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" Glenn Beck is Rush redux - Limbaugh with liposuction, partying like it's still 1993. "

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" Now everyone leaking and tweeting and posting on everyone else is the acknowledged way to get ahead in the 21st century. "

" Back in his Chicago Senate days, when he was seeking greater black credibility, Obama was happy enough to attend the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ. "

" Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the Obamacare tech nightmare is how wholly predictable it all was. Anyone who has been involved in building the most rudimentary of web operations knows nothing ever works as it's supposed to. Even awesome Apple, mighty Microsoft, and gargantuan Google miss deadlines. "

" Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a while in his head. It's unnerving for the rest of us, but even the haters, one feels, are made to think more deeply than they'd like before they return to the bickering and the games. "

" Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service. "

" It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet. "

" I think British journalists do well in America because the newspaper culture there is so strong - telling stories and presenting them readably is in their DNA. British newspapers get a terrible rap, but they are brilliant in their presentation, most of them, so full of vitality and literary wit. "

" Owning news makes you important; it gives you a seat at the table. "

" For a guy who believes in hope, Obama doesn't seem to be able to spread much of it around. How can he? We know too much now about the hollowness of institutions and the frailty of their leaders. "

" Not everyone has the survival skills of William Jefferson Clinton. "

" The Taliban knows they have more to fear from an educated girl than an American drone. "

" The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their wits and resourcefulness to preserve some semblance of civilization. "

" I've always been very enamored of European newsmagazines - the 'Spiegel' kind of magazine, which has an energetic, high-low approach to news. "

" What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch. "

" When Obama dispenses with that dread sobriquet 'professorial,' he does it by being, well, more professorial. "

" Periodically, 'The New York Times' runs a business news story lamenting how few women still make it to the top in the Wall Street boys' club. Could it be that women are choosing to be conscientious objectors in these wars of one against all? "

" The vaults of Buckingham palace are groaning with priceless, useless freebies from foreign dignitaries. "

" Prince William's smiling hostility toward the press is his non-negotiable core value. I am told he is so protective of his privacy he has been known to plant false tips with friends he distrusts and watch the media to see if they play out. "

" Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is. "

" Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama. "

" You can get an interview with anyone overseas on the basis of being part of 'Newsweek.' It still has a great deal of impact. "

" The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag. "

" To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred. "

" The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage. "

" Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve. "

" Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial. "

" Schwarzenegger is big, he's noisy, he's larger than life, and he's earned the credibility to be cast for the role of America's Green superhero. "

" To people I know in the bottom income brackets, living paycheck to paycheck, the Gig Economy has been old news for years. What's new is the way it's hit the demographic that used to assume that a college degree from an elite school was the passport to job security. "