Barack Obama: Our First Gay-Female-Hispanic-Asian-Jewish President
Newsweek's cover has been called "controversial" and "pretty shocking," but looking at this run-down of presidential firsts that weren't, it begins to seem a bit inevitable.
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'Dimon in the Rough' Is Not an Insult
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon may be having a rough time after his bank lost $2 billion on a bad trading position, but it does not mean he is sparkly on the inside.
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Why Political Reputations Must Not Be Tarnished
As Newt Gingrich continues to pledge he'll stay in the race, reporters and Republicans warn that he risks "tarnishing his legacy." But whence began this fear that a prolonged but futile fight for the nomination would destroy one's historical record for posterity?
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Where 'Hoodie' Goes, 'Hoodlum' Follows
As American media comments on Trayvon Martin's death, the word "hoodlum" has spiked in usage.
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Mitt Romney: The Picture Frame Candidate
Romney's joke on Letterman last year that "I'm the guy in the photo that comes in your picture frame," seems to be on everyone's mind this month.
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How the GOP Found Some Capitalism It Doesn't Like
To criticize President Obama, Mitt Romney has taken up a seemingly odd application of one of the Democrats' favorite attacks on George W. Bush.
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Romney's Mitts Might Always Be Off
"The Mitts come off" appears to be a simple infusion of two things journalists love: Mitt Romney puns and perennial political phrases.
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Newtmentum Can Be a Good or Bad Thing
Newt Gingrich's supporters have ironically reclaimed an already ironic pun.
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Jay Carney's Not The Only One Misquoting the Bible
Yesterday, White House fact checkers sought to disprove the falsehoods put forward by ... the White House.
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Everyone on Wall Street Is Playing 'Heads I Win, Tails You Lose'
"Heads I win tails you lose," is an old game of rigged odds, but it's been getting a lot of play among this week's opinion writers, concerned as they are with the state of our financial industry.
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The Ever Growing Herman Cain 'Boomlet'
"Boomlet," with its implicit sense of inevitable decline, has been a favorite word for Cain even when he polled in the single digits.
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The 'Unflappable Romney' is Actually Somewhat Flappable
An unusually silly sounding word has become the preferred way to describe the GOP front-runner.
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We All Get the Irony of Groupon Grouponing Itself
Yes, a site that specializes in daily deals has lowered the price of its own IPO, but is there a fresher joke to be made?
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Let's Stop Declaring Obama the Winner of GOP Debates
Maybe it was once clever to declare Obama the winner of a debate he didn't participate in, but the joke is not wearing well with repetition.
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Take a Ride on the Republican Roller Coaster
The GOP primary race was all so flat and predictable, but then in August, it went on a wild ride.
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Let's Kill All 'Cain Is Able' Puns
It's the current darling among a rash of puns on the Hermanator's name.
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A Linguistic Consensus on Steve Jobs: Visionary
The most popular descriptor of Apple's CEO says a lot about him.
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Press Goes Apple Picking in Zuccotti Park
Occupy Wall Street protesters face charges of hypocrisy for using pricey laptops
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Techies All Agree: Jeff Bezos = Steve Jobs
The two CEOs have much in common, but tech reporters weren't always so sure.
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Pundits Have a 'Messiah' Complex with the GOP
It's the favorite way to talk about the Republican fantasies of a perfect 2012 nominee
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Debates Pull Rick Perry From Orbit
As a research satellite falls to Earth, so too, does Perry, pundits say.
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