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By Scott Ritter
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By Patty Sharaf with Robert Scheer
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Ted Cruz’s attempt to repeal Obamacare and why the debate on gay marriage may be over even before the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a pair of cases on the issue this week.
Posted on Mar 24, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — Shame on Harry Reid for killing any prospect of an assault weapons ban. I understand why he did it, but that doesn’t make it right.
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
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AP/Aleppo Media Center
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Ten years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the American war machine might be revving up for another strike, this time in Syria.
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
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AP/Alex Brandon
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If Bernanke’s stance is any indication, Sen. Warren, who was just sworn in this January, is already having a positive impact on Washington.
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Libertarians, whom the Republican National Committee has largely shut out, assumed a more energetic role at CPAC this year, using the failed election as evidence that the GOP should return to their philosophy’s ideals.
Posted on Mar 20, 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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On “The Daily Show” on Wednesday night, host Jon Stewart applauded the efforts of Sen. Rand Paul’s epic “old-school style” filibuster of the nomination of John Brennan to head the Central Intelligence Agency.
Posted on Mar 7, 2013
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Telling his colleagues he would “speak until I can no longer speak,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., took to the Senate floor Wednesday to mount an old-school filibuster of John Brennan, President Obama’s pick to head the Central Intelligence Agency.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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By Joe Conason — Indebted America is in danger of turning into destitute Greece, or so congressional Republicans and conservative commentators have been warning us for years now. For many reasons, this is an absurd comparison—but it may not always be quite so ridiculous if Washington’s advocates of austerity get their way.
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Ever since they took control of the House of Representatives in 2011, Republicans have made journeys to the fiscal brink as commonplace as summertime visits to the beach or the ballpark.
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The deficit that should concern us most right now has to do with time, not money. Money can be recouped. Time just disappears.
Posted on Feb 20, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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On Friday, journalist and historian Jon Meacham said on HBO’s “Real Time” that President Obama should, like FDR and Ronald Reagan, ignore Congress and campaign directly to the American people. It appears that is what Obama intends to do.
Posted on Feb 19, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Feb 19, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Feb 18, 2013
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By Robert Scheer — It is bizarre that Chuck Hagel, a war hero with a long record of sensible views on the deployment of military power, gets blocked as the president’s nominee to run the Pentagon, while Jack Lew, steeped in Wall Street greed, sails through as Treasury secretary.
Posted on Feb 14, 2013
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From his de facto prison in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, the WikiLeaks founder intends to seek a seat in the Australian Senate as a member of the newly formed WikiLeaks Party, reports the Australian daily The Age.
Posted on Feb 13, 2013
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — The courts will now decide if we will fatally damage our democracy and become a military state or protect what is left of our rights as citizens.
Posted on Feb 11, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including GOP infighting involving Karl Rove and the latest Republican-led assault on women’s rights.
Posted on Feb 7, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Feb 3, 2013
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on Feb 1, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — On immigration, the parties are now competing to share credit for doing something big. It’s wonderful to behold.
Posted on Jan 30, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including John Kerry’s Senate replacement named and the GOP’s failing attempt to rig the 2016 presidential election.
Posted on Jan 30, 2013
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The former Arizona congresswoman who survived a gunshot to the head said in her opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, “Speaking is difficult, but I need to say something important.”
Posted on Jan 30, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jan 28, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — Republicans wanted nothing more than to summon Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Capitol Hill and grill her about the tragic fiasco in Benghazi. Sadly for them, they got their wish.
Posted on Jan 25, 2013
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John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on Jan 23, 2013
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The progressive plot to save representative democracy, China’s retirement bomb, Republican junk science, and doping in sports.
Posted on Jan 18, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The progressive plot to save representative democracy, China’s retirement bomb, Republican junk science, and doping in sports.
Posted on Jan 18, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Jan 11, 2013
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By Joe Conason — Whatever Chuck Hagel’s perspective on Mideast policy may be, it would be absurd to compare him with the secretary of defense whose hardline hostility toward Israel became notorious during the Reagan administration.
Posted on Jan 11, 2013
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Canines have more to do with presidential elections than one might think; the conditions in which alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning was detained were “excessive,” a military judge found; meanwhile, The Associated Press has started selling sponsored tweets on its Twitter feed. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 10, 2013
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Bob Jagendorf (CC-BY)
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Mother Jones profiles a growing coalition of environmental, labor and civil rights groups, including Greenpeace and the NAACP, that began meeting off the record in December to try to figure out “what to do to beat back the deep-pocketed conservative movement.”
Posted on Jan 9, 2013
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By Joe Conason — The House of Representatives has increasingly been dominated over the past two decades by a coterie of tantrum-prone extremists who lack the probity and steadiness required for democratic self-government.
Posted on Jan 3, 2013
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Instead of deficit reduction, it appears the fiscal cliff deal that was passed in the Senate early Tuesday morning would only add to the federal government’s budget problems.
Posted on Jan 1, 2013
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By casting their ballots in favor of a deal that would avert the so-called fiscal cliff early Tuesday morning, senators overwhelmingly blocked a pay increase for themselves and members of the House that President Obama recently approved via an executive order.
Posted on Jan 1, 2013
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By Robert Reich — The fiscal cliff deal that emerged from the Senate on New Year’s Eve is a lousy one. Let me count the ways.
Posted on Jan 1, 2013
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Forget the Times Square ball drop in New York City. The most dramatic moment of New Year’s Eve 2012 will most likely happen on Capitol Hill.
Posted on Dec 30, 2012
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TexasGOPVote.com
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Looking for a job where being unproductive and ineffective won’t hurt your chances of getting a raise? Try being a member of Congress!
Posted on Dec 30, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a new warning on the debt ceiling from Timothy Geithner and why it’s probably not the most wonderful time of the year for President Obama and Congress.
Posted on Dec 26, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — The senator had earlier risen to be Captain Inouye, a Congressional Medal of Honor winner in Italy, losing an arm as he ran ahead of his platoon and personally destroying three German machine gun nests on a steep ridge in San Terenzo.
Posted on Dec 19, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — Politicians are still terrified of the NRA, even though analysis shows that the organization’s power is greatly exaggerated.
Posted on Dec 19, 2012
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