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Ear to the Ground: The Charge of the Light Brigade

A/V Booth: What White House? Huckabee Digs Fox News

Reports: Fighting Extremism With Civility

Cartoons: Peace Removement

Cartoons: Obama Land Mine Policy [A Cartoon From Germany]

Cartoons: Thanks but No Thanks

Reports: Mammogram Backlash Is About Mistrust

Reports: Colbert Conservatives and Military Waste

Reports: Understanding Our Hollow ‘Centrists’

Reports: Like It or Not, Health Care Mandate Is Constitutional

Reports: Delay Worked for Kennedy

Reports: Books, Not Bombs

Reports: Obama Risks Losing His Judicial Prize

Reports: To Your Health—and Mine

Ear to the Ground: Lieberman Won’t Budge on Health Care

Ear to the Ground: Over 30 Civilians Killed in Philippines Massacre

Reports: Refuse Allegiance to Coal

Ear to the Ground: Give Kennedy His Cracker

Cartoons: Beautiful Steamer

Reports: Obama’s Third Way in Afghanistan

Cartoons: Showdown

Reports: Enough G-2 Talk Already

A/V Booth: Throw the Money Changers Out of the Temple

A/V Booth: Hedges and Friends Debate Illusion, Conservatism and 9/11

Reports: Lipstick on a Rogue

Reports: GOP Obstruction Goes Unnoticed—and Unpunished

Reports: Three Abortion Coverage Myths

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Says Hasta la Vista, Baby, to Politics

Reports: Catholic Bishops Put Sex Obsession Ahead of the Sick and the Poor

Reports: Our Rogue Evita

Ear to the Ground: Senate Liberals to Majority Leader: No More Compromise

Ear to the Ground: 1 in 7 Americans Went Hungry in 2008

Reports: We Need a Civilian ‘ROTC’

Ear to the Ground: Obama Has Tough Love for China

Cartoons: The Righter

Reports: Bring Them Home, Mr. President

Reports: Where Are the Real Deficit Hawks?

Reports: Testing Next Year’s Lies Today

Reports: Where Does the Caving End?

Reports: Don’t Let Abortion Destroy Health Care Reform

Reports: Gorbachev’s Sermon on the Mount

Reports: Department of Health Care Misinformation

Cartoons: Missed Me

Cartoons: Say You Want a Revolution

Reports: A Disappointing Year With Obama

Reports: When Voters Disrupt the Tea Party

Cartoons: GOP Health Care Plan

Reports: Kucinich: Why I Voted No

Ear to the Ground: House Passes Health Care Bill

Reports: Sen. George McGovern on the Presidency From Lincoln to Obama

A/V Booth: Obama to Tribal Nations: ‘You Will Not Be Forgotten’

Reports: Scott Ritter on Afghanistan: Don’t Believe the Hype

Reports: The GOP’s Toxic Tea Party

Reports: Not Right Wing but Still Angry

Reports: McGovern: Get Out of Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Maine Repeals Gay Marriage

Ear to the Ground: Dems Win N.Y. Consolation Prize

Cartoons: Open House

Reports: 2009 Elections Don’t Foretell a Thing

Ear to the Ground: Republican Wins in New Jersey, Too

Reports: Today’s U.S. Army and Its Ambitions

Ear to the Ground: Bill Clinton vs. George W. Bush

Truthdig Podcast: Scott Ritter on Afghanistan: Don’t Believe the Hype

Reports: The Best Justice That Money Can Buy

Reports: A Record You Can Believe In

Ear to the Ground: Without an Opponent, Karzai Declared Winner

Ear to the Ground: New York 3-Way Gets Even More Interesting

A/V Booth: Obama Will Deal With Karzai

Reports: The Battle to Define the New Health Care System

Cartoons: Wish Upon a Star

Reports: McChrystal Doesn’t Get It—Does Obama?

Ear to the Ground: Tony Blair Isn’t Conservative Enough to Be President of Europe

Ear to the Ground: Pot Politics: California Could Go All the Way

Reports: Hug Obama, Find the Moderates

Reports: The Party of Choice

Ear to the Ground: House Dems Water Down Public Option

Ear to the Ground: Blue Dog Fundraising Dries Up

Reports: Arrogant U.S. Misses the Message From Pakistan’s People

Ear to the Ground: Surprise! Lieberman Stabs Dems in the Back

Ear to the Ground: Senate Bill Will Include Public Option

A/V Booth: Robert Reich: Make a Ruckus

Reports: War Is a Hate Crime

Reports: End of the Line for a Political Legend?

Ear to the Ground: Don’t Ruin the Public Option for Everyone Else, Arkansas

Reports: A Tale of Two Supermen—and Their Drugs

Reports: Where Have All the Ramparts Gone?

Truthdig Podcast: Where Have All the Ramparts Gone?

Reports: Blinded by Reform

Reports: Playing Monopoly With America’s Health

Reports: Don’t Worry About Us Seniors

Reports: GOP Civil War Flares in New York

Ear to the Ground: Attn. Senate: Most Americans Want a Public Option

A/V Booth: Daffy Ducks Peck at Corrupt Politicians

A/V Booth: Progressive Group Targets Harry Reid

Reports: Obama Can’t Lose the Young

Reports: A Down-and-Out Route for Rush

Reports: When Did Olympia Snowe Become Queen of America?

Ear to the Ground: Sorry Grandma, No COLA for You

Reports: Looking for a Middle Class

Reports: A Nobel for Defeating Cheneyism

Cartoons: Diagnosis

Reports: In Search of Great Men

Ear to the Ground: Why Stop at a Web Site When You Can Redesign the Whole Party?

