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"Pseudo facts"

May 24, 2012
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A new major survey has found that regular viewers of Fox News are the most ill-informed Americans of all. But I doubt that you are shocked to learn this. The infauxtainment channel has been fomenting stupidity for a long time - other surveys have unearthed such evidence - and it's tempting to just treat Fox News as an annoying natural occurrence, like a flood or a blizzard. But no. This new s... More »

Obama's anemic wins

May 23, 2012
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In the journalism business, a "dog bites man" story has little news value, because, after all, it's not unusual for a dog to bite a man. Which is why it's so tempting to dismiss la... More »
The third-party pipe dream

May 22, 2012
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To paraphrase Shakespeare, I have come to bury Americans Elect, not to praise it.If you hadn't heard about Americans Elect, don't sweat it. The non-profit organization, which spent a whoppin... More »
Battling black homophobia

May 21, 2012
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To paraphrase Martin Luther King, the long arc of history bent a bit further toward social justice on Saturday, when the nation's most prominent black civil rights organization struck a powerful ... More »
Wright and wrong

May 18, 2012
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What a shame it is that billionaire Joe Ricketts, the paymaster of an anti-Obama super PAC, has decided to reject a TV ad strategy that would've linked the president to his former pastor, Rev. Je... More »
Obama and girlfriends, continued

May 17, 2012
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Enough, already, with Barack Obama's wooing of women. His commencement speech at Barnard, his second presidential sitdown on The View...at this rate, we can only imagine what he'll say on Th... More »
'When human life is on the line'

May 16, 2012
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It's heartening to learn that Connecticut has now abolished capital punishment - the fifth state to renounce government-sanctioned death in the past five years, and the 17th state overall - becau... More »
Savior or vampire?

May 15, 2012
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Right on schedule, the Bain of Mitt Romney's existence is back. We knew it would be.Taking a page from the Karl Rove playbook, President Obama is taking aim at his opponent's supposed streng... More »
Talk it up or shut it down?

May 14, 2012
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Republicans can't seem to agree on how to handle the gay marriage issue. The party's religious right wing wants to make it the centerpiece of the '12 campaign, but the party's esta... More »
Mitt's deft dog whistle

May 13, 2012
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The conventional wisdom about Mitt Romney's Liberty University commencement speech is that he went easy on the right-wing pandering, that he soft-soaped the evangelical Christian graduates yester... More »

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