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Originals Photo March 23, 2010

Their Motto Is "Don't Tread On Me"…

With Obama signing the historic health care reform legislation today, this photo reflects the "fallen state" of the the Tea Party.

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Race Focus Photo March 22, 2010

Health Care: We Shall Overcome (with an Assist to the Teabaggers)

Remember Selma? Credit the Teabaggers for helping drive home an analogy far more powerful than Nancy Pelosi marching through the streets of DC with the gavel used to pass Medicare.

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President Obama Photo March 21, 2010

Health Care. (Exhale.)

The BAG looks at the White House photo, released immediately, commemorating the passage of the Health Care package by the Congress.

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As Reform Vote Looms, So do the Haters — Though it’s Not So Easy to Tell

As the final health care reform vote looms, so do the haters -- though it's hard to tell by the pictures in the traditional media.

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Iraq and Afghanistan War Photo March 19, 2010

The Shrine Down the Hall

BNN questions how much Ashley Gilbertson's photos of bedrooms of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq has to say about the maturity of our recruits.

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HCR Update: Nothing to Marbel Over

News photos seem to cast a pall on the GOP in the finals days of major health care legislation.

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DeFence of Gay Rights

Dan Choi's arresting image at the White House yesterday.

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Protest Focus Photo March 17, 2010

The Hardly Audible anti-HCR Noise Machine. (Or: The Week the Tea Party Became a Caricature of Itself)

The Tea Party: Last summer they were scary. This Spring, they're laughable.

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American Non-Exceptionalism (or: Biden as Chopped Liver)

If governing truly has become a 200-channel circus and health care is sucking up most of the political oxygen (and the media truly doesn’t care about Afghanistan), then Biden is lucky because, otherwise, this little gem — of the Veep last week in a yarmulke standing before a Jewish...

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Scandal Focus Photo March 16, 2010

It’s All Greek To Me

Treasure Secretary Tim Geithner has been completely retooled. But then, will the public buy the new picture?

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The Sound and the Fury — for what it is

The GOP/Tea Party backlash to the final health care legislation is a major yawner.

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President Obama Photo March 15, 2010

The Health Care End, End, End Game: Dennis and the Bully Pulpit

The BAG fantasizes about what a more progressive country would look like -- as Obama works over Rep. Kucinich to vote for his bipartisan health care bill.

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Your Turn: Rielle Hunter Speaks Out (in Words and… Whoa!)

BagNewsNotes readers respond to G.Q.'s Reille Hunter interview and slide show, and particularly, the disconnect between the two.

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Uncategorized Photo March 14, 2010

Rahm: On the Rocks? Outside the Wire?

If these photo shows how much Rahm is entrenched, does it also suggest -- with health care hanging in the balance -- how much he's also on the bubble?

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As HCR Comes Down to Arm-Twisting Finish, Check Out that Sexist Framing of Pelosi

As the Speaker of the House asserts herself in the health care showdown in perhaps her most important week of her career, the sexist visual media is framing her as a hysteric.

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John Lucaites Photo March 13, 2010

A Moment’s Rest

War takes its toll in many ways, not least by how it deadens the human spirit by disrupting the ordinary routines of everyday life.

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Iraq and Afghanistan War Photo March 12, 2010

Construction is Booming! The Recovery has Arrived!

The construction industry has recovered. It's just a little further east than anybody at home would like.

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Deliverance

Driving the health care campaign to a conclusion, Obama is looking rather, well, divine again.

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