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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.

Michelle Rhee

Michelle Rhee: Education reform huckster

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President Barack Obama speaks about Libya at the National Defense University in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Obama gambles his presidency

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Michigan's Fab Five. From left, Jimmy King, Juwan Howard, Chris Webber, Jalen Rose and Ray Jackson.

Race, basketball and the Fab Five

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President Barack Obama gestures during his speech at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Va., Monday, March, 14, 2011. (AP Photo) (AP)

Why Obama is the favorite for 2012

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (Alex Brandon)

Scrooge ain’t broke and neither is the government

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Why they’re picking on public workers

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Arnold Chevalier, left, of Stoughton, Wis., shouts iinside the State Capitol Monday, Feb. 21, 2011, in Madison, Wis. Opponents to Governor Scott Walker's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers are taking part in their seventh day of protesting. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps) (AP)

In cash we trust, but unions we bust

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President Barack Obama gestures during a news conference on the White House complex in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (Evan Vucci)

We need an actual budget for actual lives

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Rush Limbaugh

What the right won’t admit about Reagan

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President Barack Obama speaks about the situation in Egypt in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Racial identity no longer a “black” and “white” issue

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(Reuters/Eric Thayer)

Guns cost more lives than they save

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Rush Limbaugh

Profiting from political road rage

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Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh talks with guests in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009, prior to a Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony for Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Australian Prime Minister John Howard.(AP Photo/Ron Edmonds) (Associated Press)

Right-wingers dodge responsibility

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FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2010 file photo, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin talks during a book signing in Columbia, S.C. This month's early under-the-radar campaigning by potential Republican challengers to President Barack Obama is a reminder of something too easily forgotten: Running for president is harder than it looks, and Obama ultimately will stand against a flesh-and-blood nominee certain to make mistakes along the way. (AP Photo/Virginia Postic, File) (AP)

Not the death panels again!

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The right’s war on healthcare is back

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People, we’re in deep trouble

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President Barack Obama makes a statement to reporters after his meeting with Democratic congressional leaders on a year-end bipartisan agreement to extend expiring tax cuts, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, part of the White House complex, in Washington, Monday, Dec. 6 2010 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

Victory, compromise and hurt feelings

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Barack Obama

Tax cut deal: Obama bought himself precious time

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Mark Pryor

He knows he’s on the wrong side of history

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Erskine Bowles, left, accompanied by former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Sure, the government is just like your family

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Who will smack down all the lies?

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Keith Olbermann

Olbermann’s back. Whoop-de-doo

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Christine O'Donnell and Glenn Beck

Bashing “elites” is phony populism

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You’ve heard the lies, now believe the facts

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