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Madoff, AIG and the American "Gospel of Success"

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Greed, Treasury Department, Aig Bonuses, President Obama, Obama, Madoff Scandal, Bank Bonuses, Bernie Madoff, Barack Obama, Aig, David Brooks, New York Times, Bernard Madoff, Timothy Geithner, Bank Bailout, Corporate Greed, Politics News
Hoyt Hilsman

On an increasingly crowded, polluted and interdependent planet, the human race may not be able to indulge the "cultural DNA" of a society that has Darwinian opportunism as a credo.

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Distracted? Meet Maggie Jackson

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 04.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Google, Distracted, Ipod, Blackberry, Maggie Jackson, Attention, Cognitive Science, Workplace, David Brooks, New York Times, Harvard, Book, Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

Despite our scientific and technical achievements, we are squandering our chances to create a high-tech, yet reflective and caring society.

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Doesn't the Media Have a Little too Much on Its Plate?

RJ Eskow | Posted 04.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Media Matters, David Brooks, Lou Dobbs, Jake Tapper, Barack Obama, Anderson Cooper, Media News
RJ Eskow

As a concerned citizen who wants the media to succeed, I'm getting a little concerned: Aren't they biting off more than they can chew?

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Jason Linkins

David Brooks: Obama Is Too Busy

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: David Brooks, Obama Too Busy, Barack Obama, War in Afghanistan, Economic Crisis, Earmark Reform, Gail Collins, New York Times, Politics News

David Brooks recycled one of those weird ideas that's been buzzing around the mediasphere -- that Obama has so much to worry about with the economic crisis that he cannot possibly have any time or energy to expend on anything else.

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I Hope Rush Limbaugh Fails

Jim Wallis | Posted 04.12.2009 | Media

Read More: York Times Columnist, Debate, Children, Politics, Media, Obama, Stereotype, Rush Limbaugh, Republican, Newsweek Poll, Baseball, Conservative, David Brooks, Party, Bush Speechwriter, Little League Baseball, Republicans, Conservatives, David Frum, Rassmussen Poll, Gop, Rush Limbaugh Republicans, Limbaugh Head of GOP, Limbaugh Obama, Rush Limbaugh Obama, Republican Party, Media News
Jim Wallis

The president shouldn't waste his valuable time in debating Rush Limbaugh. But I would like to make that offer. Hey Rush, I'll debate you.

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Brooks Brothers

Mike Lux | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Administration, New York Times, Liberals, David Brooks, Progressives, Politics News
Mike Lux

I hope the White House doesn't go down the path of saying we aren't trying to make ideological or transformational change. This country is ready for a broad progressive argument.

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Conservative David Brooks: The Current Republican Response To The Economic Crisis Is Totally Misguided

nytimes.com | DAVID BROOKS | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: David Brooks, Gop and Economic Crisis, Democrats and Economic Crisis, Republicans and Economic Crisis, Economy, Politics News

The Democratic response to the economic crisis has its problems, but let's face it, the current Republican response is totally misguided. The House mi...

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GOP Political Darwinism: Who's Adapting and Who's Going Extinct?

Mark Nickolas | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, George W. Bush, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eric Cantor, Dick Cheney, Charlie Crist, Mike Huckabee, Bill Kristol, George Will, David Brooks, Gop, David Frum, Social Darwinism, Newt Gingrich, Bill Frist, Arlen Specter, John McCain, Karl Rove, Tom Delay, Rush Limbaugh, Andrew Sullivan, Bobby Jindal, Michael Bloomberg, Olympia Snowe, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Jeb Bush, Dennis Hastert, Susan Collins, Jon Huntsman, Charles Darwin, Sarah Palin, Neoconservatives, Tim Pawlenty, Politics News
Mark Nickolas

David Brooks is one of the few conservative voices who have shown to be a lot more right than wrong over the past few years when it comes to the ever-shifting dynamics in American politics.

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Why Wimpy David Brooks Insulted Michelle Obama's Biceps!

