Stop bothering the Fed, you peasant taxpayers!

Breaking news: When it came to the collapse of the bubble that touched off the 2008 meltdown of the U.S. economy, the Federal Reserve was a placid herd of clueless blockheads.

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Panicked GOP Insiders Land in Bizarro World

The 2012 Republican primary race has passed well beyond the rabbit hole into some extra-dimensional bizarro world where up is down, black is white and the allies of the candidate who disavowed Reaganism would have us believe that the leader of the “second stage of the Reaga …

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In Florida, Bush's Silence Says A Lot

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Republicans fret about Romney and his Mass. health plan

While he rails against "Obamacare," the similarities with the plan Romney implemented as governor of Massachusetts — "Romneycare," as Santorum called it — could deflate a contrast Republicans are eager to draw in the general election with President Obama.

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GOP's politics of racial resentment

Gingrich joins a line of Republicans stretching back at least to Richard Nixon.

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Republicans Pander on Immigration

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Return of the Welfare Queen

The Welfare Queen is an epic political lie. Reagan invented her, and Americans keep buying the lie.

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Gingrich satisfies his rage

The stage is where Newt lives, whether on the floor of Congress or some cable news set or the stump, and the GOP debate in South Carolina last week was the perfect habitat for the man, a platform for rhetoric and performance and anger, a place where he could show us how quick and …

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Malcolm X Needs a Holiday

He was the ultimate public-intellectual-as-freedom fighter, and he deserves to have a federal holiday

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Why domestic abuse victims often refuse to leave

It's very common for victims of domestic abuse to refuse to report the crime or cooperate with the police or district attorney's office.

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Barack Obama should pardon Marines

I do not defend what they did. As Army Lt. Gen.

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Newt Plays to South Carolina's Racist GOP

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Why Martin Luther King couldn't wait

Famed ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ spelled out the agony of racism

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The "Angry Black Woman" Fights Back

The Obamas’ unrelenting critics view the first family as an affront to their hateful, stilted view of American life.

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What Republicans Don't Want to Talk About

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Republicans hypocritical to bash president on recess appointments

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GOP hopefuls playing to usual racial divide

Since the 1980s, the GOP has been committed to darkening the face of poverty within the public imagination.

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The president's stingy use of pardons

Mr. Obama is on track to underperform President George W. Bush, who issued a measly 189 pardons during his two terms in office — the stingiest record of any two-term president since World War II.

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The Rick Santorum that America doesn't know

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Can Romney Capture the Tea Party?

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Holder Fights for Voters Rights

There is no significant voter-fraud problem in the United States. Rather, these laws are transparent attempts by Republican majorities to stifle and suppress the number of minorities and poor people (mostly Democrats) who go to the polls.

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Votings Rights Act Still Matters

Discrimination has evolved since 1965 to systemic abuses that dilute minorities' power at the ballot box.

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An upside-down family tree

Banks are a mechanism by which old people with capital lend to young people with energy and ideas. The Western world has now inverted the concept. If 100 geezers run up a bazillion dollars' worth of debt, is it likely that 42 youngsters will ever be able to pay it off?

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Blame Florida for the GOP's holiday craziness

Florida Republicans worried that a fast-breaking Republican race might be decided by March, which would give Florida no role in selecting the GOP nominee. So Florida Gov. Rick Scott and a group of legislators decided to move Florida's primary to Jan.

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House Republicans' petulant decision

What viewers should really have seen in the photo was the Republican leadership team whose miscalculations may soon cause payroll taxes to go up — and unemployment benefits to be truncated, and payment rates to Medicare doctors slashed.

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