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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Sep 29, 2011
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Eric Allie, Caglecartoons.com —
Posted on Sep 29, 2011
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Washington Examiner —
Posted on Sep 29, 2011
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With an eye on the ruthlessly partisan strategies, tactics and proposed policies of the Republican contenders for the White House, former New York Times columnist Frank Rich assigns a poor grade to Obama’s efforts to reach across the aisle. (more)
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Yaakov Kirschen, Cagle Cartoons, Dry Bones —
Posted on Sep 25, 2011
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Jozef Danglar Gertli, Cagle Cartoons, Slovakia —
Posted on Sep 24, 2011
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AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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By Bill Boyarsky — As was the case in 2008, the racial divide in American society is a huge obstacle to President Barack Obama’s chances of electoral victory in 2012.
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Sep 15, 2011
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Eric Allie, Caglecartoons.com —
Posted on Sep 15, 2011
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The Republican Establishment is said to have grave qualms about Gov. Rick Perry. Here’s the problem: There is no Republican Establishment. It squandered its authority by building up the tea party’s brigades and then fearing them too much to do anything to check their power.
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Office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
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In the past few years, Elizabeth Warren proved herself one of the very few people in government committed to actually doing something about Wall Street greed, and she got kicked to the curb as a result. Now she is hoping to win back Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat from Republican Scott Brown. (more)
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Eric Allie, Caglecartoons.com —
Posted on Sep 4, 2011
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By William Pfaff — It now seems a necessary qualification for the Republican nomination, at least at the present primaries stage, to be a born-again fundamentalist Protestant. Yet in the United States the majority of the electorate is not fundamentalist, evangelical or Protestant.
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — The trolls have gamed the system. There is no economic, political or environmental reform that can be implemented to impede the march of the corporate state.
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Paul Lowry (CC-BY)
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By Joe Conason — When environmental regulators do their job properly, that can mean serious trouble for Rick Perry’s largest political donors.
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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By Richard Reeves — “America is great, and it’s worth saving,” Rick Perry wrote in his book, “Fed Up!” Then he gave us 150 pages of what a terrible place this is, one only he can save.
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Ed Schipul (CC-BY)
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By Eugene Robinson — In theory, Democrats should be nervous about Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s decision to enter the presidential race. In practice, though, it’s Republicans who have zoomed up the anxiety ladder into freak-out mode.
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The stock market continued its best imitation of a roller coaster this week, reports of Syrian protesters’ deaths came in after assurances that military operations against the opposition had ceased, and American liberals cringed at the thought of another former Texas governor in the White House. (more)
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Flickr / Kristina B
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Molly Ivins was a popular humorist, liberal columnist and a Texan, and she knew Texas governor and now GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry well. (more)
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AP / David J. Phillip
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By Robert Scheer — It is unfathomable that yet another Texas blowhard governor has emerged as a front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination.
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, Politicalcartoons.com —
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Aug 15, 2011
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Aug 15, 2011
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Nate Beeler, The Washington Examiner —
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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The Texas governor will almost certainly launch a broadside against current GOP front-runner Mitt Romney this weekend when he takes the wraps off his campaign for president. (more)
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Paul Zanetti, Cagle Cartoons, Australia —
Posted on Aug 6, 2011
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Internet porn causes pay-per-view sales to fall; a new chip will make HIV testing easy, affordable and readily available; meanwhile, mobile phones become more essential than toilets in the developed world. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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Office of the Speaker of the House
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By Richard Reeves — Whatever they tell us, the men and women who run the country are governing for themselves and by themselves.
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Rainer Hachfeld, Cagle Cartoons, Neues Deutschland, Germany —
Posted on Aug 3, 2011
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Chris Christie, who maintains he will not run for president although he recently made a visit to Iowa and Mitt Romney declared the New Jersey governor as his second choice for running mate, was hospitalized Thursday after an asthma attack. (more)
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, Politicalcartoons.com —
Posted on Jul 27, 2011
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AP / Charlie Neibergall
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By Bill Boyarsky — In today’s tight media economy, reporters tend to be young, overworked, underpaid, inexperienced journalists grateful for their jobs and afraid of being fired. Their bosses, no doubt, are just as fearful. These journalists are easy marks for campaign hacks with a story to sell.
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By Eugene Robinson — Open religious prejudice is usually enough to disqualify a candidate for national office—but not, apparently, when the religion in question is Islam.
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Arcadio Esquivel, La Prensa, Panama
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The ailing Venezuelan president will run for re-election in 2012, according to a top government official, and intends to hold on to most of his political powers while undergoing cancer treatment in Cuba. Chavez has expanded the portfolios of his vice president and finance minister. (more)
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Flickr / brotherM
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Numbers from a recent Pew Research Center study contradict the conventional thinking on independent voters. Independents are not moderates who can be swayed to the right or left with appeals to moderation and centrism, but “disaffected political partisans” ... (more)
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Michele Bachmann’s husband tries to “cure” gay people; President Obama wants to make cuts to Social Security and Medicare; meanwhile, the archivist of the U.S. defends Wikipedia from professors. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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We don’t have the full picture yet on the lineup of candidates revving up to race for the White House in 2012, even from the GOP camp, which has already kicked into high campaigning gear. A certain governor of a big state ... (continued)
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Gary McCoy, Cagle Cartoons —
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Frederick Deligne, Cagle Cartoons, Le Pelerin, France —
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Flickr / Gage Skidmore
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With the economy having emerged as the critical issue in the 2012 presidential election, the editors at Mother Jones think we should take a look at GOP candidate Tim Pawlenty’s job-creation and stimulus record.
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, Politicalcartoons.com —
Posted on Jun 24, 2011
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