Michele Bachmann and the Politics of ‘Bitch’

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Emily Heist Moss wants to do away with the extra-special, gender-specific insult that women sometimes get handed to them.

The 10 at 10

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Michele Bachmann wins the Ames Straw Poll, Andrej Pejic is the prettiest boy in the world, and America could follow London’s lead.

The End of the World

1. Here I am at the big-shot local lawyers’ conference, Attorney John Luxton thought. All around him were fortysomething and fiftysomething men with thinning hairlines, sagging jowls, and incipient triple-chins. Their soft bulk had been shoehorned into inexpensive off-the-rack blue suits, giving them the puffed-up appearance of down pillows or cotton candy. Scanning the floor, [...]

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The S&P downgrades America’s credit rating, Big Boi is arrested for drug possession, and a series of riots rattles London.

What’s Wrong with Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller?

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Founded to be a conservative ‘New York Times,’ Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller has a long way to go.

Comment of the Day: ‘No Such Thing as Black History’

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“There is no defending these kinds of statements.”

Bachmann Implies African-Americans Better Off as Slaves

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“A child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President.”

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Same-Sex-Marriage

Legal Gay Marriage, Michele Bachmann, and Myspace

GOP Primary: Who Are These Guys?

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A quick primer on the Republican presidential candidates for the 2012 election.