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William Kristol

Bill Kristol's Last New York Times Piece: Mind Boggling Nonsense

Ben Cohen | Posted 03.02.2009 | Media

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Ben Cohen

Two failed wars, an economic meltdown, crumbling infrastructure, an increase in global warming, a drowned city, plummeting world opinion -- conservatism is not working.

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Good Riddance

Charles Warner | Posted 02.27.2009 | Media

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Charles Warner

Kristol is a triple threat as a columnist: he can't write, he can't think, and he is error prone.

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Should Tom Friedman Get Canned Along With Kristol?

Lionel Beehner | Posted 02.27.2009 | Media

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Lionel Beehner

How could the man who wrote maybe the best book on the Middle East become a paycheck-cashing mouthpiece and shill for the world's corporate villains?

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Working Miracles

Michael Sigman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living

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Michael Sigman

My earliest memory of an inspiring title was The Miracle Worker, which I loved because that "miracle" suggested an astonishing achievement against impossible odds.

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Jason Linkins

Kristol's Last Times Column: An Era Of Phoning It In Ends

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.27.2009 | Media

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It's the end of an era, folks. Specifically, the end of the era where the New York Times offers column space to error-prone neo-conservative Sarah Pa...

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Bill Kristol's New York Times Column Ends

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 02.27.2009 | Media

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The speculation as to whether Bill Kristol will continue his career as a New York Times columnist can end. Buried at the end of his column Monday is ...

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Bill Kristol Column Following Bush's Last Press Conference

Richard Valeriani | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

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Richard Valeriani

Bill Kristol overlooks the fact that more than 4,000 American servicemen and women have died in a totally unnecessary and fraudulent war that has cost the country billions.

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A Blessing for Barack (A Jewish Prayer for All Obama-ites)

Michael L. Millenson | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

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Michael L. Millenson

There is a Jewish prayer that captures the sense of relief, gratitude, and joy that so many of us feel as Barack Obama becomes the 44th president of the United States. It is called the Shehechiyanu.

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Two Types of Confidence - Obama and Bush

Stanton Peele | Posted 02.17.2009 | Politics

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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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Obama Dines Out

Michael Wolff | Posted 02.14.2009 | Media

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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

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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

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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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UPDATED: Bono Replacing Bill Kristol at New York Times? First Column Appears

Greg Mitchell | Posted 02.09.2009 | Media

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Greg Mitchell

Well, not quite, but the U2 frontman will be writing op-eds and podcasting for the Times starting this Sunday. The fate of Bill Kristol, meanwhile, should be decided any minute.

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First Anniversary of Bill Kristol at the New York Times: Will He Get Axed Next Week?

Greg Mitchell | Posted 01.26.2009 | Media

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Greg Mitchell

One year ago this weekend, the Huffington Post broke the news that, as Jim Morrison might have put it, the Kristol Ship was about to sail at the New York Times.

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Kristol On Cheney: Kipling Would Admire Him

NY Times | WILLIAM KRISTOL | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics

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You gotta love Dick Cheney. O.K., O.K. ... you don't have to. But consider this exchange with Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday": WALLACE: Did you r...

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Kristol's Next War: Send The US Marines After Somali Pirates

Matthew Yglesias | Posted 12.31.2008 | World

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In addition to being a booster of the two actual wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Bill Kristol and/or his publication has, at one time or another, also c...

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Why the Conservatives Won't Crack-up, But the Left Probably Will

Rupert Russell | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

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Rupert Russell

The conservative Counter-Establishment is the most cast-iron entanglement of alliances and dependencies known in modern American history.

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10 Republicans Who Should Go Away

Ben Cohen | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics

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Ben Cohen

Michelle Malkin wrote a book called: In Defense of Internment. The book essentially defends the internment of Japanese Americans during World War Two.

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Kristol: Right-Wing Media Will "Try To Be Cheerful"

Politico | Posted 12.17.2008 | Politics

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Since the Weekly Standard launched in 1995, there's one scenario the conservative magazine hasn't yet faced: Democrats in control of both the White Ho...

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Sunday Watch 11-02-08: In Which the Guesswork Pageant Flutters to an End

Todd Gitlin | Posted 12.04.2008 | Media

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Todd Gitlin

While McCain campaign manager Rick Davis affected not the slightest care in the world, Obama chief strategist David Axelrod refused to play the prophecy game.

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The Republican Party Is Headed To War -- With Itself

Matt Littman | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

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Matt Littman

There will be a civil war in the Republican Party, between the people who believe the Party has gone too far to the right, and the people who believe that the Party just had the wrong messenger this time.

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Kristol Myth

Daniel Menaker | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

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Daniel Menaker

Personally, I think William Kristol's support for -- sponsorship of -- Palin, and his whole philosophy are products of a sad, original failure to rebel against his father, Irving Kristol.

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What Conservatism Taught Us About Conservation

Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 11.22.2008 | Green

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Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle

Is presenting a unified front really a prerequisite for getting what you want in the political sphere?

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Why is McCain Headed to Defeat? It is Not the Economy, Stupid

Matt Littman | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

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Matt Littman

The collapse of the economy did not mean the collapse of the McCain campaign -- no, what killed the McCain campaign was simply John McCain's campaign.

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