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  • Mark Sanford: The sin, the win, the spin

    May 8, 2013

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    It's fascinating to see how French the southern conservatives can be, when they decide to shelve their moral principles. Mark Sanford banked on that happening, and he cashed in.  More »

  • Clinton pal Terry McAuliffe is the year's worst candidate

    May 7, 2013

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    You've heard of the movies Bad Teacher and Bad Santa? Someone should make a flick about Terry McAuliffe and call it Bad Candidate.  More »

  • The 2016 race (?!?), and the prospects for Cruz control

    May 6, 2013

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    So I was surfing cable TV the other night, when perchance I spied a screen logo that sent me into a tailspin: "Road to the White House." There it was, on C-SPAN. Yes, folks, we're onl...  More »

  • The usual hawks drum for war in Syria

    May 3, 2013

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    Here we go again. Or, as folk-rocker Steve Earle sings, "And the drums are drumming again." All too predictably, the neoconservatives and Republican militarists - the same folks who blund...  More »

  • Gun folly, and other symptoms of lunacy

    May 2, 2013

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    Granted, we don't burn people at the stake anymore, and we don't dig up dead people and eat them anymore, but still we often wonder whether the world has gone bonkers. Because, all too oft...  More »

  • 'Mission Accomplished' and the Bush legacy

    May 1, 2013

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    Happy "Mission Accomplished" Day, everybody! May 1 marks the 10th anniversary of one of America's most shameful episodes - when George W. Bush descended from the skies in an SB-3 Vikin...  More »

  • The Gosnell murder trial and the liberal 'conspiracy'

    April 30, 2013

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    Now that Dr. Kermit Gosnell's Philadelphia murder trial has finally gone to the jury, we should take a moment to debunk, once and for all, the delusional right-wing claim that "the liberal m...  More »

  • GOP word guru Frank Luntz, hoisted by his own words

    April 29, 2013

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    Frank Luntz, the veteran Republican adviser, did something really weird last week during a guest talk at the University of Pennsylvania. At a public event, in front of roughly 100 listeners, he tried ...  More »

  • Koch brothers and Coen brothers

    April 26, 2013

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    The media buzz this week is that the right-wing billionaire Koch brothers are seriously weighing a bid to buy The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and the other six daily newspapers owned by the fl...  More »

  • Foiling domestic terrorists with a background check

    April 25, 2013

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    Here's a thought: If we really want to make life tougher for wannabe domestic terrorists, why not enact a federal law requiring background checks on the people who buy explosive powder? Because...  More »

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