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Rush Limbaugh and other crazies

March 8, 2013
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We interrupt our normally scheduled program for another edition of This Week in Crazy. The envelopes, please! Third runner-up: Rush Limbaugh. The new jobs report, released this morning, says that t... More »
Filibuster follies: Will the Senate ever cure its paralysis?

March 7, 2013
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Three cheers for Rand Paul, who at least knows that the right way to conduct a filibuster is to physically stand on the Senate floor and halt all business by talking interminably. Paul logged 13 hou... More »
Why Asian Americans have come to detest the GOP

March 6, 2013
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We all know that Hispanic Americans spurned Mitt Romney and the Republicans in 2012, and we know all the reasons why. Their voting behavior has been exhaustively explored. But it turns out that Asian ... More »
Obama's new quest for fat cat money

March 5, 2013
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President Obama has committed a blatant act of hypocrisy. Let's call him on it. The latest White House creation is a non-profit group called Organizing for Action, which aims to convert the Ob... More »
He's baaack: Mitt Romney's bid for influence

March 4, 2013
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Halloween is nearly eight months away, but here's a scary quote guaranteed to send shivers down Republican spines.It's from Mitt Romney, who is apparently auditioning for his new role as Dea... More »
Profile in courage: A newspaper owner sets his readers straight on gay marriage

March 1, 2013
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At the turn of the new century, it would've been politically bold for a president of the United States to file a Supreme Court brief in favor of gay marriage. No longer. Barack Obama's lawye... More »
Meddling with the right to vote

February 28, 2013
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It has long been a tenet of the conservative faith that "activist unelected judges" are meddlesome creatures, that these robed elitists "legislate from the bench," that they &quo... More »
Obamacare is here to stay

February 27, 2013
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At the risk of quoting T. S. Eliot twice in the span of a week - oh heck, why not - let it be recorded that the Republican crusade against Obamacare has ended in failure, "not with a bang, but a ... More »
Message to gay groups: Buzz off

February 26, 2013
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Same mentality, different year. Conservative Republicans are once again debating whether they should remain bigoted against gay people, or whether they should dwell in the 21st century. What's d... More »
The Senate's Cruz missile

February 25, 2013
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It's a shame that politicians don't walk the Red Carpet. But the imagination will do just fine: "Senator Ted Cruz! How marvelous you look on this exciting night! Do tell us, who are yo... More »