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June 30th, 2008 in That Funny Feeling by Ben Mandelker

Just How Cool is Obama?

Take a look around the urban landscape: t-shirts, murals, and posters all boast pop-art odes to Barack Obama.

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June 27th, 2008 in That Funny Feeling by Ben Mandelker

The Sweet Smell of Success

When it comes to predicting elections, we can refer to our usual tools of prognostication — charts, maps, trends, stats, data, logic, common sense — or we can turn to a more reliable bellwether: cookies.

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June 25th, 2008 in Featured Posts by Rider Strong

Looking Forward

My father was a Marine pilot in the Vietnam War. A couple of years ago, members of his unit contacted him.

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June 23rd, 2008 in Featured Posts by Hillel Aron

Screw Public Financing!

On Thursday, to the surprise of pretty much nobody, Barack Obama decided to opt out of public financing for the general election.

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June 20th, 2008 in Featured Posts by Hillel Aron

War Ink

The trailer for War, Inc. was all over the place. And indeed, so is the film, playing as a sloppy mix of hyper-kinetic farce, on-the-nose political satire, and Gen-X dark comedy.

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