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9:36am on 06/06/10
Posted to Has Matt Taibbi failed journalism, or has journalism failed Matt Taibbi?
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Posted to Does hypocrisy have a breaking point?
Recommended on June 18, 2010
Lewis Grossberger Grossblogger
The theological meditations of Rev. Obama (with additional commentary by Rabbi G)
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John McQuaid Edge of Chaos
Has Matt Taibbi failed journalism, or has journalism failed Matt Taibbi?
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Matt Steinglass Accumulating Peripherals
The unifying theory of 21st-century catastrophes
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Rick Ungar The Policy Page
Why can't Congress get serious on oil spill response?
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David Knowles Paradigms Lost
Alabama politics: Bible 100% true, evolution false
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Japhy Grant California Stars
Death Valley: From America's low point, looking up
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Lewis Grossberger Grossblogger
An appraisal of Goldman Sachs’ new home by our award-winning architecture critic
Recommended on May 11, 2010
David Knowles Paradigms Lost
No Protestants on the Supreme Court. So what?
Recommended on May 10, 2010
Rick Ungar The Policy Page
The Palin Principle - Bible trumps Constitution
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Sara Libby Ill Communication
Turns out young people are vigilant about online security
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Laurie Essig Class Warfare
Kagan's nomination, the right/left divide, and the promise of 'no homo'
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David Knowles Paradigms Lost
No joke: Joe the Plumber is now an elected official
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Lisa Todorovich Celebrity Jungle
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Even Glenn Beck says Shahzad deserves his rights
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At Harvard, intellectualism is new hood to hide behind
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Rick Ungar The Policy Page
Big test for big oil and those who write about it
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'Idol' dashes Siobhan Magnus's teenage dreams, and I love it
Recommended on April 30, 2010
David Knowles Paradigms Lost
Hey, Obama, about that offshore drilling plan...
Recommended on April 29, 2010
Laurie Essig Class Warfare
If greed is good, financial reform won't work
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Rick Ungar The Policy Page
When good TV networks go bad: The demise of MSNBC
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Good news: Insurer to stop dropping sick customers
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There's more than meets the 'i' in the Gizmodo iPhone 4 case
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David Knowles Paradigms Lost
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Laurie Essig Class Warfare
Here are the many reasons I'm not buying Earth Day
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Arizona legislature legalizes racial profiling
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Court stops prohibition on animal 'crush' videos
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Scientists say toxic cloud caused by Tea Partiers, not Icelandic volcano
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SEC charges Goldman Sachs with defrauding investors
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A day in the life of Obama (as envisioned by a typical Republican)
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Colin Miner Gutenberg Revisited
Fantastic small press novel wins Pulitzer
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Tiger's swing not the only thing that failed him at The Masters
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Obama's pick will shift Supreme Court to the right
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'Poliwood': DC masters the art of entertainment
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Post-WikiLeaks, Pentagon doesn't deserve an apologia
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Rick Ungar The Policy Page
A special pre-tax day letter to the American Tea Party
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Jeremy Helligar Pump Up the Volume
Is Ellen DeGeneres catching on as an 'American Idol' judge?
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Todd Essig Simu-Nation
A clinical portrait of excessive online porn use (Part 3)
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Sight of first fly heralds arrival of Spring
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David Knowles Paradigms Lost
Easter special: Pope's popularity nosedives
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Rick Ungar The Policy Page
Michelle Malkin flat out lies in defense of Sean Hannity
Recommended on March 31, 2010
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Why must Sarah Palin always take the low & twisted road?
Recommended on March 31, 2010
David Knowles Paradigms Lost
The Fox News, Sarah Palin, L.L. Cool J charade
Recommended on March 31, 2010
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How April Fool's became our least funny holiday
Recommended on March 30, 2010
Rick Ungar The Policy Page
Court orders father of dead Marine to pay demented funeral protesters - we need to help
Recommended on March 30, 2010
Todd Essig Simu-Nation
A clinical portrait of excessive online porn use
Recommended on March 30, 2010
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Senate passes health care reconciliation bill
Recommended on March 29, 2010
David Knowles Paradigms Lost
Democrats may not be fearing midterm elections after all
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The greatest story ever told: Obama as Anti-Christ
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The hidden meaning of the 10 Census questions
Recommended on March 26, 2010
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Is it possible to teach ideology free history?
