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Sarah Palin, Tea Partier in Name Only, Defends Big Oil Subsidies

Sarah Palin thinks that $4 billion is "just a drop in the bucket." Would her Tea Party supporters agree?

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Ku Klux Klan Says It Doesn't Condone Tea Party or Koran Burning

The famous hate group wants you to know it's not crazy like those other wingnuts.

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Video: Tea Partiers, Sponsored by Big Oil, Speak Out Against Big Oil Subsidies

Watch these Tea Party activists spit in their gift horse's mouth.

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Since 1995, GOP Congresspeople Have Received More Than $5 Million in Farm Subsidies

Democrats have received less than a tenth of that. But the debate over farm subsidies is complicated.

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Seriously, What Is the Deal with These Idiots Who Hate Muslims?

If you want to kick Islam out of America, you're the one who's un-American.

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Americans Have No Idea How Much Welfare They're Getting

Maybe American protesters denouncing government welfare programs wouldn't be so conservative if they actually knew how much welfare they got.

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The Broccoli Mandate: Can the Feds Force Us to Eat Veggies Now?

If you can't opt out of health care, then what happens when it comes to buying broccoli? At least that's the Tea Party logic.

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Why Does Justice Scalia Attend Tea Party Talks But Not the State of the Union?

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia often attends conservative events, but he's sworn off the State of the Union address for a decade. Why?

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How the Oil Industry Used the Tea Party in Cancun

What happens when the soul of a liberty movement is corrupted by oil-rich plutocrats? A trip to the Cancun climate talks is revealing.

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Word of the Year 2010: What Will It Be?

From "Tea Party" to "boobquake" to "vuvuzela" to "refudiate," the candidates for 2010's Word of the Year tell us quite a lot about life last year.

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Winner Announced: Design an Infographic About the Election

See the winners for best infographic, best design, and best use of information.

Transparency: The Size of the Rally to Restore Fear and/or Sanity

We explore the discrepancies in reporting on major marches and rallies and the feasibility of the numbers attendance claimed, from Beck to Stewart.

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Christine O'Donnell Gets Pranked by Canadians Christine O'Donnell Pranked by Canada's This Hour Has 22 Minutes

Continuing the great Canadian tradition of mocking Americans is this video, shot yesterday at a Delaware polling station.

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What Was the Real Message from Jon Stewart's Rally? The Message from Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity

Much was said before the event, but now that it's occurred, what is the takeaway? What was the Rally to Restore Sanity, anyway?

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Is Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity Apolitical? Why Is Jon Stewart Pretending the Rally to Restore Sanity Is Apolitical?

A GOOD writer, on the eve of Jon Stewart's big "million moderate march" rally in Washington, contemplates the event's curious messaging.

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Bill McKibben: "I Dare the Media to Cover This"

Forget symbolic acts and solar panels. Bill McKibben wants to shame political leaders by showing them what real work on climate change looks like.