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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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“Every president in this century should be put on trial,” the professor and former Weather Underground member said. “Every one of them goes into an office dripping with blood and then adds to it. And, yes, I think that these are war crimes. I think that they’re acts of terror.”
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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By Paul Kiel, ProPublica —
Bank of America employees regularly lied to homeowners seeking loan modifications, denied their applications for made-up reasons, and were rewarded for sending homeowners to foreclosure, according to sworn statements by former bank employees.
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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The former half-term Alaska governor/reality television star/famed quitter’s return Monday to Fox News (on the equally ridiculous “Fox & Friends” no less) gave interim “Daily Show” host John Oliver a great idea.
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands —
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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Manny Francisco, Cagle Cartoons, Manila, The Phillippines —
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — In Syria, the Obama administration seems to be stumbling back to the future: An old-fashioned proxy war, complete with the usual shadowy CIA arms-running operation, the traditional plan to prop up ostensible “moderates” whose prospects are doubtful and, of course, the customary shaky grasp of what the fighting is really about.
Posted on Jun 17, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including President Obama’s poll numbers take a dive amid controversies plaguing his administration and a new report says Virginia’s Republican governor is using taxpayer dollars for personal expenses.
Posted on Jun 17, 2013
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The 0.001% of the world comprise a class all of their own, spanning several nations and holding 40% of global wealth; some activists are turning away from industrial agriculture and back to the Native Americans’ approach to harvesting; meanwhile, in an age flooded with tweets, videos and blogs, how are readers expected to wade through the news? These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jun 17, 2013
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In his latest flub, the Texas governor demonstrates why he is still the reigning champion of the political gaffe.
Posted on Jun 17, 2013
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According to The Washington Post, some of the top officials who served during the George W. Bush administration, including the man whom President Obama may tap to become the next head of the FBI, threatened to resign nine years ago upon learning that then-President Bush had ordered the NSA to begin collecting metadata on emails and Skype calls placed within the U.S.
Posted on Jun 17, 2013
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After its recent revelation that the National Security Agency is monitoring the phone records and Internet activity of millions of Americans, The Guardian reported Sunday that the U.S. and Britain monitored and intercepted the digital communications of foreign officials during two international conferences in London.
Posted on Jun 17, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jun 17, 2013
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on Jun 17, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Jun 17, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Iran elects a new president and the latest Gallup poll reveals which societal institution Americans have the least amount of confidence in.
Posted on Jun 16, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Those who defend our economic status quo have other alibis. We don’t need to make any structural changes in our economy, the argument goes. People who want to advance just need to understand that our new economic circumstances place a very high premium on education. Get a good education, and you will do OK.
Posted on Jun 16, 2013
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Jun 16, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Jun 16, 2013
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On CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday morning, Denis McDonough defended the Obama administration’s sweeping surveillance methods, which were recently revealed in a series of blockbuster reports by The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald.
Posted on Jun 16, 2013
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By Robert Reich — There are two great centers of unaccountable power in the American political-economic system today—places where decisions that significantly affect large numbers of Americans are made in secret, and are unchecked either by effective democratic oversight or by market competition.
Posted on Jun 16, 2013
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Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, The International Herald Tribune —
Posted on Jun 16, 2013
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on Jun 16, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Jun 16, 2013
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Martin Sutovec, Cagle Cartoons, Slovakia —
Posted on Jun 14, 2013
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jun 14, 2013
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Jeremy Nell, Cagle Cartoons, The New Age, South Africa —
Posted on Jun 14, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Jun 14, 2013
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Recent lawsuits could render the latest form of in-office slavery obsolete; an LGBT group visits a paradisiacal island to honor gays once relegated there under Mussolini’s fascist rule; meanwhile, death squads in Honduras are still fueled by U.S. dollars. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jun 14, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — The words “Antonin Scalia was right” do not flow easily for me. But the court’s most uncompromising conservative was correct when he issued a dire-sounding warning from the bench: “Make no mistake about it: Because of today’s decision, your DNA can be taken and entered into a national database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason.”
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Sen. Marco Rubio’s immigration reform bill threat and the circumstances in which Ann Coulter thinks the Republican Party “deserves to die.”
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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Manny Francisco, Cagle Cartoons, Manila, The Phillippines —
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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How does the Fox News host feel about the federal government collecting information on millions of Americans? Well, that depends. According to clips compiled by Media Matters, Hannity’s position regarding government surveillance is evidently based entirely on who happens to be occupying the Oval Office at the time.
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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By Ralph Nader —
If President Obama sweats the small stuff, he will empower the American people to take greater charge of their government and their future over the destructive and cowardly corporatism that now dominates Washington, D.C.
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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Transgender people face discrimination every time they go to restrooms marked men or women; as the NSA destroys our sense of privacy, perhaps rather than looking to Orwell’s “1984,” we should brush up on our Kafka; meanwhile, journalist Phyllis Richman responds decades later to a misogynistic letter from a Harvard professor regarding married women pursuing graduate studies. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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