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culture11.com - 1/20/2009
If Only…
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… solving America’s troubles were as simple as putting petty grievances aside. I share the desire to do that, or course, and there is a great deal of trumped up disagreement in Washington DC. What Barack Obama failed to address in his remarks, however, is that some political ...
culture11.com - 1/26/2009
Rush Limbaugh on the New York Times Op-Ed Page?
— culture11.com —  Bill Kristol, as long suspected, is out at the New York Times Op-Ed page. The web is... abuzz with speculation about who should replace him, but Patrick Ruffini has, I think, the most provocative suggestion: Rush Limbaugh should replace ... (more) Rush Limbaugh on the New York Times Op-Ed Page?

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Ross Douthat:  A Little Carter, A Little Reagan

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#44 Reax
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... A president's critics are often more interesting reads than his supporters. Here's a reaction to Obama's speech from the right. Reaction from the left later today. Conor Friedersdorf: ...

A Little Carter, A Little Reagan
Ross Douthat — ... Obama's rhetoric, from the calls to duty and responsibility, to the promise to marry "hope and virtue," to the praise for the work ethic and criticisms of " those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame." But time and again, Obama pivoted from this theme to the sort of begin-the-world-anew rhetoric that we've come to expect from all our presidents, liberal and conservative alike - promising that hard choices are really false choices, that pragmatism can overcome partisanship, that there's no technological hurdle that Science can't leap, and ...

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