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The Franken-Palin yin-yang

By Chris Steller | 07.10.09 | 7:45 pm

Joe Conason contrasts the rise-and-fall paths of Al Franken and Sarah Palin to devastating effect in an essay for TruthDig this week, charting the polar-opposite pair’s divergent trajectories across long decades and over fateful days just past.

Recount madness: Al Franken killed my puppy!

By Paul Demko | 01.09.09 | 9:09 am

The State Canvassing Board’s determination earlier this week that Al Franken won the U.S. Senate race by 225 votes has caused some rather unseemly frothing among right-wing pundits. The talking points were initially established by the Wall Street Journal…