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Jon Cummings
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A newspaper’s map of permit holders points a way forward if gun control fails.
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GOP: Time to give the Outrage Loop a rest.
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When nothing short of the ultimate punishment will do…
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Battling Multiple-Choice Mitt might have blunted Obama’s Denver debacle.
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What if they gave an open primary and nobody came?
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Jon Cummings
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CA-26 is a humdinger of an open primary — for better and for worse.
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Jon Cummings
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A deluge of negative ads may swamp a congressional campaign — but not necessarily the one that’s under attack.
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This race is closely watched. If only it were more FUN to watch…
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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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Linda Parks won’t pick a party or take PAC money. She might win anyway.
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A high-stakes congressional race is taking shape in the sleepy L.A. suburbs
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Can’t the populist right and left just get along?
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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.
Jon Cummings
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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.
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.
Jon Cummings
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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.
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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As a disastrous new show stumbles toward Broadway and “Glee” rebounds from its worst episode, can issues of religious belief inspire decent musical theatre? Jon Cummings has his doubts.
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…
Jon Cummings
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A couple of extraordinary things happened this past week. One was a big f’ing deal indeed, but the other was a bit more personal. As Sunday night’s Democratic victory on…
Jon Cummings
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We’re supposedly just three days away from the final House votes on health care, and still nobody’s sure how it’s going to go. If you listen to Fox News, there’s…
Jon Cummings
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The most thrilling, and also the most ridiculous, presidential speech of modern times came not from an actual president, but from a fake one. Michael Douglas’ off-the-cuff remarks at the…
Jon Cummings
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Just in time for last weekend’s National Tea Party convention — an event which will be remembered mostly for the way Sarah Palin had her devotees eating (and the rest…
Jon Cummings
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Whether or not Democrats manage to salvage health care legislation, losing Ted Kennedy’s seat is just desserts for their substantive and strategic failures.
Jon Cummings
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”We do not tell — we show.” So says the mentor of Atlas Shrugged‘s three key ”strikers,” philosopher Hugh Akston … on page 735 of a 1,168-page novel, in a…
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