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OTB Caption Contest Winners

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The Slippery Slope Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over.

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GOP, Tea Party Hit New Lows In New Poll

Doug Mataconis · 32 Comments

The GOP has a serious image problem.

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“Universal Background Checks” Likely Unenforceable

Doug Mataconis · 247 Comments

President Obama’s idea of “universal background checks” isn’t nearly as simple as it sounds.

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Obama And Biden Unveil Proposal To Decrease Gun Violence In U.S.

OTB Caption Contest

Rodney Dill · 25 Comments

Time for the Thursday OTB Caption ContestTM

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40 Years Later, Majority Opposes Overturning Roe v. Wade

Doug Mataconis · 44 Comments

40 years later, the public continues to support the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade.

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Did Obama Use Kids As Political Props?

Doug Mataconis · 54 Comments

Some have criticized the President for delivering his gun control speech before a group of children.

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Obama’s Gun Plan Uses Sandy Hook, Wouldn’t Have Prevented It

James Joyner

President Obama has unveiled a set of restrictions that wouldn’t have stopped the Sandy Hook Massacre. Some are nonetheless be good policy.

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Obama’s Gun Control Plan DOA In Congress?

Doug Mataconis

Despite the push it’s likely to receive, most of President Obama’s gun control proposals will barely even see the light of day in Congress.

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NRA Calls Obama ‘Elitist Hypocrite’ in New Ad

James Joyner

The NRA is calling President Obama an “elitist hypocrite” for opposing armed guards in schools while sending his own girls to school with armed guards.

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Atlantic Scientology Advertorial

James Joyner

Monday, The Atlantic published and took down a sponsored article from the church of Scientology. Yesterday, it admitted it had “screwed up.”

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The Politics Of Gun Control

Doug Mataconis

Based on the polls, the odds of some changes to America’s gun control laws will become law. It’s unlikely they’ll accomplish anything, though.

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Lance Armstrong: Cheater, Liar

Doug Mataconis

Lance Armstrong finally confessed something pretty much everyone assumed was true.

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New IRS Rules Designed to Help Adjunct Faculty Hurt Them

James Joyner

New rules mandating full-time benefits for instructors teaching 30 hours predictably led to their hours being cut.

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Guns and Preventing Tyranny

Steven L. Taylor

The notion that guns prevent tyranny is based on fantasy and movies, not reality.

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A Credit Downgrade Warning Both Sides Should Listen To

Doug Mataconis

Fitch is out this morning with a warning on the nation’s credit rating that both Republicans and Democrats need to listen to.

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FARC Ceasefire Deadline on the Horizon

Steven L. Taylor

The negotiations continue.

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OTB Caption Contest Winners

Rodney Dill

The Worst. DWTS. Couple. Ever. Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over.

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Republican Debt Ceiling Strategy Doomed To Fail

Doug Mataconis

The GOP is following a strategy on the debt ceiling that cannot possibly succeed.

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Marco Rubio’s Common Sense Immigration Reform Ideas

Doug Mataconis

Marco Rubio has some good immigration reform ideas. Will his fellow Republicans listen to him?

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Republicans Foolishly Risking Default To Prove A Political Point

Doug Mataconis

Once again, the House GOP is risking sending the economy into the tank to prove a political point.

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OTB Caption Contest

Rodney Dill

Time for the Monday OTB Caption ContestTM

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No Labels in Need of a Label

James Joyner

No Labels is attempting to relaunch itself after amounting to exactly nothing in the 2012 cycle. Let me save you the trouble: They won’t matter in 2014 or 2016, either.

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Russians Protest Adoption Ban

Doug Mataconis

The Russian adoption ban isn’t sitting well with many Russians.

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The Platinum Coin Idea Is Officially Dead

Doug Mataconis

The White House has shot down an idea that never deserved to be taken seriously.

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Republican Foreign Policy in Name Only

James Joyner

Republican opposition to defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel reveals just how far the party’s thinking has drifted on foreign policy.

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David Gregory Won’t Be Prosecuted for Technical Violation of DC Gun Law

James Joyner

David Gregory committed a technical violation of DC’s gun law to make a point on a national news show. Conservative gun control opponents are angry.

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Gun Control Proponents Are About To Face Political Reality

Doug Mataconis

The ultimate impact of the Newtown tragedy on the nation’s gun laws is likely to be very limited.

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OTB Caption Contest Winners

Rodney Dill

The HO HO HOwitzer Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over.

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The Latest Crazy Solution To the Debt Ceiling: IOU’s

Doug Mataconis

Welcome to the latest crazy scheme to avoid reality.

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Obama Hit For Lack Of Diversity In Reshuffled Cabinet

Doug Mataconis

President Obama is taking some heat over the fact that his Second Term cabinet selections have been very white and very male.

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