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The Rude Pundit: What Matters: A Contrast in Two Photos

Eugene Robinson: Chris Christie’s Big Problem

Melissa Harris-Perry: Black President, Double Standard: Why White Liberals Are Abandoning Obama

Patrick McGeehan: N.J. to Repay U.S. $95 Million Over Hudson Tunnels

Michael D. Shear: Imagining a Christie Campaign for President

Bob Cesca: Progressive Racism, Careerism and Delusion

September 11 - Ten Years Later

There isn't much to say, is there? Take a moment to remember, reflect and appreciate what you have.

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Oliver Willis: Why I Criticize Obama

Justin Rosario: Censorship Smackdown of the Day: Jewish Organizations That Should Know Better

Andrew Sullivan: Perry Hypocrisy Watch

Elizabeth Drew: A 9/11 Anniversary Misremembered

Karoli: Obama Takes It To The People; Eric Cantor Whines

David Dow: Rick Perry’s Lethal Overconfidence

David Frum: Why Bush Didn’t Mention Canada in His 9/20 Speech

Jason Easley: Eric Cantor Offsets Disaster Relief With a 40% Cut To First Responders

Corey Boles: Senate Approves $500 Billion Increase in Borrowing Authority

Joan Russow: Canada Must Arrest George W. Bush If He Enters Canada

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Jonathan Capehart: Cantor Wrong. Obama Clear on Raising Taxes on Wealthy

The Rude Pundit: Someone Should Smack Marco Rubio with a History Stick

E.J. Dionne: Obama Can’t Win for Winning in Libya

Harold Meyerson: The GOP Will Raise Taxes — on the Middle Class and Working Poor

Timothy Egan: Stop Waiting for Superman

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Joy Reid: JFK’s Liberal Heresies: Would Today’s Progressives Oppose Him?

Sarah Jones: Eric Cantor Runs from The American People with Real Time Facebook Censorship and Obama Throws His Campaign’s Weight Behind the Wisconsin Recalls

John Thorpe: Forget Anonymous: Evidence Suggests GOP Hacked, Stole 2004 Election

Jonathan Capehart: Debt-Ceiling Drama: Rep. Joe Walsh (Tea Party-Obstinate)

Paul Krugman: Profiles in Un-courage

Matthew Yglesias: If Only Milton Were Around…

National Center for Science Education: Victory for Evolution in Texas

Ali Gharib and Travis Waldron: Right-Wing Pundits Jumped To Blame Muslims And ‘Jihadists’ For Norway Attacks

Zandar, at ABLC: Teleporting To Conclusions On The Norway Attacks

The Rude Pundit: Nearing the Ends of DOMA and DADT

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Matt Taibbi: Michele Bachmann's Holy War

driftglass: Waiting For The Miracle

Ian Millhiser: Rep. Chris Murphy: Thomas Gift Scandal ‘Undermine[s] The Integrity of The Entire Judiciary’

Angry Black Lady: Jane Hamsher’s “Afro-American” Reeducation Program Rolls Through Washington, D.C. (and Other Ratfucking Tales)

Amy Gardner: Nevada Presidential Debate Postponed in Hopes of Perry Candidacy

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Deaniac83: Paul Krugman's Pre-emptive War on Obama

AP: Obama prevents budget cuts to favorite programs

John Cook: More Pentagon Papers Donald Rumsfeld Doesn't Want You to See

James R. Horney: Ryan Budget Plan Produces Far Less Real Deficit Cutting than Reported

Paul Krugman: Who's Serious Now?

Eugene Robinson: The Selfish Budget? Or the Selfless One?

David Corn: Ryan Budget: GOP Death Wish?

Charles M. Blow: The Pirates of Capitol Hill

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Paul Krugman: American Thought Police

AsianGrrlMN: Michele Bachman Announces that She Plans to Formally Announce Forming a Committee for her Presidency Run Just as Soon as She Gets her Nails Done; A Nation Snickers

Steve Benen: The NBPP 'Story' -- Coda....

Glenn Kessler: Rand Paul’s Historical Misfire in the Debate Over Libya

Joseph E. Stiglitz: Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%

The Rude Pundit: If You Are a Birther, You Are a Racist; Therefore, Donald Trump Is a Racist and Birtherism and Your Lying Media (Part 2) and Birtherism and the Death of One Kind of Conservatism (Part 3)

Andrew Sullivan: Left, Right And Time

Michael Winship: Labor Pains and the GOP

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Forgive the late edition of Must Reads, usually a Saturday staple. I was away for the weekend.



BooMan: Civics for Suckers

John Branch: Film Shows Babe Ruth, at Leisure and Up Close

Melanie Mason and Maeve Reston: Records Contradict Mississippi Governor on Lobbying Work for Mexico

Eugene Robinson: Newt Gingrich on Libya Policy: Firing in Every Direction

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Paul Campos: Throw Clarence Thomas Off the Bench

David Edwards: Exclusive: Limbaugh’s parent company still using actors to fake radio call-ins, exec tells Raw

Dan Froomkin: A Reagan Republican Makes A Case Against The War -- And His Own Party

Marcus Baram: Sarah Palin 'Not Afraid' Of Jon Stewart, Says Aide

Joan Walsh: Newt Gingrich, hypocrite in chief

E.J. Dionne: What Wisconsin Democrats can teach Washington Democrats

Linda Greenhouse: Justice Scalia Objects

Richard Pérez-Peña: Christie’s Talk Is Blunt, but Not Always Straight

Tim Murphy: Birther Bill Author: What's a Long-Form Birth Certificate?