Recommended on March 26, 2010
David Knowles Paradigms Lost
Police: Eric Cantor's office wasn't a target of violence
Recommended on March 26, 2010
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Following the money in Hannity-Freedom Alliance scam
Recommended on March 24, 2010
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Petulant Senate GOP shuts down senate committee hearings-seriously
Recommended on March 23, 2010
David Knowles Paradigms Lost
Caesarean sections rise 53% in U.S. in 11 years
Recommended on March 23, 2010
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The GOP's risky lawsuits over health care reform
Recommended on March 22, 2010
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More revealed on the Hannity – Freedom Alliance scandal
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David Knowles Paradigms Lost
Post health care vote, Republicans dig in deeper
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Health care reform: What’s in it for you today?
Recommended on March 22, 2010
Rick Ungar The Policy Page
House passes health care bill, next up the Senate
Recommended on March 21, 2010
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Anti-abortion leader Stupak searches for a way to vote ‘yes’
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GOP threatens suicide if health bill passes
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Sean Hannity in serious military charity scandal
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What's inside the health care reconciliation bill
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Michael Shermer Skeptic
Does the moon exist if there are no sentient beings to look at it?
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Glenn Beck says health care vote is an affront to God
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CBO scores final health care bill – good news for Dems.
Recommended on March 18, 2010
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Your internet friends are your privacy enemies
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Middle-class losing health care coverage at record pace
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Kucinich switches to a yes vote on health care reform
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Rielle Hunter mad photos were taken at photo shoot
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George escaped the foster system, but many don't
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David Knowles Paradigms Lost
One in four Californians lacks health insurance
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Why one Republican is hoping ObamaCare passes
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Jamie Malanowski Topic A, Among Others
Let's not rejoice over the death of privacy just yet
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Now that I can call you a Nazi, I feel a lot better
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The sociological quandary that is my mustache
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Sara Libby Ill Communication
An honest South Carolina politician? It happened
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Laurie Essig Class Warfare
Sex Ed in Utah: Feel shame, act stupidly, pay the price
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E.D. Kain American Times
Infant starves to death while parents raise virtual child online
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Jeff McMahon Scorched Earth
New York rolls veggie carts into food deserts; can other cities follow?
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Health care reform soap opera kicks into overdrive
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Will Obama win a second Nobel Peace Prize?
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David Knowles Paradigms Lost
For some, Obama is and always will be a Muslim
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My ten-point emergency plan to save the Oscars from extinction
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Is health care to blame for maternal mortality hike?
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Rick Ungar The Policy Page
Sarah Palin and family used socialized Canadian health system
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Laurie Essig Class Warfare
Gender anxiety disorder and celebrity culture
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Allison Kilkenny Unreported
Normalizing the police state (and how it ends with taser-firing drones)
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Rick Ungar The Policy Page
Andrew Sullivan Aims His Machete At The Heads Of Senior Citizens
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The Health Care Debate- Coming Soon To A Congress Near You
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Why Conservatives Have Mandated Health Insurance Exactly Wrong
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A Great Advancement in Cancer Screening - if You Happen To Be White
Recommended on March 8, 2010
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Why Ideology Sucks-The Coming Death of California
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Some Liberal Love for Sen. Lindsey Graham... Seriously.
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Understanding the health care reform abortion trap
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GOP on climate change: Helping China, hurting us
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Russell Crowe's Robin Hood problem and my Robin Hood problem
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Tea Party convention kicks off with racist rant
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White People: If You're Not Bill Maher, Please Shut Up About Race
Recommended on March 1, 2010
Rick Ungar The Policy Page
You can take the Russian out of the KGB but you can’t take the KGB out of the Olympics
Recommended on February 28, 2010
Rick Ungar The Policy Page
‘The end of the Senate ‘ he said with a straight face
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So what's the big deal about a simple majority vote?
