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Entries by Marty Kaplan from 01/2008

Reading Bill Kristol's Mind

| Posted 01.06.2008 | Media
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Don't look to me to be some David Brooks doppelganger, either. He may technically have inherited Safire's parking spot on this page, but let me tell you something: David Brooks is a pussy.

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An Inconvenient Resurrection

| Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics
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No matter what you think about Hillary Clinton, no matter how this campaign turns out, there is undeniable satisfaction in watching the pundit class being forced to eat the words of its premature obituaries.

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Karl Rove Will Be Your Graduation Speaker

| Posted 01.21.2008 | Politics
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Imagine you're a high school senior, or the parent of one. Imagine that the principal of your school announces that the commencement speaker this June is going to be somebody named Karl Rove.

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State of the Outrage

| Posted 01.27.2008 | Politics
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Rather than actually mooning some Senate Democrats at the joint session of Congress on Monday night as Bush would like to do, he will instead call them terrorist-lovers and partisan obstructionists.

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