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The second age of decolonialization

Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum

The missing pro-choice, pro-gay Republican

President Barack Obama talks about the ongoing budget negotiations, Monday, July 11, 2011, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Mitch McConnell

McConnell: Casey Anthony is why we need Gitmo

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President Barack Obama meets with congressional leadership in the Cabinet Room of the White House,Sunday, July 10, 2011, in Washington, to discuss the debt House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, and House Speaker John Boehner. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (Associated Press)

James K. Galbraith

Rupert Murdoch

Why is the Tea Party obsessed with light bulbs?

Natasha Lennard

Michele Bachmann

Bachmann's tax-collector past catches up with her

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An unarmed U.S. "Shadow" drone is launched in this undated photograph, released on January 5, 2011

Barbara Ehrenreich

President Barack Obama talks about the ongoing budget negotiations, Thursday, July, 7, 2011, in the briefing room at the White House in Washington.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

The fool's gold of a "grand bargain"

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, and President Barack Obama meet with congressional leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House,Sunday, July 10, 2011, in Washington, to discuss the debt. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

FILE - Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. speaks in Charleston, S.C., in this photo taken June 29, 2011. Facing a Thursday deadline to report quarterly fundraising, Republican presidential hopefuls make final-hour pitches for contributions that will be an early measurement of their campaign's strength _ or potential weakness. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is expected to report the largest haul.(AP Photo/Alice Keeney) (AP)

Slavery reference yanked from Bachmann pledge

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In this photo provided by CBS News, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner talks about the debt crisis on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington Sunday, July 10, 2011. Geithner said Sunday that the Obama administration wants to seek "the biggest deal possible" on debt reduction. His comments followed word from GOP congressional leaders Sunday that the White House's $4 trillion package was off the table. (AP Photo/CBS News, Chris Usher) (AP)

Geithner: "Failure is not an option"

Natasha Lennard

GI says Manning is an "American hero"

Glenn Greenwald

Clarence Thomas and former president George H.W. Bush

For the right, a gift that keeps on giving

Glenn Greenwald

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Marc Thiessen

Does the Washington Post tolerate lying?

In this June 15, 2011 photo, job seekers wait in a line at a job fair in Southfield, Mich. Two years after economists declared the end of the Great Recession, the rebound is the weakest since the 1930s and the most lop-sided. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) (AP)

President Barack Obama makes a statement to reporters about debt ceiling negotiations, Tuesday, July 5, 2011, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

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FILE - In this June 1, 2011 file photo, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin talks to the media as she leaves Liberty Island in New York. Palin will visit Iowa, Tuesday, June 28, to attend the premiere of a documentary about her time as governor and her ascent as a national political figure. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) (AP)

Rep. Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachmann's weird slavery pledge

In this May 3, 2011 photo, Samantha Ferrara, 19, waits in line for a job fair to open, in Independence, Ohio. Employers added more than 200,000 jobs in April for the third straight month, the biggest hiring spree in five years. But the unemployment rate rose to 9 percent in part because some people resumed looking for work. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak) (Tony Dejak)

U.S. President Barack Obama (R) and Speaker of the House John Boehner are joined by Congressional leaders as they discuss ongoing efforts to find a balanced approach to deficit reduction in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington July 7, 2011. Congressional leaders are still far apart on a wide range of budget issues but agree on the need to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, and will meet again on Sunday, Obama said on Thursday. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) (Â© Larry Downing / Reuters)

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