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Article snippet: The political news cycle is fast, and keeping up can be overwhelming. Trying to find differing perspectives worth your time is even harder. That’s why we have scoured the internet for political writing from the right and left that you might not have seen. Has this series exposed you to new ideas? Tell us how. Email us at ourpicks@nytimes.com. For an archive of all the Partisan Writing Roundups, check out Our Picks. Jonathan V. Last in The Weekly Standard: If it were up to Mr. Last, Senator Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, would have never won his seat to begin with. Using material from books that chronicle Mr. Franken’s time at “Saturday Night Live,” Mr. Last makes the case that, during his career as a comedian, his casual relationship with drugs and penchant for off-color skits ought to have disqualified him from office. Read more » _____ John Ziegler in Mediaite: Mr. Ziegler disagrees with Mr. Franken “on almost every political issue.” However, despite his personal feelings toward the senator, Mr. Ziegler worries that people online and in the news media are too quick to presume guilt. He wonders, for instance, why Mr. Franken’s accuser, Leeann Tweeden, kept an incriminating photograph of Mr. Franken for so long. “Was it because she was told when she woke up that Franken had ‘assaulted’ her and she wanted evidence of this for future use,” he asks, “or, perhaps more likely, did someone send it to her because it was a funny keepsake from their trip which is now... Link to the full article to read more