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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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House Speaker's Office
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By Eugene Robinson — Conservatives are on a winning streak because they have a Big Idea that serves as an animating, motivating, unifying force. It happens to be a very bad idea, but it’s better than nothing—which, sadly, is what progressives have.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — What the country yearns for is moderation. What we hear about is the political center. But centrism has become the enemy of moderation.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Most Americans care more about jobs and the economy than debt, which is why Mitt Romney is campaigning on those issues while President Obama is caught up in the tea party’s priorities.
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By Eugene Robinson — There are basically two ways to reduce the debt as a percentage of GDP: Cut government spending or make the economy grow. The problem is that doing more of one means doing less of the other.
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AP / Paul Beaty
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By Bill Boyarsky — There is a deep-rooted wrongheadedness about the Republicans as they drag the country toward fiscal disaster. Those afflicted with this harmful thinking range from tea party extremists like Michele Bachmann to pundits such as Peggy Noonan.
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U.S. Air Force / Tech. Sgt. Jacob N. Bailey
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Leon Panetta seems to be confused about what administration he works for. On a world tour of America’s endless wars, the new defense secretary said to a gathering of troops in Iraq, “The reason you guys are here is because on 9/11 the United States got attacked.” (more)
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Here’s why getting to a deal on the debt ceiling is so complicated.
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Phil Roeder (CC-BY)
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The United States Supreme Court now sees its central task as comforting the already comfortable and afflicting those already afflicted.
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AP / Lauren Victoria Burke
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For good reason, there has been serious hand-wringing over what to do about the ethical lapses of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. There is clear precedent for how to deal with the justice. Thomas could be forced off the bench.
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woodleywonderworks (CC-BY)
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By Eugene Robinson — With the nation struggling to recover from a devastating recession, unemployment stuck at crisis levels, financial markets spooked by the possibility of European defaults and consumers disinclined to consume, it makes no earthly sense to suck money out of the economy.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Here are the key questions about Jon Huntsman’s presidential candidacy: Is he the American version of David Cameron? And is the Republican Party ready for a Cameron moment?
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In interviewing Joel Rogers—whom Glenn Beck and Andrew Breitbart consider the power behind the scenes of a vast left-wing conspiracy—radio host Ian Masters asks about the real power in the country: the right-wing juggernaut that is sweeping the land.
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Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — In an age of media flying circuses where you never know who is running for president and who is just trying to boost book sales and speaking fees, Mitt Romney did it the old-fashioned way.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Republicans who invented “death panels” out of whole cloth and insisted, falsely, that Obama’s health proposal was nothing but a “government takeover” have a lot of nerve complaining about the “demagoguery” against Rep. Paul Ryan.
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By David Sirota — In the name of curtailing deficits, politicians across the country are hacking away at programs that aim to make children healthier.
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AP / Lori Mehmen
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By Chris Hedges — The rapid and terrifying acceleration of global warming, which is disfiguring the ecosystem at a swifter pace than even the gloomiest scientific studies predicted a few years ago, has been confronted by the power elite with self-delusion.
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By Allen Barra — As Campaign 2012 looms large, it’s not exactly clear who or what will define the moment for conservatives—has the Tea Party Express run out of steam? Who will emerge as their rightful leader? These three reads give us some idea of where they’ve been and where they might be headed.
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By Joe Conason — It is hard to see why anyone was surprised by Newt Gingrich’s self-ignited implosion in the earliest hours of his presidential candidacy.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Bill Boyarsky — Presidential courage and convictions will be a strong underlying issue in Obama’s re-election campaign. Conservatives and progressives alike consider him gutless, despite evidence to the contrary.
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Davide Restivo (CC-BY-SA)
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By Amy Goodman — Right-wing media personality Andrew Breitbart is the forceful advocate of the slew of deceptively edited videos that target and smear progressive individuals and institutions.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — As if our political system was not having enough trouble already, we now confront the possibility that a highly partisan judiciary will undo a modest health care reform that is a first step toward resolving a slew of other difficulties.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Don’t expect to see a lot of newspapers and websites with this headline: “Big Government Bailout Worked.” But it would be entirely accurate.
