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Chris Klewe: Out Of Bounds Blog No. 14 – Problems

Sahil Kapur: Romney’s Health Plan Leaves 72 Million Uninsured: Study

Chrystia Freeland: SUPER-RICH IRONY

Huffington Post: Joseph Stiglitz: Jobs Numbers Conspiracy 'Literally Absurd'

Robert Mann: Free Speech? Not in Jindal’s Louisiana

The Rude Pundit: Random Observations on Last Night's Presidential Debate

Christopher Brauchli: Fraud Found!!

Robert Reich: The Politics of the Jobs Report

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Eugene Robinson: Romney tour ’12 — gaffepalooza

Michael J. Graetz: Mitt Romney’s Financial Mysteries

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

Matt Miller: That’s Mitticulous!

Rick Ungar: Romney Tax Plan Devastated By Non-Partisan Tax Policy Center-But Is The Tax Policy Center Really Non-Partisan?

Christopher Brauchli: With Liberty and Health Care For All

Michael Winship: Gore Vidal and His Reading List for America

John Nichols: Congress Fiddles While the Post Office Burns

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Theresa Riley: How to Spot Income Inequality From Space? Count the Trees

Greg Sargent: Mitt Romney: We don’t need more cops, firefighters or teachers

Pat Garofalo: Governor Christie Cheers Firing Of Public Employees: ‘That’s The Right Direction’

Christopher Brauchli: The Nuns, the Butler and the Pope

Jill W. Klausen: David Axelrod Got It All Wrong: How He, The President, And All Progressives Need To Address Obama's Economic Record

Justin Rosario: Standard Right Wing Propaganda: Evolution Disproves Homosexuality! Not That Evolution Is True…

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William Saletan: The Marriage Trap

Suzy Khimm: Democrats talk about cutting entitlements. Republicans don’t talk about raising taxes.

Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg: G.O.P. ‘Super PAC’ Weighs Hard-Line Attack on Obama

Tim Murphy: Joe Ricketts, Government Handout Hypocrite

Adam Serwer: Jeremiah Wright Is Not a Silver Bullet

Joan Walsh: More Rev. Wright hate porn!

Paul Krugman: Win Some, Lose Some

Steve Benen: This Week in God

Robert Reich: The Commencement Address That Won’t Be Given

Tim Karr: The First Amendment and the Smartphone Journalist

Christopher Brauchli: Mitt the Barber and The Church

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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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Chauncey DeVega: The 10 Most Racist Moments of the GOP Primary (So Far)

Andrew Rosenthal: Chris Christie, Revisionist Historian

NY Times: Rabbi’s Followers Cast Doubts on Congressman’s Fund-Raising

James B. Stewart: Paying Far More Than 13.9%: A Taxpayer’s Lament

John Pitney Jr.: Why Gingrich would lose in a debate with Obama

Christopher Brauchli: The Condom's Cousins

Matt Taibbi: Is Obama's 'Economic Populism' for Real?

Jim Wright: The Special Kind of Crazy

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NY Times Editorial: Deficit Hypocrisy

Gail Collins: The End-of-the-Year Quiz

The Rude Pundit: End of Year Haiku 2010, Parts One, Two and Three

Christopher Brauchli: The Congressman King-Reincarnated as Senator Joe McCarthy

Must Reads - UPDATED

Ari Emanuel: Forget the Carter Comparisons, Obama Is Following in the Footsteps of Harry Truman -- and That's a Very Good Thing

Roland Martin: Palin's Reckless Views on Obesity

Adam Goodheart: Lincoln: A Beard Is Born

Julian Borger and Jon Boone: US General McChrystal Approved Peace Talks with Fake Taliban Leader

Christopher Brauchli: Flying Unfriendly Skies

Jennifer Steinhauer: Charting His Own Course Against Prevailing Winds

***LATE ADDITIONS:
I meant to add the Greenwald piece yesterday and it fell off my radar, but the response and Katrina vanden Heuval's apology are all connected, so I've included them as well.

