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Political Culture: Teabag Wall Street!

Political Culture: Teabag Wall Street!

Jon Cummings October 19, 2011 1

Can't the populist right and left just get along

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Political Culture: Why We Care About Steve Jobs

Political Culture: Why We Care About Steve Jobs

Jon Cummings October 6, 2011 4

Duh ... Because he gave us what we want

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Popdose Flashback ’91: Garth Brooks, “Ropin’ the Wind”

Popdose Flashback ’91: Garth Brooks, “Ropin’ the Wind”

Jon Cummings September 29, 2011 2

Remembering the guy who brought country, and bad shirts, to the suburbs

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Political Culture: America – Too Big To Fail?

Jon Cummings August 9, 2011 14

How did the Tea Party force a stupid deal, prove itself unfit to govern ... AND simultaneously send the economy over a cliff? Jon Cummings spots the jokers in the deck.

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Political Culture: A “Permanent Majority,” or Totalitarianism?

Jon Cummings March 10, 2011 13

Wednesday's anti-democratic (and anti-Democratic) shenanigans in Wisconsin were just part of a GOP effort to destroy the Democrats' power base nationwide. Can they succeed? Jon Cummings says, definitely maybe

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Jesus of Cool: The Misfit Empowerment Project

Jon Cummings February 28, 2011 7

Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" exemplifies the shift among pop's reigning divas -- from P!nk to Katy to Ke$ha -- away from self-aggrandizement and toward messages of self-help aimed directly at their audiences. Jon

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Political Culture: Absolutism Sucks! (Relatively Speaking)

Jon Cummings January 20, 2011 5

Conservatives now claim the Constitution as their own -- yet couldn't bring themselves to read it in its entirety on the House floor. Jon Cummings examines the flaws of Tea Party-brand strict constructionism

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Political Culture: We Have Met the Enemy, and They Are Us

Jon Cummings January 10, 2011 36

Can taking the vitriol down a notch really prevent another tragedy like Tucson? Jon Cummings explores the state of our discourse - and his own culpability

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Political Culture: Greetings, Fellow Hostages!

Jon Cummings December 9, 2010 12

President Obama may have given up the store on tax cuts this week, but at least he coined a useful metaphor in the process. Still, is it the GOP holding the recovery hostage, or

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