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Barack Obama
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Dw. Dunphy
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Artist/writer Greg Ruth looks at Geronimo, The Lost Boy, the mystery at The White Lodge and more.
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Ken Shane
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Happy New Year! In 1967, Aretha Franklin released “A Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like)” on Atlantic Records. The song was written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, with…
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Ted Asregadoo
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The Democratic Party’s Strategy for the 2014 Midterms: “Run Away! Run Away!”
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Ken Shane
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The legendary songwriters had a smash of their own in ’84
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Jon Cummings
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Dw DUNPHY: Well, now that Syria has vanished from the front pages, Big Tea has refocused on the fight they really wanted: Running the government into a brick wall. Praise…
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Popdose Staff
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The drumbeat of war is tapping away again. How does the US stand to lose or gain from an act of aggression against Syria?
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Brian Boone
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As Americans we like our president to be some combination of likable and better than us. Our last two presidents got in this way, albeit in very different ways —…
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Jon Cummings
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GOP: Time to give the Outrage Loop a rest.
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Jon Cummings
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When nothing short of the ultimate punishment will do…
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Jon Cummings
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Battling Multiple-Choice Mitt might have blunted Obama’s Denver debacle.
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Dw. Dunphy
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I learnt t’is better to watch football, I did.
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Dw. Dunphy
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Rule Brittania! There’s only one man who could dis the Olympics Opening Ceremony.
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Rob Smith
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Rob Smith’s Media 6ix: Eddie Van Halen, Gay Marriage, Avengers, etc.
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Jon Cummings
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The president’s support for gay marriage opens a new front in his battle for re-election — but its historical importance will reverberate far longer.
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Rob Smith
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“Rob Smith’s Media 6ix”: Fornatale, Spiotta, Cowley, Carlson, etc.
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Jon Cummings
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Can’t the populist right and left just get along?
Jon Cummings
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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.
Dw. Dunphy
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Thoughts On A Hostage Crisis: Think a US default won’t affect you directly and immediately? Think again.
Jon Cummings
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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.
Jeff Giles
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Statistics chosen at random from the latest Harper’s Index, with corresponding mp3s. Rank of “disappointed” among terms used by Americans in an October survey to describe their feelings about the…
Popdose Staff
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There are events, items and personalities that become so absorbed in the culture, it is hard to believe they weren’t always there. Let’s take a brief stroll down memory lane…
Jon Cummings
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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 is it their corporate sponsors?
Jon Cummings
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Chastened by Jon Stewart, if not the midterm election results, Jon Cummings invites Popdose readers to Be Their Own Pundits and pontificate on our new politics.
Jon Cummings
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Katy Perry’s aborted Sesame Street appearance launched a short-lived kerfuffle, but offers a neat allegory for explaining the idiocy of the current political climate. Jon Cummings considers the merits of Katy’s cleavage and other assorted boobs.
Jon Cummings
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Now is the summer of our discontent … arriving on the heels of a spring, winter, autumn and previous summer that roiled in similar fashion. Americans, it seems, have declared…
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