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Holidays '09: Ten Books I'll Bet No One Else Will Suggest

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.30.2009 | Books

Read More: Bill Bryson, Pema Chodron, Arsene Lupin, Winston Churchill, Walter Tevis, Holiday Books, Jacques Lusseyran, Sharon Olds, Sylvester, Bestsellers, Holiday News, Books News

The whole and entire point of HeadButler.com is to identify books you won't hear about in every Conde Nast magazine and online gift guide.

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'Churchill': At 166 Pages, The Most Exciting Biography Of The Year?

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books

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I've studied Churchill; we all have. But the breadth of the man gets lost in a handful of anecdotes and film clips. Paul Johnson delivers the big picture and the tiny detail.

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UPDATED APOLOGY FROM CONGRESSMAN--HAVE WE NO SHAME? DEBASING THE HOLOCAUST FOR ANOTHER TEN SECONDS OF MEDIA COVERAGE

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iran Ahmadinejad, Shoah, Nazi, Holocaust, Barack Obama, Palin, Mccarthy, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, George W. Bush, Health Care, George Orwell, Dick Cheney, Alan Grayson, Politics News

Everyone knows that genocide means mass murder and that the Holocaust should be restricted to the mass murder of 6 million Jews during World War II. Abuse of these terms is inexcusable.

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It's the Balance of Power, Stupid!

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 11.29.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Geo-Politics, Winston Churchill, Empire, Ahmadinejad, Afghanistan, Recognition Lag, Balance of Power, President Obama, Iran, Iraq, NeoCon Foreign Policy, Karzai, President George W. Bush, British Empire, Obama Foreign Policy, World News

The U.S.' clout may be slipping in the global arena. And yet no one wants to admit it. A failure to do so led to the end of the British Empire, and could mean the same for the U.S.

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What Schulberg Might Have Told Obama About Fighting

Bill Cunningham | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Budd Schulberg, President Obama, George Foreman, Rope-a-Dope, Winston Churchill, Meet the Press, Jack Newfield, Jon Meachum, Boxing, Health Reform, Newsweek, Obama Administration, Universal Health Care, Obama Health Care, Politics News

Organizations that can't touch Obama in the ring are moving to a crowding, brawling, Frasier-like approach to the debate.

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Curse Words from an Old Manse

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Napoleon, Slaves, Free Speech, Stupid, Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Henry Louis Gates, Cursing, Benjamin Franklin, Barack Obama, Politics News

I strongly disagree with anyone caring about this "stupidly" business. Politics is serious, and sometimes people get fired up. Diplomatic speaking is for diplomats.

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Beer Metaphor Becomes Frosty-Cold Reality

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, General Grant, Have a Beer With, Policeman, President Obama, Racial Relations, Stupidly, Teachable Moment, Winston Churchill, Andrew Jackson, Obama, Civil War, Race, Sarah Palin, Bush, Abe Lincoln, Log Cabin, Professor, Grant, Teaching Moment, Harvard, Republican Cloth Coat, Clinton, Abraham Lincoln, Honest Abe, Cop, Acting Stupidly, Dubya, Lincoln, Bill Clinton, George HW Bush, Whiskey, Man of the People, WC Fields, Beer, Cormac O'Brien, Massachusetts, Stupid, Bubba, Ulysses S Grant, Have a Beer, Barack Obama, Jackson, Attitude, Chris Weigant, Secret Lives of the US Presidents, George W Bush, Hillary Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Arrest, Churchill, Politics News

Barack Obama is the first president to not just accept the premise of the "having a beer" test, but to embrace it and turn it into reality.

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Guys Who Wear Bow Ties: Love It Or Lose It? (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 07.13.2009 | Style

Two weeks ago when we asked "Who's the best-dressed Supreme Court Justice?", your answer was Justice Sandra Day O'Connor for her signature lace jabot....

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Christopher Hitchens On Why Obama Cited Churchill On Torture

Slate | Christopher Hitchens | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics

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He didn't get the attention he deserved for it, but President Obama was very cleverly fusing liberal principles with an appeal to the basic conservati...

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Is Obama Reading Andrew Sullivan? References Similar Torture Post During Presser

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

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Is Barack Obama reading blogs, particularly the site of one of his campaign's most committed supporters, Andrew Sullivan? At his press conference o...

