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We’re on Day Three with no power or water. It’s a good thing we have more urgency about paying our power bill than the power company has in restoring our power.

It looks like we’ll all get to relive all the racial pathologies exposed by the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings twenty years ago. Conservatives will rally around Herman Cain giving him an absolute presumption of innocence. This could solidify him in first place. Who needs political experience when you’ve been accused of sexual harassment? That’s the best qualification imaginable. Right?

The Washington Post fluffs Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over her leadership role in the Libyan War. But do we ever get credit, or only blame?

The political benefits to Clinton and Obama remain far from clear. To many Libyans and others in the Muslim world, the lasting impression from the campaign is that of a reluctant America, slow to intervene and happy to let others take the lead. While Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron were given heroes’ welcomes during victory laps through Libya last month, Clinton was confronted during her recent Tripoli visit with questions about why the United States had not done more.

“Many people feel that the United States has taken a back seat,” one student told her.

And, we’re supposed to stop fighting in Libya today.

This week, we get to fight for infrastructure components of the American Jobs Act.

Okay, but will John Bolton’s mustache explode or his head.

The Cowboys got stomped. I hope you enjoyed that.

The Philly Union dug themselves a little hole.

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