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Weekly Standard stories: 11 news summaries

Pelosi Won't Put Final Health Care Bill Online

Speaker leaves door open for last-minute amendments

Nov 6, 09 9:49 AM CST
(Newser) - The Weekly Standard is beating up on Nancy Pelosi for backing out of her promise, made to a Standard reporter in September, to put the final House health care bill online 72 hours before it’s voted on. With the vote expected tomorrow, It seems Pelosi and the... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • House of Representatives • legislation • Weekly Standard • health care reform • amendment

(Newser) - Bill Kristol remembers his late father as a man of a "deep modesty" who "loved intellectual pursuits but always shunned intellectual pretension." Irving Kristol, who died earlier this month at age 89, is generally regarded as the architect of neoconservatism, but the honors he accrued never gave... More »

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Weekly Standard • memorial • right wingers • conservatism • neoconservatives • William Kristol • Irving Kristol

OPINION

 Hillary Run for NY Gov? 
 Uh, No, Scoff Lefty Pundits 

Lefty Internet moves to dismiss rumor floated by right-leaning site

Sep 10, 09 8:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pundits jumped today on a report that Hillary Clinton will leave the State Department to run for governor of New York, with Michael Crowley, in the New Republic, saying three Clinton sources dismissed the notion, and that anyone floating such things is “on crack.” That, evidently, would be... More »

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Hillary Clinton • secretary of State • Weekly Standard • New Republic • governor • Gawker • rumor • David Paterson • New York state • Obama administration • William Kristol

OPINION

 Obama and Brooks: Best Buds 

The odd friendship between a conservative columnist and liberal president

Aug 31, 09 5:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nominal conservative David Brooks is one of President Obama’s unlikeliest allies, writes Gabriel Sherman for the New Republic. The New York Times columnist was on board early, publishing an op-ed titled “Run, Barack, Run” in 2006. Lately, Brooks has written more favorably of Obama than Paul Krugman has.... More »

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Barack Obama • New York Times • Weekly Standard • columnists • Paul Krugman • David Brooks • bromance

Murdoch Near Deal to Sell Weekly Standard

Wall Street Journal makes conservative mag unnecessary

Jun 11, 09 12:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. is close to a deal to sell the Weekly Standard to billionaire media mogul Philip Anschutz, the Los Angeles Times reports. The conservative magazine boasts a modest circulation of 83,000, though Murdoch has long prized the cachet it granted him in Washington. But Murdoch... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • Weekly Standard • Los Angeles Kings • News Corp • Philip Anschutz • Staples Center

OPINION

 I Hate Facebook; 
 You Should Too 




Mar 9, 09 6:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Facebook is a soul-sucking enterprise that can steal away your dependable wife and connect you with people you'd rather avoid—or happily forget, Matt Labash writes in the Weekly Standard. Users of the “stultifying” and “mind-numbing” site have “a reality-show star's unquenchable thirst for broadcasting all... More »

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social networking • Internet • Facebook • Weekly Standard • time • opinion • boring

 Obama Dines With 
 Conservative Kings 

Dinner with vocal conservative critics

Jan 13, 09 11:58 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama broke bread with America's most influential conservative opinion shapers last night. The Washington Post reports he was guest of honor at a dinner party given by columnist George Will, along with Bill Kristol, David Brooks, and Charles Krauthammer. Rumors were buzzing that Rush Limbaugh would attend, but a... More »

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New York Times • Washington Post • Rush Limbaugh • Weekly Standard • George Will • David Brooks • President Obama • Chevy Chase Md • William Kristol • Charles Krauthammer

OPINION

 Hate Palin? You 
 Just Haven't Met Her 

But Fred Barnes has, and, he assures us, she's great

Oct 25, 08 5:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Many of Sarah Palin’s critics have something in common: They haven't met her. Virtually everyone who has come into the governor’s presence leaves impressed, writes Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard. Even Alaska politicians she’s quarreled with say she’s smart and capable. “Her politics... More »

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media • Weekly Standard • Peggy Noonan • Election 2008 • Lorne Michaels • Sarah Palin • Kathleen Parker

OPINION

 Kristol: Don't Abandon McCain  


Oct 25, 08 12:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - “With 10 days to go before the election, it's getting pretty dark out there” for John McCain, William Kristol writes in the Weekly Standard. All the more reason for true conservatives to stand behind him "for the sake of the country," says Kristol, who's proud to... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Joe Biden • Weekly Standard • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • William Kristol

Army: New Republic
Scribe Lied

But magazine stands
by private's diary
from Iraq

Aug 8, 07 10:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - The military and the New Republic are at a standoff over the accuracy of a series of damaging diaries by an Army private in Iraq. Army investigators say they're fabricated, that no one in the unit corroborated his stories about petty cruelty among soldiers. But TNR Editor Franklin Foer told... More »

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Iraq • military • fiction • journalism • US Army • Weekly Standard • New Republic • Scott Thomas Beauchamp

Bush's Failures Are Kristol Clear

Corn fires back at neocon columnist's revisionist view of
the last seven years

Jul 18, 07 9:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nation editor David Corn does a double take in today's WaPo at neocon infantryman Bill Kristol's Sunday column there, which predicted the Bush presidency would go down as a success. In a blazing review of the scandals, misadventures and outright failures that have plagued the White House for the last... More »

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Iraq • Hurricane Katrina • David Corn • Weekly Standard • Bush legacy • US economy • George W. Bush • William Kristol

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