Eugene Robinson: Peter King's Modern-Day Witch Hunt

Dana Milbank: Rep. King's Red Scare

Paul Krugman: Dumbing Deficits Down

E.D. Kain: Michigan Governor Plays Fast and Loose with Democracy, Invokes Radical New Powers

Matthew Rothschild: Scott Walker Believes He’s Following Orders from the Lord

Gail Collins: Eye of the Newt

Dan Taylor: Wisconsin Republicans Have Done Progressives a Huge Favor

Angry Black Lady: Liberals, It’s Time to Stop Bitching and Start Organizing. Just Shut Up and Get to Work

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The Rude Pundit: In Brief: Scott Walker Is America's Asshole

Eugene Robinson: Starving Wisconsin's Unions

David Cay Johnston: Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin: Who 'Contributes' to Public Workers' Pensions?

Keith Olbermann: Wisconsin and “The Union”

Nicole Belle: Why Did Paul Broun Laugh Off Supporter's Town Hall Comment: "Who Is Going To Shoot President Obama?"

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Brad Reed: Greed is Good... Unless You're Teaching My Kids Math!

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Suzi Parker: In Haley Barbour's Mississippi: Civil War Looms Over License Plates

Maximillio: How Ending Social Spending Will Destroy Our Economy (and Country)

Jason Linkins: Obama Faring Poorly Against Imaginary Candidate

E.J. Dionne: Deficit Hawks and The Games They Play

Will Bunch: A Reagan Litmus Test for 2012 GOP Hopefuls

Bob Cesca: Most Americans Are Closeted Big Government Spenders

Eugene Robinson: Haley Barbour's Silence Speaks Volumes

Zach Carter and Elise Foley: Republican Amendment Would Strip Funds For Obama 'Czars,' Plus Elizabeth Warren

Jamison Foser: Facts Weren't Invited To CNN’s Stimulus Birthday Party

Elvis Dingeldein: Palin Flushes Base Down Toilet

Paul Krugman: Willie Sutton Wept

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Joshua Holland: Joe Klein's Cluelessness on Wisconsin Uprising Highlights the Corporate Media's Contempt for Working People

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The Rude Pundit: Welcome to the Monkeyhouse, GOP

Karoli: Clarence Thomas "Forgot" 20 Years of Disclosure? Really?

Bob Herbert: When Democracy Weakens

Sam Stein: Mitt Romney Supporters Working To Paint Him As The Anti-Palin

Evan McMorris-Santoro: It's Hard Out There For A Black Candidate At CPAC

Bob Cesca: The Republican War Against Women

Rachel D'Oro: Sarah Palin Reality Show Could Be Taxpayer-Subsidized

BBC News: 'Moby Dick' Captain's Ship Found

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Ruben Navarrette Jr.: Teaching Arabic is No Cause For Fear

Eric Alterman: Think Again: The 'Problem' of Liberal Academics, Again

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Alex Pareene: Watering the Tree of Liberty

Steve Benen: False Equivalency Watch

Paul Krugman: Climate of Hate

David Frum: What Palin Needed to Say After Giffords’ Shooting

Marty Kaplan: The "Lock and Load" Rhetoric of American Politics Isn't Just a Metaphor

John Dickerson: Palin Fails the Test - Sarah Palin's response to the Tucson shooting is defensive, illogical, distracting—and late.

William Saletan: Sarah Palin, Blood-Libel Hypocrite

Nicholas D. Kristof: Why Not Regulate Guns as Seriously as Toys?

E.J. Dionne: Violent Talk Blocks Sane Gun Laws

The Rude Pundit: Palin, Limbaugh, and O'Reilly Are Angry; Pie Still Yummy

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David Badash: The End Of A Sarah Palin Presidency

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Frank Rich: All The President's Captors

Gail Collins: Arizona Strikes Again

Thom Hartmann: Tax Cut Lies: The Day The News Died

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David Corn: Sarah Palin, Wall Street Bailout Hypocrite

Gin and Tacos: At Long Last, Have You No Sense Of Decency?

Paul Krugman: Axis of Depression

Bob Cesca: When Your 'Junk' Is Touched at the Airport, Thank a Republican

Charles M. Blow: Let’s Rescue the Race Debate

Jim Lobe: Will Pentagon Be Exempt from Budget Cuts?

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Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez

Dana Milbank: Conspiracy theorists find validation from Glenn Beck

Jackie Calmes: Activism of Thomas’s Wife Could Raise Judicial Issues

Bob Herbert: Policy at Its Worst

Gail Collins: Awful, Awfuler, Awfulest