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demagogue alert

Lawmaker Paints Target on Barack Obama's Back

Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert panders to dangerous paranoids

11 hours, 55 minutes ago

 Emotional Oprah: 'It's Time' 

Winfrey tells fans 25 seasons the 'perfect number' to end on

Nov 20, 09 10:54 AM CST
men of the year

 Eastwood Is 
 Top 'Badass' 

Kobe Bryant, Chris Pine, Barack Obama make 2009's elite list

Nov 19, 09 7:33 PM CST
Interview

 Clinton: I Didn't Want The Job 

Obama gave his secretary of state the hard sell

Nov 17, 09 3:48 PM CST

Largest US Gay Newspaper Publisher Closes

Window Media papers included Washington, South Fla. Blade

Nov 16, 09 7:41 PM CST

 US Innovation 
 Stagnates: Survey  

Americans think China is winning—and China thinks we're on top

Nov 16, 09 2:08 PM CST

 Inside Obama's 
 Extended Family 

Half-siblings, step-family of president are famous now

Nov 16, 09 11:14 AM CST

 Twilight's Secret 
 Superfans: Moms 

The secret group of Twilight fans even reports better sex lives

Nov 16, 09 8:55 AM CST
Put a Ring On It

For Your Beau:
The Mangagement Ring 

Are diamond rings for dudes a sign of progress or a marketing ploy?

Nov 15, 09 10:00 AM CST
OPINION

 Help! We're Being 
 Killed by Cuteness 

This is what happened to Japan after WWII, and it's terrible

Nov 14, 09 6:17 AM CST

 Complaints Curb 
 Vegas Stripper-Mobile 

'We're going to be good citizens' despite uptick in business

Nov 13, 09 8:35 PM CST

 How Reality TV 
 Ruins Everything 

James Wolcott takes on the TV trend that just won't die

Nov 11, 09 1:16 PM CST

 Want a Beer From the 
 Hindenburg? $8K, Please 

Burnt, undrinkable 1937 bottle could be most expensive ever sold

Nov 10, 09 3:55 PM CST
MEOW

 Demi Moore: 
 Call Me Puma, 
 Not Cougar 

Actress dishes on Ashton Kutcher, Twitter, and making indie films

Nov 10, 09 8:08 AM CST
GOING ONCE...

 Madoff's Stuff Up for Sale 

Feds hope to score $500K off jailed fraudster's possessions

Nov 10, 09 6:50 AM CST
happy holidays


 Give These Gifts 
 and Get Lucky 

Presents for the materialistic lady in your life

Nov 8, 09 12:39 PM CST

 Pre-Scandal 
 Fergie Spills 
 to Cosmo 

Before Josh Duhamel's stripper fiasco, singer applauded him in mag

Nov 6, 09 11:09 AM CST
GLOSSIES

 A Sex Predator Speaks 

Pa. man, convicted of soliciting child sex, says he was set up

Nov 4, 09 12:41 PM CST
KINKY INTERVIEW

 Nicole Kidman: 
 I've Explored 
 Fetish Sex 

She admits to sexual experimentation, talks 'danger' of marriage

Nov 4, 09 10:55 AM CST
INTERVIEW

 Winona 
 Talks Jolie, 
 Comeback 



After 9 years, Ryder is back—and setting the Jolie record straight

Nov 4, 09 9:36 AM CST

 Accelerated Aging 
 Tied to HIV/AIDS 

Middle-aged sufferers have symptoms of HIV-negative 80-year-olds

Nov 2, 09 3:25 PM CST
Interview

Life Inside Nancy Pelosi's Bubble

For feisty speaker, there are only Dems, donors and vote counts

Nov 2, 09 12:33 PM CST
GLOSSIES

 Twilight's Pattinson: 
 'I Look Like an Idiot' 

Twilight star tells mag he looks 'like an idiot,' denies romancing Stewart

Nov 2, 09 10:56 AM CST
life imitates art

 Most of 
 Manhattan 
 Is Single 

Census shows 50.3% live alone

Oct 30, 09 1:38 PM CDT


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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

The Health-Care Wars Have Just Begun

8
Nov 20, 09 | 8:32 AM BY Michael Wolff

My 84-year-old mother was full of venomous indignation at dinner last night over the great mammogram take-back. Bureaucrats, in her view, will happily kill women to save money. My colleague, Caroline Miller, Newser’s editor in chief, took umbrage in this space the other day about the new guidelines. She noted the obvious cold efficiencies involved with discouraging younger women from having a yearly mammogram, as well as the “patronizing” justification for... More »

Sarah Palin Deserves Some More Attention

16
Nov 19, 09 | 10:14 AM BY Michael Wolff

This is a phenomenon that just keeps giving. Its very lack of explanation, and ensuing incredulity and apoplexy, propel it. There... More »

And We Thought We Hated Mammograms

7
Nov 18, 09 | 2:40 PM BY Caroline Miller

No one likes to get a mammogram. Still, it’s hard to find a woman anywhere who was pleased to hear the new ruling that women in their 40s don’t need to endure the annual indignity of baring their breasts to the radiologist after all. That’s because it’s hard to find a woman anywhere who believes that the federal panel changed its recommendation for her benefit. It’s not that the decision doesn’t make sense: It costs a lot to... More »

China and the Obese: The President Meets His Greatest Problems

12
Nov 18, 09 | 8:43 AM BY Michael Wolff

For all sorts of obvious reasons, it seems like a greatly unacceptable and possibly discriminatory thing to say that the obese are a lot... More »

Rupert Murdoch’s Guy Gets It

6
Nov 17, 09 | 6:50 AM BY Michael Wolff

If Arthur Miller were at it again, he’d call the play Death of a PR Guy. Gary Ginsberg, Murdoch’s PR guy who got... More »

Obama's Secret Weapon: The Hug

4
Nov 16, 09 | 12:30 PM BY Lewis Grossberger

President Obama needs to get the hell out of China as fast as he can, rush back to America and start hugging Republicans. This will... More »

The President Wants You to Know He’s Too Dopey to Use Twitter

19
Nov 16, 09 | 8:01 AM BY Michael Wolff

“First of all, let me say that I have never used Twitter. I notice that young people—you know, they’re very busy with... More »

Does Warren Buffett Know What He’s Talking About?

10
Nov 13, 09 | 6:55 AM BY Michael Wolff

Nobody I know who is smart and rich (albeit much less rich than they used to be) thinks the economy is patched up and ready to roll—except,... More »

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