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Republican judge tells the Republican Supreme Court judges: “Shut up”
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A holiday message from President Romney
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Fifty years ago: Civil rights and the newly conservative GOP
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Gripes about ‘King’ Obama are historically clueless
In politics, summer is known as the silly season – and nothing fills the bill better than John Boehner’s thigh-slapping promi ...
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Supreme hypocrisy: The justices have their own buffer zone
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Hobby Lobby ruling: Supreme Court plays the God card
Writing recently about the U.S. Supreme Court, I predicted that some time in June, “the five Republican appointees wi ...
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Howard Baker probably couldn’t get elected today
Reading the obituaries of Howard Baker – the Senate Republican leader known in his day as “the great conciliator” ̵ ...
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Tea party sore loser wants to investigate black voters (natch)
Wow, the tea-partying conservatives are super ticked off about the stunning loss they suffered Tuesday night in the Mississippi Senate GO ...
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Charlie Rangel’s not-so-last hurrah
The latest assault on the Washington incumbents has apparently failed. As evidenced by last night’s marquee primaries, it’s t ...
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