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Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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The New Yorker has published an insightful, if unsurprising, profile of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, detailing how the young lawmaker became a champion of today’s form of arch-libertarianism and how he’s worked to push that ideology into the mainstream of the Republican Party.
Posted on Aug 9, 2012
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Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Tea party insurgent Ted Cruz trounced Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, the candidate supported by Gov. Rick Perry, in the race for the GOP U.S. Senate nomination in Texas, suggesting that the tea party could overtake the state’s Republican political establishment.
Posted on Aug 1, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including some bad news for the California Republican Party and a Mitt Romney ballad you won’t want to miss.
Posted on Jul 23, 2012
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AP/LM Otero
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Social Security. The United Nations. Mandatory immunizations. Critical thinking. Implanting a radio chip in your body. It sounds like a pretty random list, but in reality these are all things Paul Begala found that Texas Republicans opposed when he read the state GOP’s platform.
Posted on Jul 9, 2012
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Photo by Gage Skidmore
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Ron Paul has considerable leverage at the GOP’s national convention resulting from his enthusiastic national support, which could allow him to modify the Republican platform, land a prime speaking spot or even have a shot at the vice presidential nomination.
Posted on Jun 21, 2012
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Jun 10, 2012
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President Obama says he thinks gay marriage should be legal, but isn’t looking to legislate. JPMorgan Chase, the “best of the banks,” loses a $2 billion bet and reignites the debate over bank regulation. The French election has austerity hawks worrying about a resocialized euro, and Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar’s primary loss could usher in a new era of ideological warfare.
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Strict headmasters, effete manners and practical jokes both harmless and humiliating pepper the memories held by the probable Republican nominee’s boyhood friends and acquaintances of their time behind the arches at Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., almost 50 years ago.
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
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Gage Skidmore
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On Wednesday, the former House speaker formally ended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, despite previously vowing to stay in the race until the GOP convention in August.
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“The Daily Show” host took aim at some of his favorite targets Tuesday night as he ripped Republicans and conservative pundits for their hypocritical response to an ad aired by the Obama campaign that highlights the president’s success in bringing down Osama bin Laden one year ago.
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By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout —
Warlike values and the social mind-set they legitimize have become the primary currency of our market-driven culture, which takes as its model a Darwinian shark tank in which only the strong survive.
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Apr 26, 2012
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on Apr 16, 2012
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AP/Gene J. Puskar
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After a long primary season involving sudden upswings and fizzles, plus a couple of comebacks, there is little room left for doubt that Mitt Romney is going to be the 2012 Republican presidential nominee now that his biggest competition, in the form of the sweater vest containing Rick Santorum, has dropped out of the contest.
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AP/Carolyn Kaster
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It’s high election season, and that means the leaders in this year’s presidential battle need a good wedge issue or two to get voters all exercised and in touch with their innermost convictions (read: Get them to the polls). Why not seek that in the collective form of roughly half the nation’s population?
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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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R.J. Matson, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch —
Posted on Mar 30, 2012
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It’s been quite the eventful week in Washington, no? In case the health care hullabaloo at the Supreme Court didn’t bring enough action to our nation’s capital, over in the halls of Congress there was an equally heated debate about Rep. Paul Ryan’s Republican-backed budget plan, which the GOP-heavy House passed Thursday.
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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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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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For presidential hopefuls, surely this is an unmistakable sign of impending apocalypse: GOP contender Newt Gingrich, who was not so long ago enjoying an improbable—and ultimately ephemeral—streak of campaign success, now finds himself free of those pesky embedded print reporters.
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on Mar 24, 2012
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Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia, believes intuition—not reason—guides people’s behavior, and with his new book, “The Righteous Mind,” he wants to teach you how to better sell your politics.
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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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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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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, Politicalcartoons.com —
Posted on Mar 17, 2012
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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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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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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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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 13, 2012
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 11, 2012
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch —
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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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White House / Pete Souza
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Whatever President Obama is doing to reinstate closer ties with some high-profile members of his party is working, at least when it comes to congressional Democrats looking to extend their stays on Capitol Hill. So what’s his winning strategy?
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Mar 4, 2012
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AP / Gerald Herbert
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By Bill Boyarsky — The Republicans want to make the presidential race about values, which they define as returning the nation to Victorian morality, laissez faire economics and a heavy dose of conservative Christian theology.
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Wikimedia Commons / Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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Over the course of his career as a conservative commentator, blogger and vigilant crusader against liberal bias, as he saw it, in the mainstream American media and in Hollywood, Andrew Breitbart pulled off a few high-profile alliances and at least one major takedown.
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A mistake on Time magazine’s latest cover has opened a nationwide conversation about race and ethnicity; Rick Santorum belittles American public education, calling it an “anachronism”; is the U.S. finally done with Afghanistan? These discoveries and more after the jump.
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Feb 28, 2012
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, Politicalcartoons.com —
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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Did you know that it was actually jumping gas costs, and not deceptive lending practices on the part of mortgage financiers and deregulation madness on Wall Street, that got us into the recessionary quandary in which the majority of Americans still find themselves?
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Flickr / Merelymel13 (CC-BY-SA)
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Oh, what “a small amount of Web-based research” can do. Indiana state Rep. Bob Morris hopped online recently to read up on an organization he was concerned about, one that imperiled his conservative family and threatened to turn his daughters into pro-abortion communist homosexuals. Yes, we’re talking about the Girl Scouts.
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