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Let your Right brain run free

From National Review, let your Right brain run free: For too long, conservatives have ceded the popular culture to the Left. The conservative countercultural revolt is on its way: Adam Bellow 21 conservative writers to read at the beach. Adam Kirsch on the Tea Party’s new front in the American culture wars: Literature (and more). Rightbloggers take back the culture with anti-feminist Tumblr, religious film reviews, etc. Ezra Klein on the revenge of the conservative nerds. David Weigel on the conservative publishing trend of the moment, and on the secret world of campus conservative journalism. Is ratfucking journalism dead? Adam Weinstein burrows a ways down the China-bound rabbit hole of assorted recent conservapundit foul-ups. Ashley Feinberg on 7 conservative alternatives to the Internet's most popular sites. The new .gop domain is now available and has already bloomed into a virtual almanac or archipelago of The Crazy. The Big Lobotomy: Paul Glastris and Haley Sweetland Edwards on how Republicans made Congress stupid. Republicans always listen to the Pentagon — except when it says climate change is real. The Supreme Court may have laid the groundwork for a constitutional crisis if Republicans win control of the Senate in the November elections, creating the possibility of a stalemate between the executive and legislative branches when it comes to keeping the government operational. A Brookings study finds one political party is actively working to make government fail (guess which one). Conservative commentator Ann Coulter is saying that when it comes to midterm elections, it is better to vote for “crap-ass Republicans” than any Democrats.