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The Sun is Shining again... -- By: Lisa Schiffren

Nothing makes me happier than having my worst gloom and doom nightmares blasted away by the bright morning sun. These election returns are just plain heartening. They demonstrate that Americans have not been brainwashed, or so badly educated for so ...

From LISA SCHIFFREN, The Corner,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Christopher J. Christie,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party

The Maoist and the Battered Wives -- By: Lisa Schiffren

Okay, it's a terribly mixed metaphor. But here (HT: WND), our Maoist friend, White House communications director Anita Dunn, explains how the Obama campaign manipulated the mainstream media during the election. Obama, Inc. simply ignored them, refused ...

From LISA SCHIFFREN, The Corner,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House

All Butter, Aging Guns -- By: Lisa Schiffren

David Goldman of First Things spells out what the near future looks like if a superpower disinvests in military technology, as we are now doing. He notes that, without a superpower to keep a lid on internecine tribal, ethnic, and small-state powers, ...

From LISA SCHIFFREN, The Corner,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House

HOPE = Theft and Lies -- By: Lisa Schiffren

To be more precise, the iconic Obama HOPE poster/T-shirt was, as the AP charged, created by an artist who stole a copyrighted AP photo image. The case has gone on as long as it did because Shepard Fairey, the artist, lied about which photo he used for ...

From LISA SCHIFFREN, The Corner,  18 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Shepard Fairey

The Pessimism Beat -- By: Lisa Schiffren

Barbara Ehrenreich is an interesting writer. Though she always comes out for big government as the solution, her analysis of the problem, whatever problem, is aways intelligent and often pretty insightful. Now she has trained her sights on the ...

From LISA SCHIFFREN, The Corner,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barbara Ehrenreich

Is Hope Worthy of Prizes? -- By: Lisa Schiffren

Some people have noted that Barack Obama has not actually achieved peace, anywhere, or diminution of hostilities, or the destruction of even one nuclear weapon, (or even any of his domestic agenda). But, as the Nobel Committee announced, this award is ...

From LISA SCHIFFREN, The Corner,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

Re: Letterman and the Consequences -- By: Lisa Schiffren

Personally, I thought Letterman's extended apologies last night were very, very funny. He has always been able to use timing — particularly the silences — better than most, as he did in his public apologies to wife and staff. He's better at mock ...

From LISA SCHIFFREN, The Corner,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: David Letterman,  Garrison Keillor

An Honest Liberal Times Columnist? -- By: Lisa Schiffren

Is the honeymoon over? is a big question this weekend, what with the fairly ubiquitous hits, even from the maintream media, that the White House is taking for wasting time and political capital on an amateurish — failed — bid for the Olympics. Until a ...

From LISA SCHIFFREN, The Corner,  4 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Frank Rich,  Barack Obama,  White House

Are Books Archaic? -- By: Lisa Schiffren

I had not intended to boast about this recent accomplishment, but Thursday's quote of the day in the New York Times has provoked me. The quote is: "Can you any longer read Henry James or George Eliot? Do you have the patience?" The quote is from ...

From LISA SCHIFFREN, The Corner,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: George Eliot,  Henry James

Revealing Convergence: Van Jones and the Education Speech -- By: Lisa Schiffren

In addition to revealing those of his views that should preclude executive-branch employment, and those of his views that should be shared only with a few very close, very like-minded intimates lest they seem inflammatory to normal voters, Van Jones ...

From LISA SCHIFFREN, The Corner,  8 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  Barack Obama,  Columbia University

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