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By Bill Blum — The justice has expressed contempt for the sitting president and is ready for a leading ideological role.
Posted on Nov 27, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — I hope the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops contemplating the future of the church’s public and political engagement notice how the good deeds of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Francis de Sales have inspired people far beyond the confines of Catholicism.
Posted on Nov 25, 2012
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By Joe Conason — Hearing so much chatter about “change” in the Republican Party, the innocent voter might believe that the Republicans had learned important lessons from their stinging electoral defeat.
Posted on Nov 21, 2012
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Nick Anderson —
Posted on Nov 20, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — If Obama is looking for a single, unifying objective, it should be to make sure that by the time he leaves office, the vast majority of Americans will have abandoned their declinist fears.
Posted on Nov 19, 2012
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John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on Nov 16, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — The big news from the last election is that California, home to 12 percent of Americans and the world’s eighth-largest economy, is a model of rational political thought.
Posted on Nov 16, 2012
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By Joe Conason — Trying to explain away his decisive, sweeping and very expensive rout to his disappointed supporters—those one-percent Republicans—Mitt Romney offered a new version of the discredited “47 percent” argument that was so ruinous in its original form.
Posted on Nov 15, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — Any way you slice and dice the data, they point toward inevitable political change over the next couple of decades.
Posted on Nov 15, 2012
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By David Sirota — What’s next? Amid all the munchie-themed jokes from reporters, political elites and late-night comedians, this remains the overarching question after Coloradans voted overwhelmingly to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana in the same way alcohol is already legalized, regulated and taxed.
Posted on Nov 15, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — I know it’s early, but I have a sinking feeling the Republican Party is taking all the wrong lessons from last week’s election.
Posted on Nov 15, 2012
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The election 2012 loser is proving that the gaffes didn’t end with his presidential campaign.
Posted on Nov 15, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — It is said after every election that the victors should put politics aside and work for the good of the country. If President Obama believed this pious nonsense, he would put his second term in jeopardy.
Posted on Nov 11, 2012
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus Dispatch —
Posted on Nov 11, 2012
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Paul Zanetti, Cagle Cartoons, Australia —
Posted on Nov 11, 2012
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Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Nov 11, 2012
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Nov 11, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a CEO who claims he fired employees because of Obama’s victory, and Ted Nugent, who has a meltdown over the election on Twitter.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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Olle Johansson, Cagle Cartoons, Sweden —
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — Election night was a heck of a party, but morning in America already feels too much like a hangover.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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The president choked up speaking to his campaign team, reminiscing about his work as a community organizer and saying, “Whatever good we do over the next four years will pale in comparison to what you guys end up accomplishing for years and years to come.”
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — Mike Allen, for those who don’t know, is Washington’s insiders’ insider.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the unofficial winner of the state of Florida and the question being asked about Diane Sawyer after election night.
Posted on Nov 8, 2012
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By Joe Conason — What Barack Obama tried to tell America in the hour of his remarkable victory is that the nation’s future won on Election Day.
Posted on Nov 8, 2012
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By William Pfaff — Abroad, the widely noted aspect of Barack Obama’s re-election victory was its social and class character. The president was re-elected by a majority of American minorities.
Posted on Nov 7, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Obama’s re-election was at once a deeply personal triumph and a victory for the younger, highly diverse and broadly progressive America that rallied to him. It was a result that ought to settle the bitter argument that ground the nation’s government to a near-standstill.
Posted on Nov 7, 2012
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Nov 7, 2012
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Nov 7, 2012
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Nov 7, 2012
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Aislin, Cagle Cartoons, The Montreal Gazette —
Posted on Nov 7, 2012
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This is what the president had to say to the millions of volunteers who helped propel him to victory in an extraordinarily close election.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, Le Temps, Switzerland —
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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Martin Sutovec, Cagle Cartoons, Slovakia —
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus Dispatch —
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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Kap, Cagle Cartoons, Spain —
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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Paul Zanetti, Cagle Cartoons, Australia —
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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By Peter Z. Scheer — I suspect that when my life is over I will have had two opportunities to vote in a presidential election for a black man, and I intend to take both of them.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
The voters in Ohio’s 8th District had better be happy with Republican Rep. John Boehner. They have no choice.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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By Robert Reich — The vitriol of the 2012 election is worse than the previous elections. Worse than the Palin-induced smarmy 2008. Worse than the swift-boat lies of 2004. Worse, even, than the anything-goes craziness of 2000 and its ensuing bitterness.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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By Robert Reich — It’s not too early to draw some lessons. Regardless of what happens Tuesday, Democrats should have three big takeaways from the 2012 election.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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