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• PolitiFact: Well, here we go again:
  I think the framework is flawed, and journalists do themselves a huge disservice by wading into the debate--effectively becoming part of the story themselves. This is actually a great case in point, because Janie Har is a fantastic reporter. When she gets to, you know, go report.
• Weathergeddon 2012: Batten down yer hatches:
  We seem to have managed to pull through another one...
• The gubernatorial Rose Bowl bet: Scott Walker's a cheap-ass piker:
  As I'm sure Oregonians know, Wisconsin has some amazing beer: New Glarus is regularly cited as one of the nation's best. So it's not like there weren't choices. Leinenkugel makes political sense: you get local cred, pander to rural voters suspicious of hoity-toity microbrew, but don ...
• Time to Right-Price Parking :
  I'd definitely be willing to see the experiment. Whenever we consider an issue like this, we tend to take the circumstances as a given, rather than the accretion of years or decades of planning decisions. When we plan cities around cars, we have to ensure that there's lots ...
• Wyden's Twist on Medicare:
  Just watching the GOP debate, and both Newt and Mitt were tripping over themselves to congratulate Wyden and Ryan. They love the plan. My unease grows.
• Wyden's Twist on Medicare:
  I find the whole thing deeply unsettling, so I look forward to someone digging in and finding out what it actually means. Early reports are not good.

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