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When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

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I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

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A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it.

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For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

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As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing

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It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

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Washington likes to threaten the people over whom they exercise power.

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It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is co...more

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They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

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Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

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It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only expr...more

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He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.

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American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

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A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to...more

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Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but ...more