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People Complaining About The Obama "New Yorker" Cover Are Wrong

Jackson Williams | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Michelle Obama, New Yorker, New Yorker Magazine, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, New Yorker Obama Cover, Media News

Whose "problem" is it? It's certainly not the New Yorker's problem, or fault. After all, they're the ones making fun of all the right-wing claptrap that's being spread about Obama.

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The Oil Crisis Is (Still) Not Like A Toothache: Fighting The "Drill Now" Rhetoric

Martin Bosworth | Posted 07.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Consumer, Energy, High Gas Prices, John McCain, Drill Now Drill Here Pay Less, Environment, Drilling, Future, Newt Gingrich, Culture, Offshore Drilling Ban, McCain Offshore Drilling, Offshore Drilling, Green News

Many Americans realize that destroying environmental resources to allow more domestic drilling is a psychological panacea -- a placebo to make us feel like "something is being done."

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Gitmo Detainee Ordered Released, But His Lawyer Is Not Allowed To Tell Him

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

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On June 12, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Boumediene v. Bush that those detained as enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay had the rights of habe...

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Obama's "Contract with America"

Andy Ostroy | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

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Obama could call it Promise to America --in the aftermath of eight years of Bush/Republican corruption, it could be his vow to restore respect for the Constitution.

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Jim Webb Wows Democratic Partisans In L.A.

B.G.Rhule | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Jim Webb Incarceration, Executive Privilege, Jim Webb, Jim Webb Iraq War, Newt Gingrich, U.S. Incarceration Rates, Bill Clinton, Home News

Hurricane Katrina is the symbol, said Webb. It "connects the dots," demonstrating the generalized impression that fairness is simply not part and parcel of the current Executive landscape.

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Live Tyrannized and Die Anyways

David Quigg | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rudy Giuliani, New Hampshire, Barack Obama, Terrorism, Antonin Scalia, Guantanamo, Supreme Court, Election 2008, Newt Gingrich, Constitution, John McCain, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Habeas Corpus, Civil Liberties, Warantless Wiretapping, Patriot Act, Mccain Habeas Corpus, Politics News

In the interest of saving America from bin Laden, we have shown a terrifying willingness to strip away more and more of the founding virtues that make America worth saving in the first place.

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Missing White House Emails, Iraq War, Samuel Alito Exxon, Exxon Mobil, Polar Bears, Iraq Contractors, Newt Gingrich, Dennis Kucinich Impeachment, Exxon Valdez, Torture, Afghanistan War, Media News

Investigation confirms torture at U.S. bases in Afghanistan, Michael Reagan calls for murder of anti-war activists, Gingrich claims Supreme Court decision will "cost us a city" and $23 billion in lost Iraq funds.

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How Gingrich/Giuliani Sabotaged Civic Debate

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media

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Withing days of the Supreme Court's ruling on Guantanamo detainees, Gingrich and Giuliani pushed their way into the debate, and began to argue that liberal views on Habeas Corpus would kill Americans.

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Newt Gingrich Pulls a Trent Lott

Shayana Kadidal | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Dred Scott, Newt Gingrich, Boumediene v. Bush, Guantanamo, Politics News

Gingrich epitomizes the craziness of the Right when he came out said giving men held at Guantanamo the right to go before a federal judge is equivalent to the bad decision of Dred Scott.

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Gingrich Rails At Supreme Court, Obama: 'This Could Cost Us A City'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Video, Guantanamo Detainees, Supreme Court Guantanamo Detainees, Newt Gingrich, Due Process, Barack Obama, Politics News

Reacting to the recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States of America - who recently affirmed, by 5-4 decision, our Constitutional righ...

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Bill Clinton's Failed Television Career

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 06.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Cleopatra, Don Hewitt, Monica Lewinsky, Bob Dole, You Ignorant Slut, "Jane, " "I'm No Tammy Wynette Standing by My Man, Newt Gingrich, Bill O'Reilly, 60 Minutes, Gennifer Flowers, " Bill Clinton, Media News

Just two years out of the White House, Clinton was still struggling to find his place; Don Hewitt hoped that TV face-off starring Bill would become so popular that it would be parodied on SNL.

