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Jon Stewart Mocks Barney Frank's Retirement Coverage On Fox News (VIDEO)

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Katla McGlynn, Jon Stewart - Nov. 30 (Comedy News) - After nearly three decades of serving Massachusetts' 4th congressional district, Democratic U.S. Representative Barney Frank announced Monday that he will not be seeking re-election in 2012. On Tuesday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart bid farewell to him the only way he knows how: with clips of absurd reactions from the GOP.

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Democrats' Disgust With Obama

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Patricia Murphy - Apr. 15 (Opinion) - The budget deal, angrily rejected by Nancy Pelosi as it passed Thursday, was the last straw. Patricia Murphy on why some liberals are now pushing for a primary challenge to the president.

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Tea Time

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Pajamas Media - By Roger Kimball - Apr. 04 (Opinion) - Domestic issues are still front and center. But the embarrassing spectacle of the Obama administration lurching from paralysis to spasmodic incoherence and back on the Middle East and North Africa suggests that foreign policy will also loom large on the tea party’s agenda.

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A Liberal Is a Villager Who’s Been Screwed By a Mortgage Servicer

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Firedoglake - By David Dayen - Mar. 06 (Opinion) - Sometimes it takes only a little shared experience to recognize the major problems in our society. For Milbank to understand the mortgage crisis, he needed to experience it first-hand. And he recognizes that he’s one of the relatively luckier ones; borrowers without his income stream or resources are being forced into foreclosure when they confront these situations.

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Liberalism and the post-union future

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By Michael Lind - Feb. 22 (Opinion) - The goal should be to do away with employer-based benefits in favor of universal social insurance programs

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"Steep Cuts?" Even the Left Is Starting to Notice

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Power Line - By John Hinderaker - Feb. 15 (Opinion) - Liberal press outlets are reporting, generally without criticism, the Obama administration's claim that its FY 2012 budget embodies "steep cuts" in federal spending over the coming decade.

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The Tea Party and civil liberties

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Feb. 09 (Opinion) - It's long been clear that the best (and perhaps only) political hope for civil liberties in the U.S. is an alliance that transcends the standard Democrat v. GOP or left v. right dichotomies.

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Obama's Rick Warren Pick Makes Perfectly Good Sense

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Dec. 18 (Opinion) - President elect Barack Obama almost certainly knew that he'd take some heavy flack from gay rights and abortion rights groups for picking mega preacher Rick Warren to give his inaugural invocation. Warren backed the anti gay marriage Prop 8 in California to the hilt and rails against abortion. But Obama picked Warren for shrewd political and apparently heartfelt personal reasons. A tip of that came back in mid-August when he traipsed to Warren's Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California to talk to his evangelical flock.

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