Bonnie Fuller | Posted 04.09.2009 | Style

Read More: Michelle Obama Biceps, Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama Arms, Michelle Obama Style, David Brooks, Michelle Obama Sleeveless, David Brooks Michelle Obama, Michelle Biceps, Michelle Obama's Biceps, David Brooks on Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama Eggplant Dress, David Brooke Comments on Mrs Obama, Style News
Bonnie Fuller

Talk about a low blow: the New York Times columnist with girly-man arms wants to throw a coat and a muzzle over the First Lady. Here's why.

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David Brooks Fears First Lady's Biceps

Taylor Marsh | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women, Michelle Obama, Republicans, Michelle Obama Arms, Maureen Dowd Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama Sleeveless, David Brooks, David Brooks Michelle Obama, Maureen Dowd, Maureen Dowd Feminism, Maureen Dowd Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama Biceps, First Lady, Politics News
Taylor Marsh

If this doesn't say it all about the spineless upper echelons of the traditional media. First you've got Brooks offended because the First Lady has sculpted biceps where he doesn't. Secondly, you've got Maureen Dowd writing a column on it.

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Sam Stein

Brooks: GOP Spending Freeze Idea Is "Insane," Party Too Stuck On Reagan

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: David Brooks, Reagan Gop, House Gop Insane Brooks Limbaugh, Spending Freeze Brooks, Ronald Reagan, Republicans Reagan, David Brooks Insane, Insane Spending Freeze, Brooks New York Times, Politics News

New York Times columnist David Brooks said on Sunday that it was "insane" for Republicans in Congress, including every GOP member of the House, to sup...

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Brit Hume Calls Out Obama's Media Defectors: Brooks, Gergen, Cramer

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 04.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, David Gergen, Brit Hume, David Brooks, Jim Cramer, Media News

Brit Hume returned to "Special Report" Wednesday night to provide a commentary on what Bret Baier described as the "daylight emerging between Presiden...

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Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream (Austin, Texas: PearlGate Publishing 2008) 192 pp.

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Joe the Plumber, Milton Friedman, Ann Coulter, Dick Morris, Michael Gallagher, George W. Bush, Conservatism, Wurzelbacher, Conservative, Jude Wanniski, David Brooks, Margaret Thatcher, Alan Bloom, Leo Strauss, The Huffington Post, Republican Party, Lord Acton, Plumber, MIchael Barone, Norman Podhoretz, William F. Buckley Jr., President Barack Obama, Stephen Moore, Wurzelbacharian Historicism, F.A. Hayek, Book Review, Sean Hannity, "Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream" Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Conservatives, Bill O'Reilly, Arthur Laffer, PearlGate Publishing, The Daily Kos, Plumbing, Wurzelbacherism, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

Wurzelbacher's deep understanding of the intellectual umbilical cords of modern conservatism is why Mike Gallagher and Sean Hannity have offered their high praise of his work.

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Bobby Jindal Is a Phony as Well as a Lousy Speaker

Sandy Goodman | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Employment Law Project, President Obama, Louisiana, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rush Limbaugh, Republican Response, Andrew Sullivan, Bobby Jindal, Alabama, Unemployed Workers, Christine Owens, Meet the Press, Stimulus Law, Times Picayune, David Brooks, South Carolina, Unemployment Benefits, Sen. Mary Landrieu, Mississippi, State Law, Sunset Provision, Politics News
Sandy Goodman

Jindal would rather cheat the poorest unemployed workers in his state of an extra few dollars than cause its businessmen, his bigtime buddies, to pay a little extra in unemployment taxes.

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U.S. Immigration Policies Bring Global Shame on Us

Roberto Lovato | Posted 03.29.2009 | World

Read More: Obama and World Opinion, U.S.-Mexico Relations, Obama and Europe, Mexican Immigration and Foriegn Policy, Mexico, Obama, Obama and Latinos, Obama and Immigration, David Brooks, Immigration and International Relations, Human Rights Watch, Imimgration and Public Opinion, Oscar Chacon, La Jornada, Alison Parker, u.s. Immigration, Obama and Mexico, Obama and Joe Arpaio, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, HEMISPHERIC AFFAIRS, Jorge Bustamante, Obama and Global Public Opinion, Global Migration and Obama, World News
Roberto Lovato

The proliferation of stories in international media and in global forums about the Guantanamo-like problems in the country's immigrant detention system are again tarnishing the U.S. image abroad.

