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Democratic Senate candidate Joe Sestak with supporters

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Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2003—New US taxpayer charge: Iraq's foreign debt:

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Peter Schweizer, the Republican operative who authored the forthcoming hit piece Clinton Cash and became the New York Times and Washington Post's new buddy, has a serious record of screw-ups—or things he got wrong on purpose to smear Democrats, figuring the retraction would get less attention than the allegation.

• Today's comic by Jen Sorensen is Bikes and cars:
  
• How Mississippi discovered the drug war's 'golden egg':

Pity the rich

Bill O'Reilly, fresh off his latest victory in once again saving Christmas from the American heathen class, launches a crusade to defend America's poor, put-upon rich people.

At the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists in Washington, D.C. in 2012, Dan Perkins
appears with Sparky the Penguin, his avatar and a leading character in his cartoon This Modern World.

Even before Marco Rubio decided to run for the White House, it looked like Florida Republicans had more or less settled on a front-runner to succeed him in the Senate, state CFO Jeff Atwater. But Atwater's decision to bail on the race—as surprising as Rubio's move was unsurprising—has left the GOP field wide, wide open.

I'll push him, you trip him.

One of the most interesting emerging dynamics of the Republican presidential race is how rapidly it is exacerbating the obvious contempt the two most powerful segments of the party have for each other. The old guard and the new guard—pragmatic business types and tea party-fueled scenery-chewers, respectively—are perfectly happy to tear each other to ribbons in public.