How Can Paul Ryan Be Called 'Courageous'?
by Katrina vanden Heuvel
Our country has adopted a distorted definition of political courage, one that rewards those, like Paul Ryan, who claim to be making hard choices—when in truth they've taken an easy path.

Eric Cantor Doubles Down On Using Disaster Victims As Hostages To Spending Cuts
By Yashwanth Manjunath

Is Sarah Palin Pulling a Donald Trump?
by Michael D. Shear

The announcement by the former governor of Alaska on Thursday that she will begin a slick, campaign-style bus tour this weekend immediately set off a frenzy of media and political speculation about her intentions for the 2012 presidential race.

The Fight-Back in Wisconsin
Judge Throws Out Walker’s Anti-Union Law
Protesters Crash Gov. Walker’s Voter ID Signing Party
Harnessing the Energy
Walker’s War Not Just Against the Middle Class
Progressives Rally in Northern Wisconsin
Rightwing assault continues in Wisconsin’s Capitol
Wisconsin Republicans Ram Through Voter ID Bill
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Buyers' Remorse Over New GOP Governors

by Marge Omero

Voters across the country have buyers' remorse about the Republicans they elected to office.

From Wisconsin to Florida, Strong Winds of Political Remorse

By Joe Conason —
Still spinning in the vortex of the May 24 tornado in New York’s 26th Congressional District, Republican leaders insist that Democrat Kathy Hochul’s upset victory on their party’s turf was meaningless.

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America's Real Radicals: The 40 Senators Who Voted Against Medicare
by RJ Eskow
On Wednesday forty radicals in the United States Senate took an extremist position by voting to end Medicare.
That simple sentence will be challenged by a lot of political and media people. They'll say I don't understand the popular mood, and that I'm applying my own values to Wednesday's vote. But I can prove this statement is true, using only a dictionary and some polling data. They'll even say they didn't vote to end Medicare! But that can be proved, too.

The Tea Party Is Yesterday's News

by E.J. Dionne Jr.

If I Take Down Fox News, Is All Forgiven?
David Brock has spent the last decade apologizing to liberals for his role in creating the vast right-wing conspiracy. Now he’s trying something more ambitious and hoping it gains him the respect he craves from the White House.
By Jason Zengerle

How Roger Ailes Built The Fox News Fear Factory

The onetime Nixon operative has created the most profitable propaganda machine in history. Inside America's Unfair and Imbalanced Network.

Some Weeks Are Like That, Even for Republicans by Harold Meyerson
In a second blow for Republicans, a judge in Wisconsin today threw out Scott Walker's anti-union law.

Friends Without Benefits by Matthew Yglesias
The U.S. is Israel's BFF, but the feeling isn't mutual.

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President Obama Right, Romney And Friends Wrong On Auto Bailout
by TomP

Harold Camping runs a "non-prophet" organization.

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Obama Gets Real on Israel

by Daniel Levy
President Obama gave the United States some credibility on the Middle East yesterday, but that doesn't mean his speech was perfect.

The Elephant In The Green Room
The circus Roger Ailes created at Fox News made his network $900 million last year. But it may have lost him something more important: the next election.
By Gabriel Sherman

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Obama’s Call For Israeli & Palestinian Borders To Be ‘Based On The 1967 Lines’ Mirrors Bush, Clinton Policy

Newt Gingrich will never be president
How many racially divisive images and issues can he throw at us in just one week? Keep watching . by Joan Walsh

Newt Gingrich and "the food stamp president"
He didn't call Obama a "strapping young buck," but his slur is coded racism (and not very Catholic) just the same
by Joan Walsh

The Return of the Real McCain
By Joe Conason —
John McCain has returned to his senses, just in time to refute the sinister attempt by his fellow Republicans to justify torture as the instrument of Osama bin Laden’s demise.
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Rand Paul: Public Health Care Just Like Slavery
With an absolutely straight face, Rand Paul in this exchange compares public health care to slavery. He says that if everyone has a right to health care, that means that people can come to his office – Rand is a doctor, after all – and “conscript” him to provide service.
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Why the GOP Can't Get Rid of Its Clowns
GOP presidential candidates have turned the party into a three ring circus. The would-be candidates that have snatched the most media ink and public attention typified the clown lunacy that GOP regulars shudder at.

Koch Brothers now under fire for corrupting hiring practices at FSU and other Colleges

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The GOP Checks Into Jonestown
by Andrew Reinbach
I've never met a conservative who knows what to say when I explain the reality of their premise; they just beg for time to consider.
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Editorial: The Rejected WindfallAfter Gov. Rick Scott of Florida thoughtlessly rejected $2.4 billion in federal aid for a high-speed rail line, he claimed last month that he was doing a huge favor for the national Treasury, which he expected would give away the money in tax cuts. That was nonsense, of course.

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Noam Chomsky:
My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death

Why Ron Paul’s Racist Newsletters Matter Ron Paul is back in the hunt for the Presidency. Many see him as an appealing candidate, one who opposes the wars, wants drugs legalized and fiscal responsibility.

Debt Ceiling Folly
By E.J. Dionne, Jr. —
Starting this week, the talk in our nation’s capital will be dominated by whether or not Congress should raise the debt ceiling—as if we have any choice but to pay off our obligations.

A Monster of Our Own Creation
By Robert Scheer —
When bin Laden turned against us, he morphed into a figure of evil incarnate, and now three decades after we first decided to use him and other imported Muslim zealots for our Cold War purposes, we feel cleansed by his death of any responsibility for his carnage.
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Wilkerson: 'Let Me Waterboard Donald Rumsfeld and Then We'll See if He Says It's Torture or Not' Wilkerson reminded me a little bit of Jesse Ventura when he said this a couple of years ago about Dick Cheney -- Jesse Ventura: You Give Me a Water Board, Dick Cheney and One Hour, and I'll Have Him Confess to the Sharon Tate Murders.

President Bush Reacts to Osama Bin Laden's Death with Will Ferrell from Will Ferrell

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Trump Undecided About What Stupid Shit to Say Next « Borowitz Report www.borowitzreport.com
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – With the public’s attention focused on the death of Osama bin Laden, billionaire Donald Trump huddled with advisors for the second straight day to try to decide what stupid shit to say next.

This is what political courage looks like

The Big Lie: Torture Got Bin Laden

Rumsfeld Disproves Conservatives’ Tortured Argument

Johann Hari: Donald Trump Has Revealed the Truth About the Republican Party
Every six months, the Republican Party venerates a new hero, and each time it is somebody further back on the evolutionary scale.

How Obama Succeeded Where Bush Failed -- Again And Again

Time to End the War on Terror
by Katrina vanden Heuvel

Video: Jeremy Scahill on how bin Laden led the US to declare war on the world »

John Nichols on Obama's political coup »

Is this what closure feels like?
President Obama vanquished the terrorist who murdered innocent Americans in 2001. Can we have our country back now?
by Joan Walsh

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