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Hey Peggy Noonan! Adam Lambert paid a completely non-controversia…
Greg In Hollywood | December 22nd 2009 by Greg Hernandez
Boy, Adam Lambert is workin’ it! The American Idol sensation has been working his tail off promoting his album For Your Entertainment with his latest stop being a visit to The Jay Leno Show last night. Adam has shown in all of his post-American read more
For a minute, I thought Peggy Noonan was coming out against Gitmo
The Reaction | December 19th 2009
By J. Thomas DuffyJesus, I thought, Peggy Noonan is slamming The Commander Guy, the Shadow President, and all the other dwarfs, finks, phonies and frauds of The Bush Grindhouse.The Gipper's Groupie is against torture!" ...uncorked an act in which he read more
For A Minute, I Thought Peggy Noonan Was Coming Out Against Gitmo
The Garlic: All The Cloves Fit To Peel | December 19th 2009 by J. Thomas Duffy
Jesus, I thought, Peggy Noonan is slamming The Commander Guy, the Shadow President, and all the other dwarfs, finks, phonies and frauds of The Bush Grindhouse.The Gipper's Groupie is against torture?" ...uncorked an act in which he, in the words of read more
Common Sense?
Policy Diary | December 19th 2009
Published in Hip Hop Republican There are some aspects of the health-care reform debate that are informative, add value and contribute a unique perspective that is needed in the ongoing discussion. And then there is this: on Friday Peggy Noonan wr read more
Vulgar Display of Pouter
Hammer Of The Blogs | December 19th 2009
For Peggy Noonan, this little jeremiad almost qualifies as a head-fake or a rope-a-dope. After some mild pseudo-populist clucking about how the economy's travails have deflated 'murkin's natural optimism and begun turning them against Obama (for, you read more
Peggy Noonan's Adam Lambert problem
Swimming Freestyle | December 18th 2009 by Jay McDonough
Peggy Noonan, Washington Post op-ed contributor, takes the most recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll as her starting point. The poll included the "right track/wrong track" question, generally used as a bellwether of the mood of the country. N read more
Still Looking For Old Saint Dick [Duan!]
Deadspin | December 18th 2009 by Mark Watson
It's never good to let a coach's unfortunate firing ruin a joyful time of the year — and a perfectly good Christmas card. Remember when Dick Jauron was tactfully "removed" from the Bills' team photo? The team made lemonade. A reader named "Dan" read more
White House Responds To Howard Dean’s Criticism of Health Care…
Liberal Values | December 17th 2009 by Ron Chusid
The White House has been responding to yesterday’s attacks on the watered-down Senate health care reform bill from the left which I also discussed here. David Axelrod appeared on MSNBC: Axelrod, responding on MSNBC, said: “I have a lot of res read more
All Things to All Right-Thinking Whatevers
albedo android international present | December 12th 2009 by bethiargee
To paraphrase Harry Truman: When a Reptilian runs against a Reptilian, you can be sure the Reptilian will win.Greenwald has one of the best deconstructions of Barry's Piece Prize speech I've read:...the set of principles Obama articulated yesterday w read more
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Barcepundit in English | December 12th 2009
PEGGY NOONAN: The political headline this week is that President Obama appears to be attempting to move toward the center, or what he believes is the center. We saw the big pivot in two major speeches, one on the economy and the other, in Oslo, on p read more
Peggy Noonan: “If he’s going to bow to…
Legislative Aid | December 11th 2009 by Anonymous Staffer
Peggy Noonan: “If he’s going to bow to something, it might as well be reality.” Obama tacks to the center as he’s forced to accept that this country was not built to be quietly reamed by his utopian agenda. read more
Bergdorf’s Still There!
BrandlandUSA | December 5th 2009 by Garland Pollard
A few weeks ago, Peggy Noonan wrote in her weekly Wall Street Journal column about the importance of seeing Bergdorf Goodman, and how it cheered her. We should definitely thank ourselves for making it through the year. And we should be thankful th read more
The Perception of Obama's Bow, and Why it Matters
Phil Cooke | December 1st 2009
I'm fascinated with how perceptions impact reality. That's why Peggy Noonan's opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal on how President Obama bowing to other world leaders has been perceived by the American public. It's worth reading because from h read more
He Can’t Take Another Bow
Expose Obama | November 30th 2009 by Floyd Brown
Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal Last week, two points in an emerging pointillist picture of a White House leaking support—not the support of voters, though polls there show steady decline, but in two core constituencies, Washington’s D read more
The Democratic Establishment Is Very Worried
Infidel Blogger's Alliance | November 28th 2009 by CitizenWarrior.com
The Obama Administration, the Democratic Party, and the Leftist Establishment are disoriented and they are corner, haning onto the ropes for dear life.Will it be long before they are down for the count?Might I be right in my prediction that the Obama read more
Obama’s Bow: A Lasting Image?
