Aaron Sorkin imagines former President Jed Bartlet giving Candidate Obama a pep talk: BARTLET That was a hell of a convention. OBAMA Thank you, I was proud of it. BARTLET…
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You may ooze bile but you will teach the children by those books that you will be given and in the way that is needed by Russia. And as to…
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Brilliant in conception and stunning in execution, here’s a wonderful pro-Obama video:
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Screenwriter Ronan Bennett criticises Martin Amis for his questionable positioning on present day inter-cultural relations (and other commentators for essentially giving him a free pass): As a novelist, Amis is…
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Of course it’s about oil (Jim Holt in the London Review of Books): It has been estimated, by the Council on Foreign Relations, that Iraq may have a further 220…
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The Great Iraq Swindle: How Bush Allowed an Army of For-Profit Contractors to Invade the U.S. Treasury (from Rolling Stone) In a much-ballyhooed example of favoritism, the White House originally…
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