paranoid, vindictive and manipulative.^[6] Weyrich, supported by Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch, sued the magazine and others for libel; the case was dismissed, then remanded in January of 2001.^[7] October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see the disambiguation section. ... Judicial Watch is a American government watchdog organization founded in 1994. ... In English and American law, and systems based on them, libel and slander are two forms of defamation (or defamation of character), which is the tort or delict of making a false statement of fact that injures someones reputation. ...

Weyrich opposes what he sees as Cultural Marxism's efforts to undermine Christian culture in American society.^[8] Cultural Marxism or Cultural Bolshevism is a term used to by some reactionaries, paleoconservatives, and others of political right to describe what they perceive as an attempt to undermine western civilisation through internal cultural means, rather than direct economic, party political and military means following the fall of the Soviet...

In response to a 1999 controversy covered by the press concerning a group of Wiccans in the United States military who were holding religious rituals and services on the grounds of the bases they were assigned to, Weyrich sought to exempt Wiccans from the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment^[9] and bar them from serving the military altogether. Weyrich, as president of the Free Congress Foundation, led a coalition of ten religious right organizations that attempted a Christian boycott on joining the military until all Wiccans were removed from the services, saying: For other uses, see Wicca (disambiguation). ... The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, taken with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment make up the Religion Clauses. ...

"Until the Army withdraws all official support and approval from witchcraft, no Christian should enlist or re-enlist in the Army, and Christian parents should not allow their children to join the Army" ... "An Army that sponsors satanic rituals is unworthy of representing the United States of America" ... "The official approval of satanism and witchcraft by the Army is a direct assault on the Christian faith that generations of American soldiers have fought and died for" ... "If the Army wants witches and satanists in its ranks, then it can do it without Christians in those ranks. It's time for the Christians in this country to put a stop to this kind of nonsense. A Christian recruiting strike will compel the Army to think seriously about what it is doing." -- Paul Weyrich "'Satanic' Army Unworthy of Representing United States," Free Congress Foundation press release, June 9, 1999.^[9]

According to TheocracyWatch and the Anti-Defamation League both Weyrich and his Free Congress Foundation are closely associated with Dominionism.^[10][11] TheocracyWatch lists both as leading examples of "dominionism in action," citing "a manifesto from Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation," The Integration of Theory and Practice: A Program for the New Traditionalist Movement^[12], "illuminates the tactics of the dominionist movement."^[10] TheocracyWatch, which calls it "Paul Weyrich's Training Manual," and others consider this manifesto a virtual playbook for how the "theocratic right" in American politics can get and keep power.^[13] The Anti-Defamation League identifies Weyrich and the Free Congress Foundation as part of an alliance of more than 50 of the most prominent conservative Christian leaders and organizations that threaten the separation of church and state. ^[11] Weyrich has rejected allegations that he advocates theocracy saying, "This statement is breathtaking in its bigotry"^[14] and dismisses the claim that the Christian right wishes to transform America into a theocracy.^[15] Katherine Yurica has written that Weyrich guided Eric Heubeck in writing The Integration of Theory and Practice, the Free Congress Foundation’s strategic plan published in 2001 by the foundation,^[16] which she says calls for the use of deception, misinformation and divisiveness to allow conservative evangelical Christian Republicans to gain and keep control of seats of power in the government of the United States. TheocracyWatch is a Cornell University project. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Dominionism is a trend in Protestant Christian evangelicalism and fundamentalism, primarily, though not exclusively, in the United States, that seeks to establish specific political policies based on religious beliefs. ... TheocracyWatch is a Cornell University project. ... The Integration of Theory and Practice: A Program for the New Traditionalist Movement was a strategic plan published in essay form in 2001 by the Free Congress Foundation. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article deals with conservatism as a political philosophy. ... The word evangelicalism usually refers to a tendency in diverse branches of conservative, almost always Protestant, Christianity. ... This article is about the modern United States Republican Party. ...

