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No word on how much of this particular recession growth industry can be attributed to Democrats' stimulus. But it would be interesting to see how many jobs the Administration claims to have "saved or created" in Hollywood... The only positive ...

From SHAWN MACOMBER, American Spectator,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party

Fear of The Mother

In his eye-opening, astute new book, The Persecution of Sarah Palin, Matthew Continetti argues that the "story of Sarah Palin is the story of American political journalism's intellectual bankruptcy," and while Continetti's narrative does ...

From SHAWN MACOMBER, American Spectator,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John McCain,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  Sarah Palin,  Glenn Beck

With Friends Like This...

For the record, Republicans aren't scared of Michael Steele because he's black, but rather because this man supposedly representing their philosophic ideas and political goals is a hammy buffoon who can't decide if he wants to be, as an adept ...

From SHAWN MACOMBER, American Spectator,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Michael Steele,  U.S. Democratic Party

Obama and the Street

It's not very surprising that the New York Times' Alessandra Stanley would shoehorn Obama worship into the opening paragraph of a story on Sesame Street's fortieth anniversary, but still sort of fun to document anyway. Here we go: It is almost ...

From SHAWN MACOMBER, American Spectator,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  New York Times Company,  Alessandra Stanley,  PBS

"It's Shocking"

A friend stationed at Fort Hood posted the following on Facebook last night: Feeding the Beast by Philip Klein Obama's Vision Through History by Burton Folsom, Jr. Two Weddings and a Demerol by Jeremy Lott The Democrats say ...

From SHAWN MACOMBER, American Spectator,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party

Chris Matthews Loses It Live

Eric Cantor was just on Hardball, being his innocuous self, positing McDonnell's victory as a rejection of government spending and overreach. Chris Matthews then launched a filibuster that quickly melted down into what would probably be called ...

From SHAWN MACOMBER, American Spectator,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Chris Matthews,  Sarah Palin,  Barack Obama,  Eric Cantor,  U.S. Republican Party

The Audacity To Be Audacious

Aside from almost every bit of dialogue being injected with a stilted prescience you just know didn't exist at the time, my two favorite parts of this excerpt from David Plouffe's both deal with the VP selection: Later that night, we held a ...

From SHAWN MACOMBER, American Spectator,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  David Plouffe,  Amway

Psychotic Torturers for Obamacare

In 2006 New York Magazine film critic David Edelstein penned a hand-wringing essay on an emerging subgenre of horror films he dubbed "torture porn," which in his estimation were "so viciously nihilistic that the only point seems to be to force ...

From SHAWN MACOMBER, American Spectator,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: David Edelstein,  New York Magazine,  Timothy Leary,  Barack Obama,  John McCain

Those Scrappy White House Underdogs

You can't really blame Valerie Jarrett for backpedaling to avoid having to call the loyal Obama disciples over at MSNBC biased in this interview with Campbell Brown, but it's fairly gobstopping to hear her blithely insist, "What the ...

From SHAWN MACOMBER, American Spectator,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: White House,  Valerie Jarrett,  Barack Obama,  MSNBC,  Campbell Brown

Mad About Free Trade

Daniel Griswold is not shy about sharing the high aspirations he harbors for his superlative new book Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization. The Cato Institute scholar seeks nothing less than to marshal whatever evidence ...

From SHAWN MACOMBER, American Spectator,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: John Mackey,  Cato Institute,  AFL-CIO,  Bureau of Labor Statistics,  Boeing

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