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  • August 2008

    • Obama Advisers Please the Right, But Not Much

      The Weekly Standard  |  Aug 1, 08 6:23 PM CDT

      Obama Advisers Please the Right, But Not Much

      (Newser) - If Barack Obama takes office, conservatives can take a small measure of comfort knowing that  two of his top economic advisers have generated angst on the left for being "centrist, pro-free-traders," writes Cesar Conda in the Weekly Standard . Austan Goolsbee and Jason Furman—the latter a Wal-Mart defender—have even earned praise from the likes of George Will. Still, Conda, warns, let's not get carried away. More »

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      Barack Obama  • globalization  • NAFTA  • Medicaid  • free trade  • George Will  • economic adviser  • Jason Furman  • protectionism  • Austan Goolsbee

  • July 2008

    • Beer: Cause of, and Solution to, Civilization

      Washington Post  |  Jul 10, 08 12:18 PM CDT

      Beer: Cause of, and Solution to, Civilization

      (Newser) - Recently, Investor’s Business Daily had the effrontery to suggest that Americans might cut down on beer “and other non-essential items.” It was a statement that sent Washington Post columnist George F. Will into a frothy rage. Beer is completely essential—without it civilization as we know might not exist. Early urbanites had just one respite from waterborne illness, he notes: Beer. More »

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      alcohol  • beer  • evolution  • George Will

  • May 2008

    • At Lefty U., Plans for Right-Wing Chair

      Wall Street Journal  |  May 13, 08 11:50 AM CDT

      At Lefty U., Plans for Right-Wing Chair

      (Newser) - Here’s a recipe for controversy: Take one of the nation’s most liberal schools—the University of Colorado at Boulder—and make it the home of the nation’s first endowed chair for Conservative Thought and Policy. The school’s Republican chancellor tells the Wall Street Journal the campus needs “intellectual diversity” alongside offerings on gay literature and Chicano studies. Critics, predictably, are legion—right and left. More »

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      conservative  • academia  • George Will  • University of Colorado  • political science

  • April 2008

    • George Will Knows the Working Class?

      New Republic  |  Apr 18, 08 7:37 PM CDT

      George Will Knows the Working Class?

      (Newser) - George Will knows blue collar America? Probably not, Jonathan Chait writes in the New Republic , but the "fabulously wealthy, bow tie-wearing, pretentious" pundit still blasted Barack Obama for saying rural voters "cling to" firearms and religion. And Will is not alone—US leaders have long treated blue collar workers as "a victim-hero class" with "moral superiority" they don't have. More »

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      Barack Obama  • blue-collar vote  • Bittergate  • working class  • George Will

    • 'Bittergate' Flares Up on Sunday Shows

      Chicago Tribune  |  Apr 13, 08 5:45 PM CDT

      'Bittergate' Flares Up on Sunday Shows

      (Newser) - "Bittergate" erupted on talk shows today as pundits hammered Barack Obama for calling some rural voters "bitter," the Swamp blog reports. “He’s going to have to do some more explaining about this,” Clinton ally James Carville said. "It's big," said George Will. One GOP strategist called it "a general election nightmare" for Obama and the Democrats. More »

  • September 2007

    • Right-Wing Voices Get More Ink

      Media Matters  |  Sep 14, 07 1:05 PM CDT

      Right-Wing Voices Get More Ink

      (Newser) -  Voices from the right dominate those from the left in US newspapers, with the former reaching 152 million buyers and the latter only 125 million. Sixty percent  of papers print more conservative syndicated columnists, while just 20% run more liberals, according to a report by Media Matters for America. In 38 states, the red voice dominates; the blue rules in only 12. More »

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      media  • newspaper  • conservative  • Thomas Friedman  • liberals  • columnists  • George Will

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