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The media elite and the Republican ruling class are remarkably similar in their political projection for the coming year. Journalists spent the entire year savaging every fast-rising challenger to Mitt Romney. The GOPs power pundits became equally agitated at the sniff of a conservative anywhere near the top of the GOP pack. It's the odor of extremism that both the elites in the media and the GOP have detested -- always. So here we are, on the cusp of the election year, and both these groups have one primary target: Newt Gingrich. Both are using the same ammo: Newt is...

Maureen Dowd has finally discovered the man of her dreams: Barack Obama.  The New York Times columnist -- notorious for her disdain of all things testosterone -- let Times readers know this past week  that she has finally found a man she can admire, a man of "muscular purpose" and steel beneath an exterior of "studied cool."  And, in doing so, she has firmly grasped the baton being passed to her by other members of the Times' opinion corps and taken up the "Barack Man's Burden." The relentless acclaim of all things Obama is the Times' version of the...