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Politics has become a lifestyle, part of the "Big Sort" driving so much in our culture. That's why the NRA's marketing these days has so little to do with gun policy and so much to do with smash-mouth cultural resentments.

This Federal government shutdown is the latest antic by the Tea Party Republicans to achieve by sheer force what they did not achieve in the most recent national elections and cannot achieve by attempting to extort concessions

Mary Sanchez says that as long right wing insurgents can attract big bucks, they'll be a force in the GOP

The upheaval in today's Republican Party started after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 but didn't come to the fore until Newt Gingrich's takeover of the House in 1995. Now it has become a real threat to the nation.

The tea party makes up its own truths to disguise the fact that it is just a puppet of the nation's powerful, monied interests

Former Defense Department official says Congress will never cut unneeded arms programs on its own, so an independent commission is required