• Obama’s Million-Dollar Man

    Obama’s Million-Dollar Man

    By: Sam Esterman Bill Maher of HBO’s Real Time donated $1 million to the Obama Super PAC, Priorities USA Action, on February 23rd, 2012. Unexpected by Maher and his fellow pundits, the impact defied imagination. Maher is a comedian that hosts his show in Los Angeles, CA. He attends many Hollywood parties and voices liberalism for Hollywood celebrities and entertainment [...]

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  • Interview with NPR’s Brooke Gladstone

    Interview with NPR’s Brooke Gladstone

    Interview by John Cheo and Michael Soyfer  Brooke Gladstone managing editor and co-host of NPR’s and WNYC’s On the Media, has a long history with public radio. After working in print media, she joined NPR in 1987 as senior editor of Weekend Edition with Scott Simon and became senior editor of All Things Considered in 1989. In 1991, she spent a year at Stanford University as [...]

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  • The Supremes

    The Supremes

    OMG, it’s finally here! No, not The Hunger Games (ok, also The Hunger Games). Arguments before the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which some clever pundit dubbed the Sicko Cases, begin Monday. They will run two hours per day for three days, for a record-setting six hours. Back when the hearing date and [...]

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  • Worse than Fiction

    Worse than Fiction

    Anyone who spends their time writing, talking or even thinking about political campaigns likes to have a narrative that’s going somewhere. We want Harry Truman whistlestopping across the nation to pull out the slimmest of victories, or Ronald Reagan quipping “there you go again” and sending Jimmy Carter packing. In that spirit, I’d like to lodge a complaint. If the current [...]

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  • Ladies’ Night

    Ladies’ Night

    Despite the common misconception, lemmings don’t actually throw themselves over cliffs. No, that’s an honor reserved for Republican presidential candidates. And I’m not just talking about Mitt “corporations are people”-”I like to be able to fire people”-”$10,000 bet”-”I’m not concerned about the very poor’-”Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs”-”I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners” Romney. Romney’s ability [...]

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  • Slut! Slut! Burn Her!

    Slut! Slut! Burn Her!

    Rush Limbaugh got into deep trouble this week when he essentially stole an old Saturday Night Live sketch. “Sandra Fluke, you ignorant slut!” Fluke really should have thought twice before painting her face to disgrace herself before House Democrats. Indeed, she was supposed to appear at Darrell Issa’s sausage-fest hearing on women’s contraceptive-coverage, at which only men spoke. Several committee members walked out [...]

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