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"Live look at Ed Gillespie campaign strategy meeting," Brian Fallon said in a tweet. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

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Former Clinton mouthpiece lumps VA GOP gubernatorial candidate with white supremacists

Becket Adams · October 27, 2017 4:39 pm

If the Bergdahl trade was indeed staged as a distraction from the VA scandal, what a scandal that would be. ( (Andrew Craft/The Fayetteville Observer via AP)

The Bowe Bergdahl ordeal has stunk from day one

Becket Adams · October 27, 2017 3:42 pm

John Lipscombe, a Travis County judge since 2011, was charged with driving while intoxicated after reportedly attempting to back his car into an already occupied parking spot at a hotel in North Austin on Saturday around 12:30 a.m.

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Bad judge resigns after he’s outed as a bad judge

Becket Adams · October 27, 2017 3:33 pm

Kellogg is redoing its Corn Pops cereal boxes after a complaint that the art on the back is racially insensitive. The box shows cartoon Corn Pops hanging out in a retail mall. Author Saladin Ahmed complained on Twitter that the cereal box is "teaching kids racism" because the only brown Corn Pop depicted is working as a janitor scrubbing the floor. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

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Now Corn Pops are racist. Maybe. I don’t even know anymore.

Becket Adams · October 27, 2017 3:03 pm

It's unclear who on Hillary Clinton's staff was in on the Trump dossier, but people in her orbit definitely knew. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Any way you cut it, the Clinton campaign lied about the dossier

Becket Adams · October 26, 2017 12:34 am

Giving the president a barely passing grade for doing nothing more than repeating a survey's finding feels a bit disingenuous. (President Trump via Twitter / Screenshot by Tatiana Lozano, Washington Examiner)

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How do you rate a true statement as only ‘half true?’

Becket Adams · October 25, 2017 7:53 pm

Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore is the embodiment of the worst stereotypes and he will absolutely be tied around the GOP's neck as a giant, cowboy-hatted albatross. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

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Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Mike Lee sidle up to the anti-liberty Roy Moore

Becket Adams · October 25, 2017 1:00 pm

When Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona announced he would not seek re-election, he pinned his decision on a GOP that has become "reckless, outrageous, and undignified." The DNC could have used that to its advantage. It didn't. (AP Photo/Branden Camp)

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The DNC is comically bad at its job

Becket Adams · October 24, 2017 11:14 pm

Flake could run on his principles. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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There’s a third option, Sen. Jeff Flake

Becket Adams · October 24, 2017 7:23 pm

A New York Times report showed that Uranium One's chairman donated approximately $2.35 million to the Clinton Foundation in four separate installments between 2009 and 2013 as his company was being acquired by a Russian nuclear energy firm. Hillary Clinton was the Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Hillary says the Clinton Foundation-Russia-uranium-deal story is just a right-wing distraction from the Trump-Russia story

Becket Adams · October 24, 2017 2:36 pm

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., was taped earlier this month during an address at a benefit gala in New York City saying she would "take out" President Trump. Waters clearly wasn't suggesting she felt like killing the president, but plenty took it that way.

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Left and Right roles reverse on moral outrage after Maxine Waters comments

Becket Adams · October 23, 2017 8:57 pm

U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., hosts a town hall meeting in Miami. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

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Hours after pledging not to talk about Trump’s call with soldier’s widow, Frederica Wilson goes on TV to talk about Trump’s call with soldier’s widow

Becket Adams · October 20, 2017 10:17 pm