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Dahlia Lithwick notes the mendacity of choice language on abortion from anti-choice politicians like McCain and Palin: > In announcing that her 17-year-old daughter was pregnant last�...

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Last night we learned from Mitt Romney that John McCain is going to make the sun stop rising in the east and start rising in the west. Good thing he's not a messianic elitist like Barack Obama. T...

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Whatever Fred Thompson's been doing since he finished pretending to run against John McCain for President, it's sure kept him busy. Otherwise he surely would have read in the newspaper that John ...

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Nathan Newman : "Many conservative analysts try to explain the weakness of labor unions and social democracy in the U.S. through a whole range of culturalist explanations about the U.S. working c...

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While on vacation out East, I got the chance to pick up and read Walter Benn Michaels' 2006 book The Trouble With Diversity . Might as well spoil the suspense and start by saying Benn Michaels di...

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Chris Shays is the only Republican congressman left in New England, after the good people of Connecticut ousted the other two remaining faux-moderate GOPers tasked with representing their blue st...

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To choose a favorite talking head buzz phrase, I think Barack Obama did what he had to do tonight. And he did it quite well. First, closing a convention that erred too far on the side of nice (th...

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Hillary Clinton got some deserved criticism for her lecture about how "it took a President" to pass the Civil Rights Act (didn't Obama prove he values the role of the President when he started ru...

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Tuned in to Sean Hannity's convention coverage on the radio as he was complaining about the convention's failure to address the "real issues" of the campaign, which apparently are whether America...

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Reviewing Entertainment Weekly interviews with the candidates, Marc Ambinder expresses surprise that > In some ways, Obama has the tastes of a 72 year old man; McCain has > the...

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McCain's new strategist draws on Barack Obama's supposed smear of Bill Clinton as a racist to attack Barack Obama's supposed smear of John McCain (The Original Maverick!) as a racist (seeing as ...

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Reading Michael Crowley's Mark Salter profile in TNR, you wonder how real McCainiacs can really keep a straight face while arguing that the Obama campaign is the one driven by a cult of personal...

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So Chuck Hagel is saying his ideas are closer to Obama's, but he doesn't plan to endorse either candidate. Could mean he's still trying to negotiate himself a spot on the ticket (seems unlikely)...

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This article from the Paper of Record is just silly: > As Mr. Obama stands poised to claim the crown of presumptive > Democratic nominee, he is, gingerly, fitting himself wi...

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Kay Steiger, guest-blogging (with Alyssa ) at Matt Yglesias' site, considers sexism in "trade professions" and after pointing out that jobs like hair dressing aren't counted as such precisely be...

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Jimmy Carter has apparently issued another non-endorsement endorsement of Barack Obama, this time saying that while he "has not yet announced publicly," after June 3 "a lot of the superdelegates...

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Question of the day: If (pace Hillary Clinton) Barack Obama is Robert Mugabe because he denies people the right to get their votes counted, and Barack Obama is Bobby Kennedy because he could ge...

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Remember that DoD document dump you just haven't quite found time to read yet? The 8,000 pages of documents on how they prepped army folks to act as outside "military analysts" while laying out t...

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Supposedly liberal Washington Post publishes op-ed about how stupid women are. Supposedly woman-friendly Independent Women's Forum's VP writes of the piece , written by one of IWF's contributors...

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Matt Yglesias : "It's almost as if the Republican Party exists to serve the interests of large business enterprises and very wealthy individuals, and tends to use national security and cultural a...

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Our right-wing friends have made outrageous attempts to claim the mantle of MLK an MLK Day tradition. But this attempt by Ron Paul's supporters should still make your blood boil. Makes you wond...

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AFSCME's Political Director explains why they need one staffer for every 30 members in Nevada: > Our goal is to make sure that every member gets touched personally, > repeatedly.

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Media-appointed populist Mike Huckabee reassures CEOs everywhere that raking in the cash while laying off the workers who made it possible isn't the kind of "criminal" activity that the governm...

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Am I the only one who'd be more interested in hearing Joe Biden talk about his grand foreign policy strategy than in hearing him talk about how he's talking about a grand foreign policy strategy...

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