• New Wingnut Target: ‘RINO’ Scott Brown

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    Not a week after Scott Brown's stunning Senate victory, the overheated praise is dissolving into accusations that he's a Republican in Name Only. John Avlon on the out-of-control RINO-hunting impulse. From savior to heretic in one week-well, that was...
  • Red Vs. Blue Is Over

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    Obama should use the State of the Union address next week to declare an end to playing-to-the-base politics. As Massachusetts' Senate race shows, voters don't want more ideology-they want problem-solving. Independent voters finally have the political...
  • The Making of the High Priest of Crazy

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    The "borderline schizophrenic" TV host has a dark past riddled with drugs, suicide, and mental illness. John Avlon on how he became the Pied Piper for the angry and disenfranchised. The most influential Wingnut leader in the first year of the Obama...