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White House/Pete Souza
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Seeking to clarify his “red line” position on the Syrian government’s possible use of chemical weapons, President Obama said Tuesday that he would consider a “range of options,” but he also urged patience.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013
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By Juan Cole — Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain have demanded that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev be charged as an “enemy combatant” rather than as an American civilian. I have to ask whether their use of the term is racist.
Posted on Apr 21, 2013
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AP/Julio Cortez
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After the capture of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, civil rights activists and officials are disputing whether it was acceptable for police to deprive him of his Miranda rights, and whether he should be classified as an enemy combatant and denied a lawyer.
Posted on Apr 20, 2013
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Ten years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the American war machine might be revving up for another strike, this time in Syria.
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
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AP/Hadi Mizban
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Nearly 10 years to the day after the start of the Iraq War, some 19 car bombs and a shooting in the country’s capital left 57 people dead, almost 200 wounded and many more wondering whether they’ll ever feel safe again.
Posted on Mar 20, 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 look at the day’s political happenings, including a prominent Republican’s endorsement of same-sex marriage and the fight over the looming sequester heats up on Twitter.
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
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By Robert Scheer — It is bizarre that Chuck Hagel, a war hero with a long record of sensible views on the deployment of military power, gets blocked as the president’s nominee to run the Pentagon, while Jack Lew, steeped in Wall Street greed, sails through as Treasury secretary.
Posted on Feb 14, 2013
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Sen. John McCain’s attempt at humor has seriously backfired once again. On Monday, the Arizona Republican tweeted a joke comparing Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the monkey the country claims it sent to outer space.
Posted on Feb 4, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including details on the newest version of Tennessee’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill and Denver’s mayor channels Ray Lewis after losing an NFL playoff bet.
Posted on Jan 31, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — On immigration, the parties are now competing to share credit for doing something big. It’s wonderful to behold.
Posted on Jan 30, 2013
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AP/Michael S. Green
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By Robert Scheer — Where are Phil and Wendy Gramm hiding now that UBS, like Enron before it, has been nailed by the G-men?
Posted on Dec 21, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a major backer of Mitt Romney’s failed presidential campaign lashing out at voters and what a new poll on gay marriage shows.
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Dec 4, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the climate change deal President Obama is quietly putting together behind the scenes and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s latest confrontation.
Posted on Dec 3, 2012
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White House/Pete Souza
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By Joe Conason — The opposition to Susan Rice is cobbled together from the remnants of a failed “October Surprise” election gambit, and has left President Obama little choice but to move ahead with her nomination.
Posted on Nov 29, 2012
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Nov 20, 2012
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Nov 17, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including an update on the “fiscal cliff” meetings between President Obama and congressional leaders, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker doing something rational for a change.
Posted on Nov 16, 2012
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, Politicalcartoons.com —
Posted on Nov 15, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Barney Frank and Ron Paul’s request about new marijuana laws and a look at the most bizarre post-election freak outs of 2012.
Posted on Nov 14, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Colin Powell offers his endorsement and yet another CEO tries to get his employees to vote for Mitt Romney.
Posted on Oct 25, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — I would be careful about declaring the presidential contest “a whole new race” following Wednesday’s debate.
Posted on Oct 4, 2012
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By Joe Conason — Watching him on video, the Republican nominee sounds not only vulgar and arrogant, but profoundly ignorant about the nation he hopes to govern.
Posted on Sep 24, 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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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the Republican National Convention keynote speaker revealed and Stephen Colbert offers some “praise” for Mitt Romney’s VP choice.
Posted on Aug 14, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including July fundraising totals for the presidential candidates and the Republican National Convention speaker lineup.
Posted on Aug 6, 2012
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Truthdig/Zuade Kaufman
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Since 2006, Truthdig has been proud to publish the essays of Gore Vidal. Keep reading for some of his highlights.
Posted on Aug 1, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including how Romney could come to the aid of so-called banksters, and John Boehner gives his VP pick.
Posted on Jul 27, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — The Capitol has become a cold, angry place where members not only don’t know each other, but will not make eye contact when they pass through those hallowed marble corridors.
Posted on Jul 22, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a DNC apology to Ann Romney and a new political attack ad that focuses on a bar called The Horny Toad and a stripper.
Posted on Jul 19, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including why John McCain deserves (gasp!) major props and new estimates on disenfranchisement due to state voter ID laws.
Posted on Jul 18, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — For those who believe money already has too much power in American politics, 2012 will be a miserable year.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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Photo by Gage Skidmore
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including an endorsement from Rand Paul (above), Obama’s “gift” to Republicans and Jon Stewart’s take on efforts in New York to criminalize soda and decriminalize pot.
Posted on Jun 8, 2012
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President Obama’s campaign is taking advantage of the fact that Mitt Romney seems unwilling to condemn Donald Trump for his take on the controversial birther conspiracy, releasing a new video highlighting the differences between how Romney and 2008 GOP presidential candidate John McCain handled personal attacks against Obama.
Posted on May 29, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — The problem for Mitt Romney, assuming he eventually wins the GOP nomination, is that a general election campaign isn’t really like an Etch A Sketch. Alas, traces from the primaries linger.
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By Mark O'Connell — It appears that recent events, which include the House Republicans’ selection of a panel of all-male “authorities” on women’s health and a certain conservative radio host calling a young woman advocate a “slut,” have amounted to a wake-up call for right-leaning women.
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Dan Bennett (CC-BY)
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If we did it in Libya, we should do it in Syria. So says Sen. John McCain, anyway, who put out the call Monday for the U.S. to lead a war effort to stop the slaughter of civilians in Syria by taking to the skies above the imploding Middle Eastern nation.
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John McCain and several other senators are trying to pass a measure to include the United States as part of the battlefield in the “war on terror,” allowing the U.S. military to jail American citizens without a trial; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donated to an enemy of public education; meanwhile, David Cameron was trying to blackmail the rest of Europe. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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Tucked into the National Defense Authorization Act, a Pentagon spending bill set to go before the Senate for a vote this week, is a truly scary provision that would give the military the ability to lock up terrorism suspects, or those so considered by the military, without trying or charging them. Americans included.
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For its first official foray into the Campaign 2012 TV ad space, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s publicity team decided to take a phrase Barack Obama once used as a quotation clearly sourced to someone else and attribute it to Obama himself. But relax everyone, it was on purpose!
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Wikimedia Commons / Carlos Latuff (CC-BY)
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Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain, you’re on notice. John McCain took to Twitter on Monday, being a cyber-savvy senator and all, to disapprove of the two GOP candidates’ pro-waterboarding stance, as stated at Saturday’s Republican presidential debate.
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AP / Carolyn Kaster
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By Fred Branfman — Nothing reveals the true state of American politics today more than the fact that Democratic President Barack Obama has left the Democratic Party far weaker than it would have been had McCain been elected.
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By Joe Conason — The decline of the Grand Old Party into an angry mob is gaining momentum, with crackpot rage displacing common sense on every major issue from public finance to marriage rights.
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Dan Bennett (CC-BY)
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While five wildfires burn up Arizona, Sen. John McCain has decided now is the perfect time for demagoguery. (more)
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