Its a Wonderful Life

To "Americans for Prosperity" Capitalism Is a Love Story

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

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The only distinguishing feature of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation's "National Defending the American Dream Summit" was its astonishing homogeneity both in thought and in demography.

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Old Man Cheney

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 05.22.2009 | Media

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Sean Hannity's interview with Dick Cheney serves as a kind of Tom Stoppard rendition of "It's a Wonderful Life" that might take place after the lights came up and the audience left the theater.

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Exit Stage Right: Cheney Wheels Off to Thunderous Applause

Randall Amster | Posted 03.02.2009 | Comedy

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Yes folks, that was Dick Cheney, born-again ADA activist and differently-abled former dictator, heading off to an (un)disclosed location for the final time.

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It Is a Wonderful Life

Jamie Lee Curtis | Posted 01.24.2009 | Living

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What this crisis is going to do is bring us into financial alignment. Neighbors are going to meal share and carpool and child care -- less indoor gym workouts and more family outdoor time.

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George Bailey and the Darkness on the Edge of Town

Tom Watson | Posted 01.24.2009 | Entertainment

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It's A Wonderful Life has a dark, brooding heart and it openly questions in brutal terms the complaisance of small-town life just after the world's worst-ever conflict, a war that snuffed out tens of millions of people.

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Humbug -- I Wish

Wendy Block | Posted 01.22.2009 | Style

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This year, my normally fruitless efforts to find good fruitcake finally paid off with a sturdy confection whose cherry/pecan/cake ratio is nearly perfect.

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