Selma, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Republican Party

• McCarthy reverses on GOP leadership decision to skip Selma events
   
• "I'm A Republican Senator, And I’m Marching In Selma On Bloody Sunday. Here's Why."
   
• Can’t Make This Up: Conservatives Now Say They Hate Spock After Obama Praises Character

Bruce Barlett critique

• Ex-Reagan adviser: Fox News is ‘self-brainwashing’ Republicans into a radical fringe party   (article by Bruce Bartlett)
   
• Revenge of the Reality-Based Community. My life on the Republican right—and how I saw it all go wrong. By Bruce Bartlett, The American Conservative, November 26, 2012