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Mr. Brink: Glenn Beck: Progressives Have Infiltrated The WWE

Chez Pazienza: This Week in Republican Stupid

The Rude Pundit: Let Us Now Praise Skeletor for He Has Made Florida Suck a Little Less

Charles Pierce: The Shame of The Sham Shaman

Steve M.: Douthat: The Permanently Underemployed Have All The Luck

Driftglass: The Both Sides Duet

Abby Zimet: Choked To Death On Waste

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Steve Benen: A lesson on the value of inflation

The Rude Pundit: The NRA's Wayne LaPierre: Join Our Resistance and Get a Free Tote Bag

Charles Pierce: Your Daily Pope

Brian Dowling: 'Lincoln' Screenwriter Defends Depiction Of Connecticut Slavery Vote, Acknowledges Changing Details

Jim Wright: Preemptive Pessimism Isn’t A Plan

Brian Beutler: Republicans Want Off The Hook For Voting For Defense Sequester

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Steve Benen: Boehner's bewildering bombast

The Rude Pundit: You Can Hate Obama for Drone Strikes and Support Him on Other Things

Charles Pierce: Down The Pipeline

Katla McGlynn: Bill Maher Tells Donald Trump To 'Suck It Up,' Dismisses $5 Million 'Orangutan' Lawsuit

Imani Gandy: Racist White Rabbit at Disneyland Refuses to Dirty Paws on Black Kid’s Skin

NJ Star Ledger: Christie wrong to slam report about AshBritt cleanup contract with N.J. towns: Editorial

Jim Wright: Open the Pod Bay Doors, HAL

Steve Benen: This Week In God

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Charles Pierce: An Anniversary You Won't See On Television

Joy-Ann Reid: Four things that are true (even if Republicans don’t want them to be)

Mark Leccese: Scott Brown's Twitter trouble

Steve Benen: 'Ardent fans of the U.S. military'

Chez Pazienza: Stay Classy, Assholes

Alex Seitz-Wald: Memo to Mamet: Stick to plays

The Rude Pundit: Hispanic Republicans to White Republicans: You Can Still Be Jerks, Just Not Such Big Jerks

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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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The Rude Pundit: Fun with Terrorism in the Bible (A Brief But Special Post for Pamela Geller)

Alex Seitz-Wald: The Hitler gun control lie

Mike Wall: Largest structure in universe discovered — it's mind-boggling

Josh Marshall: Okay, This Is Awesome - White House Responds to Petition For Building Death Star

Driftglass: Days of Future Passed

David Atkins: Dishonestly and ignorantly switching the culprit from guns to games

Robert Reich: The Hoax of Entitlement Reform

Paul Krugman: Coins Against Crazies

Robert Fisk: Anonymous trolls are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate the gutless journalism of the New York Times, BBC, and CNN

Charles Pierce: The Chris Christie Conundrum 

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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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Robert Reich: Cliff Hanger: Why Republicans Don’t Care What the Nation Thinks

Nathaniel Downes: John Galt Is A Terrorist – Fun Facts About The ‘Hero’ Of Atlas Shrugged

David Macaray: Longshoremen’s Strike Averted as Public, Media Hypocritical on Labor Rights

Steve Benen: An abrupt end to another GOP conspiracy theory

Charles Pierce: The Return of Scott Brown

Samuel Metz: Quality of U.S. medicine: The 'best' health care depends on your perspective

Paul Krugman: A Double Shot of Misunderstanding

Jim Wright: Bang Bang Crazy, Part Four

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E.J. Dionne: Now is the time for meaningful gun control

Jeremy Holden and Zachary Pleat: Misinformer Of The Year: Rush Limbaugh

Scott Keyes: Listen To A GOP Congressman Flip On Raising Taxes In 67 Seconds Because Of The Norquist Pledge

Charles Pierce: John Boehner's Career Sank Last Night

Charles Pierce: Today's NRA Press Conference

Nick Collins: Carpark skeleton will be confirmed as Richard III

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Imani Gandy: Orange County Judge Denies That Rape is Even Possible; Blames Rape Victim for Not Fighting Her Rapist

