In one of his characteristic conniptions about people who frustrated him, Theodore Roosevelt, progressivism’s first president, said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, “I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that.” TR was as mistaken about Holmes’s spine as are various progressives today about Chief Justice John Roberts’s. Read full article > >

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Liberals put the squeeze to Justice Roberts

Like many others, politicians are less influenced by party, faith or color on the question of favoring greater legal protections for gays, both liberals and conservatives say.

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Political Memo: For Some, Same-Sex Marriage Is Not Politics, It’s Personal

For all of the fretting by liberals and legal analysts, it is certain there will be substantial political repercussions over the ruling on the Obama health care overhaul.

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Political Memo: Whatever the Ruling in Health Case, Bipartisan Fallout

Two wars on Christmas were almost simultaneously declared. The first was by Jon Stewart , who called Christmas the “aggressor nation.” The second was observed by Rick Perry , who released a new campaign ad in which he considers liberals the combatants. Naturally, Twitter reacted in the snarkiest way possible — tweeting a #XmasWarDiary from a battleground strewn with the parts of gingerbreadmen and candy-cane weapons. Read full article > >

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Rick Perry starts the War on Christmas: Dispatches from the front lines

Jon M. Huntsman Jr. has become everybody’s shoulda-woulda-coulda candidate. As in, he should-be-doing better, would-be-doing better if the GOP were a different party, and could be the one to beat President Obama. Huntsman’s favorite-candidate status among Beltway pundits, and liberals, has led to questions about whether he would consider mounting a third party bid if he failed to win the GOP nod (which at this point, let’s face it, looks pretty likely). But every time he’s asked about a possible independent bid, Huntmsan says no. Read full article > >

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Huntsman: Does he really have the makings of a third-party candidate?

In societies governed by persuasion, politics is mostly talk, so liberals’ impoverishment of their vocabulary matters. Having damaged liberalism’s reputation, they call themselves progressives. Having made the federal government’s pretensions absurd, they have resurrected a supposed synonym for the government, the “federal family.” Having made federal spending suspect, they advocate “investments” — for “job creation,” a euphemism for stimulus, another word they have made toxic. Read full article > >

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Our floundering ‘federal family’

In societies governed by persuasion, politics is mostly talk, so liberals’ impoverishment of their vocabulary matters. Having damaged liberalism’s reputation, they call themselves progressives. Having made the federal government’s pretensions absurd, they have resurrected a supposed synonym for the government, the “federal family.” Having made federal spending suspect, they advocate “investments” — for “job creation,” a euphemism for stimulus, another word they have made toxic. Read full article > >

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The entrance of Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren (D) into the race to face Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown (R) has already drawn huge amounts of media attention thanks to her high profile role in establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for President Obama. There’s little question that Warren is a media sensation beloved by liberals and detested by conservatives — largely for her work to create the controversial agency that is tasked with overseeing the practices of the financial industry. Read full article > >

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Can Elizabeth Warren win?

Redistricting may be one of liberals’ biggest fears, but will it really be that bad for them? Maybe not, it turns out: Republicans made so many national and statehouse gains in 2010 that 2012 redistricting-a result of the 2010 Census-may not help them…

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Redistricting May Not Help GOP

Why liberals should be leading the movement for reform.

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Why liberals should back Social Security reform

Congratulations, President Obama, on “seizing the center”: Both conservatives and liberals heaped criticism on the president’s proposed $3.73 trillion 2012 budget. Republicans, unsurprisingly, called for deeper spending cuts in addition to Obama’s…

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Obama Budget Pleases No One

Conservatives seemed as irked by Obama’s trip to the U.S. Chamber as liberals.

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Obama makes corporate America his business

A social psychologist has argued that there is a hostile climate for non-liberals among his colleagues.

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Findings: Social Scientist Sees Bias Within

Finally, news that liberals can celebrate: The Senate appears set to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, as Republican Senators Scott Brown, Lisa Murkowski, and Olympia Snowe have pledged to vote to repeal the policy. They’ll be joined by Maine Senator Susan…

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Senate Set to Repeal DADT

Finally, unambiguously good political news for liberals: Embattled Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele will seek a second term. “My style is a little bit different than most conventional party chairmen,” Steele said after he announced…

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Steele: ‘I’m a Street Guy’