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John Podhoretz
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 18
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Journalist
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New York City
New York
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The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.
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Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?
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What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.
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Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
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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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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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Let us now praise Barack Obama.
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I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.
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Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.
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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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Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.
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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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America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.
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I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.
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