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HNN Hot Topics: Rick Santorum

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  • Santorum: Poor History Scores A Result Of ‘Conscious Effort’ By ‘The Left’ To Keep Students Uninformed (6-21-11)
  • Rick Santorum: The Crusades Get A Bad Rap! (2-23-12)
  • Santorum event warm-up singer: Democrats slave masters, are like Nazis [VIDEO] (1-22-12)
  • Commentary: Historians

  • Juan Cole: Top Ten Differences Between Rick Santorum and JFK (2-28-12)
  • David Greenberg: How Santorum Misunderstands Kennedy's Catholic Speech (2-28-12)
  • Joel K. Goldstein: Santorum Misunderstands Both Kennedy and Religious Pluaralism (2-27-12)
  • Robert Brent Toplin: Santorum and Romney Were Wrong on the Bailouts -- But George W. Bush Wasn't (2-27-12)
  • Jonathan Zimmerman: How Rick Santorum and America can be 'Exceptional': Avoid Empire (1-17-12)
  • Rick Perlstein: Santorum's 'Freedom' is Pretty Much Slavery (1-6-12)
  • Commentary: Media

  • Joan Walsh: Santorum’s JFK Story Makes Me Want to Throw Up (2-26-12)
  • Dana Milbank: Rick Santorum's Nazi Problem (2-21-12)