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The budget confrontation that led to a partial government shutdown dealt a major blow to the GOP’s image and has exposed significant divisions between tea party supporters and other…
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If a "have" laughs at a "have-not" and despises him, we say that the person is arrogant and not high-minded, even if he or she wears elevated shoes. If we see more and more people…
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Chris Matthews stated something very plainly on the Rachel Maddow Show recently. Matthews didn’t hold back when he said it was “hatred,” not politics, that’s fueling such intense…
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Not even Republicans would be dumb enough to risk the economic consequences if the U.S., for the first time in history, did not pay its bills. Warnings of the mess that would result…
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Oscar Hijuelos, a Cuban-American novelist who wrote about the lives of immigrants adapting to a new culture and became the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his…
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Carville and Greenberg have released data from the latest survey by Democracy Corps and Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund — and the numbers aren’t good for the GOP.
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Members of the GOP-controlled House are wreaking havoc on Capitol Hill. Indeed, they saved for last their most lunatic attempt yet to destroy Obamacare.
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I’ve never gone longer than six months without employment in my life and I just spent the last three years in the military, one of which consisted of a combat tour of Afghanistan.
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Republicans claim this is a “Christian nation.” The key part to being a Christian is the belief in Jesus Christ and believers striving to live their lives the way he did. So why cut…
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There's no doubt that John Edwards' warning during the 2004 Democratic National Convention about "two Americas" was right on the money. And, as this week's report from the Census Bureau…
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