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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Rep. Darrell Issa decides to withdraw a subpoena related to the Benghazi hearings and a top IRS official pleads the Fifth.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — The unwarranted snooping, which was revealed last week, would be troubling enough if it were an isolated incident. But it is part of a pattern that threatens to redefine investigative reporting as criminal behavior.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a GOP candidate once trying to criminalize not reporting a miscarriage to police and Bob Woodward delivers some bad news for Republicans.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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Posted on May 18, 2013
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The Other 98%, a group loosely associated with Occupy Wall Street, is trying to raise enough cash to outbid Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers in their efforts to buy the Tribune Company, owner of the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore Sun, among other newspapers.
Posted on May 17, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a rosy economic forecast is released and the IRS scandal leads to at least one resignation.
Posted on May 15, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Apr 23, 2013
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Journalist Mike Whitney praised the Truthdig editor in chief for being “the only voice on the left” to defend former Reagan budget director David Stockman against an “army of toffeenose pundits” who failed to honor the essential truth of Stockman’s controversial New York Times op-ed.
Posted on Apr 11, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including RNC Chairman Reince Priebus accuses Democrats of supporting “infanticide” and the big obstacle Mark Sanford faces in his political comeback.
Posted on Apr 3, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the NRA’s new plan to make schools “safer” and Bill Maher scores a small victory against Donald Trump.
Posted on Apr 2, 2013
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The actor has escalated the feud between himself and Fox News over his anti-gun Funny or Die video “Cold Dead Hand” by mocking the cable news channel for the criticism it has leveled against him.
Posted on Mar 31, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a Texas congressman’s run-in with the law and Ashley Judd’s big political announcement.
Posted on Mar 27, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Nate Silver makes a prediction about gay marriage and North Dakota sticks it to women by enacting the nation’s strictest abortion law.
Posted on Mar 26, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a bold prediction by MSNBC’s president and the launch of a pro-marijuana super PAC.
Posted on Mar 25, 2013
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A number of tea partyers are under the delusion that Fox News, the right-wing’s treasured network for all things skewed and biased toward conservatives, is making a hard turn to the left.
Posted on Mar 24, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Sen. Rand Paul’s “news flash” for Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, and Sen. Saxby Chambliss tells a reporter that “I’m not gay. So I’m not going to marry one.”
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
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Although polls show a majority of Americans now believe the invasion of Iraq 10 years ago was a mistake, Eric Bolling expressed the opposite sentiment.
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Sarah Palin announces her next book project and Iran mulls a lawsuit against Hollywood.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Susan Rice being considered for another political appointment and a GOP strategist criticizes the Republican Party’s outreach to women.
Posted on Mar 10, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a new poll reveals the early favorite for the 2016 presidential race and a possible culprit is named in Los Angelenos’ apathy toward this week’s mayoral election.
Posted on Mar 7, 2013
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A new book on Roger Ailes reveals that the Fox News president doesn’t have a lot of nice things to say about some of the country’s current and former leaders.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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The “O’Reilly Factor” host is known for sometimes throwing vitriolic and angry tantrums on his Fox News program, but his rage reached a new level Tuesday night when he erupted at liberal guest Alan Colmes.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including John Roberts being called out for a big error in the Voting Rights Act case and former NBA star Dennis Rodman defends his “good friend” Kim Jong Un.
Posted on Mar 3, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including GOP infighting involving Karl Rove and the latest Republican-led assault on women’s rights.
Posted on Feb 7, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the death of the Virginia GOP’s gerrymandering scheme and a Republican lawmaker in Idaho who wants to make Ayn Rand required reading in high school.
Posted on Feb 6, 2013
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The right-wing cable news channel, perhaps finally aware that Morris is no Nate Silver, has reportedly revoked the Republican cheerleader’s conservative pollster’s right to spew nonsense on its airwaves.
Posted on Feb 6, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a Republican flip-flop on immigration reform and Chris Christie pokes fun at himself on “The Late Show with David Letterman.”
Posted on Feb 5, 2013
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Studies have shown nearly all climatologists support the science of global warming. But don’t try telling that to Brian Kilmeade, who has never let facts get in the way of his opinions and beliefs.
Posted on Feb 5, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the government’s pending legal action against S&P and Joe Scarborough becomes the latest conservative to smack down the NRA.
Posted on Feb 4, 2013
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The National Rifle Association may want to consider adding conservative media outlet Fox News—or at least “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace—to its enemies list after Wallace took on NRA chief Wayne LaPierre during a tense interview Sunday morning.
Posted on Feb 3, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including John Kerry’s Senate replacement named and the GOP’s failing attempt to rig the 2016 presidential election.
Posted on Jan 30, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Jan 30, 2013
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After the split between Palin and Fox News, a new study reveals the real cost of the network’s decision three years ago to hire the former Alaska governor as an analyst.
Posted on Jan 28, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Michelle Obama’s social media foray and word on Karl Rove’s future at Fox News.
Posted on Jan 17, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Jamie Dimon’s “punishment” for a massive trading loss and Jimmy Kimmel spoofs the gun control debate.
Posted on Jan 16, 2013
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The U.S. Army presence is rapidly increasing in Africa, especially in countries with alleged ties to al-Qaida; according to Fox News, teaching children algebra is just another liberal ploy; meanwhile, some researchers have started studying the effects of the “natural experiment” resulting from China’s one-child policy. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 14, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including President Obama’s picks to round out his national security team, Hillary Clinton’s first day back at work since suffering a concussion and Donald Trump running his mouth again.
Posted on Jan 7, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including President Obama’s reported pick for secretary of defense and why Joe Biden could be America’s next reality TV star (or not).
Posted on Jan 4, 2013
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Perhaps the bookers over at Fox News decided to get Rep. Adam Smith, one of 16 Democrats who voted against the fiscal cliff deal, on “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday because they thought the congressman would agree with the program’s hosts. If that was the case, they were sorely mistaken.
Posted on Jan 2, 2013
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Two of the top conservative commentators on Fox News saw their ratings plummet after Barack Obama’s re-election victory in November.
Posted on Jan 1, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the late Sen. Daniel Inouye’s last political wish and the worst pundit predictions of this year.
Posted on Dec 24, 2012
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The conservative cable news channel may have hit its lowest point in its annual coverage of the mythical war. And that’s saying a lot.
Posted on Dec 20, 2012
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Dec 16, 2012
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How does one explain the massacre of 20 children at a school in Connecticut? Madness? A society that values gun rights ahead of human life? No. The answer, according to former Arkansas governor and Fox News commentator Mike Huckabee, is the secularization of schools.
Posted on Dec 14, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year” revealed and Bill O’Reilly responds to news of a “war on Christmas” victory.
Posted on Dec 12, 2012
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A video that shows Steven Crowder getting punched in the face and threatened with gun violence in the midst of a right-to-work protest in Lansing, Mich., may have been heavily edited.
Posted on Dec 12, 2012
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