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05.08.14 | 4:17 pm
Peak Fox, If It’s Possible

Fox News goes out to find man on the street outraged about EPA porn-watchers, finds another outraged Fox News host. Watch.

05.08.14 | 4:11 pm
Mark It Down

Big seismic shifts this week in how Republicans grapple with the reality of Obamacare. Good analysis from Dylan Scott.

05.08.14 | 1:06 pm
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05.08.14 | 1:00 pm
An Interesting Bet

Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC), one of the most vulnerable Democrats this cycle, chooses to go all in with a robust defense of Obamacare at today’s HHS confirmation hearing.

05.08.14 | 10:58 am
Still Not Buying It

The Rialto Unified School District has now come forward to say that the class assignment in which 8th graders were supposed to argue whether the Holocaust was real or a vast hoax to make money was “horribly inappropriate.” As David Kurtz put it, no kidding.

But I’m not buying that we have the full story.

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05.08.14 | 9:27 am
Annals Of Duh

California school board agrees that Holocaust denialism assignment was “horribly inappropriate.”

05.08.14 | 9:20 am
When Nerds Attack!

CNN’s S.E. Cupp tells Bill Nye that science guys are the new bullies.

05.08.14 | 9:08 am
Fish Won’t Bite

An amusing account of frustrated House Republicans fishing for some bad Obamacare news from insurance executives who wouldn’t bite.

05.08.14 | 2:01 am
Views Out of Ukraine

Pew Research is out tonight with a detailed public opinion survey of Ukraine. The results are fascinating and show the limits of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s policy of shaking Ukraine until it breaks, with the hopes of grabbing up the shards in the east. The main takeaways from the poll are that Ukrainians have little faith in the provisional government (solid but not overwhelming support in the west, very little support in the east) and are deeply divided over the question of the status of languages (Ukrainian and Russian). But they appear overwhelmingly opposed to any division of the country. And even in the east there is a general hostility to Russia’s interference in the country’s affairs.

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05.08.14 | 12:44 am
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