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“A Line In The Sand”: Sen Ron Johnson, “High-Capacity Magazines Are A...
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) drew a fairly strict line in the sand on Sunday with respect to the coming debate over gun control, suggesting that there is a constitutional right to buy high-capacity clips...
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“Libyan Head Fake”: GOP Pretends No One Cares About Abortion
With a major storm and presidential election arriving within a week of each other, the penultimate batch of Sunday morning political talk shows before the election were dominated by talk of how...
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“The Ignorant Inquisitors”: Capitol Hill’s Angry Little Men Keep Making...
Anyone truly concerned about the safety of U.S. diplomatic personnel abroad – and that should include every American – has fresh reason for fury over last September’s disaster in Benghazi and its...
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“The Unsubstantiated Smear”: Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, And The Smear-Tacular Tea...
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has gotten a lot of grief lately, and for good reason. His speculation about whether Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel received secret payments from North Korea was...
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“Special Hide The Money Designations”: The IRS Should Outlaw All Social...
If you’re covered in political stink, it might be prudent to avoid yelling “dirty politics” at others. Lately, a mess of right-wing Tea Party groups have been wailing nonstop that they have been...
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“Risky Business”: Corporate Leaders Bemoan Tea Party Default Crisis Created...
America’s great minds of business and finance have reached a consensus on the government shutdown and worse, the prospect of a debt default: While the latter is worse, both are bad. Those same great...
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“The Tea Party Is Pissed And That’s A Good Sign”: Here’s The Real Story, The...
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) both referred to the budget deal they announced on Tuesday evening as “historic.” They were correct — but not because of any of the cuts or fees in...
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“There’s Something There”: GOP ‘Confronting A New Reality’ On Healthcare
The Obama administration won’t have an official announcement on December’s health care enrollment numbers for a few more weeks, but chances are good that we’ll see a spike in the number of newly...
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“The Three Stages Of Obamacare Acceptance”: It’s Increasingly Difficult To...
Now that Obamacare is clearly moving forward, Republicans are adjusting to a new reality: it may no longer be a realistic option to simply wait until the law collapses under its own weight and vanishes...
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“A Million Here, A Million There”: Millions Of People Have Health Insurance...
The big number in the news this week was 1.1 million – the number of people who signed up for health insurance through Obamacare’s federal insurance marketplace this year. This is an important figure,...
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“Republicans Are Losing All Credibility On ObamaCare”: At Some Point, Voters...
Even before President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, GOP critics assailed it as a socialist, job-killing overreach indicative of a government run amok. In the years since, we’ve seen no...
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“No Accountability In The GOP”: A Dejecting Pattern Of Behavior In Wisconsin
Up until fairly recently, Wisconsin’s Bill Kramer was the Republican Majority Leader in the state Assembly. As Rachel noted on the show on Friday, that changed when the state lawmaker was charged with...
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“Yes, Opposition To Obamacare Is Tied Up With Race”: A Staple Of Conservative...
Is opposition to Obamacare really about race? That’s the highly charged question that has bubbled up in the last day or so, starting with a Senate hearing and then bursting into the news media. I won’t...
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“Actions Speak For Themselves”: Talking About Race Is No Black-And-White Matter
When Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) remarked last week that some of the opposition to President Obama’s Affordable Care Act is “maybe he’s of the wrong color,” he was just saying out loud what many...
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“Why So Many Are Clueless”: Shameful Coverage Of Obamacare’s Real Impacts
If you read my column last week about a Senate hearing that showed how Obamacare has affected Americans, you might have wondered if I was in the same room with reporters who presumably covered the...
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“Troubling Questions”: How Much Does Right-Wing Rhetoric Contribute To...
Yesterday, a man and a woman shot two police officers in a Las Vegas restaurant after saying, “this is a revolution.” Then they draped their bodies in a Gadsden flag. According to reports now coming...
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“Borderline Behavior”: GOP Demands Action, Blocks Solutions — And Always...
Listening to Republicans in Washington (and Texas and Arizona) scream about the “crisis” of migrant children arriving from Central America on our southern border, it is puzzling to realize that they...
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“Offender-Funded Justice”: The Economics Of Police Militarism
Two crucial battles broke out in Ferguson, Missouri, this week. The first began with the public airing of sorrow and rage after the death of the eighteen-year-old Michael Brown, who was shot by a...
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“Police In Ferguson Keep Praying And Preying”: The Pandering Religiosity Of...
The Greater St. Mark Church was raided today as St. Louis County Police thought that protesters were spending the night in the church, which has been used as a staging area for protestors. Police have...
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“Life Is Hardly Imitating Art”: Fear May Win Elections, But It Makes...
According to Hollywood, most disasters feature government or institutional figures who try to downplay the scale of catastrophe, at least publicly, in order to prevent mass panic. Rightly or wrongly,...
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