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By Baratunde Thurston
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By Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Sen. John McCain’s hypocrisy on “secret emails” and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s revelation about the scary way a GOP-controlled Senate would act.
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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Democrats in Wisconsin do not have the power to defeat a bill favored by the state’s legislature and governor that would require women to have an ultrasound before they can have an abortion.
Posted on Jun 12, 2013
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AP/Kin Cheung
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By Robert Scheer — Whistle-blower Edward Snowden worked for a private company that got 98 percent of its $5.8 billion last year from the taxpayers, who are the same folks being spied upon.
Posted on Jun 11, 2013
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Michelle Obama’s confrontation with a lesbian activist signals the beginning of a push to turn up the heat on the president by the LGBT community; Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s calling protesters “looters” exemplifies why his country is seeing so much unrest; meanwhile, as Occupy Wall Street participants exerted their First Amendment rights, their cellphones were being logged. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jun 10, 2013
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By Robert Reich — Conservative Republicans in our nation’s capital have managed to accomplish something they only dreamed of when tea partyers streamed into Congress at the start of 2011: They’ve basically shut Congress down.
Posted on Jun 9, 2013
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A new report from the corporate lobby would be laughable if it wasn’t being taken seriously by media outlets.
Posted on Jun 6, 2013
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A sexist article in The New York Times tries to make it sound like male aides carrying female politicians’ handbags is wrong and, perhaps worse, newsworthy; members of the LGBT community are being treated like second-class citizens in America; meanwhile, a company relied on the First Amendment to justify its immoral use of private information found on pharmaceutical prescriptions. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jun 5, 2013
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Given his personal familiarity with investigations—hey, he’s been on the receiving end of them a number of times!—Congressman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., is uniquely qualified to chair the House Oversight Committee, according to Salon editor-at-large Joan Walsh.
Posted on Jun 4, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jun 4, 2013
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jun 3, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Jun 2, 2013
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By David Sirota — Coastal blue states are now typically presented in the national press as one giant Berkeley campus while heartland red states are portrayed as a confederacy of “Dukes of Hazzard” sets.
Posted on May 31, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — With budgetary tantrums in the Senate and investigative play-acting in the House, the Republican Party is proving once again that it simply cannot be taken seriously.
Posted on May 31, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on May 30, 2013
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By Robert Scheer — The big banks’ influence in Washington has only grown in direct proportion to the harm they have caused to the nation’s economy.
Posted on May 27, 2013
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By Robert Reich — Who needs Republicans when Wall Street has the Democrats? With the help of congressional Democrats, the Street is rolling back financial reforms enacted after its near meltdown.
Posted on May 26, 2013
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By Richard Reeves — Here’s a modest idea to break the gridlock, the stupidity, the meanness, the partisan lying and irresponsible ineffectiveness of modern Washington. We should consider returning to the Middle Ages.
Posted on May 21, 2013
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on May 21, 2013
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By Joe Conason — Having served in Congress for more than three decades—and in the upper chamber since 1996—Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden has established a reputation as one of the Senate’s more serious and diligent members.
Posted on May 16, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 13, 2013
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John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on May 12, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on May 11, 2013
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Yes, the same Mark Sanford who as governor of South Carolina in 2009 blew off Father’s Day for a love jaunt to Argentina just persuaded the state’s Bible Belt voters to give him another chance.
Posted on May 7, 2013
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By Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica —
Among other effects, cancer clinics in March began turning away thousands of Medicare patients being treated with expensive chemotherapy drugs, which the clinics say they can no longer afford.
Posted on May 7, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on May 7, 2013
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By Robert Scheer — The president has chosen to fill two key Cabinet positions dealing with business practices with people who specialized in financial rip-offs.
Posted on May 7, 2013
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on May 6, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on May 6, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on May 4, 2013
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When female writers disappeared from the Wikipedia heading “American novelists,” more than a few eyebrows were raised; Pvt. Bradley Manning being revoked as grand marshal of the San Francisco Gay Pride parade proves that the military-industrial complex rules all; meanwhile, another price-fixing scandal reminiscent of Libor is about to explode. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on May 1, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Apr 30, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Apr 29, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The policy mystery of our time is why politicians in the United States and across much of the democratic world are so obsessed with deficits when their primary mission ought to be bringing down high and debilitating rates of unemployment.
Posted on Apr 28, 2013
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Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — The nation demonstrated again last week how resolute it can be when threatened by murderous terrorists—and how helpless when ordered to heel by smug lobbyists for the gun industry.
Posted on Apr 23, 2013
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“You don’t ignore 90 percent of what the voting population wants when you’re talking about the safety of Americans,” the MSNBC host said. “This sort of extremism is going to be called out.”
Posted on Apr 18, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Apr 15, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The heroic and inspiring role played by the families of the Sandy Hook massacre’s victims should not be used to create what would be a dangerously misleading narrative about how they changed the politics of guns.
Posted on Apr 14, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Apr 12, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Apr 9, 2013
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