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By Bernie Goldberg - AOL News(Nov. 3) -- In the year after Barack Obama was elected president, Sam Tannenhaus, editor of The New York Times Book Review, came out with a book of his own. It was called "The Death of Conservatism." Tell me when you stop laughing. What's he going to call his next book, "The San Francisco Giants Will Never Win the World Series"? OK, I know it's a tad unfair to make fun, since conservatism looked dead as a doornail in the wake of Obama's election -- at least from where Tannenhaus was sitting in the New York Times building on the west side of Manhattan. But Tannenhaus isn't the only one who ...
Sarah Palin's (Bad) Decision To Step Down
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailySarah Palin has announced she won't seek reelection -- and will step down as Alaska's governor. There could be several reasons for her decision, including wanting to leave public life for good. But if this decision was made because Palin intends to run for president in 2012, it does nothing to further her cause.Assuming this is her calculus, I once again find myself thinking she has made a bad move. First, why announce it on the eve of Independence Day? Doesn't that seem a bit erratic and dramatic? More importantly, though, to become a viable candidate in 2012, Palin needed to return to ...
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