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Sep 06 2012

Take that, cynical Facebook-meme purveyors

Go Ahead and Post That Liberal Rant on Facebook. You Might Change Someone’s Mind

By , Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012, at 5:55 PM ET Thinking of posting a status update to let all your Facebook friends to know…  [more]

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Sep 06 2012

Naked on the national stage

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In caving on Jerusalem, Dems pulled back the curtain on the lobby

By , September 6, 2012   Last night was an amazing moment at the Democratic National Convention; for an instant, we saw the Israel…  [more]

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Sep 05 2012

Crocodile eyelashes

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  • September 5, 2012

At last! The must-have, to-die-for Deb bag

By Deborah Ross, Thursday 06 September 2012   If you ask me, to celebrate the launch of Victoria Beckham’s Harper bag, and having given up on anyone creating a handbag named after…  [more]

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Sep 03 2012

A masterpiece of miscalculation

The day a Cockburn set the White House aflame

By Patrick Cockburn, Sunday 02 September 2012   As a correspondent in Washington 20 years ago, I received occasional calls from local television stations on the anniversary of the burning…  [more]

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Sep 03 2012

Moral superiority is often asserted

William Hague is wrong… we must own up to our brutal colonial past

By Owen Jones, Monday 03 September 2012   Remember all that national soul-searching and self-flagellation over Empire and all the horrors committed in its name? No,…  [more]

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Sep 03 2012

Defining what is and isn’t reality

Saving ‘Lyin’ Ryan’

By Mark Hertsgaard, 03 Sep 2012 09:40   No doubt about it, Paul Ryan’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention the other night was a daring display, especially for a guy with his last name.…  [more]

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Sep 03 2012

The Grand Old Party illusion

Cruel Conservatives Throw a Masquerade Ball

By , September 1, 2012   MESSAGE: They care. Republicans care deeply. They really do. They care deeply about making us think that they care deeply. That’s why they knocked themselves out…  [more]

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