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Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. takes part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP)

Anti-gay bullying is bigger than Bachmann

Natasha Lennard

The debt ceiling constitutional magic trick

Andrew Leonard

Peter Finocchiaro

David Sirota

Anders Breivik is a Christian

Alex Pareene
FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2010 file photo, Congressman David Wu, D-Ore., speaks during an interview in Portland, Ore. Wu is calling a published report about an alleged unwanted sexual encounter with a young woman "very serious" but has not yet said whether the accusation is true. The Oregonian reports that a young woman from California has accused the Democrat of an unwanted sexual encounter last November. The newspaper said the information came from sources who wanted to remain anonymous. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File) (AP)

Kevin Freking
Speaker of the House John Boehner is seen after delivering his response to President Obama's remarks about averting default and dealing with the federal deficit, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 25, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

Harsh class warfare not good enough for House GOP

Andrew Leonard

Record wealth gap between whites and minorities

Natasha Lennard
Members of French far right organizations take part in a protest march in Paris May 8, 2011

Salon Staff - GlobalPost
In this undated photo provided by ABC News, Robin Roberts, right, talks to Nafissatou Diallo, the alleged victim in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn assault case. Diallo told the network she never wanted to be in the public eye but had no choice, amid questions about her credibility. Lawyers for Strauss-Kahn told ABC that the interview was "an unseemly circus" designed to inflame public opinion. (AP Photo/ABC News, Heidi Gutman) (AP)

Tom Hays, Jennifer Peltz
Norway's twin terror attacks suspect Anders Behring Breivik, left, sits in an armored police vehicle after leaving the courthouse following a hearing in Oslo Monday July 25, 2011 where he pleaded not guilty to one of the deadliest modern mass killings in peacetime. The man who has confessed to carrying out a bombing and shooting spree that left 93 people dead in Norway will be held in complete isolation for four weeks after a hearing in which he said his terror network had two other cells. (AP Photo/Aftenposten/Jon-Are Berg-Jacobsen) NORWAY OUT (AP)

Karl Ritter, Bjoern H. Amland
Clockwise from upper left: John Boehner, Thomas Friedman, Erick Erickson and Harry Reid

The lousy pundits with D.C.'s ear

Alex Pareene
President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) annual conference luncheon in Washington, Monday, July 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

It's official: Obama is losing the left

Glenn Greenwald

Natasha Lennard
Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton

Michael Lind
President Barack Obama addresses the nation from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 25, 2011, on the approaching debt limit deadline.

Associated Press

Andrew Leonard
Seriously, how many "steps" do you count here?

Boehner's "two-step" debt plan has five steps

Alex Pareene
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July, 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Associated Press
Candles and flowers are arranged on the ground near the blast site to mourn victims of the attacks

HDS Greenway - GlobalPost

Andrew Leonard

Russ Baker
Anders Breivik and Pamela Geller

The right's worst Norway terror responses

Alex Pareene
FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2010 file photo, Congressman David Wu, D-Ore., speaks during an interview in Portland, Ore. Wu is calling a published report about an alleged unwanted sexual encounter with a young woman "very serious" but has not yet said whether the accusation is true. The Oregonian reports that a young woman from California has accused the Democrat of an unwanted sexual encounter last November. The newspaper said the information came from sources who wanted to remain anonymous. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File) (AP)

And the next congressman to leave in shame will be

Natasha Lennard
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