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Heather Digby Parton, also known as "Digby," is a contributing writer to Salon.

Police officers point their weapons at demonstrators in Ferguson, Missouri, August 18, 2014. (Reuters/Joshua Lott)

How cops get away with it: Why the government can read your emails, but not count shooting deaths

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz (AP/Carolyn Kaster/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-156268p1.html'>aastock</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

The left’s secret midterm weapon: How marijuana ballot initiatives can change turnout

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(Fox News)

Fox News’ latest phony obsession: Ferguson, gun control and Second Amendment hypocrisy

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University of Florida student Andrew Meyer struggles with University Police as they try to remove him from a question and answer session with John Kerry, Sept. 17, 2007, in Gainesville, Fla. Meyer was Tasered and arrested. (AP/Andrew Stanfill)

“Just do what I tell you”: Why cops’ tasing people is nothing to laugh at

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Police form a line blocking traffic and access to Florissant Road in downtown Ferguson, Mo., Aug. 11, 2014. (AP/Sid Hastings)

Militarized cops’ scary new toys: The ugly next frontier in “crowd control”

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Ferguson brings the libertarians: Why a new coalition has everyone confused

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Ronald Reagan, Ted Nugent (AP/Morry Gash/Photo montage by Salon)

Wingnuts’ sad dream to be cool: Why they worship Reagan and the military

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Police in riot gear watch protesters in Ferguson, Mo., Aug. 13, 2014. (AP/Jeff Roberson)

Warrior cops on steroids: How post-9/11 hysteria created a policing monster

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-163082765/stock-photo-a-glass-of-alcoholic-drink-a-cell-phone-and-a-handgun-over-a-wooden-table.html?src=M1EFJ-69jweGwL7t5BW3wQ-1-1'>Carlos Caetano</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Gun nuts’ alcohol debacle: Why their new booze scheme is the scariest yet

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Sal Russo (AP/Alex Brandon)

Tea Party quack’s new target: Sal Russo’s plan for Silicon Valley

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(Reuters/Steve Marcus/AP/Evan Vucci)

Tea Party’s horrifying cousin: Here comes “constitutional conservatism”

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Rush Limbaugh (Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)

Rush Limbaugh’s third-grade nightmare: Introducing his new civil rights curriculum

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Sal Russo (AP/Alex Brandon)

Wingnut scams the troops: How Tea Party quack uses fake charities to get rich

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Jack Abramoff leaves the federal court in Washington on Jan. 3, 2006 (AP)

GOP’s “toxic” laundering scheme: How echoes of Jack Abramoff are emerging

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Ronan Farrow, John Negroponte (MSNBC)

Reagan’s crony returns to spew his drivel — on MSNBC?

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(AP/Charlie Riedel)

When an extremist Christian fundamentalist got to run a whole state

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David Koch (Reuters/Brendan Mcdermid)

Proof the GOP’s newfound “libertarianism” is a big ol’ sham

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(AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Susan Walsh/Reuters/Sarah Conard)

The GOP’s “war for women” strategy is desperate and clueless and wrong

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(PBS/AP/Nam Y. Huh/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-503320p1.html'>pashabo</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

David Brooks and Ruth Marcus are mind-numbingly wrong about marijuana

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Glenn Greenwald (Reuters/Eduardo Munoz)

Journalism under fire: America’s freedom of the press is in danger

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(AP)

Police’s common sense trouble: How minor offense situations turn deadly

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Dallas's Dealey Plaza, near the spot of the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy. (Reuters/Jim Bourg)

Texas gun nuts’ scary ritual: How hatred of a president turned profane

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Joe Klein

Centrists’ hot new obsession: How they’re hoping to strip party bases of power

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Rick Perry (AP/Tony Gutierrez)

Rick Perry’s bizarre babysitters club: A new “solution” even too daft for him

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