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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: P.J. O'Rourke

P.J. O'Rourke stories: 6 news summaries
OPINION

 We Fell Out of Love With Cars 


May 30, 09 12:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Plenty of economists are trying to define what killed Detroit, but they’re looking in all the wrong places. “Fire the MBAs and hire a poet,” writes PJ O’Rourke in the Wall Street Journal. This isn’t a story of unions or financial crisis. “It’... More »

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auto industry • P.J. O'Rourke • cars • automobile

GLOSSIES

Disney's New 'Tomorrowland' House as Bland as Leftovers

'Furiously unimaginative' update reflects down period in our culture: O'Rourke

Dec 4, 08 3:52 PM CST
(Newser) - In the 1950s, Disneyland wowed visitors and architecture aficionados with its dynamic vision of domesticity in its House of the Future, but, as PJ O’Rourke laments in the Atlantic, Disney’s latest house is “almost furiously unimaginative.” A peek at Disney’s domestic vision finds a future... More »

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technology • architecture • plastic • domestication • Disney • P.J. O'Rourke • 1950s

OPINION

 Conservatism Dead 
 by Its Own Hand: 
 O'Rourke 

Bloated government is only one (though huge) legacy of GOP reign

Nov 10, 08 6:05 PM CST
(Newser) - Modern conservatism is dead, and conservatives are to blame, PJ O’Rourke writes for the Weekly Standard. “Anyone who is still on the left is obviously insane and not responsible for his or her actions,” he contends. “No, we on the right did it.” Ideal after... More »

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Congress • abortion • Bill Clinton • impeachment • Ronald Reagan • Election 2008 • conservatism • George W. Bush • P.J. O'Rourke • President Obama • conservative movement

OPINION

O'Rourke Looks on the Sunny Side of Death

Satirist's curable
cancer prompts musings on life's end

Sep 30, 08 9:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - A cancer diagnosis with a 95% chance of survival, while it might not let one “stare death in the face,” at least gives PJ O’Rourke a chance to muse on the end of the road. At first, he “cursed God, as we all do when we... More »

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cancer • religion • philosophy • death • P.J. O'Rourke

OPINION

At Chicago's Field, 'Ancient Americas' Exhibit a Bust

Museum 'patronizes, demeans' its subjects

Jun 4, 08 5:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Revisiting Chicago’s Field Museum—an institution enshrined in loving childhood memories—for its “The Ancient Americas” exhibit is a sore disappointment, PJ O’Rourke writes in the Weekly Standard. Once a bastion of public scholarship so solemn it contained a section devoted to useful varieties of wood, the... More »

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museum • America • Incas • Aztecs • political correctness • Native Americans • Christopher Columbus • P.J. O'Rourke • Field Museum

OPINION

7 Deadly Sins? Try These On
for Size

PJ O'Rourke disagrees with Vatican, comes up with his own no-nos

Apr 10, 08 7:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Vatican has released a list of seven new Deadly Sins, and satirist-curmudgeon PJ O’Rourke isn’t impressed. Writing in the Weekly Standard, O’Rourke details the updated catalogue, which includes “morally debatable experimentation,” “social inequality and injustice,” and “genetic manipulation.” Finding it... More »

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technology • globalization • Vatican • Catholicism • Seven Deadly Sins • P.J. O'Rourke

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