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The media was so in love with John McCain that they hardly paid attention to Bradley, and in any case…
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On the whole idea of "framing," I feel like far too many people fell in love with it because they,…
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I've seen this phrase a few times lately and don't trust it at all: people familiar with administration thinking The…
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This isn't hard.  The proportion of the Republican party that is hardline "Tea Party" in ideology is much higher than…
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Um, Paul Broun, here's the thing.  Unless you buy cars with cash on the spot, even selling an expensive car…
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What I'm getting at is the nature of those "ties."  He's never worked on Wall Street.  To call him a…
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Two things of a factual nature: When was Elizabeth Warren "one of [Obama's] people"? What makes Geithner a "Wall Street…
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I'm surprised there hasn't been more speculation that this is part of the price for some of the wavering self-declared…
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That's essentially Percy Bysshe Shelley's argument, that literature trains you to have empathy.  (Probably part of why Brit Lit is…
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I have a feeling Russ Feingold and Glenn Greenwald are a lot alike.  Which I mean only partly as a…
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Was Bill Clinton ever accustomed to being waited on by black people?  It doesn't ring true to me that he…
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Well, if that's the case then why is there so much backlash? The straight answer:  because it was tantalizingly close…
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I don't see the point of self-identifying as "anti-corporate" when we live in a corporate-dominated world.  If you dismiss things…
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Of course people do bitch about oil companies.  But no one's agitating for Public Oil as the One True Way…
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Jane Hamsher Joe Lieberman is a bully, a name-caller and a shameless self-promoter.  Whoever noted above that she has it…
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I revived a long-dormant account here just to say how relieved I am to find another sane voice on the…
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