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Jack Kemp

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    Barrett: Larry Kudlow Sniffs Around For More Political Power

    ​On the heels of Scott Brown's big win, Larry Kudlow, the CNBC rudderless anchor, is apparently considering a senate run against New York's Chuck Schumer, pushed by GOP and Tea Party allies and admirers. It would make Schumer the only incumbent known to be facing two reformed cokeheads in th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    Obama Presents Medals of Freedom; Rightbloggers Predictably Enraged

    ​ Yesterday afternoon President Obama bestowed the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, on 16 notables including Billie Jean King, Chita Rivera, Stephen Hawking, Sidney Poitier, former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, Edward Kennedy, the late Jack Kemp (whose widow accep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2009

    Rightbloggers Enraged by Medals to Evil President of Ireland, Homosexual, Breast Cancer Fighter, Etc.

    President Obama's list of 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom winners came out yesterday, and rightbloggers have had some time to snarl over it. There is plenty there to exercise them. The list includes Harvey Milk (a homosexual!), Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow (an injun!), Rev. Joseph Lowery (a civil-rig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    Medal of Freedom Recipients Announced, Include Tutu, Harvey Milk

    ​President Obama has announced this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients. The nation's highest civilian honor has gone in the past to folks like T.S. Eliot, Lucille Ball, Pope John XXIII, Margaret Mead, Jack Nicklaus, Mother Teresa, and Norman Podhoretz. As you may have guessed, Dem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

    Yeah, we finally made it to Citi Field Wednesday. What do we think? We think Johan Santana is awesome. Swine Flu fucked up Cinco de Mayo, continued to be funny until we got it. Wait, actually it's still pretty funny, especially since we really didn't get swine flu. But even if! Anyway Raccoon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    Jack Kemp, 1935-2009

    When Jack Kemp -- the former Buffalo Bills star, Congressman, HUD Secretary, and Republican Vice Presidential candidate, who died of cancer this weekend -- was derided at a function as a mere football player, his daughter retorted, "My daddy wasn't a football player: He was a quarterback." Kemp wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2009

    Jockbeat: John Madden's Final Score

    Yes, OK -- we get it:  John Madden was a cultural phenom who did funny beer commercials,  "wrote" ghosted bestsellers, and gave his name to a popular video game. He was, as Harvey Araton said in yesterday's New York Times, "one of three voices [that] resonate in the age of video." But ... More >>

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    Sanctifying the Evangelical Vote

    Yes, OK -- we get it:  John Madden was a cultural phenom who did funny beer commercials,  "wrote" ghosted bestsellers, and gave his name to a popular video game. He was, as Harvey Araton said in yesterday's New York Times, "one of three voices [that] resonate in the age of video." But ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2005

    Dear Bush Beat:
    Thank you for Weading . . .

    Yes, OK -- we get it:  John Madden was a cultural phenom who did funny beer commercials,  "wrote" ghosted bestsellers, and gave his name to a popular video game. He was, as Harvey Araton said in yesterday's New York Times, "one of three voices [that] resonate in the age of video." But ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2005

    Morning Report 2/22/05
    The Zelig of the Religious Right

    Yes, OK -- we get it:  John Madden was a cultural phenom who did funny beer commercials,  "wrote" ghosted bestsellers, and gave his name to a popular video game. He was, as Harvey Araton said in yesterday's New York Times, "one of three voices [that] resonate in the age of video." But ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2005

    Morning Report 2/21/05
    The Tangled Roots of Doug Wead

    Yes, OK -- we get it:  John Madden was a cultural phenom who did funny beer commercials,  "wrote" ghosted bestsellers, and gave his name to a popular video game. He was, as Harvey Araton said in yesterday's New York Times, "one of three voices [that] resonate in the age of video." But ... More >>

  • News

    June 29, 2004

    Kerry's Catholic Question

    Cardinal Edward Egan faces a defining moment in the 2004 race for the White House

  • News

    March 20, 2001

    Fit to Serve

    High-Profile Athletes Toss Their Jocks, and Sports Bras, Into the Political Ring

  • News

    July 25, 2000

    Hell-Raising in Philly

    An Activist’s Guide to Protests Outside the Republican Convention

  • News

    July 18, 2000

    Converging on the GOP

    A Daily Planner for Philly Protesters

  • News

    February 1, 2000

    Nation

    A Daily Planner for Philly Protesters

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    February 1, 2000

    The New Marshall Plan

    Rallying congress to fight AIDs in Africa

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    December 14, 1999

    Sports

    Rallying congress to fight AIDs in Africa

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    August 3, 1999
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    July 13, 1999

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