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Thought for the Day: Don't believe everything you read and only half of what you see.

President Bush makes a surprise visit to a remote, secure base in an outlying province in Iraq. He wants to show people in Baghdad how well his surge is working. He should have gone to an Indiana market.

Republican presidential candidates all want to sound like George by adopting as their own the tax cuts for the rich, the war in Iraq and denial of health care benefits for millions of American children.

California Republicans are attempting to change election rules in a not-so-disguised attempt to "rig" presidential elections in their party's favor for decades to come. Of course, that's not how they are spinning it, but it's extremely transparent.

A Missouri Republican state senator, an up and comer in the GOP, abruptly switches sides over the high jacking of his party by the religious right.

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