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Vanity Fair’s Year in Pictures, Part One: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com

Bonfire

THE WHOLE ELECTION IN A SINGLE GRAPHIC

Catchphrases

Nothing so became his campaign

as his leaving it. John McCain has manfully played his part with a grace he lacked during most of it.

The Mantle Now Descends

Habemus Presidentum omnibus patris. Dog latin for the victory. Unqualified. Unquestionable. Uncontestable. We await now to see how the man wears it. Nor lose the common touch.

James Carville and Paul Begala: Let the Blame Game Begin

What does it mean to be a Republican? Do Republicans support laissez-faire or nationalized banking? Do Republicans support a balanced budget or half-trillion-dollar deficits? Do Republicans want a ‘humble foreign policy’ like George W. Bush, or preventive war against countries that pose no threat, like, umm, George W. Bush? Are Republicans the party of limited [...]

Declarations - WSJ.com

Conservatives and Republicans, on the other hand, continue to battle it out: Was her choice a success or a disaster? And if one holds negative views, should one say so? For conservatives in general, but certainly for writers, the answer is a variation on Edmund Burke: You owe your readers not your industry only [...]

McCain Missed a Trick - The Daily Beast

Conrad Black is the author of biographies of Maurice Duplessis, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Richard M. Nixon, was the publisher of the London (UK) Telegraph newspapers and Spectator from 1987 to 2004, and founded the National Post of Canada in1998. His columns and reviews frequently appear in a large number of publications in Canada, the [...]

Viva McCain!

Kristol quotes Senator McCain to illustrate the qualities that are needed to rise to the times.

Viva Zapata! It’s a movie made by Elia Kazan. It was one of the trilogy of A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront and Viva Zapata! Marlon Brando stars in it. He plays Zapata. It’s a heroic tale of [...]

Deal Journal - WSJ.com : Stewards of Capital Gather at NYSE. What Happens Next? Who Knows?

Any institution that manages over $5 billion should be regulated, whether it’s public or private, an insurance company, bank or private equity fund.

Op-Ed Columnist - The Class War Before Palin - NYTimes.com

It took talent for Republicans to lose the banking community.