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John Podhoretz
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 18
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New York City
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For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.
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Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.
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Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century.
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I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.
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In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.
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The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.
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For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.
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I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.
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Obama's coalition would have consigned him to the political margins as little as 12 years ago, but the nation's demographic changes are moving far more quickly than most Republicans anticipated.
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Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
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The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
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Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.
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I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.
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Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.
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Let us now praise Barack Obama.
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The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.
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Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
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Every great political campaign rewrites the rules devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.
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Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both.
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Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail.
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