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President-elect Donald Trump greets retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, left, as he announces him as his Defense Secretary at a rally at the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville, N.C., Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (AP)

Will Tea Party save Obamacare?

Heather Digby Parton

Supporters cheer Hillary Clinton at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, May 16, 2016. (Reuters/Aaron P. Bernstein)

bob dole's taiwan tango

Sophia Tesfaye

Kyle Mantyla - Right Wing Watch

Donald Trump; Ronald Reagan (Reuters/Mike Blake/AP/Photo montage by Salon)

Renewable energy: Here to stay

Angelo Young

Air Force One is seen on the tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016, before President Barack Obama boards en route to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla. (AP)

Brian Kahn - Climate Central

$In a Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016 photo, rare species of Hawaiian coral being used to create a seed bank grows in a tank at the Anuenue Fisheries Research Centers coral nursery in Honolulu. Most of Hawaiis species of coral is unlike other coral around the world in that it grows very slowly, making restoration projects for endangered reefs in the state difficult. But state officials have come with a plan to grow large chunks of coral in a fraction of the time it would normally take. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones) (AP)$