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Source: Daily Kos, Dec 6 2012, 2:22pm CST

Today's comic is Twinkies ad: Captain Industry vs. Union-Man by Ruben Bolling: Congratulations to the state of Washington, which is now officially allowing gays and lesbians to undermine the sanctity of N ...

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Open thread: Cato, outreach and shame

Source: Daily Kos  |   May 18 2013, 5:43pm CDT

What's coming up on Sunday Kos ... Big-thinking Cato Institute: 400ppm haz got what plants crave, by Hunter The next biggest scandal ever, until the next one, by Hunter Republican outreach report card: graded ...

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Donald Rumsfeld has written an advice book. Oh, yay.

Source: Daily Kos  |   May 18 2013, 5:30pm CDT

Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has published a new book. It's a book of advice. You too can get advice from The Man Who Screwed Up The War. You can give it as a gift to someone you want to catastrophically fai ...

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