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FOX Launches Coordinated Assault on McClellan

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.30.2008 | Media

Read More: Ari Fleischer, Fox News, Steve Doocy, Newt Gingrich, Scott Mcclellan, Bill O'Reilly, Trent Duffy, Media News

Wait a minute, FOX -- are you actually claiming that a publisher might hire an editor to edit a book? My stars! I also heard a rumor that McClellan typed the book on a liberal Mac laptop, too.

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Gingrich Mounts Campaign to 'Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less'

David Roberts | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil, Newt Gingrich, Oil Market, Gas Prices, Oil Drilling, Saudi Arabia, Green, Alaska Oil, Kuwait, Republicans, Anwr, Politics News

The U.S. cannot affect oil or gasoline prices in any significant way by drilling more oil. Full stop. Gingrich is knowingly lying to people (and taking their money).

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It's The Morning After - Hillary, Look In The Mirror

Melissa Hapke | Posted 05.29.2008 | Home

The media is neither sexist nor liberal. Hillary Clinton has been treated the way she has treated her opponents.

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Eco-Gingrich and "Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less."

A. Siegel | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

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Advertised as "tri-partisan," Gingrich is seeking to wrap himself in some form of post-partisan sainthood, a repackaging enabled by the We Campaign's embrace.

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Democratic Landslide In November?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

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[Those of you who prefer "all cynicism all the time" should just skip this column, since I'm about to get blisteringly optimistic here. You have been...

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Republicans Are on a Different Planet, Posing Problems Into 2009

David Fiderer | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

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McCain and the Republican leadership remain wedded to Gingrich's last-man-standing style of politics, which sacrifices the greater good for the sake of making the other side look bad.

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Friday Talking Points [31] -- Time To Beat McCain

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics

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Now that that's all over with, can we please focus on beating John McCain? Virtually everyone (with the possible exception of Hillary Clinton -- I gue...

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To Hillary, From A Kindred: Thank You

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.09.2008 | Home

Read More: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Impeachment, Barack Obama, Home News

Problem was, you never lost the desire to do good, but behaved as if you had. You'd experienced the warped political process and partook, indulging too freely, and in doing so, ran a losing campaign.

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Newt Gingrich to GOP--Wake Up or Perish

Katrina vanden Heuvel | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics

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Either Congressional Republicans chart a bold course of real change, Gingrich argues or the GOP faces a landslide defeat and disaster in November. It's hard to agree with him. But I think he's right.

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A Warrior for Another Time

Mary Lyon | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics

I wonder what might have happened if the ferociousness of the Hillary movement had been in play against Junior in 2000. And would she have allowed herself to be swiftboated the way Kerry did?

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Francophile Newt wants to build a few hundred nukes too -- and shut down every coal plant!

Joseph Romm | Posted 05.06.2008 | Home

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First John McCain and now Newt Gingrich turn out to love the cheese-eating surrender monkeys. Better start checking them both for U.S. flag lapel pin...

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Newt Gingrich On The View, Says Hillary's "The Candidate": Watch Video

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Thomas | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich took to the airwaves on the only show where his unique combination of oozing charm and banal political advice can b...

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Snaphots: Our Political-Entertainment Industrial Complex

Scott Shrake | Posted 04.27.2008 | Home

Read More: John McCain, Chuck Todd, Spencer Pratt, Andrea Mitchell, Greta Van Susteren, John McLaughlin, Bob Balaban, Martha Stewart, Janet Reno, John Hinckley, George W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Pamela Anderson, Chris Matthews, Geraldine Ferraro, Bob Woodward, Ralph Reed, Heidi Montag, Padma Lakshmi, Craig Crawford, John King, Jonathan Alter, Rob Lowe, Morgan Fairchild, Gloria Borger, Home News

At the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, I saw a lot of vintage 1990s right-wingers, including Ralph Reed and Newt Gingrich, but whatever. Top Politico of the night? Pamela, of course!

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The Toxic Thinking of the Right Infects the Body Politic

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics

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The Neanderthal wing of the GOP has dragged the political debate so far to the right that even Democrats find themselves getting cozy with ideas that not so long ago would have been the exclusive domain of arch-conservatives.

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