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Andrew Breitbart: A Muckraker to the End
Conservative blogger and entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart, who died shortly after midnight Thursday in Los Angeles at the age of 43, was insightful, combative and absolutely puckish. He was raised in an affluent Los Angeles family, the son of a restaurateur and banker, and attended Tulane University in New Orleans. In a 2011 interview with WNYC,…
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Back to the Future, Starring Rick Santorum
In Back to the Future, Michael J. Fox’s character, Marty McFly, takes a sleek DeLorean to spin back three decades to 1955. Now we’re watching a new version of the movie, and one of the stars is Rick Santorum. Instead of regressing just 30 years, the former Pennsylvania senator — whose austere ideas on government…
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The Reason Obama's Faith Is Questioned
Obama’s America is a weekly column about Barack Obama, politics and culture. In many ways, the last few days in political coverage have been like watching a reality show, and religious zealotry is the emerging theme. First there was Rick Santorum, a Catholic former U.S. senator, who interrupted a discussion on energy with a conservative…
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Barack Obama, America's CEO
“On Obama” is a weekly column about Barack Obama and American politics. On the morning of Nov. 5, 2008, the day after Barack Obama’s election, I sat in the office of my Chicago apartment, filled, like most Americans, with a peculiar sense of hope. It seemed that in electing the country’s first black chief executive,…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
