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PalinTracker: Zero Hour

A round-up of activity in the Sarah Palin camp. (An ongoing PJM series) Guess it was a slow news day? The Wall Street Journal reports Palin will visit Ft. Hood on December 4 as part of her book tour. Previous announcements only gave the specifics of ...

From BARBARA CURTIS, Pajamas Media,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  Newsweek,  Sarah Palin,  Wall Street Journal

Blogging Rules for Radicals: Chapters Two and Three

Alinsky defines "power" and lays out his dark definition of morality. (Read parts one, two, and three of this series.) Reading Alinsky is a lot like riding the Tilt-a-Whirl — feeling jerked around by a combo of systematic and random forces between ...

From BARBARA CURTIS, Pajamas Media,  14 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  ACORN,  Sam Adams,  Abraham Lincoln

Michelle Bachmann’s Capitol Tea Party

Thursday's quickly organized event was a powerful display of informed citizenry. “Don’t you make me come up there!” Dozens of moms from Minnesota sported sweatshirts with a parental threat aimed at Congress that most everyone would recognize. Our ...

From BARBARA CURTIS, Pajamas Media,  7 Nov 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Barack Obama,  Michele Bachmann,  Sarah Palin,  Jon Voight

Blogging Rules for Radicals: Chapter One

Alinsky attempts to define a meaningful life. (Read part one of this series here, and part two here.) Reading Alinsky in the age of Obama, we need to remember that in 1971 LBJ’s War on Poverty was only five years into its deconstruction of the urban ...

From BARBARA CURTIS, Pajamas Media,  4 Nov 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  White House,  Barack Obama,  ACORN,  Rush Limbaugh

Blogging Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals: Prologue

Alinsky begins with his nihilist, self-absorbed picture of society. (Read part one of this series here.) Just a couple lines into Rules for Radicals, I heard the voice of Rahm Emanuel: You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by this ...

From BARBARA CURTIS, Pajamas Media,  31 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Rahm Emanuel,  Barack Obama,  Julius Rosenberg

A Self-Sacrificing Soldier, a Self-Interested President

A soldier gives his life in Afghanistan, while the commander in chief goes politicking. The last time he was home, he left his dog tags with his father. Did Stephan Mace somehow sense he wouldn’t be coming back? It was late August, and in spite of ...

From BARBARA CURTIS, Pajamas Media,  30 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Arlington National Cemetery

PJM Book Club: Blogging Rules for Radicals

Get yourself a copy, and let's discuss the book that shaped the president's philosophy. Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical; from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where ...

From BARBARA CURTIS, Pajamas Media,  28 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Saul Alinsky,  White House,  Rahm Emanuel

PalinTracker: Endorses Hoffman, MSM Rewrites History, a Petty Nation

A round-up of activity in the Sarah Palin camp. (An ongoing PJM series) About a year after Sarah Palin famously turned down a campaign season appearance with talk show host — and major Barack Obama supporter — Oprah Winfrey, the former GOP vice ...

From BARBARA CURTIS, Pajamas Media,  26 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  Barack Obama,  Oprah Winfrey,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party

PalinTracker: A Cover Shoot, Huckabee(?), ‘Drill Baby, Drill’

A round-up of activity in the Sarah Palin camp. (An ongoing PJM series) Seattle-based photographer John Keatley, commissioned by HarperCollins to shoot photos of Sarah Palin for her Going Rogue book cover, spent six days with Palin on location in ...

From BARBARA CURTIS, Pajamas Media,  20 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  Jill Greenberg,  John McCain,  Wal-Mart,  New York Post

PalinTracker: McCain Aide Nonplussed, Imus Gets Misogynist, A Second Book Coming

A round-up of activity in the Sarah Palin camp. (An ongoing PJM series) Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s former campaign manager — whose fractious relationship with Palin has been rumored for a year — hasn’t warmed one bit to the charismatic conservative ...

From BARBARA CURTIS, Pajamas Media,  12 Oct 2009
Related Topics: John McCain,  Sarah Palin,  U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  David Brooks

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