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Politico contributing editor Adam Wren, who is based in Indiana, was given an interesting assignment; to penetrate the liberal bubble along the Acela Corridor from Washington D.C. to Boston to gauge their attitudes. Well, the fact that almost all of them continue to have an unhinged red hot hatred of President Donald Trump is no big surprise. What is interesting in a most hilarious way are the lives many of them lead. If you had an idea of what a the typical liberal lifestyle is like, you are probably wildly underestimating just how bizarre many liberal lives are. Wren describes his assignment in My 72-Hour...

THERE THEY were, just below Martha Stewart and Paula Deen and Allure in the magazine rack at the supermarket: the gun periodicals. I bought three. Back at the place where I was staying — this was in upstate New York, a week ago — I pored over the ads and the editorial content, trying to understand what they were saying, and to whom. First, they want you to buy a gun. It will probably not be your first gun; it will be an addition to, and an improvement on, the gun or guns you already own. It may deliver “precision...

by Mark Finkelstein February 14, 2006 - 19:52 Thirty-six minutes into tonight's Hardball, host Chris Matthews finally permitted a Cheney defender, former Cheney aide Ron Christie, to grace his program. Even then, Christie was not given an unobstructed opportunity to make his case, having to share the segment with hyper-partisan Dem consultant Bob Shrum - he of the record-breaking number of losing presidential campaigns - who tried to drag in everything from Iraq to Hurricane Katrina. Until Christie's belated appearance, Hardball was an absolutely ceaseless calvacade of criticism heaped on the Veep and his handling of the shooting incident that...

Berlinale, Day 3: Sigourney Weaver slams ‘macho America’ By Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop in Berlin. Today at the Berlin Film Festival, I’ve spoken to stars Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman and their director Marc Evans after their film, Snow Cake opened the festival. Seven other reporters and I sat with the team and discussed women and Brits in Hollywood, Weaver’s Alien effects and Rickman’s “instrument”. I think Rickman still wanted to be out sightseeing but Weaver could have sat there until the cows came in (which might take a while in Berlin) if it wasn’t for her flustered agents. The film is...

It isn’t too often that one who pens opinion articles will fully allow himself to “let it all out,” and quite possibly say more than ever intended. Here then, is one of those rare times--a time when I cannot contain myself, consequences be damned. For today, I will speak in no uncertain terms about one of America’s greatest elective mistakes, James Earl Carter, Jr. That is the last time I will use Carter’s full Christian name in this space, so cherish the reference if you must. But even that simple courtesy should be denied, in my mind. If one were...

by Mark Finkelstein February 9, 2006 - 07:59 Imagine you're the host of a morning news show, and the head of the country's major opposition party has just invoked the real danger that America under its current president will become a police state akin to Iran. Do you think you might ask a follow-up question challenging your guest to substantiate his alarmist remark? Apparently not, at least if your GMA's Charlie Gibson. For when Howard Dean made just such an allegation this morning, Gibson never blinked. Discussing the NSA terrorist surveillance program, Dean stated: "All we ask is that we...

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday dismissed a Republican leader's charge on Sunday that if Mrs. Clinton runs for president in 2008, she might fail because voters dislike "angry candidates" and "Hillary Clinton seems to have a lot of anger." Speaking to reporters in a Head Start classroom on the Lower East Side, where she criticized education spending levels in President Bush's new budget plan, Mrs. Clinton was asked about those remarks by Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee. "I would suggest that the Washington Republicans worry about these devastating budget cuts, the confusion and bureaucratic nightmare in the...

The state of Bill and Hillary Clinton's union is apparently strong - at least judging by the mongo diamond that Hillary was sporting on her ring finger yesterday. Sources say the former President quietly gave the iceberg-sized bling - thought to exceed 3 carats - to his wife months ago, in advance of their 30th wedding anniversary on Oct. 11 last year. But the sparkling stunner is so big that the former First Lady has been nervous about wearing it and hasn't broken it out of her jewelry box on a regular basis until recently. The big bauble was on...