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Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Monday, July 06, 2009


Al Franken, who will be sworn in Tuesday as Minnesota’s new senator, is working hardest at proving that he is no longer a comedian. He spoke to reporters with Harry Reid.

Sunday, July 05, 2009

What was Sarah Palin thinking?
No one knows why the governor's resigning, or what she'll do next -- but her base likes the move
by Alex Koppelman

The Republicans need a White House candidate with ideas, steadiness and the ability to unify. That's not Alaska's departing governor.
by Doyle McManus
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By GAIL COLLINS
Truly, Sarah Palin has come a long way. When she ran for vice president, she frequently became disjointed and garbled when she departed from her prepared remarks. Now the prepared remarks are incoherent, too.
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Friday, July 03, 2009

Rush Limbaugh is still a big fat idiot
By Joe Conason
And so are his Fox News pals, who lambasted Sen. Al Franken's "stolen election"
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Thursday, July 02, 2009

Suddenly, a Trillion Dollars Is Too Expensive?
By Joe Conason
The senators who now claim we cannot afford to spend a trillion dollars to make long overdue changes in health care know exactly what that amount can buy. They know because they have spent it, year after year, on military misadventures and subsidies to big banks and corporations.
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Oscar, Emmy-Winning Actor Karl Malden Dies at 97
Karl Malden, 97, an Academy Award-winning actor who excelled in plainspoken, working-class roles.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

MINN. SUPREME COURT: FRANKEN WON COLEMAN ACCEPTS LOSS... PAWLENTY TO SIGN CERTIFICATE TODAY

In this in-depth profile from the upcoming August issue, Todd S. Purdum exposes Sarah Palin’s campaign missteps and trail of broken relationships. Plus: Who is the most powerful woman in the G.O.P.?


The Sickening Influence of Campaign Contributions By Joe Conason
Democrats who are talking down Obama’s health care initiative tend to have something in common—their abject dependence on campaign contributions from the insurance and pharmaceutical corporations fighting against real reform.

Obama and the Stone Tablets By E.J. Dionne
The president has shied away from handing Congress his own plans on “stone tablets,” but if he doesn’t intervene in the health care debate, and soon, lawmakers are going to send him an unworkable monstrosity of a bill.

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