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I've got three words:

Naked, black(ened) thug.

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Here's the pollyanna quote Ms. Leibovitz offered up to rationalize this "raw" photo of Woods taken before the scandal broke...

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Memo to al-Qaeda: The plan actually worked! Abdulmutallab didn't even need to detonate his explosive to to literally scare the pants off the non-Muslim world...

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A portrait in good and evil? Taking on the grinch that poisoned cable?

With Rachel occupying the foreground, in white, entering on...

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The question, Mr. President, is how do you expect to call these guys onto the carpet when you can't even get them on the carpet?

Bad weather or...

March on Washington on MLK Day? Libertarian conventions? 100 year plans?

Using his "latest-book" tour as the field test for...

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If anti-abortion picketers can routinely intimidate women outside health clinics, can it be that hard for protestors to scare off all but the...

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I promised Piper that this...

This is a very bad TIME.

First of all, the word "terrorist," at this point, doesn't appeal to any thoughtful or intellectual understanding of anything. Instead, like spraying acid, it is targeted for a strict emotional response.

Few...

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Beyond the pure shame of it, the photo is almost too painful to look at.

It shows Team Obama with Paul Volcker and his White House...

Come the first Monday after the Nobel announcement, here's Newsweek jumping on the "he didn't deserve it and who does he think he is, anyway?" bandwagon.

That's the least of it, though. Whereas similar toxicity abounds, Newsweek pivots off the bald and ugly "undeserving" slash in...

Are the Republicans and the media finally discovering a critique that hits Obama at the core of his personality?

If the subhead...

Sheesh, and I thought Newsweek was juicing the wackos this week.

TIME is not only in absolute collusion with the radical right in offering up this week-long, national FU to moderates,...

The wingnuts don't consistently merge health care reform with Obama's name just because...

As if August never ended.... While simultaneously reaching across the aisle and also challenged conservatives to act like grown-ups, Obama's health care speech before Congress brought still more troubling visuals.

Chris Stigall, a Kansas City talk show host, said, "I'm not letting my next-door neighbor talk to my kid alone; I'm sure as hell not letting Barack Obama talk to him alone.-- Some Parents Oppose Obama Speech to Students (NYT)

I'm not saying the latest right-wing...

If the image seems superfluous, validating how Tom DeLay has found his level as a has-been anchoring a cheap reality show, ABC in fact has afforded him the perfect platform.

From the Note:

Props to Media Matters for taking apart the distortions about the VA's "end-of-life" educational pamphlet propagated by Karl Rove, Sean Hannity and Fox News.

Most relevant, in light of Karl's playful prop on Hannity's Monday show,...

I just saw this photo story at TPM. After several incidents last week in which right wing radicals showed up at health care meetings wearing guns, we now have this example of a pro-reform demonstrator, identified only...