Ear to the Ground: Limbaugh’s Politics May Mean Trouble for NFL Bid

Reports: Bribe, Vote, Repeat

Reports: Why Do Conservatives Hate America?

A/V Booth: Glenn Beck Goes to War

Cartoons: Failure Fail

Reports: Prizing Peace on the Home Front

Ear to the Ground: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Reports: Unintended Consequences in Nuclear Pakistan

Reports: Rangel’s Portrait of Corruption

Ear to the Ground: Pelosi Responds to Republicans’ Sexist Nonsense

A/V Booth: Keith Olbermann: Saving American Lives

Reports: Meltdown After the Meltdown

Reports: Stimulation Without the S-Word

Reports: Why Obama Must Spend More

Ear to the Ground: Conservatives Stripping ‘Liberal Bias’ From the Bible

Ear to the Ground: How Fox News Rigs Polls

Ear to the Ground: D.C. Expected to Legalize Gay Marriage

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Pumps Up Health Care Reform

Reports: The Missing Health Care Debate

Reports: A Slippery Slope on Guns

Ear to the Ground: Migration Is a Win-Win-Win

Reports: Put a Sock in it, Stan

Ear to the Ground: Obama Pressures Senate on Public Option

Reports: War Kills Off Great Reform Movements

Reports: Pox Americana: The Real Cost of Bailing Out Wall Street

Reports: Who’s in Charge: Obama, Congress or the Military?

Reports: ‘Socialism’ and Sham in the Senate

Arts and Culture: Capitalism Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

Reports: Communist China Turns 60—and Reveals Its Insecurities

A/V Booth: Congressman: Republicans Are ‘Knuckle-Dragging Neanderthals’

Reports: Obama’s Afghanistan Dilemma

Reports: A Question of Health—and Equality

Reports: Making Tragedy Out of Farce

Reports: The Public Option Only Looks Dead

Reports: In Europe, the Left Has Run Out of Gas

Reports: Washington Plays the Idiot With Guantanamo

Ear to the Ground: Can America Have Too Much Cheney?

Cartoons: Aw Jesus!

Reports: Massachusetts Looks for Life After Teddy

Ear to the Ground: William Safire Dead at 79

Reports: Reflections on the ‘Godfather’ of Neoconservatism

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Global Warming Denied, Plus Iran’s Nukes

Ear to the Ground: House Votes to Pay Nation’s Bills, Tosses In a Bit for Itself

Reports: Let Blue Dogs Face the Music

Ear to the Ground: Is Byrd’s Health a Factor for Health Reform?

A/V Booth: Glenn Beck the Frog Killer?

Reports: The Truth About Two Racists—Beck and Limbaugh

Reports: Health Reform Money Is Aimed at Red States

Reports: Obama TV: How the President Revived Health Care

Reports: The Worst Type of Cad

Ear to the Ground: Shady Deal Showered Top Blue Dog With Cash

Reports: President Zelaya and the Audacity of Action

A/V Booth: Obama: ‘I Was Actually Black Before the Election’

Reports: A Clunker, Not a Cadillac

Ear to the Ground: Newspaper Bailout? Maybe, but Don’t Hold Your Breath

Reports: Talk of Bipartisanship Is Now Thoroughly Warped

Truthdig Podcast: Where Did All These Marchers Come From?

Reports: Where Did All These Marchers Come From?

Reports: Selective Deficit Disorder

Reports: Jimmy Carter Is Right

Ear to the Ground: Did Somebody Spike Sen. Grassley’s Ovaltine?

Ear to the Ground: Massachusetts Close to Replacing Kennedy With a Temp

Ear to the Ground: Obama Punts Missile Shield, Russians Dance the Kalinka

A/V Booth: Bill O’Reilly Wants a Public Option

Reports: Joe Wilson’s Confederate Cronies

Reports: Testing the Obama Effect

Reports: Clinging to Civility

Cartoons: Electoral Dysfunction

Ear to the Ground: Bill Clinton Picks a Horse in Cali Governor Race

Ear to the Ground: Baucus Bill Lands With a Whimper

Ear to the Ground: Meet Josef Stalin, ‘Competent Manager’

Cartoons: Obama Lectures Wall Street

A/V Booth: Tea-Baggers March on Washington, Have No Idea Why

Ear to the Ground: Santorum Wants to Be President, Has a Poo Problem

Reports: The Other Public Options

Reports: Wall Street Is Still Playing the Odds

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s White House Is Woman and Girl Crazy—in a Good Way

A/V Booth: Kanye Heckles Obama?

Cartoons: Appease and Carrots

Reports: Stop Begging Obama and Get Mad

Reports: Wilson and Our National Character

Ear to the Ground: Is Rep. Joe Wilson Winning?

Cartoons: Obama M.D. [A Cartoon From Germany]

Reports: We’ve Seen This Trigger Before

Reports: No Way to Treat a President

Ear to the Ground: Insurance Stocks Rise After Obama Speech

Reports: A Speech Even Insurance Companies Could Love

Reports: A Perfect Storm of Idiocy

Reports: Obama’s Health Care Reset

Reports: Full Text of the President’s Speech to Congress

A/V Booth: Video: Obama’s Health Care Speech to Congress

A/V Booth: Obama Heckled During Speech

Ear to the Ground: Ted Kennedy’s Letter From Beyond the Grave

Ear to the Ground: Republicans Ask Reformed Birther to Rebut Obama

Ear to the Ground: Afghans React to Vote Fraud

Reports: Van Jones and the Boycott of Glenn Beck

Reports: The United States of Plutocracy

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