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Kurt Eichenwald: The Deafness Before the Storm

Stephen C. Webster: Paul Ryan’s campaign immediately retracts candidate’s support for medical marijuana

Kasie Hunt: FACT CHECK: Romney misstates facts on attacks

Gail Collins: Mitt's Major Meltdown

Robert Dreyfuss: Romney's Fatal Libya Blunder

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin: Matt Taibbi on Mitt Romney's Crooked, Dirty Game

Dana Milbank: Mitt Romney has mess to clean up after falsely accusing Obama on Libya

Ruth Marcus: Romney owes an apology

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Elaine Liner: At Plano Children's Theatre, They've Shampooed All the Black Kids out of Hairspray

Pema Levy: What’s Really Behind Komen’s Cuts To Planned Parenthood?

Ross Douthat: Gingrich 2012? Going, Going, Gone

Gin and Tacos: Race for the Cure of Being Irrelevant

Adam Serwer: What Does Komen's Reversal on Planned Parenthood Really Mean?

Bob Cesca: "The Lesser of Two Evils" and Why Progressives Lose

Ruth Marcus: Why the poor should concern Romney

Greg Sargent: Faced with good news about economy, Romney dissolves into incoherence

Nick R. Martin: Brewer Has History Of Getting Facts Wrong

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Marcus Cederstrom: What if Tim Tebow were Muslim?

Digby: Straight Up Racism, No Dogwhistle Necessary

Ezra Klein: Who will get the ‘Recovery Presidency’?

Andrew Sullivan: How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics

Robert Reich: The Romney Tax Loophole

Ruth Marcus: Mitt Romney’s miserly concern for the poor

E.J Dionne: Republicans keep moving Obama to Europe

Our blast from the past comes courtesy of loyal reader Chris U. who wants to remind us all of Newt Gingrich's political past, sans revisionist history.

John E. Yang: House Reprimands, Penalizes Speaker