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Bob Cesca: Marco Rubio is Definitely Not a Scientist. Man.

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The Rude Pundit: Other Questions for Marco Rubio After His GQ Interview (Based on His Favorite Rap Songs)

Melissa Jeltsen: Cory Booker To Live On Food Stamps After Making Twitter Challenge

Greg Sargent: Poetic justice: Romney likely to finish at 47 percent

Angelo Carusone: Why Macy’s Must Stop Selling Donald Trump’s Brand

Joe Klein: The Benghazi Circus

Bill Maher: The Common Cult

Paul Krugman: Grand Old Planet

Jim Wright: It's The Racism, Stupid

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Charles Pierce: The Real Problem with the Demented Republican Party

Chris Cillizza: Who had the worst week in Washington? CIA Director David H. Petraeus.

Mark Ambinder: How the Secret Service Said Goodbye to Mitt Romney

Matt Sedensky: Florida Vote Beyond Recount Range; West Won't Concede

Ta-Nehisi Coates: Hippies Wander Into the Lions' Den, Maul Lions

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David Weigel: Heritage on the "Reagan Recovery"

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend: Sarah Palin is wrong about John F. Kennedy, religion and politics

Jeanne Sahadi: Taxes: What people forget about Reagan

Bonnie Fuller: Sarah Palin’s Hunting Trip To Feed Her Family Cost — $42,400 or $141.33 per lb. of Caribou Meat!

Aaron Sorkin: In Her Defense, I'm Sure the Moose Had It Coming

Gail Collins: Falling Off the Bandwagon

Steve Benen: Quote Of The Day

Christopher Hitchens: Tee'd Off

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John Cole: Fair Questions

Steve Benen: False Positives

David Michael Green: Big Bad Government Is Coming To Get You

Scott Ritter: McChrystal Doesn't Get It - Does Obama?

Abby Zimet: Everybody Is Supposed to be Equal In This Country

Frank Rich: The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York

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A Candid World: CHALLENGE: Why Did Arafat Receive A Nobel Prize, And Not Reagan?

The Rude Pundit: Cal Thomas Says That Gays Will Redecorate the Military

Robert Reich: More Desperation From The Right

Michael Winship: The Nobel Prize with an Asterisk

Paul Krugman: A Hatchet Job So Bad It's Good

Mark Morford: The Gang Rape and The Republicans - Behold, 30 U.S. senators who don't give a damn about battered women

Jeremy Scahill: The ACORN Standard

Jacob Weisberg: Ignore Fox - Obama's right. It's time to stop taking the network's skewed news seriously.

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Diane Farsetta: Pentagon Rejects Its Own Pundit Program Whitewash

Margaret Flowers, M.D.: Why We Risked Arrest for Single-Payer Health Care

Jim Hightower: Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against corporate power

Glenn Greenwald: If the US Does It, It's Not Torture - The NYT's Definition of Blinding American Exceptionalism

Digby: Exceptional Dissonance

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