Anyone remember Lynn Forester de Rothschild? Think reeeeeaaaaalllllly hard back to the closing days of the 2008 election; and you may recall an upper class white woman with strong ties to the investment class making a big regretful noise that, contrary to decades of loyalty to her Democratic Party, she could not in good conscience [...]

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This should have appeared on Tuesday as part of my promise two or three months ago to resume twice weekly posting in January. But that promise was made before a) I got a stomach virus, b) my oven caught fire, c) I got a head cold and d) I lost my [...]

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This woman was paid real U.S. currency to write these words:
By staying in Hawaii, the president has sent the message that the situation really isn’t all that serious, that things can proceed just fine until he’s back. And isn’t it that kind of reasoning that emboldens our never-vacationing enemies into thinking Christmas Day is the [...]

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In journalism there is perhaps no end to shitty beats. But the anonymous drone for Associated Press who wrote this story must have really pissed someone off. Let the headline suffice to convey the self-loathing and dismay the assignment must have instilled.
Obama dog Bo has own Christmas stocking
The article notes that it took an Oprah [...]

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Frank Rich gets to the heart of magical thinking that guides American foreign policy:
Americans want our country to be secure. Most want Obama to succeed. And so we hope that we won’t get bogged down in Afghanistan while our adversaries regroup elsewhere, that the casualties and costs can be contained, that the small, primitive Afghan [...]

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