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INSTAVISION: I talk with pollster Scott Rasmussen about the Political Class, the consent of the governed, and his new book, In Search of Self Governance.

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DANIEL SAREWITZ: “Has anyone noticed that after 20 years and $25 billion in government-sponsored research on climate change, the political controversy over global warming is actually more intractable and bitter today than it has ever been in the past? Of course there are good reasons, such as the failure of the recent U.N.-sponsored Copenhagen climate conference, stubborn partisanship in the U.S.

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HAS OBAMA LOST BOB HERBERT? “The Obama administration and Democrats in general are in trouble because they are not urgently and effectively addressing the issue that most Americans want them to: the frightening economic insecurity that has put a chokehold on millions of American families. .

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IF YOU MISSED IT ON SIRIUS/XM RADIO THIS WEEKEND, the latest PJM Political is online.

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BRAD SMITH: In Defense Of Political Anonymity. “Campaign-finance disclosure rules have encouraged harassment of donors and coarsened public debate.”

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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Political extremism: Not so easy to categorize. “Both sides in the political debate have tried to label the IRS suicide pilot and the Pentagon shooter

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YES. I BLAME KEITH OLBERMANN. Anti-Bush Truther shoots up Pentagon; Should we play the political blame game?

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TUNKU VARADARAJAN: Iraq’s Political Miracle.

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ON IRAQ, AN I-TOLD-YOU-SO: Those like Joe Klein and Tom Ricks, who claimed the Iraq war was “probably the biggest foreign policy mistake in American history” (Klein’s words) and “the biggest mistake in the history of American foreign policy” (Ricks’s words), were wrong. Ricks went so far as to say in 2009 that “I think staying in Iraq is immoral.” Now, if we had followed the counsel of Klein and Ricks and not implemented the surge, their predictions might have been closer to the mark. (Bush’s decision was one of “adolescent petulance” and “the decision to surge was made unilaterally, without adequate respect for history or military doctrine,” Klein wrote on April 5, 2007.) As it is, if the positive trajectory of events continue and Iraq does end up reshaping the political culture of the Arab Middle East, the Iraq war will, on balance, have advanced American interests in the region

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