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TODAY IN REPUBLICAN SELF-PROMOTION For a suggested donation of just $72, you can get this: No word if it's made of 100% Iraqi pet...

RAND PAUL'S BREAK WITH CONSERVATIVE CORRECTNESS ON CUBA COULD PLAY WELL IN IOWA Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush , Ted Cruz , and even Scott Wa...

MY POST-9/11 "TERROR" EXPERIENCE, AND WHY I DON'T THINK THE RESPONSE TO THE SONY THREAT IS COWARDICE The U.S. government ha...

JEB COULD LOSE THE NOMINATION BECAUSE OF SOMETHING HE NEVER ACTUALLY SAID On today's radio show, Rush Limbaugh quoted a 2009 story a...

WITH CUBA MOVE, OBAMA AGAIN MESSES WITH REPUBLICANS' PLANS TO PRETEND THEY CAN GOVERN Pretty big news: The United States and Cuba wi...

SO PUT JEB BUSH OR TED CRUZ ON THE COVER AND SEE HOW WELL THAT ISSUE SELLS The Washington Post 's Jaime Fuller reports on a statisti...

ONE MORE REASON JEB'S GOING TO HAVE A HARD TIME IN THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES There are a lot of why-Jeb-sucks lists on right-wing site...

DID THE GOP ESTABLISHMENT LEARN THE WRONG LESSONS FROM 2014? On Facebook today, Jeb Bush announced that he's "decided to active...

IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY LIBERAL ENOUGH TO PICK ELIZABETH WARREN? David Brooks thinks Elizabeth Warren can win a Democratic presidential p...

THIS IS HOW GEORGE W. BUSH SENT THE MESSAGE "9/11 MEANT TORTURE WAS OK" ON SUNDAY Funny, he just so happened to show up yesterd...

WE'RE ARGUING ABOUT TORTURE TO STOP TERRORIST PLOTS, BUT THE NEW ATTACKS SEEM TO INVOLVE NO CONSPIRATORS I agree with the notion that...

THE NEXT REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT WILL PROBABLY TORTURE The New Yorker 's Amy Davidson watched Dick Cheney on Meet the Press yesterday. ...

CHENEY: BECAUSE SHUT UP, THAT'S WHY Among the ways Dick Cheney defended "enhanced interrogation" on Meet the Press today w...

THE PLATFORM OF THE 2016 REPUBLICAN NOMINEE WILL BE "HILLARY SUCKS" It's often said that, while Republicans done very well ...

FOR RIGHT-WINGERS, THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE TO TORTURE IS INDULGENCE I this this Fox News moment featuring Dick Cheney reveals a lot about th...

A RISING BLUE-COLLAR JOB MARKET COULD HAVE LIFTED ALL RACES The New York Times has a big story today titled "The Vanishing Male Wor...

TOWARD A POST-OBAMA DEMOCRATIC PARTY The progressive revolt against a provision favorable to big banks in the CRomnibus spending bill fai...

NO, TED CRUZ DID NOT SAY THAT BUSH-ERA INTERROGATION TACTICS WERE TORTURE I'm a fan of Talking Points Memo, but this is wrong: Cruz ...

PADILLA'S IDIOTIC PLOT, AND HIS SOMEWHAT LESS IDIOTIC PLOT Republicans have argued that torture was worthwhile in the aftermath of 9...