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By Eugene Robinson — Playing second fiddle to Mitt Romney won’t be easy, but somebody has to be his running mate.
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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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AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta
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Mitt Romney sure is acting like a man who has it in the bag, and he practically does after racking up more wins lately in the GOP primary sweepstakes. That means, of course, that it’s time to show President Obama what he’s got, and on Wednesday he threw down by accusing Obama of ... “rhetorical excess.” Wait, what?
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AP/Nam Y. Huh
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Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Wisconsin all went for Mitt on Tuesday night, making Rick Santorum look even more like a party crasher.
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Throughout the recession, Apple’s growth has brought hope to many; China’s creative class and human capital cannot catch up to the U.S.’; meanwhile, Western intervention in Afghanistan has obviously failed, but by how much? These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Apr 3, 2012
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Apr 3, 2012
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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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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Stuart Conner (CC-BY)
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By Kim Barker and Al Shaw, ProPublica —
For an example of the fluidity of campaign finance rules, as well as the tangled web of connections between candidates and super PACs, look no further than the digital consulting firm Targeted Victory.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By William Pfaff — European missile defense against the threat of hypothetical Iranian nuclear missile attack is a make-work project for the American aerospace industry and always has been.
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Flickr / Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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He doesn’t lack enthusiastic supporters, nor is his campaign short on cash, and he’s galvanized scores of younger voters. So why isn’t Ron Paul able to clinch the Republican presidential nomination—or even come within spitting distance—this time around?
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Fake photographs of Trayvon Martin are being used to diminish public concern about his killing; emails and other documents of the Department of Homeland Security reveal that the hacktivist group Anonymous was investigated as a dangerous security threat; Egyptian women are finding ways to express their revolutionary voices through music. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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Flickr / World Economic Forum
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When American politicians have flashbacks to a Cold War mentality, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is ready with a comeback and a friendly reminder to quit it with the ’70s nostalgia, as he did Tuesday in response to a comment Mitt Romney made the day before about Russia being America’s “No. 1 geopolitical foe.”
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Clarifying moments are rare in politics. Over the last week, Americans were blessed with three.
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Washington Examiner —
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President Obama speaks out on the killing of unarmed Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Is it right for a president to weigh in on a federal investigation? Listen in as Robert Scheer, Warren Olney and Shawn Steel take a crack at this question on “Left, Right & Center.”
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By Richard Reeves — Right-wingers and other fools believe that the "mainstream" media are devoted to electing lefties to public office so we can turn the United States into Sweden. In fact all we want is the campaign to go on forever.
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AP / Jacquelyn Martin
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By Bill Boyarsky — What’s a pittance for a super PAC can buy a state senator, beginning with financing a campaign and continuing support into the statehouse. These campaigns to take over state governments will grow as business sees the possibilities.
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AP / Steven Senne
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By Robert Scheer — With Mitt Romney’s super-PAC limo now on cruise control to victory at the GOP convention, voters are left with only two reasons to vote against Barack Obama.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The Republican presidential primaries this year have turned into a religious census. There is little precedent in modern politics for the extent to which a state’s choice for a nominee has coincided so closely with how many of its ballots were cast by white evangelical voters.
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AP / Sue Ogrocki
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It’s not exactly a bold or risky move at this point—more like he knows which way the wind blows—but former Florida governor and current Bush clan member Jeb Bush has pledged his support to Mitt Romney’s campaign for the presidency.
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By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout —
A group of right-wing extremists would have the American public believe it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of a market society.
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Karger Campaign
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By Howie Stier — Fred Karger is a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination—one of five remaining, if you count him.
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AP / Nam Y. Huh
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The fact that Newt Gingrich, who has done little to impress in this Republican primary, can afford to stay in the race tells you why Mitt Romney’s huge win in Illinois on Tuesday night actually means very little.
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Photo illustration from an image by League of Women Voters of California
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By Eugene Robinson — Thus far, the 2012 presidential campaign has been unfocused, dispiriting and largely irrelevant. By the time Election Day comes, a weary nation will be at the point of pulling the covers over its head and screaming, “Somebody, please, make it stop.”
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AP / Steven Senne
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Maybe he should hold this kind of optimistic talk until after the election, but on Monday, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said he thinks things are looking up for our recession-ravaged economy. Just not as much as they would have been had he been in charge over these last three years.
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Who benefits if Republicans head to Tampa, Fla., at the end of August without a decisive winner? President Obama’s poll numbers are down with gas prices up. But what can he do about it?
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AP / David Goldman
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By Bill Boyarsky — Conservative super PACs, along with Republican presidential and congressional candidates, are aiming at President Barack Obama’s health care reform, figuring that “Obamacare” and the program’s shaky support will be a deadly weapon against Democrats facing a difficult election year.
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By Richard Reeves — The "values" voters are going to be disappointed, perhaps enraged, if President Obama is re-elected or if he is replaced by Mitt Romney. Their next move then will be to try to change the electoral system.
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By Eugene Robinson — If Rick Santorum wants to keep Mitt Romney from wrapping up the Republican nomination before the convention, he should encourage Newt Gingrich to stay in the race, not drop out.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Republicans cannot shut down their presidential nominating contest because the party is in the midst of an upheaval wrought by the terror the GOP rank and file has stirred among the more moderately conservative politicians who once ran things.
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AP / Eric Gay
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Not to rain on Rick Santorum’s parade, but Mitt Romney’s campaign was unusually on the level when it dismissed Santorum’s victories in the Deep South on Tuesday night.
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Still running to his right, Mitt Romney tells Fox News that rival Rick Santorum isn’t sufficiently fiscally conservative to be his vice president.
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Flickr / 401K (CC-BY-SA)
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With less than eight months until Election Day, President Obama is getting trounced in the super PAC department—partly by design, as Obama only recently capitulated to this democratically challenged trend, but also because certain members of a particular class of Democratic donor aren’t too keen on giving money this way if it contributes to a larger problem.
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By Jasmin Ramsey, AlterNet —
Amid media reports on the possible approach of war, rhetoric demonizing the Iranian government is rampant, much of it untrue.
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Mar 9, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Unless Ron Paul somehow wins the nomination, it looks as if a vote for the Republican presidential candidate this fall will be a vote for war with Iran.
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By Richard Reeves — Mitt Romney clearly has no idea what his party stands for and is running against. To put it in Rick Santorum’s words, “It comes down to sex. That’s what it’s all about.”
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RJ Matson, Roll Call —
Posted on Mar 7, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Mitt Romney is grinding his way to the Republican presidential nomination not by winning hearts but by imposing his will on a party that keeps resisting him.
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AP / Charles Dharapak
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By Bill Boyarsky — On Super Tuesday, the most important matter facing the country was not who will win the Republican presidential nomination but whether Israel will drag the United States into a war with Iran.
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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After the jump are the primary and caucus results from Super Tuesday, with 416 delegates in 10 states at stake. Updated
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By Eugene Robinson — So let’s get this straight: These guys want us to believe they’re ready to face down Vladimir Putin, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong Un, the Taliban and what’s left of al-Qaida. Yet they’re scared of a talk-radio buffoon.
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The end of Andrew Breitbart, the week in politics and movie theater owners threaten to treat a documentary about bullies as an NC-17 film.
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