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“Yes, Vladimir, America Is Exceptional”: It’s Much, Much Better Than That...
As I read Vladimir Putin’s sanctimonious op-edabout U.S. policy in Syria, I imagined the Russian president sitting at the keyboard in a lovely pink negligee. You will recall that when a satirical...
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“The Beginning Of An Exceptional Friendship”: The American People’s Reply To...
Dear President Putin, Thank you so much for your letter to the American people! I am an American person, and when I learned on Thursday from the official Russian news agency, the New York Times, that...
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“Don’t Cry For Condi!”: Why Students Were Right To Scuttle Her Commencement...
As sincerely as I wish everyone involved with the George W. Bush administration would just go away — or at least agree to only appear in the public eye in brief, tweet-size increments — I must admit...
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“Rush Limbaugh And Impressionable Young Minds”: Coming Soon To An Elementary...
Last year, radio host Rush Limbaugh published a children’s book called Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims. For those unfamiliar with it, msnbc’s Traci G. Lee reported a while back that the book “tells...
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“Back To Iraq, But Obama’s Way”: A Foreign Policy Shaped Around Reality
We’ve now begun some very limited military action in Iraq, with airstrikes hitting artillery positions of the Islamic State (IS), combined with airdrops of food and water to the group of Yazidis...
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“Stupid Is As Stupid Does”: Bobby Jindal Picks An Unfortunate Fight Over...
Looking back at the last year or so, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s (R) effort to raise his national profile has run into occasional pitfalls. The far-right governor, for example, has suggested...
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“Because The NRA Tells Them To”: Republicans Are Blocking Ratification of...
The world got a present on Christmas Eve, when an international treaty to limit the sale of weapons to warlords and terrorists went into effect. The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) aims to limit the number of...
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“Giuliani Falls In Ditch, Keeps Digging”: For Republicans, There Seems To Be...
Rudy Giuliani is apparently under an odd impression: the problems he creates by saying dumb things will go away if he just keeps talking. Someone probably ought to tell him he has this backwards. The...
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“Why Did Ronald Reagan Hate America?”: Once You’ve Decided, Everything Else...
Ronald Reagan has been dead for more than a decade, but it’s long past the time for us as a nation to come to grips with the fact that this two-term president really didn’t love America. Scholars will...
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“Rolling Out The Welcome Wagon For The Bad Guys”: It May Be Speaker John...
Rudy, oh dear Mr. Former Mayor, it seems that that you got it all wrong when you accused the president of not loving America. It’s so hard to watch you spout such stuff because you were such a...
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“We Now Have A Low-Information Candidate”: Hey, Trump; America’s Great Right...
The United States “is a hellhole” that “is going down fast.” America “is in big trouble” and “never has victories anymore.” In fact, the United States is a “laughingstock all over the world.” Who do...
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“An Unhinged Rant That Smacks Of Sedition”: Back To The Dark Side; Dick...
Exceptional, the new book from former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, Liz, is not. It is nothing more than an unhinged rant that smacks of sedition. “The children need to know the truth...
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“Challenging The Party’s Ideology”: How Ted Cruz And Marco Rubio Are Battling...
A few weeks ago, Ted Cruz committed a shocking act of heresy against the Republican Party Establishment. “If you look at President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and, for that matter, some of the...
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“Bernie Sanders And The God Factor”: Less A Matter Of Sanders’s Own Behavior...
The “S-word” — socialist — hangs over Bernie Sanders’s campaign like a spectral question mark. His self-identification as a “democratic socialist” is a matter of indifference to most supporters —...
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“Trump’s Apocalyptic Message”: Obama Just Ripped Into Donald Trump’s...
This afternoon President Obama offered his most detailed and comprehensive attack on Donald Trump, not just the particular things Trump proposes but his entire worldview. He was particularly...
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