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Jason Linkins

Jindal Response 'Nihilism': David Brooks

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: David Brooks, Video, Bobby Jindal Governor, Bobby Jindal, Jindal Speech, Bobby-Jindal-Kenneth-the-Page, Politics News

David Brooks reacted to Bobby Jindal's rebuttal speech about as strenuously as Brooks ever reacts to anything. I'll sum up: DISASTER NIHILISM INSANE DISASTER.

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David Brooks: Protecting Us From Poor People

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 03.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Subprime Mortgages, Poverty, Economy, David Brooks, New York Times, Poor, Housing Crisis, Foreclosure, Media News
Allison Kilkenny

Brooks believes the stupid poor people just need to take some responsibility for all of those shady mortgages sold to them with the ludicrous interest rates from subprime bandits working on commission.

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Wall Street Bonuses Are an Outrage

Thomas Frank | Posted 03.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street, Economy, Economic Crisis, Populism, Wall Street Bonuses, David Brooks, Business News
Thomas Frank

Just a mere $18.4 billion in Wall Street bonuses, and suddenly the entire country is screaming for revenge on money power that has done us so wrong while rewarding itself so generously.

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Two Types of Confidence - Obama and Bush

Stanton Peele | Posted 02.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lincoln, George Will, David Brooks, Self-Confidence, George W. Bush, William Seward, William Kristol, Barack Obama, Obama's Openness, Bush's Defensiveness, Politics News
Stanton Peele

Bush preserves his self-confidence by shutting out other points of view. Obama's openness is possible, on the other hand, because of his genuine self-confidence.

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Jason Linkins

Chait Notes Lack Of Outrage At Obama Dinner

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Peggy Noonan, Charles Krauthammer, George Will, David Brooks, Obama Dinner Conservatives, Barack Obama, Jonathan Chait, Media News

Jonathan Chait, writing for The New Republic, notes that President-Elect Barack Obama's decision to have dinner with a room of conservative writers di...

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Obama Dines Out

Michael Wolff | Posted 02.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Rush Limbaugh, Conservatives, William Kristol, George Will, Barack Obama, Neoconservatives, Obama Dinner Conservatives, Charles Krauthammer, David Brooks, Obama Administration, Media News
Michael Wolff

By dining at George Will's house with William Kristol, David Brooks, and Charles Krauthammer, he's single-handedly revived these guys' careers.

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Obama's Dinner Date with George Will and the Conservative Media Elite

Brad Listi | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Brad Listi, Charles Krauthammer, George Will, David Brooks, Larry Kudlow, William Kristol, Rich Lowry, Barack Obama, Obama Dines With Conservatives, Politics News
Brad Listi

As you may have heard, Barack Obama did some socializing in Maryland last night. His host: conservative columnist George Will.

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Is Obama Selling Out to the Right?

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conservatives, Charles Krauthammer, George Will, David Brooks, Obama Administration, Neoconservatives, Obama Dinner Conservatives, William Kristol, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jacob Heilbrunn

Obama's dinner with conservatives indicates that he is completing the job of detaching the conservative intellectual elite from the GOP itself.

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Sam Stein

Obama And Conservatives Break Bread At George Will's House

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

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Barack Obama took the next big step in his Republican charm offensive on Tuesday night, when he dined with several of the nation's most prominent cons...

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10 Republicans Who Should Stay

Ben Cohen | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chris Buckley, Peggy Noonan, Colin Powell, Andrew Sullivan, David Brooks, Ron Paul, Stephen Colbert, Chuck Hagel, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Ben Cohen

Andrew Sullivan maintains his roots in 'small c' conservatism proudly. Sullivan is a huge asset to political discourse in American. His unique perspective makes 'The Daily Dish' blog a must read.

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