Lefties tired of being demonized by the Fundamentalist Fringe should get religion.
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Need a Fourth? Don’t Call Donny! Donny Deutsch was incredulous. Deutsch appeared last Thursday on a Larry King-hosted sausage party to analyze – in advance, what else?? – Tiger Woods’ attempt to manipulate the media the very next day. The ad guru simply couldn’t wrap his brain around The Big Idea – proffered by Golf Channel reporter Jim Gray...
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While I was traveling with a colleague four weeks ago, he bought a copy of Glenn Beck’s “Arguing With Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government.” Two days ago, he announced that he is pursuing a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Though our belief systems differ, he is the kind of guy I picture...
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I’m in Canada this week. It’s my fourth visit in recent years, and by the end of my second day in the country, a familiar question all but smothered me. Even after allowing for the “change” factor – that sense of excitement just at being in a foreign land – the question lingered, the...
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How Charlie Rangel can be a role model.
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So President Obama’s trip to Copenhagen did not bear fruit for Chicago, but it’s funny: When he announced he was going, all the pundits on the right complained. “His time would be better spent in consultations with Gen. McChrystal!” They whined. Lo and behold, the president meets with McChrystal during his trip. “But never mind,...
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One of the things I do for fun and profit is write a column on business management. I’ve written it for more than fifteen years, close to 200 columns in all, published monthly in a trade magazine that serves a tiny little sliver of what’s left of American manufacturing: Custom woodworking. I was raised by a tool-and-die...
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The shock expressed by commentators on the right earlier this week, just after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shared her clearly sincere and heartfelt concern about the tone of political discourse in this country, reminds me of Shakespeare: “Methinks protest too much.” For all their crying and caterwalling - and straight-up libelous remarks – about Pelosi, one...
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