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Daily Meme: Love, Tolerance, and CPAC

by Bob Moser March 7, 2014

For the millions of American reality-show junkies who just can’t wait for the return of 2012’s most outrageous hit show-the Republican presidential debates-this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference has offered a tantalizing sneak preview. Just about every potential 2016 cast member was in D.C.-and everybody had something to prove. For Chris Christie, excluded last year […]

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Daily Meme: “Free Mumia” Backfires Once Again

by Paul Waldman March 6, 2014

For some time, a few liberals (like yours truly), and many more conservatives, have used the “Free Mumia” cause as a shorthand for a kind of ineffectual yet harmless activism that always exists in some corners of the left. Whatever the merits of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s case, if you brought a “Free Mumia” sign to an […]

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Daily Meme: Vladimir Putin is Delusional Like a Fox

by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux March 5, 2014

In the wee hours of yesterday morning, while you were still blissfully asleep, Russia’s president and tiger-fighter-in-chief, Vladimir Putin, gave a strange, rambling press conference. In it, he insisted to reporters that there were no Russian troops on the ground in Crimea, and likened U.S. foreign policy to a dark science experiment. “They sit there […]

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Daily Meme: Why Is Ted Cruz This Week’s Shiny Object?

by Jaime Fuller August 22, 2013

Hey, remember when Marco Rubio was destined to be the 2016 Republican nominee? That first week of August seems so long ago now. And so do the times we were talking about this in February. Or April. The circadian rhythms of the senator from Florida’s 2016 buzz are laughably predictable at this point… … as […]

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