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The Rude Pundit: Republican Representatives: "Relief for Me, Not for You"

Steve Benen: Obama claims Reagan legacy as his own

Charles Pierce: A Man On a Very Small White Horse

Samuel P. Jacobs: John Roberts, Obama Leave Little To Chance After Fumbled Oath

Mike O'Neal: Kansas Speaker O’Neal asks House GOP to pray for Obama’s death

Andrew O'Hehir: Welcome to the new Civil War

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Ezra Klein: Calm down, liberals. The White House won.

Justin Rosario: Fox News: Fiscal Cliff Vote Like Lead Up To Revolutionary War

Bob Cesca: In Spite of Reality, Liberals Claim Obama “Caved” on the Fiscal Cliff

Shauna Theel: 10 Dumbest Things Fox Said About Climate Change In 2012

Eric Boehlert: How Fox News Screwed the GOP

Andy Borowitz: Republicans Apologize To Top 1.5 Per Cent

Bloomberg News Editorial: Budget Deal Offers Silver-Lining Playbook for Next Round

Michael Tomasky: Dear Liberals: Stop Complaining

Tim Murphy: Republicans Have a Habit of Blocking Disaster Relief for Americans

Dana  Milbank: Defined by a Sandy sidestep

New York Times Editorial: Al Jazeera In America

The Rude Pundit: Fiscal Cliff-Leaping: The Hopeful Politics of Capitulation

Charles Pierce: The Passion of The Boehner

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Sovereign Voice, Addicting Info: Paul Ryan: ACA Law Should Be Repealed Because Only God Can Grant Rights

Paul Campos: Roberts wrote both Obamacare opinions

John T. Harvey: The Terrifying Texas GOP Platform

Jason Easley: Michele Bachmann Uses Info From a Chain Email to Lie about ObamaCare Home Sale Tax

Ron Howard: What I learned from Andy Griffith

Howard Gleckman: There Is No Obamacare Tax On Most Home Sales. Really.

Wall Street Journal Editorial: Romney's Tax Confusion

Philip Rucker: Romney to bolster communications team amid conservative tempest

JM Ashby: Nobody Could Have Predicted

Ben Cohen: Mitt Romney’s Healthcare Flip Flops a Lesson in Modern Marketing

The Rude Pundit: What Mitt Romney May as Well Have Said at Today's "News" Conference

Carol Hartsell: Chris Rock 'White People's Day' July 4th Tweet Sparks Controversy

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Paul Begala: What's Mitt Romney Hiding in His Record as Governor

Stephen King: Tax Me, for F@%*’s Sake!

Bob Cesca: The Republicans Can’t Handle the Truth About Bin Laden

Ben Demiero: The Obama Ex-Girlfriend Conspiracy Inevitably Falls Apart

Paul Krugman: Wasting Our Minds

Jed Lewison: Paging Donald Rumsfeld: If the bin Laden raid was such an easy call, why did you say no?

David A. Graham: Obama's Composite Girlfriend: How Politico and Drudge Created Fake News

Sahil Kapur: Krugman Unloads on Paul Ryan

David Macaray: There Is a Plague Loose Upon the Land

Paul Buchheit: Five Tax Fallacies Invented by the 1%

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James A. Feldman: The flawed case against Donald Verrilli

Eugene Robinson: Mitt Romney can’t shake away impressions he’s made

Bob Cesca: Another Right-Wing Terrorist Hits Planned Parenthood

Jim Hightower: The Truth About the U.S. Postal Service

Dan Froomkin: Karl Rove's NAACP Analogy Runs Afoul Of Law, History

Mike Sacks: President Obama Locks Horns With Chief Justice Roberts Over Health Care Case

Adam Davidson: The Real Reason Gas Costs $4 A Gallon

Rachel Maddow: RNC chairman reflects on women, caterpillars

Sara Robinson: Did Rick Santorum just declare the next right-wing crusade?

Brendan McCarthy: Judge imposes stiff sentences on 5 NOPD officers convicted in Danziger shootings

Paul Buchheit: Five Preposterous, Persistent Conservative Myths

Sam Parry: If the Supreme Court Goes Rogue

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Bob Cesca: The Most Underrated but Huge Obama Accomplishment

Greg Smith: Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs

Christopher Brauchli: Science and Santorum

Robert Reich: The Widening Wealth Divide, and Why We Need a Surtax on the Super Wealthy

Barnett Shale: Study finds no link between oil drilling, gas prices

Eugene Robinson: Trayvon Martin and dangerous times for black men

Jonathan Capehart: Under ‘suspicion’: The killing of Trayvon Martin

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Greg Sargent: Dems twist knife in birth control fight

Dana Milbank: The GOP’s gasoline alley

Sen. John Kerry: Romney’s wrong-headed assertions about Iran

David Macaray: Rush Limbaugh Is No Joke

Kai Wright: How a Racist Email Reveals the Grand Old Party Has Become a Petty Affair

Jim Wright: The Absurdity of Rush Limbaugh

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Russell King: An Open Letter to Conservatives

