Name: Heloise
Dateline: Fort Worth, Texas
Weblog: www.thepolitikos.com [RSS]
Articles: 131
First Published: Saturday, August 19, 2006
Last Published: Sunday, November 30, 2008
Currently listing articles 131-101:
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Movie Review: Australia— Despite a few blemishes, I believe that Australia will be atop many Best Picture lists come January 22.
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Oh, Now What’s Wrong With The Right?— If the right wingnut bloggers want war then the lefty bloggers should oblige.
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Senator Stevens: 1 Republican Resignation = 58 Democratic Senate Seats— The news just keeps getting better for the Democrats on the Hill, president-elect Obama and senator-elect Begich.
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I’ll Take One Hot Palin And One Cold Piyush "Bobby" Jindal To Go... Please— What’s an unpopular party to do? Give a party where everyone is invited and not just the rich, the WASP, and the redneck.
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Book Review: Taking On The System - Rules For Radical Change in a Digital Era by Markos Moulitsas Zúniga— A clarion call for this “Why Generation,” Taking On The System is a well-written how-to tome about grabbing political power.
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Democracy’s Choice: President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama
— Take cover it's an Obama landslide: head for the Hill—Capitol that is!
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An Interview with John McWhorter, Best-Selling Author, Linguist, and Cultural Critic— "In terms of prosaic vs. prophetic, I must admit that much of the time the word I would choose [for blogging] is pathetic."
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What Will Conservative Pundits Say When Obama Closes the Deal?
— What’s more difficult than reading Heloise? Try reading John McCain's message or the lips of highly conservative Republicans.
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Movie Review: W., The Bush Exit Interview— How Bush drove the states into the United Shambles of America. Funny and scary stuff released in time for Halloween.
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Book Review: Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue - The Untold History of English by John McWhorter
— Some linguists wear an “English is difficult” amulet. McWhorter breaks the chain and replaces it with “English is easy.”
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Take Cover: There Will Be Mud— Sean Hannity preached at McCain to take the gloves off . He was feisty but confused: “We (Americans) are peacemakers, and peace keepers.”
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Sarah's Standup Debate— Biden and Palin debate at Wash U with Gwen Ifill moderating the next great meme: truth.
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The Passion of the Candidates— Dateline Oxford, MS the great debate: Obama v. McCain—where McCain mapped out his political future.
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The Body (Of Lies) Politic— Heloise wrote on June 4: “Sean, the Dems don't need your unsolicited help, thanks, but no thanks.”
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Gustav Gongs GOP RNC— It’s all about the Gustav gong—and the GOP gets it!
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I Know Why McCain Picked Palin— Ready to rumble or fumble: John McCain taps Sarah Palin.
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Uncle Teddy Rocks The DNC, While Michelle Rolls Out The Family — The Dems caught in the populist headlights; it doesn’t have to be that way.
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Biden Gets the Nod— Will Veepstakes become weepstakes for Clinton supporters at the Dem Convention?
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Return of the Naïve— Left and right-wing pundits pooh-pooh Hillary as veep choice. Why?
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Book Review: Baldwin's Harlem - A Biography of James Baldwin by Herb Boyd— Boyd pulls at the Baldwin self-doubt scab — born black, gay, poor, and ugly, not the most auspicious start in life.
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Doing the Wrong Thing: McCain’s Argumentum ad Hominem—Two Ads That Just Don’t Add Up— Just say “Whoa!” to kamikaze-like ads.
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Jesse Jackson Drops "Hate" Bomb on Barack Obama— Jackson wields the knife, The New Yorker provides cover.
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Why Some Blacks Don’t Get Rove— The face of fear gets a makeover — still ugly, but not “uppity.”
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Tim Russert's Passing Leaves Big Political Shoes to Fill— Russert will be missed, but most of all he will miss the 2008 November election. He wouldn’t like missing something big.
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Oil In The Rock— Cash in, gas out: The “crude” joke Wall Street is playing on plain folks—markets making bank on your back.
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Book Review: All About The Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can’t Save Black America by John McWhorter
— The author argues that hip-hop is metaphysical at best, mystical at the least, but a political tour de force? Not yet, and maybe never.
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Last Tango in Texas: Obama Dances Across History— We have a Barack-solid Democratic Presidential nominee. It’s all about Barack, now baby.
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Movie Review: Sex And The City— From size zero to sexy in less than two hours and 20 minutes - this film is sexy, funny, and touching.
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Mouth Bush Erupts in Israel and Other Stump Stories
— Yes, this week Hillary “Rocky” Clinton and other Democrats circled the wagon and fired back to help Obama stave off the short knife of a
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Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN— It's all over Hillary. Face the music gracefully, while the super delegates do the right thing.
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Dam Wright!— Rev. Jeremiah Wright seeks to explain the inexplicable with the unsupportable before the NAACP and the National Press Club.
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