Outside The Beltway | OTB | November 28th 2009 by James Joyner
Peggy Noonan takes a harsh view of the way Obama’s first year has unfolded. In a presidency, a picture or photograph becomes iconic only when it seems to express something people already think. When Gerald Ford was spoofed for being physically read more
You Be The Judge
From On High | November 28th 2009
Peggy Noonan on the amateurs who are in charge of our country:The Obama bowing pictures are becoming iconic not for those reasons, however, but because they express a growing political perception, and that is that there is something amateurish about read more
Athena’s Insight: Why Obama’s Bow Matters
GayPatriot | November 28th 2009 by Bruce Carroll
In our media age, if a politician does not recognize the importance of his image, he’s either never going to get the seat to which he aspires or will lose it soon after he does. John McCain probably lost as many votes last fall from his errat read more
A thousand points of blight
The Reaction | November 12th 2009
By CarlMuch has been made by conservatives about the private sector and solutions to the problems that confront this nation and this world. Indeed, one might sum these positions as "Thousand Points of Light," a phrase coined by Peggy Noonan, renowned read more
President Reagan and Political Courage
LastingLiberty.com | November 10th 2009 by Lasting Liberty
Yesterday was the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. That gives us the opportunity to listen to this, President Reagan’s iconic speech from two years earlier calling for Mr. Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.” What gets lo read more
Peggy Noonan on Obama
Buzz Blog | November 10th 2009
Peggy Noonan spoke tonight to the Georgia Republican Party and had this to day about President Obama: read more
Tear Down This Wall
Sassistas! Our dish on the social soup | November 9th 2009
In her 1998 Time essay about Ronald Reagan, commentator Peggy Noonan wrote: "Clare Boothe Luce famously said that each President is remembered for a sentence: 'He freed the slaves'; 'He made the Louisiana Purchase.'" Noonan goes on to say that Rea read more
Quotes of the Week
tomllewis | November 8th 2009 by Tom L Lewis
Thomas Sowell: Economics and politics confront the same fundamental problem: What everyone wants adds up to more than there is. Frank Luntz: By an incredible 61% to 14% margin, more people believe scientists will discover life in outer space than bel read more
DOES ANYONE? EVER?:
BrothersJudd Blog | November 7th 2009 by Stephen Judd
The Rose Garden Path (Peggy Noonan, 11/06/09, WSJ) [I]t's too simple to say this was a vote against Obama. Yes, he went to Jersey three times and draped himself like a shawl around the Democratic incumbent. But the crowds showed and nobody booed and read more
The Children Have Taken Over The Day Care Center
The Freedom Medium | November 3rd 2009
Peggy Noonan, who worked as a speechwriter for the greatest President of the twentieth century, makes the case that we are governed by callous children. The new economic statistics put growth at a healthy 3.5% for the third quarter. We should be danc read more
Monday Morning Tidbit
Skalduggery | November 2nd 2009 by Steven
Take a trip over to Responsibility - there is a killer post up concerning taking things one step at a time, especially when things are overwhelming or complicated… or overwhelmingly complicated. He takes as a point of departure Peggy Noonan read more
Will The WSJ Spin Ever End?
Freedom From The Press - Media Corruption & Government Fraud… | November 2nd 2009 by Steven Thompson
Steven Thompson, editor Freedom From The Press Over the weekend a family elder handed me the opinion page of the Wall Street Journal and pointed to a piece written by veteran journalist Peggy Noonan. It’s difficult to say if Ms. Noonan wrote th read more
quote of the moment
b1-66er's world | November 2nd 2009
We are governed at all levels by America's luckiest children, sons and daughters of the abundance, and they call themselves optimists but they're not optimists—they're unimaginative. They don't have faith, they've just never bee read more
Nothing To Fear But Fearlessness Itself?
slashdot.org | November 1st 2009 by Anjalee
theodp writes "In a post last August, Robert X. Cringely voiced fears that Goldman Sachs and others were not so much evil as 'clueless about the implications of their work,' leaving it up to the government to fix any mess they leave behind. 'But what read more
In Praise of Naps
Incurable Insomniac | November 1st 2009 by Steph
“Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice - like a beautiful, softly swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.” Peggy Noonan Is there anything in life more precious than an afternoon nap? I’m not talking about the 10- read more
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