Glenn Greenwald: Anatomy of a Journalistic Smear Job

Mark Ames and Yasha Levine: A Response to Glenn Greenwald

Katrina vanden Heuvel: An Apology to John Tyner

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Steve Benen: When The 'Water's Edge' Standard Disappears

Sudeep Reddy: Palin Responds to Real Time Economics and We Respond

Ryan Grim: George Bush Book 'Decision Points' Lifted Passages From Advisers' Books

Joe Wilson: George Bush's Deception Points

Aaron Sorkin: Bumper-Sticker Patriotism Is No Way to Honor Our Veterans

Paul Krugman: The Hijacked Commission

Tanya Somanader: Gingrey Ignores Promise To Reduce Government Waste By Fighting For Defense Program The DoD Doesn’t Want

Christopher Brauchli: Sharia Returns to Oklahoma

Mark Morford: Dear Tea Party: You Will Now Get Yours

William Greider: Obama Without Tears

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Matt Taibbi: Lara Logan, You Suck

Christopher Brauchli: Indians and Immigrants

Michael Winship: This Fourth of July, Celebrate "1776" -- The Movie

Paul Krugman: Myths of Austerity

Andrew Sullivan: In Breitbart's World

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Anita Lee: Is BP rejecting skimmers to save money on Gulf oil cleanup?

Richard Heinberg: Solarize the White House

Francois Cellier: A Road Not Taken: Solar Panels, Jimmy Carter, and Missed Opportunities for Change

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Peter Bregman: Why I Returned My iPad

Gail Collins: Wishing Will Make It So

Christopher Brauchli: The Maligning of BP

Katrina Vanden Heuvel: Where's Dick Cheney on the BP Oil Spill?

Kate Sheppard: Dick Cheney's Last Laugh

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Rev. Adam Carl: The Perfect Enemy

Dennis Kucinich: Why I'm Voting 'Yes'

Michael Moore: My Congressman, Bart Stupak, Has Neither a Uterus Nor a Brain

Christopher Brauchli: Reading and Writing and 'Rithmetic

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Bob Cesca: Happy Anniversary, Recovery Act

Gail Collins: The Wages of Rages

Christopher Brauchli: Republicans - Good Government's Friends

Barnabe F. Geisweiller: Hate 2.0

Glenn Greenwald: Terrorism: the most meaningless and manipulated word

John Cassidy: Tea Party U.S.A.: It’s Still the Economy, Stupid!

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Paul Krugman: Pass The Bill

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Christopher Brauchli: Catholic Charities Meet the D.C. Council

The Rude Pundit: What Would Jesus Lie About? (Health Care Reform Edition)

Bob Cesca: I'm Really Pissed Off About Health Care Reform

Steve Benen: If It's Sunday...

John Cole: Dear Rahm, Please STFU

Victoria Reggie Kennedy: The moment Ted Kennedy would not want to lose

Dick Cavett: Almost Nothing About Tiger Woods

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Robert Reich: Why Wall Street Reform is Stuck in Reverse

The Rude Pundit: Photos That Make Christian Conservative Brains Short Out and Pat Buchanan Hearts the Oath Keepers, Does Not Heart Black People

Jason Linkins: Fake Obama Thesis Story Goes Viral, Because Of Stupidity

Dan Froomkin: Why Journalists Shouldn't Be Defending Fox News

Bill Moyers & Michael Winship: Texas, the Eyes of Justice Are Upon You

Christopher Brauchli: The Prolonging of Palin

David Michael Green: Paranoia For Breakfast

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Wonkette: David Brooks Went Running On The Mall And Saw No Racism!

driftglass: Unjust For Men

Derrick Z. Jackson: Soda tax: It’s the real thing

Bob Herbert: The Scourge Persists

Christopher Brauchli: The Internet and The Ignorant

Joe Conason: In defense of ACORN

Maha: Strangling Ourselves With Selfishness and You’ll Get a Kick Out of This, Maybe

Roy Edroso: Their Negro Problem - And Ours

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Christopher Brauchli: Three Strikes and You're In

Chad Terhune and Keith Epstein: The Health Insurers Have Already Won

Mark T. Harris: The Health Care Debate Has Only Just Begun

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Chris Geidner: President Obama has not betrayed the gay community

Bob Herbert: A Threat We Can't Ignore

Christopher Brauchli: The Rise and Fall of the Cigarette

Paul Krugman: The Froomkin Firing

Rude Pundit: George W. Bush: Tan, Rested, Still a Total Dick

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David Michael Green: Regressive Hypocrisy (Yawn…) Again

Christopher Brauchli: Witches, Condoms and the Pope

The Rude Pundit: Glenn Beck Put Barack Obama in a Nazi Uniform in His Magazine

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Christopher Hayes: Healthcare Enemy No. 1

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