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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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David Taintor: Hillary Clinton Erupts At GOP Senator Over Benghazi Attack

E.J. Dionne: Obama follows in Reagan’s footsteps

Robert Reich: How Obama is unraveling Reagan Republicanism

Deaniac83: Did Harry Reid Choose to Lose a Battle to Win the War?

Michael Moore: In Defense of Zero Dark Thirty

Tommy Christopher: Sen. John McCain On Benghazi: ‘There’s Two Movies Been Made About Getting Bin Laden’

Steve Singiser: An oft-ignored lesson of 2012: The case for appeasing the base

Mr. Brink: America Will Wait Forever For You, Republican Party

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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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Jim Tankersley: The Truth About Romney's Tax Plan: It's a Pipe Dream

Jason Easley: 63% of Americans Demand That Mitt Romney Release His Tax Returns

Tommy Christopher: Fox’s Liz Trotta: ‘Ladies Of The Press’ Envy Ann Romney For Marrying Rich Guy

Imani Gandy (ABL): Missouri Rep. Todd Akin Wants to Ban the Morning After Pill Because He is Stupid

Josh Rogin: Romney's Japan Remark Raises Eyebrows

Booman: Kevin Drum Is Flailing

Steve Benen: The standards for 'embarrassment'

Michael Kinsley: Obama's Ruthless Politics vs. Romney's Ruthless Management

David Frum: Why Ryan?

Paul Begala: With Ryan, Romney Has the Plutocrat Ticket

Michael Tomasky: Romney’s Stunning, Terrible Choice of Ryan for VP

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Simon Maloy: Comically Awful Survey Says 83 Percent Of Doctors Might Quit Over Obamacare

Eugene Robinson: The GOP’s crime against voters

Roger Simon: Why don’t we love Mitt Romney?

Hamilton Nolan: Unions, Money, and the Politics of False Equivalence

John Nichols: Snow Mitt and the Huntsman: A Tale from the Dark Forest of Republicanism

Matt Miller: GOP to the uninsured: Drop dead

Charles M. Blow: Romney in the Lions’ Den

Jed Lewison: Mitt Romney sure picked a bad day to call the president a liar

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Kaili Joy Gray: Ann Romney's tale of 'struggling': We 'learned hard lessons' living off our stock portfolio

Steve Benen: The wrong guy to talk about 'leadership'

Eugene Robinson: Republican rhetoric over the top

Robert Naiman: The US and Iran Are Talking: Why Is the New York Times Peddling Iran Islamophobia?

The Rude Pundit: In Brief: Dick Cheney Is Still Alive and Talking, For Some Reason

Bill Maher: The GOP is Waging a War Against Common Sense

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Radley Balko: Illinois Traffic Stop Of Star Trek Fans Raises Concerns About Drug Searches, Police Dogs, Bad Cops

Steven Pearlstein: Eat your broccoli, Justice Scalia

Eugene Robinson: A stronger prescription for what ails health care

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Marcus Cederstrom: What if Tim Tebow were Muslim?

Digby: Straight Up Racism, No Dogwhistle Necessary

Ezra Klein: Who will get the ‘Recovery Presidency’?

Andrew Sullivan: How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics

Robert Reich: The Romney Tax Loophole

Ruth Marcus: Mitt Romney’s miserly concern for the poor

E.J Dionne: Republicans keep moving Obama to Europe

Our blast from the past comes courtesy of loyal reader Chris U. who wants to remind us all of Newt Gingrich's political past, sans revisionist history.

John E. Yang: House Reprimands, Penalizes Speaker

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The Rude Pundit: Welcome to the Monkeyhouse, GOP

Karoli: Clarence Thomas "Forgot" 20 Years of Disclosure? Really?

