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Newt Gingrich Kills Climate Science Chapter To Appease Limbaugh Listeners

Dr. Katharine Hayhoe With the Iowa caucus looming, Newt Gingrich told a Rush Limbaugh listener he has killed a chapter by a conservative climate scientist that recognizes the reality of global...

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Worker Laid Off Under Bain Capital: Romney ‘Didn’t Care About The Workers,’...

Speaking to reporters tonight in Des Moines, Iowa, a worker laid off by a company owned by Bain Capital accused former Bain Capital CEO and current Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney of...

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Two Keys for the Iowa Caucus Results: Evangelicals Love Ron Paul & Romney’s...

From: Ari Melber Ari Melber What to watch for now that the Republican voting is finally starting.

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Iowa’s $200-Per-Vote Caucuses Reward Negatives, Nastiness, Narrow Thinking

From: John Nichols John Nichols Defined by big money, negative ads and a tiny base of voters, the Iowa caucuses start the presidential nominating process with the all wrong premises.

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Santorum on Iran: Meet My Demands Or Face Attack, ‘That’s The Plan’

Riding high on a surge in the polls in the first Republican primary state, Iowa, presidential hopeful and former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) vowed on a national Sunday talk show to attack Iran if it...

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Corporate Profits Up. Taxes Not.

From: Laura Flanders Laura Flanders Corporate profits rose to a record $1.97 trillion in the third quarter of 2011. Corporate income tax payments did not. But it's not a matter of "Honey, I Shrunk...

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Suicide Debaters and ‘Chickenhawks’: GOP Prepares for NH Bloodletting

From: John Nichols John Nichols Two debates this weekend in New Hampshire will see some ugliness. It begins with Newt Gingrich’s stalking of Mitt Romney. But it is likely to get even uglier when...

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Iowa and the High Cost of Low Living

From: Eric Alterman Eric Alterman  Eric on winter concerts and Reed on why the Iowa caucuses are bad for journalism.

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Rick Santorum Is Not a ‘Working-Class Candidate’

From: Ben Adler Ben Adler Conservative commenators and mainstream reporters describing Santorum as an advocate of the working class based solely on his rhetoric, when his actual policies are...

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Comments of the Week: January 2, 2012

Sarah Arnold Each week we post a run-down of the best of our reader comments with the hopes of highlighting some of your most valuable insights and encouraging more people to join the fray.

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New Hampshire Results Point to a Notable Democratic Enthusiasm Gap

From: John Nichols John Nichols Almost one in five voters in the Demcratic primary rejected Obama. But the real news is the steep decline in Democratic primary participation from the last time a...

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The GOP’s Blatant Racism

Gary Younge From Newt Gingrich to Ron Paul, Republican presidential candidates have stopped speaking in code and embraced baldly racist rhetoric.

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Christian Right Ordains Santorum to Block Romney, Prays for a New Candidate

From: John Nichols John Nichols With Huntsman exiting to boost Romney, social conservatives try to coalesce behind Santorum. Or are they holding a place for Mike Huckabee or Jeb Bush?

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The Religious Right Roars Back in South Carolina

From: Ben Adler Ben Adler Faith, morality and “family values” are back now that the Republican primary has moved south. 

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Republican Iowa Governor Appoints Catholic Priest To State Medical Board

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R) has appointed a Catholic priest to its state Board of Medicine, and because the state Senate did not vote on the appointment before the end of its session, Monsignor Frank...

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Iowa’s GOP Governor Blasts Romney Campaign On Wind Tax Credits: They Need To...

Now that Mitt Romney’s campaign has officially declared the candidate’s desire to kill tax credits for wind while maintaining tax credits for the mature oil and gas industries, Midwestern Republicans...

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Republicans have ceded Pennsylvania, and other lessons from the ad wars

Thanks to the Washington Post 's political ad tracker , we can gain some insight into campaign strategy. Here's where the biggest national players spent money on the week of July 23-29: Crossroads is...

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Steve King: The value of diversity ‘has never really backed up by logic’

I'm just gonna leave this here. Rep. Steve King, in the press conference for his totally not racist "English Only" bill : "The argument that diversity is our strength has really never been backed up...

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Anti-Gay Groups Official Launch Campaign To Remove Pro-Equality Iowa Justice

Anti-Gay Activist Bob Vander Plaats When political historians chronicle the moment when American conservatives finally succeeded in draining the word “freedom” of any of its natural meaning , they...

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Purge of IA Voter Rolls Put on Hold

Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz’s attempt to cross-reference the eligibility of 3,500 voters with a federal immigration database was put on hold when a judge placed a temporary injunction on the...

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