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Natasha Lennard is an assistant news editor at Salon, covering non-electoral politics, general news and rabble-rousing. Follow her on Twitter @natashalennard, email nlennard@salon.com.

U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama drink Guinness beer as they meet with local residents at Ollie Hayes pub in Moneygall, Ireland, the ancestral homeland of his great-great-great grandfather, Monday, May 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Fox News invents the possibility of a U.S.-Ireland bailout

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President Barack Obama arrives to speak at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention in Washington, Sunday, May 22, 2011. After a contentious couple of days this week when he clashed publicly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over ideas for a permanent Palestinian state, Obama is focusing on the deep U.S.-Israeli friendship and alliance. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

Consider the pro-Israel crowd reassured

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FILE - In this April 30, 2011 file photo, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty speaks during a We the People candidates forum in Manchester, N.H. Pawlenty on Sunday, May 22, 2011 released an Internet video ahead of a public appearance Monday in Iowa, where he planned to formally enter the race for the 2012 GOP nomination. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File) (AP)

Pawlenty “could” tell you he is running for president

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An Egyptian woman watches U.S. President Barack Obama's policy address, outside a shop selling televisions in Cairo, Egypt Thursday, May 19, 2011. President Barack Obama on Thursday endorsed a key Palestinian demand for the borders of its future state and prodded Israel to accept that it can never have a truly peaceful nation based on "permanent occupation." (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (AP)

The pro-Israel crowd’s “1967” hissyfit

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Ed Schultz blows up at David Sirota

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Obama campaign now selling birther merchandise

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(AP)

Senate does not eliminate Big Oil tax breaks

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich delivers an economic speech to the 51st Washington Conference with Laffer Associates, Friday, May 13, 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Gingrich glitter bombed

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Supermodel, television personality and famed beauty, Tyra Banks, "objectively" less attractive?

“Why are black women less attractive?” asks Psychology Today

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FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2011 file photo, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak sits during his meeting with Emirates foreign minister, not pictured, at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak would face the death penalty if convicted of ordering the shooting of protesters during the uprisings that brought him down, the country's new justice minister said Saturday, April 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File) (Associated Press)

Mubarak will apologize to the Egyptian people

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Palestinian mourners carry the body of a Palestinian man who killed when Israeli soldiers opened fire on Sunday at protesters who approached the northen Israeli border with Lebanon, during a funeral procession at Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, in the southern port city of Sidon, southern Lebanon, on Monday May 16, 2011. Israeli troops clashed with Arab protesters along three hostile borders on Sunday, leaving as many as 12 people dead and dozens wounded in an unprecedented wave of violence marking the anniversary of the mass displacement of Palestinians surrounding Israel's establishment in 1948. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) (AP)

The U.S., Israel, Syria and the politics of distraction

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(AP)

The Democratic “Don’t End Medicare” message misleads

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File - In this May 13, 2010 file photo, Goldman Sachs headquarters is shown in New York. Goldman Sachs' first-quarter income fell 72 percent Tuesday, April 19, 2011, after the bank paid out $1.64 billion in dividends as it redeemed preferred shares it issued to billionaire investor Warren Buffett during the financial crisis. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file) (AP)

Journalists spar over Goldman Sachs’ potential criminal activity

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FILE - This Jan. 3, 2011 file photo shows the exterior of Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. The intense rivalry between Facebook and Google The intense rivalry between Facebook and Google just got juicier as characters behind the latest Silicon Valley drama evoked talk of smear campaigns, secret clients and even Richard Nixon. It took a once-secret blogger, known as Fake Steve Jobs, to help sort it all out. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) (AP)

Primer: Facebook’s attempted Google smear

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DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 27JAN10 - George Soros, Chairman, Soros Fund Management, USA, captured during the session 'Rebuilding Economics' of the Annual Meeting 2010 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 27, 2010 at the Congress Centre. Copyright by World Economic Forum swiss-image.ch/Photo by Sebastian Derungs (Sebastian Derungs)

The IRS looks into big political donors

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Supporters Pakistani religious party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam hold al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden's picture during a rally, in Kuchlak, 25 kilometers (16 miles) north of Quetta, Pakistan on Friday, May 6, 2011. One of three wives living with Osama bin Laden has told Pakistani interrogators she had been staying in the al-Qaida chief's hideout for six years without leaving its upper floors, a Pakistani intelligence official said Friday.(AP Photo/Arshad Butt) (AP)

Bin Laden wives interviewed by U.S. Intelligence

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(AP)

Democrats and oil executives: An exercise in grandstanding

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FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama greets rapper Common at the National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Washington. Michelle Obama's "evening of poetry" at the White House set off Republican critics before the artists had uttered a word. But it was the inclusion of Common that set off Republicans. Common, who is considered fairly tame as rappers go, is known for rhymes that tend to be socially and politically conscious. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) (AP)

Jon Stewart shreds Hannity for his rapper nonsense

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FILE - In this Aug. 8, 2010 file photo, Levi Johnston arrives at the Teen Choice Awards in Universal City, Calif.. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File) (AP)

Levi Johnston’s hilarious book cover

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Karl Rove, the man behind dark money group, Crossroads GPS

A legal trap for anonymous big-money donors

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In this photo taken during a visit organized by Bahrain's Interior Ministry Bahrain police check a driver's identification at a checkpoint in the capital of Manama, Bahrain Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (AP)

Bahraini police violently raid girls’ schools

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FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2010 file photo, former "Dancing with the Stars" contestant Bristol Palin arrives for an appearance on ABC's "Good Morning America" in New York. Palin, the daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and a former contestant on "Dancing With the Stars," will star in the 10-episode series on the Bio Channel, the network announced Monday, May 9, 2011. The series follows Palin's move from Alaska to Los Angeles with her son, Tripp, to work at a small charity. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File) (AP)

Palin “chingate” finally solved?

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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)

Does Obama’s trip to the border actually matter?

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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)

Is our debt to China a national security risk?

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