Memorial Politics: Yes We Can
It's impossible to expect (and foolish to protest) that Teddy -- in death, in memory and in pictures -- would somehow suddenly relinquish his identity as an advocate.
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Your Turn: Platon's Goodbye to Ted Kennedy
When Teddy Kennedy buried his nephew, he echoed Yeats' words that a man should "live to comb gray hair." BAGreaders respond to Platon's portrait of Kennedy on TIME's commemorative cover
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GOP Health Care Two Step: Cowards or Hypocrites?
Either ranking GOP Senate Health Committee and "Gang of Six" member Mike Enzi has been working to fashion a health care solution or he is determined to torpedo the process. Which is it?
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BAG Archive Edition: Vogue + LaBron (Kong?) + Gisele = Kaching
Some say the photo of LeBron James -- in a gorilla-like pose -- perpetuates racial stereotypes.
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The Village Idiots
What's notable is the way it proposes an equivalency between Obama and the worst president ever.
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Do Health Care Naysayers Have "Too Much Skin" In The Game?
As right-wingers bear down with a blanket and vicious "just say no" to health care reform, is it fair game to challenge them for being overweight?
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About to be Glue (if not for Chuck Grassley!)
Doing back flips to distance himself from Obama and his own ID as one of the Senate Finance Committee's health care "gang of six," Grassley is another one who has done a mind meld with Palin in propagating that right-wing fabrication known as the "death panel."
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Grandma Must Die!
The killer element here (pardon the pun) is this dear lady's "death panel" pullover.
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Limbaugh's Comparison: Getting it Reich
Limbaugh compares Obama health care logo to Nazi swastika.
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Smelling Blood: Health Care Debates and The Picture of Terrorism
With benefit of the angle, we get a sweeping view of how the wingnuts -- exploiting the health care "debate"-- are taking to not just demonizing, but terrorizing Congresspeople.
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One World Alliance
Slightly more than 6 months into his term, Obama is making clear headway in establishing a more collaborative environment on Capitol Hill.
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Quitters Ever Prosper
By now, Sarah Palin's pose is signature, the blood-smelling "six gun" gesture packaged with that cocked head and part-coquettish, part sadist's smile serving as the visual envelope to deliver, vague and scattershot, another hate-loving threat.
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Your Turn: The Final Days Of Bush (And Cheney?)
This TIME cover -- given the philosophical and leadership vacuum on the far right -- just might serve as a Cheney re-introduction.
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As If This Puts Birthers To Bed
Of course Obama's birth certificate would be the last word.
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Sotomayor Confirmation: The Tag Team of Kyl and Graham
Great shot from Getty's Mark Wilson capturing the dynamics today between the Sonia Sotomayor and the tag team of Senators Graham and Kyl.
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Sharpies and Babies
So the question is, how much is the photo a non-verbal poke at the contortions Palin has wrenched on her own brood?... caption : Gov. Sarah Palin last week at a signing event, for legislation and other items, in the village of McGrath, Alaska.)
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Sonia Live: The Warm-Up Act
W ith an eye toward domestic terrorism, this anti-abortion wacko (disguised in a business suit) grabbed the floor this morning before being thrown out of day 1 of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings.
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Rummy Having McNamara For Breakfast
Upon his passing on Monday, I took something of a forensic interest in this photo from the NYT's Robert McNamara slideshow.
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