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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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Elspeth Reeve: Sarah Palin's Incredible Shrinking Act Is Almost Complete

David Sirota: Why the anti-Obama tax spin?

Andrew Sullivan: Romney's Got Nothing

Matt Negrin & Jonathan Karl: The Bain Ad That Romney Should Fear the Most

Ron Sherer: Mitt Romney taxes show 'very high' charitable giving tied to Mormon church

Jonathan Capehart: Romney’s current Bain woes were planted two months ago

Eclectablog: OMG!!! Obama disses ALL businesses owners everywhere ever!!! EVERYBODY FREAK OUT!!!

Paul Waldman: Why "Knowing How the Economy Works" Is Not Enough

Kathleen Parker: Get Smart, America

Bill Moyers & Michael Winship: The NRA Has America Living Under the Gun

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Dana Milbank: A new conspiracy theory: Is Romney a unicorn?

Eugene Robinson: Romney plays his Trump card

Ed Kilgore: Sauce for Gander

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Pity the Poor Billionaires

Jim Wright: Things That Chap My Ass About Facebook

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Ezra Klein: GOP Jobs Plan: Old Ideas, Fancy New Clip Art

Jonathan Chait: The Tax Freeloader Myth

Allan, ABL Chronicles: Clarence Thomas – The Original #Weinergate

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: Michele Bachmann's Stance on Evolution Demolished by High School Student

Kate Sheppard: House GOP Tells DHS to Stop Worrying About Climate Change

Paul Krugman: Fatal Fatalism

John Nichols: One If By Misstatement, Two If By Ignorant: Palin Gets an "F" in American History

Michael Winship: Secret Cash: The Worst Political Scandal of All

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Anthea Butler: Palin Bus Tour Like Gideon’s Fleece

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Paul Krugman: American Thought Police

AsianGrrlMN: Michele Bachman Announces that She Plans to Formally Announce Forming a Committee for her Presidency Run Just as Soon as She Gets her Nails Done; A Nation Snickers

Steve Benen: The NBPP 'Story' -- Coda....

Glenn Kessler: Rand Paul’s Historical Misfire in the Debate Over Libya

Joseph E. Stiglitz: Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%

The Rude Pundit: If You Are a Birther, You Are a Racist; Therefore, Donald Trump Is a Racist and Birtherism and Your Lying Media (Part 2) and Birtherism and the Death of One Kind of Conservatism (Part 3)

Andrew Sullivan: Left, Right And Time

Michael Winship: Labor Pains and the GOP

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Chris Cillizza: The Stumbles of Haley Barbour

Markos Moulitsas: Wisconsin Recall is Real

Jason Linkins: Would A Nuclear Calamity In The U.S. Require A Billion Dollar Taxpayer Bailout? (Yes.)

Media Matters: Note To Media: Experts Say It's "Not Credible" To Blame Obama For Spike In Gas Prices

The Rude Pundit: Why Rush Limbaugh Ought To Be Force-Fed His Own Liposuctioned Fat (Nuclear Edition)

Karoli: Meet the “Other” (Kenneth) Bradley Manning

Dana Milbank: The NPR ‘Emergency’

Eugene Robinson: Inviting a Nuclear Emergency

Steve Benen: The Difference Between Talking Points and a Jobs Agenda

Bill Moyers & Michael Winship: NPR: The Saga Continues

Bill Berry: Carlin Knew the Rich Just Want More

Video referenced in Bill Berry's column:

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Walter Dellinger: The DOMA Decision

Jason Linkins: New York Times, A.G. Sulzberger Draw Criticism For Their Coverage Of Wisconsin Protests

Chris Cillizza: Who had the Worst Week in Washington? Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa.

Russell Simmons: The Hypocrisy of Peter King

Michael Winship: Wackos of the World, Unite!

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Bill Carter & Brian Stelter: Olbermann Split Came After Years of Tension

Matt Osborne: SOTU Response Fiasco

Mark Frauenfelder: Ayn Rand took government assistance while decrying others who did the same

Dick Cavett: The Wrath of Grapes

Michael Winship: The Bush Legacy Strikes Out American Justice

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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

And an oldie but a goodie...

Steve Gilliard: About Yesterday

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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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Matt Osborne: False Sense of Security

Greg Boyd: For (Too Much) Love of Country

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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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Eric Boehlert: Why Does The Los Angeles Times Hate Obama?

Bob Cesca: Sarah Palin Demands Hardball Regulations and a Takeover of BP

Eric Deggans: Obama and the Oil Spill: Can We Tolerate a President Who Refuses to Make Us Feel Better?

Michael Winship: The Supreme Court Says NO to the People - Again

Sasha Abramsky: Where the Tea Party Runs Out of Juice

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William K. Wolfrum: Reality Bites For Conservatives

Pat Metheny: On Kenny G

Gabriel Winant: The lesson of Rand Paul: libertarianism is juvenile

Michael Winship: Congress Gets a Kick in the... Pants

Christopher Hayes: Any Given Sunday

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Jeffrey Joseph: FOX Getting Too Vitriolic, Even for Life-Long Republicans

Bill Moyers & Michael Winship: Crocodile Tears on Wall Street

Charles M. Blow: A Mighty Pale Tea

Matt Apuzzo & Adam Goldman: Destruction of Torture Videotapes Documented in CIA Email

driftglass: Weird Political Science

Doctor Biobrain: Donald Douglas Doesn't Know What a Tax Cut Is

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Rosie.com: We Had Eight Years of Bush and Cheney, Now You Get Mad?!

The Rude Pundit: Kansas Late-Term Aborts Scott Roeder from Society

Bill Moyers & Michael Winship: Dr. King's Economic Dream Deferred

Karoli: CNN Pimps Great American Tea Party Express PR and Propaganda Tour

Bob Herbert: We Still Don’t Hear Him

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The Rude Pundit: Note to Obama: Recess Appoint All of Them

Jason Linkins: David Broder Is Really Into Sarah Palin This Week

Sen. Bernie Sanders: It’s Time For a Solar Revolution

Russell Shorto: How Christian Were the Founders?

Harvey Wasserman: Our Founders Were NOT Fundamentalists

Paul Krugman: Republicans and Medicare

Michael Winship: From the Annals of Sno-Cone Science

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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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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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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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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.

Must Reads - UPDATED

Dan Froomkin: Cheney Still Manipulating People -- Now In Public

Bob Cesca: The Public Option is Popular, Moral and Inexpensive, Therefore it Must Die

The Rude Pundit: In the Realm of "You Have to Be Fucking Kidding": Obama's School Speech Makes Conservatives Cry

Michael Winship: Coming Soon to a Democracy Near You...

David Sirota: Progressives Pay the Price for Confusing a Party With a Movement

John Nichols: Give States an Option to Lead on Single-Payer

Richard Wolf: White House to reveal visitor names

Megan Tady: Will ‘Astroturf’ Groups Block Net Neutrality Reform?

MUST SEE: Anthony Weiner Blasts Critics of Health Reform VIDEO (You can catch a ton of other Weiner videos as well.)

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