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The country has moved right

From The New Leader, Marvin Kitman on Fox’s Palin Factor. Whoa, Mama: Sarah Palin claims to speak for moms but offer no policy solutions for working families. John Dickerson on the Facebook posts Sarah Palin doesn't want you to see. A Grand Unified Theory of Palinisms: Jacob Weisberg on why Sarah Palin says all those stupid and ridiculous things. Conservatives in disguise: Tea partiers have taken the political stage as fire-breathing revolutionaries. Are Tea Partiers trying to hijack 9/11? Conservatives plan to mark the 9th anniversary of the attacks with a protest in DC — and they thought they had a PR problem before. How the Tea Parties almost killed America (Revolutionary War Edition). Confessions of a Tea Party Casualty: Why GOP Rep. Bob Inglis is looking for a new job. Tea Party Paradox: The country has moved right, but it's not clear that this helps Republicans in the long run. David Weigel on five myths about the "tea party". A look at why the Tea Party is un-Christian. Timothy George on Christians and civil disobedience. A pre-election symposium: Have the Republicans learned their lesson, and can they ever be trusted again? The rise of the confounding conservative: A profile of Va. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. The Beltway crowd gets fooled again, this time by Representative Paul Ryan’s plan for a major overhaul of federal spending and taxes. What would Lincoln say? When the GOP attacks the Fourteenth Amendment, it trashes its own legacy.