Bob Herbert: Get Ready for a G.O.P. Rerun

Jason Linkins: WaPo Editors Finally Realize The GOP Isn't Serious About The Debt

Adam Serwer: Huck Finning the Constitution

David Cole: The Conservative Constitution of the United States

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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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Karoli: Prop 8 Ruling Exposes the Right's Moral Bankruptcy

Joe Conason: Democrats Deserve Credit -- Not Blame -- on Ethics

Steve Benen: Cantor Chooses Not To Celebrate Good News

Jason Linkins: First Punish The Unemployed, Then Declare War On The Employed

Daniel Stone: The Faux Scandal of Michelle Obama’s Spain Trip

Robert Reich: The Enthusiasm Gap and You

Fareed Zakaria: Build the Ground Zero Mosque

NPR, Radio Diaries: Strange Fruit: Anniversary Of A Lynching

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Michael Winship: The Right Manipulates Muslims – and Boy Scouts

Media Matters: Conservative Media Oblivious to Major Increase in Border Enforcement

Digby: Confederate Rump Strategy

driftglass: Tough Break for Handjob

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Capt. Fogg: Muslims Hate Dogs

Anthony Bourdain: The Original (Goodbye Splendor)

Chez Pazienza: Laugh'a While You Can, Monkeyboy

Ian Welsh: Netroots Schizo

Justin Elliott: FBI Releases 400-page Howard Zinn File

David Sirota: The Deception of Real-World "Inception"

Jon Walker: Conservatives Promote Feasting on a Dairy Cow

Taegen Goddard's Political Dictionary: Snollygoster

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Steve Gilliard: About Yesterday

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Bob Cesca: Glenn Beck: the Televangelist Con Man Selling God's Plan for America

The Rude Pundit: The Oklahoma Legislature Will Look Inside Your Daughter's Vagina (Part of the "Your State Sucks, Too" Series)

Paul Krugman: Don’t Cry for Wall Street

Dan Froomkin: Deficit Group Formed By Barney Frank Looks Where Others Dare Not -- At Defense Budget

Time Wise: Imagine If The Tea Party Was Black

GottaLaff: Sarah Palin: Glenn Beck's "chalkboard technique changing our country"

OTOOLEFAN: THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE SPELT CORRECTLY

Daryl Cagle: Apple: You Can Ridicule Obama, but Don’t Bash Tiger Woods

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Veritas Nihilum Vincet: Meet The Palins

Paul Krugman: Senator Bunning's Universe

Glenn Greenwald: The Full-Scale Collapse: From Murrow to Blitzer

Rep. Anthony Weiner: Let's Put the Public Option to a Vote

Steve Benen: Cheney Faces Blowback Over Cheap DOJ Smear

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Michael Moore: An Open Letter: President Obama: Replace Rahm with Me

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Brian McGrory: Seduced By Our New Senator

Paul Krugman: Do The Right Thing

Corey Kilgannon: Serpico on Serpico

The Rude Pundit: Random Observations on Last Night's Massachusetts Knockdown

Michael Winship: Progressives: Don’t Mourn, Organize

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Adam Blickstein: Conservatives Terrified of Bringing Terrorists to Justice

Robert Reich: Harry Reid, and What Happened to the Public Option

The Rude Pundit: Photos That Make Some Kind of Awful Sense (Palin Version) and Fact-Checking Sarah Palin Is a Waste of Everyone's Time, But Fuck It

Bob Cesca: Famous for Being Famous: The Sarah Palin Show Is On the Air

David Vines: If It Were Me, I'd Be Embarrassed

Bob Saget: Why I Love Thanksgiving

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Andrew Sullivan: Deconstructing Sarah, Ctd

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TRex: “This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things!” She Shrieked, then Went Back to Cleaning Her Guns.

Matthew Cole & Brian Ross: EXCLUSIVE: CIA Secret 'Torture' Prison Found at Fancy Horseback Riding Academy

Matt Taibbi: Sarah Palin, WWE Star

driftglass: Going Vague

DistributorCap: The Ownership Society

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Bob Cesca: Know Hope

The Rude Pundit: The Necessity of Michael Moore, Part 3

Bill Moyers & Michael Winship: In Washington, Revolving Doors are Bad for Your Health

Paul Krugman: The Uneducated American

Nicholas Kristof: Let Congress Go Without Insurance

**Note: My apologies for the lack of posting this week. My work schedule was such that I didn't have time to read a paper or watch the news, let alone compose a blog post.

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Joan Walsh: "Beer summit" won't stop racists like Limbaugh

d r i f t g l a s s: When Harry Met Crazy

Glenn Greenwald: More detainee victories and what a majority of Congress tried to do and GE's silencing of Olbermann and MSNBC's sleazy use of Richard Wolffe

Bob Herbert: Anger Has Its Place

Danny Schechter: AS OBAMA’S SUPPORT ERODES, THE RIGHT IS RESURGENT - Will Progressives Respond To The Attempt to Overthrow The President?

David Sirota: Health Care Tyranny by 13 Obstructionists

Gore Vidal: America the Great ... Police State

Frank Rich: Small Beer, Big Hangover

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Thom Hartmann: The Real Boston Tea Party was an Anti-Corporate Revolt

Glenn Greenwald: The Significance of Obama's Decision to Release the Torture Memos

Danny Schechter: New Film Tells Unreported Story of Obama’s Election