Author: michael o. allen
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Change agents!
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A Choice
Bristol Palin’s Choice Bristol Palin has made the decision to have her baby, but Samantha Bee tries to remember another word for it. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Question
Does it matter that Sen. John McCain, (R-AZ), is, at best, a spent force who mortgaged any ideals and principles he might have had in a Faustian bargain for the Republican Party nomination for president of the United States? It was painful watching McCain last night and then listening to the empty suit media types…
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Dick Cheney with Lipstick?
The Central Virginia Progressive-The DAVISReport sent us this message: I’ve got to give her props, Sarah Palin has redefined chutzpah. There is something very unseemly about this self described pit bull mom. As the mother of three daughters and the aunt of a special needs child this woman is really making me angry. Will this…
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Thoughts on the Palin speech
If I had to pick one word to summarize my impression of Gov. Palin’s speech tonight, it would be “shrill.” It was a fiercely partisan speech, a mocking speech, a culture-war speech. It was ably written and ably delivered, but it came with a sneer. While it may be the kind of speech that plays…
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Palin-gate
What some conservatives are saying about the Palin selection TalkingPointsMemo had a the transcript … Chuck Todd: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we’ll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. We’ll find out on your blackberry. Tonight voters will get their chance to hear from Sarah Palin and she will get the…
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FLEETING INFAMY: Many Are Called But Few Are Frozen in Spotlight
by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and RICHARD T. PIENCIAK, Daily News Staff Writers | Sunday, May 4, 1997 Most people who grab fleeting notoriety — Sukhreet Gabel, the kid who stole the A train, Lady Bing and Yankee switcher Fritz Peterson — disappear quickly and quietly. Then there are those like Burton Pugach, resurrected at regular…
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A Denver recap
Gov. Ted Strickland (D-OH) The Ohio governor, Ted Strickland, got off the best, unheard line of the Convention when he said that, unlike George H. W. Bush, who was born on third base and thought he hit a triple, George W. was born on third base and stole second. –David Remnick, The New Yorker Love0…
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Another word on Obama in Denver
Excerpt . . .: Obama has been more moving at the lectern—at the Convention in Boston four years ago, when he relied mainly on the story of his modest, yet remarkable, multicultural upbringing; at the victory party after the breakthrough win in Iowa, last January—but he has never described himself and his political vision with…
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Palin, before being picked
In an interview with The New Yorker magazine two weeks before Sen. John McCain picked her as his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was sounding very much like an Obamacan: Before she was running against him, Sarah Palin—the governor of Alaska and now the Republican candidate for Vice-President of the United States—thought it was…