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"This will end in tears. The Obama hysteria is not merely embarrassing to witness, it is itself contributory to the scale of the disaster that is coming. What we are experiencing, in the deepening days of a global depression, is the desperate suspension of disbelief by people of intelligence – la trahison des clercs – in a pathetic effort to hypnotise themselves into the delusion that it will be all right on the night. It will not be all right. We have been here before. In the spring of 1997, to be precise, when a charismatic, young prime minister entered...

In the aftermath of President Obama’s historic inauguration, media talking heads have assured us our new president will end the partisan bickering that has recently defined our politics. He will unite the country, and he will move the people to close ranks. Only the bitter and the bigoted will oppose the compelling programs of he to whom one prominent T.V. commentator referred as our nation’s new “ruler,” and the world’s. But conservatives have not united around Obama, nor should they. What should unite conservatives is devotion to the conservative principles that will help our country, not devotion to the cult...

MTV held inauguration balls for Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996. In 2001, they didn't hold one for George W. Bush. The reason they said was that Al Gore's 36-day crusade to steal the election "did not give them enough time" to organize one for Bush. It's now 2005, and with one week till Bush's inauguration, I'm not seeing MTV holding a inauguration party. Is this is the case or is MTV's bias showing again? P.S. The question above is probably a 99.99% rhetorical question.