Weyrich denies accusations that he wants America to become a theocracy:

"Some political observers may see the presence of religious conservatives in the Republican Party as a threat. My former friend Kevin Phillips [author of "American Theocracy], who in the early days of the New Right was so helpful, now acts as if a theocracy governs the nation. Phillips was the architect of President Richard M. Nixon's Southern strategy, which worked brilliantly until Nixon did himself in. Now that the South does have the upper hand in the Republican Party Phillips is bitter about it. I see no theocracy here. As someone who has helped the religious right transition to the political process, I would have nothing to do with something akin to Iran translated into Americanize." -- Paul Weyrich The "Values Summit" series - legislative opportunities. RenewAmerica.us, July 6, 2006. ^[17]

He has also often made an issue out of what he claims are his fellow conservatives' behavior and abuse of power, and encourages a grassroots movement in conservatism he calls "the next conservatism" which he says should work to "restore America" from the bottom up. Illustrating his point, Weyrich draws a comparison between "how the Christian church grew amidst a decaying Roman Empire" and "how the next conservatism can restore an American republic as a falling America Empire collapses around us."^[18] Grassroots is a political movement for individual constituents of a community to voice their ideas and opinions. ...

Weyrich has advocated a revival of the House Un-American Activities Committee and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, with the aim of identifying and removing communists from the media, which he contends still habors infiltrators from the former Soviet Union: HUAC hearings House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC or HCUA) (1938–1975) was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. ... The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee or more commonly know as SISS was a key player in the role of finding communists during the McCarthy era in America. ... The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary (informally Senate Judiciary Committee) is a standing committee of the United States Senate, the upper house of the United States Congress. ...

"From what Igor Gaidar told me, we needed to have revived these committees with a focus not so much on Hollywood but on the media itself. We know that one New York Times reporter, who always portrayed Stalin as Good Old Uncle Joe, was in fact a Communist and operated for decades on the Times staff. Were there any more? How about the Washington Post? . . . Why not reconstitute these two committees and let them work hand in glove with the FBI. That is what happened before 1965. J. Edgar Hoover would often suggest good targets to be investigated." -- Paul Weyrich Townhall.com, September 7, 2006.^[19]

In a recent interview^[20] with Michele Norris of National Public Radio about the 2006 Mark Foley scandal, Weyrich expressed his views regarding homosexuality: Michele Norris is an American radio journalist and current host of the National Public Radio evening news broadcast All Things Considered. ... NPR redirects here. ... Mark Foley The Mark Foley scandal, which broke in late September 2006, centers on sexually explicit and solicitative e-mails and instant messages sent by Mark Foley, a Republican Congressman from Florida, to congressional pages and former pages. ... Homosexuality refers to sexual and romantic attraction between two individuals of the same sex. ...

Weyrich: It has been known for many years that Congressman Foley was a homosexual. Homosexuals tend to be preoccupied with sex - the idea that he should be continued, or should have been continued as chairman on the Committee for Missing and Exploited Children, given their knowledge of that is just outrageous (Interview at 1:08).
Norris: Now, before we go on, I think I can say, Mr. Weyrich, that there quite a few people who would take exception to the statement that homosexuals are preoccupied with sex.
Weyrich: Well, I don't care whether they take exception to it - it happens to be true.
Norris: That is your opinion.
Weyrich: Well, it's not my opinion, it's the opinion of many psychologists and psychiatrists who have to deal with them (Interview at 1:40).

