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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on May 18, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on May 18, 2013
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White House (Archive)
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By Joe Conason — Not so fast, please: There are a few salient questions that George W. Bush (or at least his library) ought to address before the rehabilitation begins.
Posted on May 2, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Apr 9, 2013
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By Robert Scheer — For all of the strident attacks on Stockman’s column, I have yet to read a serious critique of his most brazen claim.
Posted on Apr 2, 2013
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A military action that was sold to Americans as short and inexpensive may come to cost us $3.7 trillion; Sen. Rob Portman has come out in support of same-sex marriage thanks to his gay son, but doesn’t seem interested in women’s rights despite having a daughter; meanwhile, the hacker who brought you the Bush family’s emails has exposed communications between a White House adviser and the Clintons. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Mar 18, 2013
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AP/Charles Dharapak
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By Robert Scheer — Here’s a get-out-of-jail-free card, and while we’re at it, take this obscenely huge bonus for having wrecked the economy.
Posted on Feb 1, 2013
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, Politicalcartoons.com —
Posted on Jan 30, 2013
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Wikimedia Commons / Harald Dettenborn (CC-BY)
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The New Yorker’s David Remnick says the answer to that question, based on the secretary of state’s appearance at the annual Saban Forum over the weekend, is yes, “she’s running.”
Posted on Dec 3, 2012
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, Politicalcartoons.com —
Posted on Nov 26, 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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AP/Jack Dempsey
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By Robert Scheer — I have been a harsh critic of the president, but a vote for Barack Obama in a swing state is a no-brainer.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — I learned at the age of 10, when I was shipped off to a New England boarding school where the hazing of younger boys was the principal form of recreation, that those who hunger for power are psychopathic bastards.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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Obama for America/Christopher Dilts
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While Obama flew home to take command of the federal response to Hurricane Sandy, the campaign marched on Monday, with 66-year-old Bill Clinton trying to catalyze the youth vote in Florida.
Posted on Oct 30, 2012
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White House/Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Although the Electoral College usually gives Republicans an advantage, the system is working in President Obama’s favor in 2012.
Posted on Oct 3, 2012
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Even though drones are killing more civilians in Pakistan than terrorist leaders, they play no role in the U.S. presidential campaigns; California passes a bill legalizing self-driving cars; meanwhile, millionaires like Mitt Romney perpetuate the rags-to-riches tale by denying their roots. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the surfacing of another potentially damaging Mitt Romney video, the latest election forecast and Bill Clinton mulls his election options.
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus Dispatch —
Posted on Sep 9, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Bill Clinton is typically described as the empathetic, feel-your-pain guy. But his greatest political skill may be as a formulator of arguments—the explainer in chief.
Posted on Sep 6, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Sep 5, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Sen. John McCain’s advice to President Obama and Rep. Paul Ryan’s stimulus hypocrisy talk.
Posted on Aug 16, 2012
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Robert Scheer and KPFA’s Philip Maldari chat about issues including state politics, Rambo Obama’s use of executive power, the facade of the two-party system and the unresolved economic crisis.
Posted on Jun 12, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — The cases of Pvt. Bradley Manning, Julian Assange and former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet remind us that all too often whistle-blowers suffer, while war criminals walk.
Posted on May 30, 2012
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White House/Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Progressives have yearned for President Obama to follow Harry Truman’s strategy from the 1948 campaign by giving his Republican opponents hell. Now that Obama is doing just that, his critics say he’s not looking presidential.
Posted on May 27, 2012
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Photo by Gage Skidmore
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When did Mitt Romney start loving Bill Clinton? Since the presumed Republican presidential nominee evidently realized that praising the former Democratic president could earn him the votes of political moderates.
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Pete Souza/The White House
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Despite what Republicans and the tea party would like to have Americans believe, taxes, spending and the deficit are all lower than when President Obama took office.
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AP/Dima Gavrysh
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By Robert Scheer — The men most responsible for the collapse of the American dream are heaped with honors at the highest levels of society.
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AP/Jae C. Hong
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By Robert Scheer — Who will speak for the rights of the unborn now that Rick Santorum is gone from the race? Let me give it a whirl from the perspective of one whose own unwed mother had several abortions before yours truly was permitted to emerge.
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By Joe Conason — When George W. Bush made his first public appearance in many months to discuss economic policy in New York on Tuesday, his utterances may have revealed more than he intended.
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AP/Charles Dharapak
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By Robert Scheer — The Republicans are a sick joke, and their narrow ideological stupidity has left rational voters no choice in the coming presidential election but Barack Obama.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Imagine the shock when conservative Supreme Court justices repeatedly spouted views closely resembling the tweets and talking points issued by organizations of the sort funded by the Koch brothers.
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AP / Mark Lennihan
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By Robert Scheer — By the time you read this, the PR hacks of Goldman Sachs will be vigorously pressing their efforts to destroy the reputation of whistle-blower Greg Smith.
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AP / Patrick Semansky
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By Chris Hedges — The Supreme Court is expected to uphold the use of the Espionage Act of 1917 to punish those who expose war crimes and state lies.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — They say that President Obama is a Muslim, but if he isn’t, he’s a secularist who is waging war on religion.
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The Huffington Post
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — What do Rick Santorum and Clint Eastwood have in common?
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AP / Saul Loeb
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By Robert Scheer — I get angry because betrayal by the “good guys” for whom I have ended up voting has become the norm.
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By Joe Conason — Who does Mitt Romney think he is fooling with this charade? Republicans are rightly concerned that his sense of entitlement, symbolized by the tax question, will damage their party’s chances next fall.
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Washington is pleased with Burma. The military-backed government instituted a series of human rights reforms, including a cease-fire with ethnic rebels and the release of allegedly hundreds of political prisoners, that allows the U.S. to do business with the strategically situated Asian country with reduced criticism.
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AP / NBC News / William B. Plowman
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Jack Lew is a liberal who worked for Speaker Tip O’Neill and studied under beloved progressive Sen. Paul Wellstone, but he was also the chief operating officer of a Citigroup unit and doesn’t fault deregulation for the shoddy economy. (more)
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By David Sirota — Here are 10 current words and phrases that my kid may never know because they might end up as relics of a lost vernacular, starting with “civil liberties.”
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By Joe Conason — Politicians and their flacks lie every day, but it is unusual for someone prominent to utter a totally indefensible falsehood like the whopper that just sprang from the mouth of Eric Cantor’s press secretary on national television.
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By Barry Lando — The downing of a sophisticated U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone over Iran is the latest ratcheting of tension among Washington, Tehran and Jerusalem.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — It was gratifying to hear a despotic leader blame the United States for the rise of a democratic protest movement against his regime.
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AP / Winslow Townson
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By Robert Scheer — Newt Gingrich’s hypocrisy concerning economic matters will prove more troubling than his sexual affairs as his chances of becoming president increase.
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Do the Occupiers know what they’re talking about when they chant, “We are the 99 percent!”? With a quick animation, The Guardian breaks down the key economic data representing the conditions that have brought thousands of the disempowered and discontented into the streets all across the country.
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Wikimedia Commons / Mike Edrington (CC-BY-SA)
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He’s a product of the most influential institutions of our country and has served in three administrations. But despite being entrenched within the system for the majority of his career, Robert Reich uses his powers for good, and that’s why he’s our Truthdigger of the Week. Update: Transcript.
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