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By Joe Conason — The performance of the president and those around him should permanently dispel the perennial right-wing slur against Democratic leaders as deficient in the strength and courage to defend our security.
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White House / Lawrence Jackson
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Candidate Obama was a persistent critic of George W. Bush’s use of signing statements. Now he’s catching heat for using one to protect four of his appointees from Congress’ hatchet. (more)
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — President Obama has finally decided to take his own side in the philosophical struggle that is the true engine of this nation’s budget debate.
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By Eugene Robinson — Far-right Republicans are winning the budget wars because they understand something that nobody else in Washington seems to grasp: The old truism about politics being the art of the possible is no longer true.
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — However the shutdown saga ends, the negotiating styles of the two sides ought to tell moderates that they can no longer pretend that the two ends of our politics are equally “extreme.”
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Put the two parts of Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget together—tax cuts for the rich, program cuts for the poor—and its radically redistributionist purposes become clear. Timid Democrats would never dare embark on class warfare on this scale the other way around.
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By Joe Conason — The paradoxes of Libya merely underline the broader problem that we face in the sudden democratic turmoil of the Mideast.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Leaders do not operate in a vacuum. When they make strategic adjustments, their opponents do too. President Obama has prompted just such a pivot by Republicans.
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By Richard Reeves — We are one lucky and better country to have, in a very short time, almost doubled our talent pool by opening our elite institutions and establishments to women.
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Mike Lester, Cagle Cartoons, The Rome News-Tribune —
Posted on Mar 21, 2011
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Mr. T in DC(CC-BY-ND)
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By Joe Conason — Somehow nobody asked the most obvious question: If NPR were truly slanted toward the liberal side, why would a phony tape of a private conversation be needed as proof?
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AP / Ben Curtis
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By Juan Cole — The claim that George W. Bush’s war of aggression against Iraq somehow opened up the Middle East to reform is an affront to the brave crowds that have risked their lives to change the American-backed order in that part of the world.
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theprojectveritas.com
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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Where there’s a conservative video sting allegedly capturing a liberal target saying something controversial, there’s highly manipulative editing. As Mark Sumner on the Daily Kos puts it, “The ACORN video was a fake. The Shirley Sherrod video was a fake. So why should anyone be surprised to find that the NPR video is also a fake?” (more)
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By David Sirota — Overwrought Reagan/Bush-era pop culture first equated “terrorist” with “Muslim,” using sporadic atrocities committed by individual Islamic extremists to demonize all Muslims.
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By Eugene Robinson — Rep. Peter King is about to convene hearings whose premise offends our nation’s founding ideals and whose targets are law-abiding members of a religious minority. King has decided to investigate Islam.
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AP / Mahesh Kumar A.
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By Chris Hedges — We seem condemned as a species to drive ourselves and our societies toward extinction, although this moment appears be the denouement to the whole sad show of settled, civilized life that began some 5,000 years ago.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Richard Nixon espoused what he called “the madman theory.” It’s a negotiating approach that induces the other side to believe you are capable of dangerously irrational actions and leads it to back down to avoid the wreckage your rage might let loose.
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By Joe Conason — Even in its terribly weakened condition, the labor movement remains a bulwark against the kind of corporate tyranny that would swiftly make serfs of the rest of us.
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The following excerpt from Robert Scheer’s book “The Great American Stickup” details the perversion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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By David Sirota — The Great Paradox—that is what future generations will likely call this era, and rightly so.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The president has proposed some serious spending cuts and some modest revenue increases to keep things stable. This annoys his deficit-obsessed critics. He should smile, let them rage, and go about his business.
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AP / Amr Nabil
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By Juan Cole — The hysteria in American media about Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is not only ignorant and demagogic, it is hypocritical.
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USDA
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The former U.S. Department of Agriculture official is suing conservative webmaster Andrew Breitbart for defamation. Sherrod was forced to resign after Breitbart posted a heavily edited video of a speech she gave, setting off a right-wing hullabaloo.
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By Eugene Robinson — Why don’t conservatives love freedom? Judging by last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, that’s a fair question.
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Reagan Library
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By Richard Reeves — When President Reagan left office in 1981, his legacy did not seem Mount Rushmore quality.
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Terracide and the Terrarists: Destroying the Planet for Record Profits
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