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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — At first glance, last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference looked like a hot mess. On closer inspection, it looked even worse.
Posted on Mar 18, 2013
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A military action that was sold to Americans as short and inexpensive may come to cost us $3.7 trillion; Sen. Rob Portman has come out in support of same-sex marriage thanks to his gay son, but doesn’t seem interested in women’s rights despite having a daughter; meanwhile, the hacker who brought you the Bush family’s emails has exposed communications between a White House adviser and the Clintons. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Mar 18, 2013
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Pavel Constantin, Cagle Cartoons, Romania —
Posted on Mar 18, 2013
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The New York Times columnist argues that the political elites and pundits who perpetuated the Bush administration’s disinformation and calls for war seem to have learned nothing from that experience. Case in point: the deficit obsession.
Posted on Mar 18, 2013
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren continues her crusade against big financial institutions and businesses, this time tearing apart an argument by a restaurant owner who testified before a Senate panel Thursday that raising the minimum wage would force businesses like his to fire employees.
Posted on Mar 18, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Do conservatives still believe in American greatness? The question is not intended to discourage the healthy debate being pushed by Rand Paul and his allies over whether Republicans in the George W. Bush years were too eager to deploy our country’s armed forces overseas. After the steep costs of the Iraq War, it is a very necessary discussion.
Posted on Mar 17, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including John Boehner’s explanation of why he’ll never support gay marriage and a CPAC participant’s shocking comments on slavery.
Posted on Mar 17, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Mar 17, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Mar 17, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 17, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Mar 17, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Mar 17, 2013
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“Raising the minimum wage from the current rate of $7.25 an hour to $9 should be a no-brainer,” the former labor secretary says.
Posted on Mar 17, 2013
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By Kim Barker, Pro Publica —
Although many watchdog organizations track how political committees raise money, few look at how the money is ultimately disbursed. PACs can spend their money as they want and often devote some of it to fundraising, but most spend the bulk of contributions on efforts clearly aimed at electing specific candidates.
Posted on Mar 17, 2013
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The Internet giant is seeking to replace your memorized passwords with jewelry; the tobacco and soda industries share more in common than you think; and is there such a thing as an ethical smartphone? These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Mar 15, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Mar 15, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Mar 15, 2013
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By David Sirota — An international body immersed in one drug (alcohol) yet telling governments to outlaw an objectively less harmful drug (marijuana) is biting comedy.
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a Reuters editor is indicted on suspicion of aiding hackers and Barack Obama wants Democratic lawmakers to know he’s not Dick Cheney.
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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By Robert Reich — The biggest problems we face are unemployment, stagnant wages, slow growth and widening inequality—not deficits. The major goal must be to get jobs and wages back, not balance the budget.
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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By Joe Conason — Someone needs to tell Paul Ryan that his party—and the economic platform of austerity and plutocracy he crafted for it—lost a national election last year.
Posted on Mar 13, 2013
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Most Wikipedia contributors are men, but that doesn’t justify the fact that females are so poorly represented on the site; much to many priests’ chagrin, the Roman Catholic Church unwittingly bought part of a building that houses Europe’s largest gay sauna; meanwhile, ZIP codes serve as more than just locating devices as they have come to define identities and divide communities. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Mar 13, 2013
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Authorities in Florida and five other states carried out a massive raid on a politically well-connected charity that has been called a fraud by the Internal Revenue Service.
Posted on Mar 13, 2013
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on Mar 13, 2013
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The broadcaster points out that President Obama, just like George W. Bush, is pushing his nominees through the revolving door between regulatory agencies and the banks they’re supposed to oversee.
Posted on Mar 12, 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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By Robert Reich — The Republican Party makeover is breathtaking. Now, suddenly, instead of accusing Democrats of being “redistributionists,” the GOP is posing as defender of the middle class against corporate America—and it’s doing so by proposing to do away with the most progressive piece of legislation in well over a decade.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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Rep. Paul Ryan has figured out a way to balance the budget: Give corporations and wealthy people tax breaks they don’t need while aggressively cutting health and social programs that middle and lower-income Americans do.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — If Rep. Paul Ryan wants people to take his budget manifestos seriously, he should be honest about his ambition: not so much to make the federal government fiscally sustainable as to make it smaller.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including details of a bipartisan agreement on immigration and the reason Donald Trump is willing to help the White House financially.
Posted on Mar 11, 2013
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By Robert Reich — Republicans lost the election but they still shape what’s debated in Washington—the federal budget deficit and so-called fiscal responsibility.
Posted on Mar 11, 2013
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By Juan Cole — Once again, the erratic president of Afghanistan had U.S. officials shaking their heads in disbelief after he gave a speech in which he blamed the interactions of the U.S. and the Taliban for his country’s security problems.
Posted on Mar 11, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Just when our politics seemed destined to freeze into a brain-dead brand of partisanship, party lines started cracking up.
Posted on Mar 11, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Mar 11, 2013
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 11, 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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Memo to congressional Republicans: You might want to stray from GOP talking points and stick to the facts when facing off against a Nobel Prize-winning economist unless you want to be called out for falsehoods.
Posted on Mar 10, 2013
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Mar 10, 2013
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“Some people do need killing,” the “Real Time” host said on his HBO program Friday. “It’s like what I say about the death penalty: Let’s just kill the right people.”
Posted on Mar 10, 2013
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By Tracy Bloom — The confirmation of John Brennan, the man tapped by President Obama to head the Central Intelligence Agency, appeared to be a slam dunk. That is, until Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., took to the Senate floor to begin a lengthy filibuster of Brennan’s nomination that served as a scathing indictment of the Obama administration’s targeted killings policy.
Posted on Mar 9, 2013
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