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Maureen Callahan pens an 1,800-plus-word piece in The New York Post today on the rise and fall of President Obama’s brand. It’s a great read. Callahan captures a presidency at sea brilliantly, at one point equating the President with the 1980’s “New Coke” marketing fiasco. “What happened to Cool Barack Obama?,she asks. “The one who sank […]
Read the rest of this entry »The New Abortion Debate
The New York Times tackles today the emerging issue of gender selection in the U.S., otherwise known as gender selecting abortions. The practice has become commonplace in China, India, and other nations, but it remains rarer here. But hardly unheard of. The impetus for the Times story is the new DNA test that can show […]
Read the rest of this entry »Sarah Palin, The Tease
I learned a long time ago not to call a girl “a tease.” But this sharp new web video from Sarah Palin’s PAC is just that. The question is whether that’s all it is, or if it is a striptease campaign roll out, with layer after layer of opaqueness discarded with deliberate and aching slowness. My gut says it’s the […]
Read the rest of this entry »The $50,000-a-Week Vacation
President Obama has every right to a vacation, and he hasn’t been shy about taking them. So Nile Gardiner in The London Telegraph today poses the better question than “should he or shouldn’t he?” Gardiner asks, “Is this an act of presidential Hara Kiri?” And, indeed, it looks like it is. President Obama, who once showed […]
Read the rest of this entry »Early NEA Endorsement Signals Obama Weakness
The National Education Association endorsed President Obama for re-election on Monday — a full 17 months before the 2012 elections — signaling just how weak it perceives the President’s re-election chances to be. The 3.2 million-member NEA made its endorsement and its annual meeting in Chicago. It is no surprise that the NEA would endorse the Democrat in the […]
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