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SO IF RICK PERRY IS CONVICTED, SHOULD HE HAVE TO REFUND THE COST OF YOUR T-SHIRT? Rick Perry is selling indictment swag: Texas Gov. Rick ...

AND SPEAKING OF PRESIDENTIAL RECREATION DURING CRISES... Yes, President Obama continued to play golf after the murder of James Foley -- ...

GOOD PRESS FOR A REPUBLICAN? IT DOESN'T TAKE MUCH There's a story in The Washington Post today about Rand Paul's trip to Gu...

DON LEMON MAKES SAME GUN TERMINOLOGY MISTAKE AS NOTORIOUS LIBERAL TED NUGENT National Review 's Charles C.W. Cooke is upset because ...

NAHHH, NOTHING RACIST HERE There's a thread over at Free Republic titled "Sign Ideas for Ferguson Counter-Protests." Here ...

DICK CHENEY IS AN OLD HAND AT POLITICIZING BEHEADINGS The body of James Foley was barely cold when Dick Cheney suited himself up to go on...

AFTER COMMUNISM'S FALL, THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE, EXCEPT ORGANIZED ULTRAVIOLENCE This is from a piece by The New Yorker 's Jon Le...

AT FOX, NEEDLESS TO SAY, OBAMA CAN'T WIN Here are three James Foley stories on the Fox Nation front page right now. First, the oldes...

REBUTTING JOE THE PLUMBER'S RACISM Talking Points Memo reports that Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher has weighed in ...

MITCH McCONNELL'S SHUTDOWN BRINKMANSHIP IS MUCH LOWER-RISK THAN IT SEEMS In a Politico interview, Mitch McConnell has announced that a...

PODUNK COPS CAN'T POLICE, BUT THEY'RE WORKING THE MEDIA LIKE SEASONED GOP OPERATIVES Keeping the peace in a moment of great unres...

TONIGHT THEY'RE GONNA PONTIFICATE LIKE IT'S 1989 Over at Buzzfeed, Evan McMorris-Santoro published a truly naive story titled ...

I THINK MICHAEL LIND IS OVERTHINKING THIS Michael Lind is a Texan and a very smart political observer, but I think he's wrong about...

IS MONEY THE REASON WE CAN'T TRANSCEND RACE? Charlie Pierce believes America can never fully overcome its racial animosities: The h...

NO, IT'S NOT INEPTITUDE IN FERGUSON Jelani Cobb at The New Yorker : From the outset, the overlapping bureaucracies in Ferguson hand...

DON'T ASSUME THE GUN LOBBY WILL LIFT A FINGER TO HELP DEMILITARIZE COPS Salon's Jim Newell, citing a report from The Hill, is b...

HILLARY'S CORONATION IS OVER -- IF YOU WANT IT The Hill publishes a piece titled "Five Figures on the Left Who Could Challenge ...

WHY DO AMERICAN MOVIEGOERS HATE AMERICA? So I see that The Giver finished fifth at the box office this weekend: Teenage Mutant Ninja T...

CONSERVATIVES ARE STARTING TO FRAME THE DEBATE ON POLICING, AND RACISM IS BEING DEEMED IRRELEVANT Want to know where the discussion set o...

SO IS RICK PERRY NOW THE 2016 GOP FRONT-RUNNER? Oddly, just before Rick Perry was indicted, I was mentally sketching out a post arguing ...