Jim Wright: Welcome To the Party, Bob Dole

Ezra Klein: Twelve facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States

J.M. Ashby: Fiscal Responsibility

N.C. Aizenman: GOP state leaders fumble by ceding control of health exchanges to federal officials, critics say

Michael McAuliff: Republicans Say There's No Budget, And Use That To Stall Senate

Steve Benen: 'They have only moved backwards'

Dave Brockington: There’s a Reason We No Longer Live in the Fucking Medieval Age.

Tim Wise: Of Heroes and Hype: Mass Murder and the Absurdity of the ‘More Guns’ Crowd

Charles Pierce: The Bell Tolls For All Of Us

Nicholas Kristof: Do We Have the Courage to Stop This?

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Paul Krugman: The Big Budget Mumble

The Rude Pundit: Bob Costas, Guns and American the Wimpy

Dana Liebelson: Jim DeMint Is Resigning: Here Are His 7 Craziest Moments

Charles Pierce: Gun Owners Need a New Leader

Steve Benen: Jindal Re-embraces 'Dumbed-down Conservatism'

Bill Maher: The Fiscal Cliff Part II: Electric Boogaloo

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Bill Maher: God Hates Flags

Ezra Klein: Obama to GOP: I’m done negotiating with myself

Robert Reich: Organizing McDonalds and Walmart, and Why Austerity Economics Hurts Low-Wage Workers the Most

Charles Pierce: Foreign Policy's Bad List of Big Thinkers

The Rude Pundit: Photos That Make the Rude Pundit Want to Smoke Charas While Downing a Six-Pack of Crown

Asawin Suebsaeng: The Latest Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory: Obama's Third Term

Jim Wright: On The Beating Of Dead Horses

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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 Roher: Nate Silver’s Braying Idiot Detractors Show That Being Ignorant About Politics Is Like Being Ignorant About Sports

Bob Cesca: Geraldo Destroys Bolling on Benghazi

Charles Pierce: Sandy and the Job Numbers: The Week When the Actual Turning Points Stepped Out of the Campaign Shadows

David Badash: Photo Op: Romney Campaign Bought Supplies To Give To Red Cross Which Only Accepts Money

The Rude Pundit: A Filthy End to the Filthy Campaign of a Filthy Liar

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Matt Taibbi: The Vice Presidential Debate: Joe Biden Was Right to Laugh

Cliff Schecter: The two Romneys

Elon James White: White Privilege, Joe Biden Style

Robert Dreyfuss: Biden and Ryan: The Foreign Policy Gap

John Nichols: Richard Milhous Ryan: No Specifics, Just a 'Secret Plan'

Charles P. Pierce: VP Debate 2012: The Real Paul Ryan Is Bad for America

The Rude Pundit: The Parable of Paul Ryan and the Tanks and Joe Biden Throws Paul Ryan Off His Lawn

NY Times Editorial: The ‘Moderate Mitt’ Myth

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Dana Milbank: Isaac brushes past an obsolete convention

Eugene Robinson: Republicans steal Medicare from the Democrats

Joan Walsh: Rick Santorum’s dirty hands

Ari Melber: Paul Ryan needs to rebrand himself

Harold Meyerson: In modern GOP, the old South returns

Charles P. Pierce: The Manufacturing of Willard Romney, Human, Is Here

John Nichols: Paul Ryan's Labor Day Promise to American Workers: Candy and a Sports Schedule

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Charles P. Pierce: The America Paul Ryan Forgot: A Vision of Freedom, by Way of Free Government, by Way of the Morrill Act

Imani Gandy: Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan Want You People to STFU and Just Trust Them

Bob Cesca: Romney to Cut PBS Funding While Ryan and GOP Protect Big Oil

The Rude Pundit: Mitt Romney's Cringe-Inducing Desperation

Mark Morford: Mitt Romney vs. dead potted plant