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Jack Davis and Marni Nixon, RIP
Two important but behind-the-scenes contributors to popular culture in mid-century America died this week. Jack Davis was 91. Marni Nixon was 86. Jack Davis was a prolific illustrator and caricaturist. He was a regular contributor to Mad magazine, alternating with Mort Drucker to illustrate TV and movie parodies. He had...
Happy Obamaween: Spread the candy around
Comedian Steven Crowder is at the church trunk-or-treat, and he's only trying to be fair. The kids don't think its fair. "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." -- candidate Barack Obama to Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbach, 2008....
CNN declares open season on Joe the Plumber
Just how in the tank is CNN for Barack Obama? I was grabbing a late lunch at McDonald's and caught some of Rick Sanchez on CNN. Sanchez introduced a quote by CNN commentator David Gergen (a man as squishy as the first diaper change of the day) ridiculing Joe the...
Conservative bloggers to GOP: Talk to us, listen to us
Ace has some helpful things to say (sprinkled as always with words that would make a sailor blush, so be advised) about the Republican Party's failures to plug in effectively to what the conservative blogosphere has to offer. He wants to get bloggers engaged in candidate recruitment, finding non-traditional candidates...
Where are Obama's conservative friends and mentors?
This is not an original thought. I know I've seen a form of this question asked, more than once, on some blog somewhere. We know that Barack Obama has had among his close associates and mentors a number of radical leftists: His father, his stepfather, his father-figure mentor "Frank" in...
Joel Kotkin on civic improvement schemes and city policy
This morning on KFAQ, Gwen Freeman and Chris Medlock interviewed real estate expert and urban critic Joel Kotkin. Last week in the Wall Street Journal, Kotkin wrote a pointed takedown of cities that chase the "Creative Class" with civic improvement schemes -- arenas, convention centers, government-planned entertainment districts, light rail,...
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