Category: Barack Obama

The Bookworm Beat 12/30 — Lame Duck Quaking Edition

New Year’s Concern Trolling Kurt Schlichter, concerned for the future well being of our nation’s lefties, has published Some New Years Resolutions For Our Progressive Pals.  Among his noteworthy suggestions: Leverage Hollywood Star Power: As you know, all normal Americans believe Hollywood stars are powerful role models who we should

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Bookworm Beat 12/16/16 — the random politics edition

Thanks to my friends, I have an email box filled with links to fascinating, random politics. In keeping with that random spirit, I present to you this randomly organized post: Principled journalism versus American journalism. Conservatives have been understandably charmed by the meltdown that Kurt Eichenwald, a Newsweak reporter suffered,

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Bookworm Beat 11/2/16 — the “Please Save America” edition and open thread

This is it: the countdown to learning whether Obama will have been successful in fundamentally changing America or whether we can still resurrect something from the wreckage. This is an umbrella post with a variety of articles that touch upon the election, America’s culture wars, politics generally, the Middle East,

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