Tea Party Demographics
New polling data on The Tea Party suggests its followers might be a little less whacked than progressives tend to believe.
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EnGendering The New BAG
Yes Virginia, the new BagNewsNotes is actually not a testosterone-intensive operation.
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Come Monday (Cosmic Forces Permitting), Be Prepared for the Relaunch of BagNewsNotes!
Get ready for the relaunch of BagNewsNotes, coming Monday if we've got our days right.
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Michelle Powers into Haiti
(Besides the first photo I've seen of Preval in months (of the very few that have appeared in U.S. media, at all), it's the first one I've ever seen of Preval smiling.) ... ( Updated : 9:45 pm PST) linked photo: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters. caption: U.S. first lady Michelle Obama...
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Arms (Legs and Plain Whole Body) Reduction
Why do the photos from the Anti-Nuke Summit make Obama look so small?
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Afghanistan: Finished Before We’ve Re-Started?
Is the US attack on a bus in Kandahar a tipping point for the US intervention?
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Locking Down the Capitol
Not exactly fear in D.C.'s streets, but a whole lot of military buzz over a summit.
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GOP Update, such as it is.
BNN's RNC conference update, to the extent there was anything interesting to look at.
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That Feudal Feeling
This photo of Kyrgyz street clash feels like something new and something very, very old.
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Stupidité d’état at Guantanamo Bay
The national interest of a democratic people may be served well by reason, but the modern state, to the extent that it is a regime of coercive control, will rely on another mentality: stupidité d’état.
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Your Turn: The Stevens Era
Obviously, the Supreme Court looks a lot different in Justice Stevens's last year than it did up front.
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Namir Noor-Eldeen
It's both troubling and compelling to consider Noor-Eideen taking this photo of medics lifting a body after a rocket attack when the photographer was killed in much the same circumstances.
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Greenspan’s Vision
The visual media pegs it straight away: Greenspan had his eyes closed.
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The Tiger Morality Play (Cha-Ching)
Have you seen the new Masters commercial? Nike assumes the fallen Tiger has undergone a moral re-education ... for more woooshing profits. Have you seen the new Masters commercial? Nike assumes the fallen Tiger has undergone a moral re-education ... for more woooshing profits.
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Not Just For Liberals Anymore
So, I’m having trouble understanding this sign. Without laying down a lot of snark, though, I’m appreciating more and more how the Tea Party is mostly an umbrella for the angry, the confused, the frustrated. (What emphasizes that even more is how this woman in red is centered between...
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You’re Toast, Sir
A shot of Obama and Karzai ... before the President of Kabul burned down the breakfast club.
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