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    • 24 Ratings
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    Our Incredible Shrinking President

    MAY 16, 2013 6:52PM

    By old new lefty


    Topics: barack obama, president of the united states, potus, tea party, irs, associated press, republicans, conspiracy theory, leadership, nsa, government surveillance, illegal aliens, deportation, veterans administration, belief/religion, movies, music, news, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 994 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    The Sequester Blame Game Comes to A Head

    FEBRUARY 25, 2013 2:04PM

    By Brian Carter


    Topics: politics, spending cuts, sequestration, senate, republicans, house of representatives, fact check, economy, congress, blame game, americans

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 426 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    The Party Of Stupid

    FEBRUARY 3, 2013 6:50AM

    By Terry McKenna


    Topics: the party of stupid, politics, republicans

    • Editor's Pick
    • 30 Ratings
    • 1598 Views
    • 37 Comments
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    Final Words From a Republican Candidate

    NOVEMBER 5, 2012 10:53AM

    By Cranky Cuss


    Topics: election, republicans, ayn rand

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 2912 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    Forget Boxing, the 2012 Election is More Like Pro Wrestling

    OCTOBER 12, 2012 1:24PM

    By Chauncey DeVega


    Topics: professional wrestling, popular culture, boxing, sports, democrats, republicans, barack obama, mitt romney, media, politics, elections

    • Editor's Pick
    • 22 Ratings
    • 3187 Views
    • 43 Comments
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    That Was No Rope-a-Dope: Obama Got His Butt Kicked by Romney

    OCTOBER 4, 2012 12:29PM

    By Chauncey DeVega


    Topics: popular culture, boxing, sports, democrats, republicans, barack obama, mitt romney, media, politics, elections

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 1618 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Could "October Surprise" Be a One-Ton Pumpkin?

    OCTOBER 2, 2012 11:39AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, economics, capitalism, bill gates, topsfield fair, pumpkin record, internet, open sourcing, thomas friedman, microsoft, economic equality, joseph stiglitz, austerity, supply side economics, republicans, democrats, economic crisis, 2012 election, we are all in this together, farmers, great pumpkin, globalization, fox news, rush limbaugh, inflation, redistribution, rent-seeking, oil companies, open salon, blogging, sound barrier

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 13732 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    Economy Worse Under Obama?

    SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 10:50AM

    By Brian Carter


    Topics: voters, unemployment, romney, republicans, politics, opinion, obama, jobs, job creation, grassley, fact check, economy, democrats, americans, 2012 election

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 1578 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    Dime store demagogues with dollars

    AUGUST 31, 2012 1:18PM

    By Greg Correll


    Topics: let's break america we'll get rich, social engineering, know-nothingism, republicans

    • Editor's Pick
    • 44 Ratings
    • 8545 Views
    • 68 Comments
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    Ann Romney May Love Me, but I don't Love Her

    AUGUST 29, 2012 6:08PM

    By Kate Geiselman


    Topics: you didn't build that, education, republicans, hypocrisy, freedom, birth control, feminism, mitt romney, rnc, ann romney

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 2769 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    Anti-Hispanic Gerrymandering Struck Down in Texas

    AUGUST 29, 2012 5:19PM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: politics, republicans, texas, marco rubio, susanna martinez, ted cruz, redistricting, gerrymandering in texas, vote suppression in texas, texas political districts struck down, anti-hispanic redistricting, attorney general greg abbott, david savage, “texas political districts rejected”

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 2513 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    Why I am not a brain-dead adherent to either party.

    AUGUST 3, 2012 1:49PM

    By Jeff Wilder


    Topics: democrats., republicans, liberals, conservative, divisions, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 2542 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Health Care vs. Politics: Who Wins?

    JULY 9, 2012 6:01PM

    By Brian Carter


    Topics: 2012 election, affordable care act, americans, community, democrats, economy, fact check, family planning, health care, health care reform, health insurance, obama, obamacare, obesity, politics, republicans, romney, supreme court

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 1301 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    A Gay Old Party

    MAY 18, 2012 11:04AM

    By Graham Sale


    Topics: saturday cartoon, politicians, republicans, gay marriage, men in hats, commercial appeal, graham sale

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 4642 Views
    • 21 Comments
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    Empathy Wars: Mitt Romney and the GOP's Bully Politics

    MAY 15, 2012 1:24PM

    By Chauncey DeVega


    Topics: bullying, politics, 2012 campaign, republicans, democrats, obama, romney, authoritarianism

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 4818 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Joe Sarborough's Revisionist Reality

    MAY 11, 2012 12:16PM

    By Laura Wilkerson


    Topics: morning joe, massachusetts, mississippi, utah, 2012 presidential race, mitt romney, president barack obama, barry goldwater, william f. buckley, radical right, republicans, politics, gay rights, marriage equality, homosexuality, joe scarborough

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 1127 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    The Radical Elite

    APRIL 29, 2012 10:47AM

    By esmense


    Topics: news, business, the 1%, economic warfare, baby boomers, washington post, thomas mann, norman ornstein, presidential campaign, romney, corporate power, meritocracy, self-made men debunked, republicans, conservatives, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 2544 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    Europe's Woes Prove GOP Wrong

    APRIL 24, 2012 4:13AM

    By Brian Carter


    Topics: budget, paul ryan, romney, obama, stimulus, spending cuts, austerity, debt, economy, europe, republicans, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 3801 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    History Repeats Itself in New Gilded Age

    APRIL 20, 2012 3:29PM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: occupy wall street, robber barons, 14th amendment, declaration of independence, constitution, new deal, conservative movement, alliance for justice, women's rights, health care reform, socialism, paul krugman, michael lind, corporations are people, mitt romney, progressive movement, john marshal harlan, plessy v. ferguson, kevin phillips, jeff rosen, george will, constitution in exile, capitalism, right wing, democrats, republicans, federal income tax, bush v. gore, citizens united, judicial activism, founding fathers, civil war, pollock v. farmer's loan and trust, supreme court, conservatism, liberalism, democracy, plutocracy, gilded age, economics, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 34 Ratings
    • 5583 Views
    • 44 Comments
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    It Isn’t Lack Of Work That Makes Ann Romney Disconnected

    APRIL 17, 2012 12:48PM

    By Left Is Right


    Topics: republicans, politics election, romney

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