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Sovereign Voice, Addicting Info: Paul Ryan: ACA Law Should Be Repealed Because Only God Can Grant Rights

Paul Campos: Roberts wrote both Obamacare opinions

John T. Harvey: The Terrifying Texas GOP Platform

Jason Easley: Michele Bachmann Uses Info From a Chain Email to Lie about ObamaCare Home Sale Tax

Ron Howard: What I learned from Andy Griffith

Howard Gleckman: There Is No Obamacare Tax On Most Home Sales. Really.

Wall Street Journal Editorial: Romney's Tax Confusion

Philip Rucker: Romney to bolster communications team amid conservative tempest

JM Ashby: Nobody Could Have Predicted

Ben Cohen: Mitt Romney’s Healthcare Flip Flops a Lesson in Modern Marketing

The Rude Pundit: What Mitt Romney May as Well Have Said at Today's "News" Conference

Carol Hartsell: Chris Rock 'White People's Day' July 4th Tweet Sparks Controversy

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Zerlina Maxwell: Critics Say “Obama Could Rape A Nun” And Still Get Support

Muskegon Critic: Yeah, Cuz I'm The A$^hole.

Bob Cesca: Ron Paul Is No Friend to Progressives

Arthur Delaney: Dems Fire Back At GOP Proposals To Drug Test Jobless: 'You Pee In The Cup'

Jim Wright: Everybody’s So Different, I Haven’t Changed

Eugene Robinson: Romney’s not-a-mandate

Dana Milbank: Mitt Romney out of control

Jason Sparks: Cenk’d

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Benjamin Wittes: NDAA FAQ: A Guide for the Perplexed

Chris Chase: Braylon Edwards Gave 79 Students $10,000 for College

The Rude Pundit: Politifact and The Lie of The Lie

Justin Rosario: A Very Merry Fox Christmas: Obama’s Christmas Card Just Isn’t American Enough

Tom McMahon: Merry Christmas, Middle Class! House Republicans Just Voted To Raise Your Taxes By $1,000

Dana Milbank: Braveheart Republicans? Or false-hearted?

Eugene Robinson: Which Candidate Should Answer That 3 a.m. Phone Call?

BooMan: Wanker of the Day: Charles Krauthammer

Dino Grandoni: Perry's Latest Oops Moment: 'Kim Jong the Second'

Jonathan Chait: When Did Liberals Become So Unreasonable? - If every Democratic president disappoints, maybe there’s something wrong with our expectations. Tough love from a fellow traveler.

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Matt Taibbi: Michele Bachmann's Holy War

driftglass: Waiting For The Miracle

Ian Millhiser: Rep. Chris Murphy: Thomas Gift Scandal ‘Undermine[s] The Integrity of The Entire Judiciary’

Angry Black Lady: Jane Hamsher’s “Afro-American” Reeducation Program Rolls Through Washington, D.C. (and Other Ratfucking Tales)

Amy Gardner: Nevada Presidential Debate Postponed in Hopes of Perry Candidacy

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Thaddeus Russell: Why I Got Fired From Teaching American History

The Rude Pundit: Regarding Tea Party Senate Candidates, the Best Explanations Are Always the Simplest

Hamilton Nolan: You're Making a Bad Mistake, Juan Williams

Wolfe Tone: The Curious Case of Joe Miller

Jurassic Pork: Looks Like We Do Body Counts, After All

Mudflats: Lisa, Liar, Pants on Fire! Murkowski Makes False Claims About Endorsements

Boo Man: Washington Post Sends Racially-Charged Gift to GOP

Gail Collins: Elections - Oshkosh Shrugged

Mark Warren: The Questions We Have Refused to Ask of the Tea Party

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Cartoon of the Day

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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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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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Chris Kelly: A Horrible Thing to Think About Casey Johnson

Bob Cesca: The Twisted and Dangerous Republican Record on Terrorism

Gail Collins: Oh, Byron, We Hardly Knew Ye

Bruce Schneier: Our Reaction Is the Real Security Failure

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Glenn Greenwald: Chuck Todd's arguments against investigations & Celebrating Cronkite while ignoring what he did

Paul Krugman: The Six Deadly Hypocrites

Bill Moyers & Michael Winship: Oysters for Health Care

John Nichols: A Real Win for Single-Payer Advocates

Robert Naiman: The Day They Arrested President Roosevelt

Rude Pundit: Sotomayor, Day 3 (and Some Day 4): More Random Observations of the Tedious Madness

Cartoon of the Day

Chickenhawk Cheney

I love this cartoon in light of the news that despite the fact that harsh interrogation techniques have not been used since 2004, Cheney is still going on the Sunday news line up and saying President Obama is making us less safe because of the change of interrogation policies (AKA no torture) and the release of the torture memos.

"...no torture or harsh interrogation techniques were employed by any U.S. interrogator for the entire second term of Cheney-Bush, 2005-2009. So, if we are to believe the protestations of Dick Cheney, that Obama's having shut down the "Cheney interrogation methods" will endanger the nation, what are we to say to Dick Cheney for having endangered the nation for the last four years of his vice presidency?"

- Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, former chief of staff of the Department of State during the term of Secretary of State Colin Powell

(H/T Bob Cesca)