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| Hope and More Hope | | American Prospect - 18 Hours ago | | I donâ??t know about you, but Jaclyn Friedmanâ??s series last week filled me with all kindsa hope, or, at least, tamped down my hopelessness. Ending rape in conflict zones ? Ending rape at all? My Eeyore | | | | Add Comment |
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| Time for a Financial Transaction Tax | | American Prospect - 18 Hours ago | | The G8 summit shows that world leaders are ready to talk about more than austerity, but it's time to start changing policy too. Donate Email Print Send to Instapaper Despite the Camp David G8 summitâ??s | | | | Add Comment |
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| Our Laws Are Made By Idiots | | American Prospect - 5/21/2012 | | Non-random stupidity on Capitol Hill. Donate Email Print Send to Instapaper Back in 2009, Michele Bachmann told an interviewer that she was refusing to answer any questions on the census form other than | | | | Add Comment |
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| The "Vetting" Obsession | | American Prospect - 5/21/2012 | | Conservatives are still hoping to uncover Barack Obama's deepest, darkest secret. Donate Email Print Send to Instapaper When the Washington Post story about Mitt Romney's high school years (including | | | | Add Comment |
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| Meet the Romney Campaignâ??s Snarkiest Wonk | | The New Republic Online - 5/21/2012 | | Since Lanhee Chen joined the Romney campaign in March last year, his public pronouncements have been liberally seasoned with snark. Tweeting about Newt Gingrich during the first Florida debate, he wrote, | | | | Add Comment |
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| Bush endorses Romney | | Xinhua News Agency - 5/16/2012 | | WASHINGTON, May 15 (Xinhua)-- Former U.S. president George W. Bush expressed his support on Tuesday for Mitt Romney to become the Republican presidential candidate in the 2012 election. "I'm for Mitt | | | | Add Comment |
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| Why Does Romney Get a Pass? | | American Prospect - 5/18/2012 | | A look at the recent rhetoric used by the former Massachusetts governor. Donate Email Print Send to Instapaper Greg Sargent highlights this portion from an interview Mitt Romney did with Town Hall this | | | | Add Comment |
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| High-Ranking Crazy | | American Prospect - 5/18/2012 | | Astute readers may have noticed that over the past year or so, I've made an effort not to be too knee-jerk about my partisanship. Not that I've changed my beliefs about any substantive issues lately, | | | | Add Comment |
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| A Farewell and Friday Round-up | | American Prospect - 5/18/2012 | | Here's a bunch of links to finish up my week filling in for E.J. Donate Email Print Send to Instapaper This being Friday, seems like the way to wrap up this week's series on ending rape in conflict is | | | | Add Comment |
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| Mitt Romney Gets More Resolute All the Time | | American Prospect - 5/18/2012 | | There are times when you can just see the wheels turning in Mitt Romney's head, as he cycles through the possible responses to a question, realizes there really is no good one, then spits out something | | | | Add Comment |
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| Mr. Caro's Opus | | American Prospect - 5/18/2012 | | You've got no secrets from me this week. Unless you were one of the early birds who devoured the thing in vast, debilitating insomniac gobs after clawing the Amazon.com box open on publication day, you | | | | Add Comment |
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| Wall Street Likes Facebook | | American Prospect - 5/18/2012 | | Facebook makes its blockbuster market debut today, and as The New York Times points out, "the trading on Friday is the the equivalent of a must-see Super Bowl Sunday showdown for people who donâ??t | | | | Add Comment |
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| Be Very Afraid | | American Prospect - 5/17/2012 | | Jamelle's hot-off-the-presses cover story on how Romney will govern as a hardcore right-winger irrespective of what he "really" thinks is a must-read. And what's even worse is that this lesson applies | | | | Add Comment |
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| Romney Gets a Fact Check | | American Prospect - 5/17/2012 | | Because I devote a fair amount of time to Romneyâ??s dishonest rhetoricâ??-and the degree to which its ignored by mainstream reportersâ??itâ??s worth noting those times when someone shows that the former | | | | Add Comment |
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| Bipartisan Watermelon Destruction | | American Prospect - 5/17/2012 | | Gary Johnson's first campaign ad falls flat. Donate Email Print Send to Instapaper Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is out with his first campaign ad today, and it's about as bizarre as | | | | Add Comment |
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| How the Sausage Gets Unmade | | American Prospect - 5/17/2012 | | What we can learn from the successful International Campaign to Ban Landmines about how to stop rape in conflict. Donate Email Print Send to Instapaper We've been talking this week about how to stop | | | | Add Comment |
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| Repeal and Pretend to Replace | | American Prospect - 5/17/2012 | | Republicans say they want to keep the popular parts of Obamacare, but it's politics over policy. Donate Email Print Send to Instapaper Maybe Republicans aren't so opposed to health care reform after all. | | | | Add Comment |
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| Rich People: Not That Smart | | American Prospect - 5/17/2012 | | Most of us would agree that Citizens United has been bad for democracy, with corporations and wealthy people now permitted to spend as much as they want to buy the kind of representatives they prefer. | | | | Add Comment |
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| There are Other Third Party Candidates, You Know | | The New Republic Online - 5/17/2012 | | The recent failure of Americans Electâ??the group spent $35 million, but it still couldnâ??t find a candidateâ??has removed next Novemberâ??s most prominent third-party prospect. But for those who donâ??t | | | | Add Comment |
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