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Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney

The two types of "flawed" candidates

Businessman Donald Trump talks with a friend as they watch the New York Yankees play the Minnesota Twins in the fourth inning of their MLB American League baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York, May 15, 2009. REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine (UNITED STATES SPORT BASEBALL BUSINESS) (Â© Ray Stubblebine / Reuters)

President Barack Obama waves to media as he walks from Marine One to the White House, Wednesday, May 11, 2011, in Washington, as he travels from Texas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

Julian Assange, President Obama and Bradley Manning

What's behind Obama's war on whistleblowers?

Glenn Greenwald

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Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises

U.S. President George W. Bush speaks to military leaders after receiving a briefing on the war in Iraq during a visit to CENTCOM in Tampa, Florida, May 1, 2007. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES) (Â© Kevin Lamarque / Reuters)

Russell Simmons and Rabbi Marc Schneier, along with Imam Shamsi Ali and Imam Mohammed Magid (President of the Islamic Society of North America), meet with Donald Trump at his office.

President Barack Obama exits Marine One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Tuesday, May 10, 2011, before boarding Air Force One to travel to Texas. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) (AP)

Erica Werner, Darlene Superville

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Speaker of the House, John Boehner

President Barack Obama boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Tuesday, May 10, 2011, as he travels to the U.S.-Mexico border at El Paso, Texas, to speak about immigration reform, Tuesday, May 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Natasha Lennard

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty speaks to local residents during a breakfast meeting at a Pizza Ranch restaurant, Tuesday, May 3, 2011, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) (AP)

Conservatives' plea: Let's all support Pawlenty

Tim Pawlenty and former president Bill Clinton

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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner meets with China's Vice Premier Wang Qishan, center, during the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue meetings, Monday, May 9, 2011, at the Treasury Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (AP)

Natasha Lennard

Oklahoma state Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City, speaks with the media in Oklahoma City, Monday, April 11, 2011. Kern says the bill is needed to place into statute the provisions of a state ballot question approved by Oklahoma voters in November that bans the use of Sharia, or Islamic, law. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) (Sue Ogrocki)

Left: Protesters against the Bush administration from a group called "World Can't Wait" mimic tortured prisoners on the grounds of the Capitol Building in Washington January 30, 2006. Right: Attorney General Eric Holder

The Dems' shameful civil liberties reversal

Glenn Greenwald

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Donald Trump

Natasha Lennard

Clockwise from upper left: Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain

Save us from these dreadful candidates!

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Tony Kushner

Aaron Shock and Michelle Obama

David Frost and John Bolton

The 1787 Philadelphia Convention

William Hogeland

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