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And are Democrats sniveling losers or Machiavellian savants?  McClatchy reporter Alex Roarty explains why the animating force driving both Democrats and Republicans right now is a loud conservative minority. 

In the Spiel, Greece has beef regarding which part of world gets to be called “Macedonia.”

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