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Militarism Focus Photo April 16, 2012

Israeli Soldier Attacks Demonstrator … and Thoughts on All the Eisners in the World

Protester video leads to a black day for Israel, for sure. The isolation and intensity of the scene, however, seems to also capture every person out there ready or known to go off.

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Rotor Wash, In/Visibility of the Afghan War, and My Excellent Weekend at Indiana U.

If the photo gallery is supposed to be about the handover of responsibility to the Afghanis, where are the picture of it and why does it conclude with a French unit "holding down the fort"?

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Campaign '12 Photo April 13, 2012

Some NRA Convention Pics That Caught Our Eye

Certainly it's a shot the NRA has gotta love: girl power meets new fangled killing machine. And Ann Romney was firing well, too.

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Culture Focus Photo April 12, 2012

David Guttenfelder, Ambassador

I imagine the North Koreans look at these factory shots and feel that Guttenfelder is paying them respect, capturing an ethic of hard work and industry, perhaps believing also that the photos must counter perceptions the country is barely scraping by.

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The Trayvon Martin Case: Reflections on an Arrest

Three photographs of events in the Trayvon Martin case: George Zimmerman's booking photo, his attorney's press conference, and photographs of the people of Sanford, Florida capture all the emotion and activity leading up to yesterday’s events -- as well as the pensiveness over what is to come.

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Culture Focus Photo April 11, 2012

George Zimmerman's Lawyer's Dadaist Press Conference

This press conference/photo op with Zimmerman's limbo lawyers offers one of the stranger collections of otherwise standard press conference images I've seen in a while.

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Campaign '12 Photo April 10, 2012

O-Ba-Ma: White House 2012 Rocks Boca

Shades of Denver and Berlin, the "Buffet rule" blitz in the bizarro-land of Florida will serve, in so many single scenes, as a preview of coming attraction to be played and replayed from now until the last lever handle is pulled in November.

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Campaign '12 Photo

Baby Bella and the Last Act of Santorum ’12

It seems any ability to tease out the emotional dynamics from the family's religious faith from hard (and bleak) political calculations in the ultimate decision is really not possible.

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Campaign '12 Photo April 9, 2012

Juxtaposition of the Day: The Body Men

Contrasting Barack and Reggie with Mitt and Garrett is one more way to see how the contest in November pits two men from drastically different cultural universes.

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Faith Focus Photo

St. Tebow and the Sign of the Crossbars

Sports in America, cherished as it is on Sundays throughout the year, is more religion in this country than religion itself.

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Campaign '12 Photo April 8, 2012

Campaign '12: Obama Engages in the War on Women

The message of the photo is that Obama is not only standing up for women, but is pushing the point.

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John Lucaites Photo April 6, 2012

How Much More War You Can See in Magenta

When infrared film is used, the invisible becomes visible forcing us to look again at what we are seeing.

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Faith Focus Photo

Some Good Friday Photos That Caught Our Eye

Should have figured it was an American pilgrim when I saw that belly.

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Business Focus Photo April 5, 2012

Pink Slime — Plus, the Return of Rick Perry!

When the public found out last week that most of the country’s beef has ammonia-infused pink slime in it, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback and his buddy Rick from Texas headed over to the pink slime factory in Nebraska for some damage-controlling photographs.

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Media Focus Photo

DSK: Back on the Playground

...In the wilds of the Ukraine.

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AP Photo of Afghan Suicide Bombing: Revisiting the Censorship of Images of Wounded American Soldiers

If there is anything that is shocking to me about the subject at this point, it's that the visual censorship of these wars has been so absolute that many today fail to understand why such scenes would be even be relevant to see.

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Photo April 4, 2012

What Earns You Extra Attention When You're Not First School in Your State To Pepper Spray?

For the likes of still greater fee hikes at the community college level, Santa Monica College ups the pepper spray ante.

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Campaign '12 Photo

Romney, Ryan at the Sandwich Shop, Part 1: "Sub Standard" Logic

I'm not sure how much Team Romney really thought through the symbolism here as he and Ryan spend the closing days of the Wisconsin primary working the fast food circuit.

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