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Yo, Supreme Court: Lead or get out of the way

March 27, 2013
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As evidenced yesterday by their fusty ruminations, the berobed members of the nation's top court would dearly love to sidestep gay marriage entirely. It's a mystery why they agreed to delibe... More »
Red-state Democrats: Profiles in cowardice

March 26, 2013
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If the gun reform movement sparked by Newtown ultimately comes to naught, if the denizens of Capitol Hill ultimately do nothing, rest assured that the top prize for spinelessness will be awarded to ... More »
The religious right: ballast and baggage

March 25, 2013
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To fully appreciate how seriously the GOP is hampered by the dead weight of the religious right, look no further than yesterday's chat shows, where Ralph Reed and Gary Bauer did their darndest ... More »
GOP leaders want to tweak the machinery

March 22, 2013
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The big idea in the GOP's long-awaited autopsy report is that the party can reconnect with the American majority by simply selling its rigid ideology more effectively, and by simply tweaking it... More »
Create jobs now, cut the deficit later

March 21, 2013
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Why is Washington so obsessed with reducing the deficit - at a time when most Americans want their leaders to spend serious money on job creation? More »
The Iraq war anniversary: How the media failed us

March 20, 2013
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Ten years ago today, the American invasion of Iraq was underway. On this sad anniversary, there's no need to recount the plottings of the Bush war planners; their perfidies will live in infamy. I... More »
Bob Menendez and the fake prostitution scandal

March 19, 2013
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Hey, remember all those yarns in the conservative media about how New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez had supposedly slept with prostitutes? About how he had hired three of them, down in the Dominican Republ... More »
Rand Paul and the new isolationism

March 18, 2013
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The Republican civil war has so many factions, you need a scorecard to sort them out — tea partyers versus the establishment; conservatives versus moderates; gubernatorial wing versus congressional wi... More »
A senator and his gay son: The personal is political

March 15, 2013
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It's easy for a Republican senator to argue in the abstract that gays should be denied equal opportunity to marry. But it's a lot tougher when one of those gay Americans is your own son. ... More »
Waiting for gun reform? Don't hold your breath

March 14, 2013
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We all knew that once the raw horror of Newtown had abated, the political will for gun reform would largely wither away. And that’s precisely what has happened. More »