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  1. An independent Mainer wants to shake up partisan Washington ow.ly/b8Loy
  2. A climate-change sceptic is melting ow.ly/b8Lve
  3. UnObamacare ow.ly/b8Liz
  4. Why we're talking about Bain ow.ly/b9EOH
  5. Hopes of “open government” under Barack Obama have been only partly fulfilled ow.ly/b8LjE
  6. Romney rope-a-dope? ow.ly/b8L59
  7. Buying a political insurgency ow.ly/b7Gk2
  8. Revisiting the incontestable photographic proof of the president bowing to a visiting dignitary ow.ly/b6Mew
  9. As my grammar-school teacher used to say, please show your work ow.ly/b6wrL
  10. A president's background training matters ow.ly/b6xkd
  11. RT @ezraklein: Don't worry guys, I know how to settle this. "Siri, did Mitt Romney's time at Bain prepare him for the presidency?"
  12. US has changed since Voting Rights Act was passed, but has it changed since it was reauthorised—for good cause—in 2006? ow.ly/b6hXG
  13. If Romney can't defend against Obama's attempt to turn his biz experience into a liability, he doesn't deserve to win ow.ly/b5bw5
  14. Bread, circuses and leather balls--gouging taxpayers for sport ow.ly/aYFlJ
  15. Some Republicans want to end a valuable tool for settling debates about all sorts of policies ow.ly/b4soP
  16. The navy hopes to restore its prestige by celebrating a forgotten conflict ow.ly/aYFsM
  17. The paralysing polarisation dogging Washington may be a consequence of the geographic clustering of like personalities ow.ly/b3pN9
  18. The story of one Californian county jail is not encouraging for state reform ow.ly/aYF2Y
  19. City Journal on "The Worst Union in America": city-journal.org/2012/22_2_cali…
  20. The Mythical Land Beyond the Culture Wars: patrolmag.com/2012/05/16/dav…