Quotes

• "We are different from previous generations of conservatives…We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country." -Soloma, John. Ominous Politics: The New Conservative Labyrinth, 1984, Hill and Wang, New York.
• "The real enemy is the secular humanist mindset which seeks to destroy everything that is good in this society." - The Rights and Wrongs of the Religious Right, Freedom Writer, Institute for First Amendment Studies, October 1995.
• "Christ was crucified by the Jews.... He was not what the Jews had expected so they considered Him a threat. Thus He was put to death.", Indeed, He is Risen!, April 13, 2001 ^[21]
• "We have to stop the movement of all our manufacturing to China and other foreign countries. If that requires tariffs, starting with tariffs to protect industries of strategic importance, so be it. " ^[22]
• "If we want to stop or at least reduce outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries, we should tax outsourcing. In my view, that would be a good new tax." ^[23]
• "He replied with a stinging answer, one I never will forget. He said, 'Well, the Soviets spent millions of dollars infiltrating your media. Just because the Soviet Union went away doesn't mean these people have gone away. They are still there.' Of course, I knew this."^[24]

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References

1. ^ A Reverence for Fundamentalism Penny Lernoux. The Nation. Volume: 248, Issue # 0015, April 17, 1989
2. ^ Clinton, Conspiracism, and the Continuing Culture War, Aftermath and Future Shock Chip Berlet. Political Research Associates September 30 1999.
3. ^ Letter to Conservatives by Paul M. Weyrich NationalCenter.org, February 16 1999
4. ^ Clinton, Conspiracism, and the Continuing Culture War, Aftermath and Future Shock Chip Berlet. Political Research Associates September 30 1999.
5. ^ Name the date -- fastest rise in federal spending since FDR Paul Weyrich. Renew America, April 14 2006.
6. ^ Robespierre of the Right--What I Ate at the Revolution David Grann. The New Republic, October 27 1997, via InternetArchive.
7. ^ United States Court of Appeals No. 99-7221
8. ^ [http://www.nationalcenter.org/Weyrich299.html "Letter to Conservatives by Paul M. Weyrich", February 16,1999.
9. ^ ^a b 'Satanic' Army Unworthy of Representing United States Free Congress Foundation, June 9 1999.
10. ^ ^a b "The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party", TheocracyWatch, Last updated: December 2005; URL accessed May 2, 2006.
11. ^ ^a b Religion in America’s Public Square: Are We Crossing the Line? Excerpts from an address by Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, Last updated: November 2005; URL accessed May 2, 2006.
12. ^ The Integration of Theory and Practice: A Program for the New Traditionalist Movement
13. ^ "Paul Weyrich's Training Manual", TheocracyWatch, Last updated: February 2005; URL accessed May 2, 2006.
14. ^ Faith is a right, not a theocracy, Senator Schumer Paul Weyrich. RenewAmerica.us, July 24 2006
15. ^ The "Values Summit" series -- legislative opportunities Paul Weyrich. RenewAmerica.us, July 6 2006
16. ^ The Integration of Theory and Practice: A Program for the New Traditionalist Movement Eric Heubeck. Originally published on the Free Congress Foundation website in 2001, available through the Internet Archive.
17. ^ The "Values Summit" series -- legislative opportunities Paul Weyrich. RenewAmerica.us, July 6 2006
18. ^ The next conservatism and power Paul Weyrich. RenewAmerica.us, July 31 2006.
19. ^ A Congressional Challenge Paul Weyrich. Townhall.com, September 7, 2006
20. ^ NPR: Conservative Groups Call for Accountability on Foley National Public Radio, October 4, 2006
21. ^ "A 'Christ-Killer' Slur Stirs Rightist Tussle in D.C.", The Forward, April 27, 2001; URL accessed August 2, 2006.
22. ^ "The next conservative economics" Paul Weyrich. Renew America, September 2 2005
23. ^ The Next Conservatism #35: Good new taxes Paul Weyrich. Renew America, March 20 2005
24. ^ A Congressional Challenge Paul Weyrich. Townhall.com, September 7, 2006

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External links

• Paul Weyrich biography at Free Congress Foundation.
• Paul Weyrich biography at NNDB.
• The (New) New Electric Railway Journal, a Free Congress Foundation publication.
• "Weyrich fears cordial ties between GOP and the Right, The Washington Times, June 17, 2005.
• Evangelical: Religious Right Has Distorted the Faith Linda Wertheimer. Morning Edition, National Public Radio, June 23 2006.