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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.

U.S. soldiers walk on a dirt road while on patrol near the town of Pul-i-alam, Logar province, Afghanistan. Afghanistan scored lowest on the Corruption Perceptions Index 2013. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

The war industry’s drums are beating

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(AP/Jose Luis Magana)

What were the Republicans smoking?

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President Obama participates in the dignified transfer of U.S. Army Sgt. Dale R. Griffin at Dover Air Force Base, Del., on Oct. 29.

The Keyboard Commandos want Obama to be tough

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Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of Fox News and Fox Television Stations, answers questions during a panel discussion at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena, California July 24, 2006.

Don’t be surprised the media elite sided with Fox

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U.S. marines fire during a Taliban ambush as they carry out an operation to clear an area in Helmand province, October 9, 2009.

Why are we still in Afghanistan?

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Fox News isn’t even pretending anymore

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L-R: David Letterman on the "Late Show" Monday Oct. 5, 2009, former Sen. John Edwards , and film director Roman Polanski

There’s a special place in hell for Roman Polanski

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Iran said it successfully test-fired short-range missiles during military drills Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009 by the elite Revolutionary Guard, a show of force days after the U.S. warned Tehran over a newly revealed underground nuclear facility it was secretly constructing.

Is Obama man or mouse?

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In this July 29 2009 file photo President Barack Obama gestures during a town hall on health care reform, at Broughton High School in Raleigh, N.C.

The public knows the GOP is fibbing

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President Barack Obama in April, 2008

Obama gets the Clinton treatment

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In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, President Bush's Chief of Staff Andy Card whispers into the ear of the President to give him word of the plane crashes into the World Trade Center, during a visit to the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla.

Is the GOP a cult?

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A cake knife is useless in a gunfight

A cake knife is useless in a gunfight

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In this March 12, 2002 file photo, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge unveils a color-coded terrorism warning system in Washington. The Homeland Security Department says it will review the multicolored terror alert system that was created after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

The media can’t handle the truth

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You won’t win the healthcare debate by calling people stupid racists

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Ellen Geiger, 56, who opposes health care reform, yells as she listens to panelists during a health care town hall meeting in Alhambra, Calif, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009.

Lunacy goes mainstream

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U.S. President Barack Obama (R) sits down for a beer with Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates (2nd L), Cambridge, Massachusetts, police Sergeant James Crowley (2nd R) and Vice President Joe Biden in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, July 30, 2009.

The Gates-Crowley public sitcom

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Black men, white cops and media mind readers

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Walter Cronkite, on his 64th birthday, anchors his last CBS election night special while broadcasting in New York City on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 1980.

We won’t see Cronkite’s like again

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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin waits to speak during a news conference at the Republican Governors Association Annual Conference in Miami, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008.

Sarah Palin should just go home

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U.S. President Barack Obama answers a question during his news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, June 23, 2009.

Media elite vs. blogger peasants

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From left: Newt Gingrich, John Ensign and Mark Sanford.

Sex scandals are bipartisan

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President Barack Obama takes part in a news conference at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, June 23, 2009.

Iran’s in turmoil. Good thing McCain’s not president

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President Barack Obama address the American Medical Association during their annual meeting in Chicago, Monday, June 15, 2009.

Sickly talk about fixing healthcare

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Protesters from Rev. Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church demonstrate during funeral services for Dr. George Tiller at College Hill United Methodist Church in Wichita, Kan., June 6, 2009

Why is Tiller’s alleged killer doing press conferences?

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