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ROMNEY: ON WEALTH, STILL SAYING THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT GOP VOTERS WANT TO HEAR Mitt Romney continues to get really damaging coverage on th...

GOD HAS A PLAN FOR YOU, DEAD MAN WALKING I look at the still-popular and clearly ineradicable death penalty in America, especially after ...

IF IT DOESN'T FIT INTO A PLEASING NARRATIVE, IT DIDN'T ACTUALLY HAPPEN Here's the money quote (in more ways than one) from an...

IS ROMNEY PICKING UP BACHMANN'S VOTES? AND IF SO, WHY? I usually ignore Rasmussen polls, but I'm wondering if there's value ...

MAYBE RALPH WILL FIND US AN UNDEAD PRIMARY CHALLENGER I'm a little late getting to the story of Ralph Nader's attempt to find a p...

I JUST DON'T BELIEVE THE PALIN NUMBERS McClatchy-Marist has a new poll out with the usual (mostly) grim news for President Obama: ...

"I LOVE A MAN IN UNIFORM," THEY HARRUMPHED I knew that Michael Barone had become a deranged Democrat-hater, but this Barone blo...

VOTERS SAY, "THROW THE BUMS OUT." MAYBE THIS IS WHAT THEY MEAN. I've been skeptical, and ultimately it may turn out that I...

RICK PERRY: GUESS WHAT? STILL NOT THIS YEAR'S HOWARD DEAN Hey, kids -- remember how, after the last Republican debate on September ...

FACTS ABOUT FAT-CAT FATNESS ARE EMBARRASSING THINGS From an AP "fact check" of the arguments underlying the president's ca...

NEEDLESS TO SAY, DAVID, YOU'RE ALSO A REPUBLICAN SAP This morning's David Brooks column is a plaintive wail entitled "Obama ...

MULTIPLE BIRTHERS EMERGE (OR REEMERGE) FROM THE SLIME There are three -- count 'em, three -- birther stories in the news right now. (...

PULL UP THE LADDER NOW THAT I'VE CLIMBED UP I imagine you already know what GOP congressman John Fleming said this morning: Multi-...

MAKING OBAMA A WAR PRESIDENT When talking about the Obamas deficit plan, Paul Ryan threw out a lot of catchphrases yesterday, hoping one...

APPARENTLY THERE ARE SOME LIMITS TO SELF-RELIANCE IN PERRY COUNTRY From today's big New York Times story about Paint Creek and Haske...

STEVE CHAPMAN'S SLIGHT CHANGE OF HEART ON HILLARY CLINTON Here's Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman, from his new column ...

TANENHAUS: WE'RE IN THE LAST DAYS! GOSSIP IS BEING USED TO SELL POLITICAL BOOKS! So I'm reading the Sunday Review section of The ...

THIS EXISTS: CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS IN AMERICA I'm feeling uncharacteristically optimistic about the juxtaposition of this... Preside...

POLITICAL IVY LEAGUERS: COMPARE AND CONTRAST Kathleen Parker in a Washington Post column today: ... Democrats ... pride themselves th...

CONDESCEND MUCH, KIM? Kim Severson of The New York Times sets out to write a story about the fight to save Troy Davis from execution in ...