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Turkey: Not the Usual Geopolitical Sandwich

William Bradley | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Britain, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkey, Bosporus, Afghanistan, France, Pakistan, George W. Bush, European Union, Prague, G-20, London, Istanbul, Nato, Barack Obama, Germany, Dick Cheney, Iraq, Ankara, Jihadists, Cold War, Erdogan, Islam, Winston Churchill, Byzantine Empire, Neoconservative, Ottoman Empire, Balkans, Mohammed Cartoons, Al Qaeda, Taliban, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Roman Empire, Soviet Union, 100 Days, World News

Obama seems to see Turkey, which has friendly relations with Israel, as potentially a much stronger partner than any other NATO nation, perhaps even Britain.

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Race Baiting Michelle -- Again

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Winston Churchill, Gordon Brown, Princeton Thesis, Lady Macbeth, Politico, Princeton University, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Race Baiting, Politics News

The recent visit of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown cracked the window just enough to toss mud again at Michelle and of course hope some of the mud splatters on the president.

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Obama Returns Churchill Bust To England: British Press Sees Snub

Newsweek | Posted 03.25.2009 | Politics

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Has America's even- tempered new president already ruffled feathers in the land that spawned Borat and Benny Hill? That's certainly how the spiky Brit...

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Should President Obama Be More Optimistic?

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, John McCain, President Obama, Hope, Economy, Optimism, George W. Bush, Winston Churchill, The Fly, Franklin Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Mark McKinnon, President Bill Clinton, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Politics News

If Obama is truly committed to change, being more optimistic may not help him in that effort. Americans voted for Obama because they were acutely aware of the problems the country faces.

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Eric Cantor's Cant About Churchill

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics

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Eric Cantor's fixation with Churchill is emblematic of the broader worship of American conservatives for the British prime minister.

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A New "Green" Economy

Michael DeJong | Posted 03.14.2009 | Business

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill, George Washington Carver, Bill Clinton, Michael Phelps Marijuana Photo, Lewis Carroll, Incarcerated Black Males, Salvador Dali, William Shakespeare, 420, Richard Branson, Willie Nelson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Phelps Marijuana, Michael Bloomberg Mayor, Pot Smoking, Barack Obama, Climate Change Accelerating, Brad Pitt, Louis Armstrong, Queen Victoria, Environmental Justice Foundation, Green Economy, Kellogg's, Mad Hatter Johnny Depp, Save the Sea, Legalize Marijuana, Global Green USA, Entertainment Industry Environmental Leadership Award, Business News

In an economy quickly going down the toilet faster than a nickel bag government-sanctioned "ganja" could 'pot'-entially create more and literally 'green' jobs and add much needed tax revenues.

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End the Bailout

Alan Schram | Posted 12.21.2008 | Business

Paulson is now on his third plan for how to spend the cash Congress gave him. Nobody knows what he will do next.

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The Quotable Palin

Chris Kelly | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Winston Churchill, Abortion Rights, Prisoners, Sarah Palin, Prisoners Rights, Politics News

Sarah Palin is what you might call "intellectually incurious." I think when Joe the Plumber is talking to Palin he has to slow it down. So where'd she come up with her fancy-pants go-to quote?

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The Sick Man of the North Atlantic

Eric Margolis | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Winston Churchill, John McCain, FInancial Crisis White House, Financial Crisis Obama Mccain, Hillary Clinton 2008, George Bush Iraq, George W. Bush, German Offices, Asif Ali Zardari, United States, Congress and Iraq, Egypt Emergency Laws, Iraq War Funding, Pakistan Democracy, Afghanistan War, Osama Bin Laden, Iraq War, Barack Obama 2008, Congress Iraq, Japan New Ambassador, Communist Party, John Maynard Keynes, Great Britain, Singapore Innovation, Financial Crisis, Geroge W. Bush, Congress Bailout, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Mao Zedong, China, Politics News

Money, observed the witty British thinker Malcolm Muggeridge, is the homogenized form of power. No more money, no more power. The great imperialist ...

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Who Does George Bush Think He Is?

Jamie Stiehm | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Winston Churchill, Gordon Brown, Bush Presidency, George W. Bush, Politics News

Who does George Bush think he is? Honestly, the answer is Sir Winston S. Churchill. Though I think Churchill would be deeply offended at the notion of a likeness between him and Bush.

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