Bob Herbert: When Democracy Weakens

Sam Stein: Mitt Romney Supporters Working To Paint Him As The Anti-Palin

Evan McMorris-Santoro: It's Hard Out There For A Black Candidate At CPAC

Bob Cesca: The Republican War Against Women

Rachel D'Oro: Sarah Palin Reality Show Could Be Taxpayer-Subsidized

BBC News: 'Moby Dick' Captain's Ship Found

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Ruben Navarrette Jr.: Teaching Arabic is No Cause For Fear

Eric Alterman: Think Again: The 'Problem' of Liberal Academics, Again

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Bob Cesca: Ground Zero Mosque Opponents Have a Lot of Work to Do

Eugene Robinson: Republicans pander over 'Ground Zero mosque'

Todd Purdum: Washington, We Have a Problem

David Weigel: Today In Journalism

BooMan: Your Daily Dose of Right Wing Stupid

Rude Pundit: You Hate America If You Are Against Park 51

Dick Cavett: Real Americans, Please Stand Up

Maureen Dowd: No Love From the Lefties

Gladstone: 3 Reasons the “Ground Zero Mosque” Debate Makes No Sense

The Ecomonist: What the Arab papers say

And so may other good editorial cartoons today...
John Sherffius, Stuart Carlson, and Mike Luckovich.

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Gin and Tacos: An Open Letter to Tim Pawlenty

Joe Conason: Republicans revive a debate they lost, badly

Chez Pazienza: The Notorious "Big"

Glenn Greenwald: The lynch-mob mentality

Derrick Z. Jackson: The double standard at CBS

Ezra Klein: It's just you, Democrats

Gail Collins: No Holds Barred

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Gin and Tacos: The Bomber Will Always Get Through

Chez Pazienza: The Year of Living Painfully

Bob Cesca: Republican Hypocrisy on Terrorism Reaches New Levels of Awful

Dan Pfeiffer: The Same Old Washington Blame Game

Eugene Robinson: Dick Cheney's lies about President Obama

Heather Hurlburt: In Fact, We do Have A Counter-Terrorism Strategy -- And Experts Say It's Producing Results

Kimberly Kindy: Ex-Homeland Security chief head said to abuse public trust by touting body scanners

Will Wright: New Year's Wish: Getting My Country Back

BooMan: Why Support The Democrats?

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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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The Rude Pundit: 9/11 Wants to Fade Into Your Rainy Background

Bob Cesca: The Most Nightmarish Health Care Reform Bill Ever

Bill Maher: New Rule: Float Like Obama, Sting Like Ali



Robert Reich: The Final Sprint for Health Care Has Now Begun, and Where the White House is Placing Its Bets

driftglass: Like A Virgin



Rep. Barney Frank: Post-Bipartisan Depression

Jason Linkins: Luke Russert Presses Joe Wilson On College Football

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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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Daniel Klaidman, Newsweek: Independent’s Day - Attorney General Eric Holder may probe Bush-era torture

Matt Taibbi: On The ‘Everyone Was Doing It’ Excuse

Rob Tornoe: Cartoonist Reveals Unedited Michael Jackson Strip

Bill Moyers & Michael Winship: Some Choice Words For "The Select Few"

Sam Stein: Emanuel's Public Plan With Triggers Trial Balloon "Blew Up": Dem Lawmaker

Bob Herbert: The Human Equation

David Michael Green: A Saw The News On Television Today, Oh Boy

Robert Reich: When Will The Recovery Begin? Never.

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Joe Conason: The losers who gave us Sarah Palin

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Matt Yglesias: Not A Parody

BooMan: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Everyone Should See 'Torturing Democracy'

The Rude Pundit: Sotomayor Drives the GOP Into the Desert

Rachel Maddow: Swing and a Miss

Richard Thompson Ford: Bad Test - Sonia Sotomayor rejected the New Haven firefighters' claim because it threatened to burn down civil rights law.

Charles M. Blow: Rogues, Robes and Racists

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Paul Krugman: Despair over financial policy

The Rude Pundit: Sarah Palin to Alaska's Poor and Special Needs Kids: "Suck It, You Dirty 'Tards"

David Neiwert: Pelosi outrages wingnuts with cold truth: Immigration raids are "un-American"

Glenn Greenwald: The virtues of public anger and the need for more


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