The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

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HEY BAY BUCHANAN: I AM RIGHT HERE

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Arthur of the Roundish Table: The Virgin

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DEVOLUTION, Updated

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Language

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Republican Inbreeding

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CHENEY and the Five Stages of Grief

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Voices in the Wilderness

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Palagian Heresy and Pie

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Cicero Calls Out Cheney

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Remembrances of Things Past

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