Cleaning House: why Romney lost, et al.

Everyone has an opinion why Romney lost, but Frank Rich says it better and just nails it--his must read "Fantasyland" 

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Below is a gathering of pieces that were going to be springboards into my own pieces or just things that I had intended to share. Seems like a good time to clean out this saved file--lots of stuff worth reading here.

(my original post for this collection below was to be titled "Attack of the Killer Conservatives"; just seems like I'm rubbing it now, though)


(from Glenn Greenwald)
White, right-wing extremists have committed more Terrorist acts in the last decade on US soil than Muslims: http://is.gd/edQ1Z4 #Profiling

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power of political communion--nuns, dems, and cons
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/opinion/sunday/catholics-and-the-power-of-political-communion.html?_r=2&ref=opinion

another one on nuns and morality gap in the election
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ej-dionne-jr-the-campaigns-moral-hole/2012/10/07/07df4db4-0f1f-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_story.html/?wprss=rss_MobileOpinionsSectionFront&wpmk=MK0000203

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from Paul Krugman, via Bernie Sanders "Disdain for Workers"
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=edcc2cca-f509-4c69-b29c-e71b4490e486

more Krugman, "Inequality Kills"
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/inequality-kills/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto

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from The Nation, Citizens United and the Corporate Court
http://www.thenation.com/article/169915/citizens-united-and-corporate-court

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necessary men? and middle class???
http://m.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/sep/30/hanna-rosin-end-men-extract?cat=books&type=article