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Black Monday coming for America’s unemployed
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Rick Ungar The Policy Page
What Democrats can and can't do by majority vote
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The first thing we do is fire all the teachers
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Better sit down when I tell you sitting is bad for you
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Giant health insurer's intentions revealed
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Rick Ungar The Policy Page
Double digit health insurance premium hikes loom in 11 states
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Rick Ungar The Policy Page
Public-private partnership to fix health care
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Lewis Grossberger Grossblogger
Red, Rube, Satchel and the Duke: The all-nickname team
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Caitlin Kelly Broadside
British chain puts size 16 mannequins in their proper place - the shop window
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Rick Ungar The Policy Page
ObamaCare plan strong on coverage, weak on costs
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Is America getting too crazy even for America?
Recommended on February 19, 2010
David DiSalvo Brainspin
Women get aroused down there but not upstairs
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Senate Democrats renew push for public option
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Johnny Weir is America's greatest athlete
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Old white guys sign 'Mount Vernon Statement'
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Rick Ungar The Policy Page
Private health insurance industry in ‘death spiral’
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Cheney's for martial law in the war on terror
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Rick Ungar The Policy Page
Tea Party dips Marvel Comics into controversy
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True conservatives reject terror tribunals
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Social Security is in better shape than you think
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Why America is far from 'The Road to Serfdom'
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P.J. Tobia Afghan Desk
Sell your daughter to free your son: A true story
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Don't get fooled by reports of Taliban leader's death
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P.J. Tobia Afghan Desk
Afghan Reporters Denied Visas To London Conference On Afghanistan
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Shh! We're trying to keep secret the war in Pakistan
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Adults are making the Internet less cool
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'Question Time' for Obama and the GOP? Probably not
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Eviction is for black women what jail is to black men
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Kate Klonick Full Court Press
Alito and Obama: Much ado about nodding
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Obama looks for love in all the wrong places
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Teddy Roosevelt's warnings on corporations
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P.J. Tobia Afghan Desk
Where I've Been...And Why I'm Back In Afghanistan
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Kabul Tense But Weirdly Normal After Monday's Attacks
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Jerry Lanson News Prints
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What the Founding Fathers thought about corporations
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Even if the New York Times's pay wall works, it will fail
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I speak for the fed-up, abused, half-crazed liberal and I say ‘Enough! Screw ‘em! Die, right-wing scum!’
Recommended on January 20, 2010
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World still waiting for US climate action
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Justice Scalia is liberal judicial activism's new poster boy
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David Knowles Paradigms Lost
Limbaugh Will Use Haiti Crisis to Boost Credibility With White Supremacists
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The ‘January Surprise’ that could destroy Obamacare
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Michele ‘Mama Che’ Bachmann on welfare dole-really
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Democrats to block GOP from health care talks
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China mandates renewable energy while US dithers
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Iraq: An uneasy feeling in Baghdad
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Why President Obama's Nobel Prize makes me gag
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Are Americans fed up with health care reform?
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If only Obama talked to the 'bravest woman in Afghanistan'
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Laurie Essig Class Warfare
Lessons from California's tuition protests
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My surefire strategy for passing health care--and all other Democratic initiatives
Recommended on November 13, 2009
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The end of center based politics in America
Recommended on November 10, 2009
P.J. Tobia Afghan Desk
US Should Clean Up Own Corruption Before Pointing Fingers At Karzai
Recommended on November 8, 2009
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Health care alternative shows the GOP's true colors
Recommended on November 5, 2009
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He who does not work, does not eat
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Medicare rate cuts giving cardiologists a heart attack
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It's been a year since Obama ended racism!
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GOP introduces their health care reform bill
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Parsing Pelosi's health care bill - Title I
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Liberal blogosphere freaks out on the public option
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Parsing Pelosi's health care bill - Title II
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Why so little coverage of Senator Bayh's big conflict of interest?
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P.J. Tobia Afghan Desk
As Afghanistan runoff vote looms, so do security risks
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P.J. Tobia Afghan Desk
Did the US back group that bombed Iranian troops?
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Why should your boss pick your health care plan?
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I'm having trouble caring about Balloon Boy...and everything else
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Enforcing illegal immigrant exclusions from health care
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Democracy in Iran doesn't need Obama or America
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