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Arkansas Times columnist Gene Lyons is a National Magazine Award winner and co-author of “The Hunting of the President” (St. Martin’s Press, 2000). You can e-mail Lyons at eugenelyons2@yahoo.com.

Michele Bachmann

The incredible vanishing Michele Bachmann

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry

Rick Perry plays up a bogus “Texanism”

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Thomas Friedman and President Obama

The perils of Obama’s lazy narrative

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Obama’s dopey rope-a-dope strategy

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Rick Perry

The problem is Texanism — not Texans

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Rick Perry

The bully the GOP has been waiting for

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I wish politics was baseball

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The true cost of George W. Bush’s magical thinking

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, right, stands with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP)

Let’s just call them the “Deadbeat Party”

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Rush Limbaugh and Rep. Michele Bachmann

A party divorced from sanity

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Rupert Murdoch leaves his home in Mayfair, London, as British Prime Minister David Cameron joined demands for the media mogul to drop his BSkyB takeover bid in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal Wednesday July 13, 2011. Britain's House of Commons is poised to demand that Rupert Murdoch give up on his ambition of taking over a lucrative broadcaster while a phone hacking scandal rages around his British newspaper holdings. Cameron has put his party's weight behind an opposition motion up for a vote Wednesday which declares that bidding for full control of British Sky Broadcasting would not be in the national interest. (AP Photo/Steve Parsons) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE (AP)

Finally, Rupert Murdoch gets his due

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The GOP turns its back on Reagan

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The mindless hysteria of right-wing sheep

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Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich (R-GA) (C), former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), take the stage during a photo opportunity before the start of the first New Hampshire debate of the 2012 campaign at St. Anselms College in Manchester, New Hampshire June 13, 2011. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) (© Shannon Stapleton / Reuters)

When the GOP doubled down on crazy

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FILE - In this Monday, June 6, 2011 file photo U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., addresses a news conference in New York, N.Y. Weiner's survival skills will be tested after the seven-term New York Democrat admitted to sending a lewd photo of himself to a woman via Twitter. Weiner, the most recent politician embroiled in a sex scandal, has said he isn't resigning despite acknowledging he sent sexually charged photos and messages to women. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) (AP)

Anthony Weiner’s willing partners

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, right, accompanied by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (Associated Press)

How to sabotage a recovery

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Charles Krauthammer and Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu and his friends sucker-punch selves

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Ronald Reagan

The big debt lie

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Austrian-American, actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, poses after receiving the insignia of Chevalier in the Order of the Legion of Honor during the MIPTV (International Television Programme Market), Monday, April 4, 2011, in Cannes, southern France. Arnold Schwarzenegger is back in Cannes for the first time in eight years to unveil a new international television series "The Governator". (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau) (AP)

A bad week for the males of our species

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GOP chokes on own Medicare Kool-Aid

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President Barack Obama greets guests in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 2, 2011, following a ceremony where he awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously to U.S. Army Private First Class Anthony T. KahoÍohanohano and U.S. Army Private First Class Henry Svehla for conspicuous gallantry during the Korean War. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Associated Press)

Who’s soft on terror now?

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FILE - In this April 6, 2011 file photo, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. addresses an Americans for Prosperity "Cut Spending Now," rally on Capitol Hill in Washington. It’s the weird issue that won’t go away, and it’s forcing GOP presidential contenders and other Republican leaders to pick sides: do they think President Obama was born outside the United States and is therefore disqualified to be president? Polls show that a remarkable two-thirds of all Republican voters either think Obama was born abroad or they aren’t sure. With Donald Trump stirring the pot, other potential candidates are distancing themselves from his comments to varying degrees. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) (AP)

The futility of reasoning with crazy

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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., declares that he was "disappointed" in President Obama's speech on a federal spending plan, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 13, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP runs home to Mommy

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President Barack Obama is seen in a television monitor as he outlines his fiscal policy during an address at George Washington University in Washington, Wednesday, April 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Time to play ball

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