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John Podhoretz Biography

John Mordecai Podhoretz (/pɒdˈhɔːrɪts/; born April 18, 1961) is an American writer. He is the editor of Commentary magazine, a columnist for the New York Post, the author of several books on politics, and a former presidential speechwriter.

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Why, listening to Obama talk about his economic triumphs over the last three years might make you want to move to the country he was describing. Too bad that country exists primarily in his own head.

Country, Move, Moving, Talk, Triumphs, Years

If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.

Boils, Cutting, Fact, Know, Political, Views

Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

Avoid, Lost, Schism, Sirens, Song

Let us now praise Barack Obama.

Barack, Let, Obama, Praise

The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.

Country, Insisted, Nation, Paying, Two, War

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

Character, Fiction, Films, Human, Robots

I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.

Deputies, Deputy, Running, Shop, Shops, Time

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

Break Through, Media, Muffle, Needs, Noticed, Provocative

All conservatives are bilingual we have to be. We speak both liberal and conservative. But liberals are monolingual - they don't have to be anything else. They speak liberal, and are completely ignorant of the conservative tongue.

Conservative, Conservatives, Ignorant, Liberal, Monolingual, Tongue

By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

Championed, Class, Cutting, Levels, Obama, Present

Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

Gender, Political, Race

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

Advantage, Gives, Giving, Political, Winning

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.

Presidential, Thrones, Goes On, Rises, Mud, Surrogates

Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

Animal, Two, Comedian, Different, Showbiz, Impressionists

Obama is talking to voters as though he is their boss, or their principal, or their father. He is not any of those things. He is their employee. And employers don't like it when their employees yell at them - even if their employees have it right.

Boss, Employees, Father, Like, Talking, Though

Obama's coalition would have consigned him to the political margins as little as 12 years ago, but the nation's demographic changes are moving far more quickly than most Republicans anticipated.

Moving, Years, Political, Demographic, Consigned, Margins

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

History, Movies, Rich, Robots

You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.

Express, Israel, Necessary, Party, Press, Successful

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

Gingrich, Intelligence, Kind, Newts, Restless, Sensibility

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

Alienated, American, Culture, Feels, People, Understand

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