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"Basically, the two-party system is like a stale marriage. Democrats and Republicans need something to spice it up. They need to go on Craigslist and find a third party." ~ Arianna Huffington 16 Feb 2011 19:07 Africa/Lagos 'America's House Divided' Intelligence Squared Debates Examines America's Two-Party System Arianna Huffington & David Brooks Square Off Against P.J. O'Rourke & Zev Chafets to Debate: America's Two-Party System is Making America Ungovernable Debate to broadcast on NPR stations nationwide and telecast on Bloomberg TV globally beginning February 21 at 9PM EST PR Newswire NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2011 NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The latest round in America's premier debate series, Intelligence Squared Debates, pitted President and Editor-in-Chief of Huffington Post Media Group, Arianna Huffington and New York Times columnist David Brooks, against America's premier political satirist P.J. O'Rourke...

2 Mar 2008 15:31 Africa/Lagos [b]NEWSWEEK: COVER: Mr. Right, R.I.P. [/b] NEWSWEEK LOOKS AT WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR.'S CONSERVATISM AND HOW IT'S FALLING APART TODAY DAVID BROOKS ON BUCKLEY: 'He changed the personality of conservatism.' MICHAEL GERSON: 'The loss to conservatism and to America is real ... Buckley Jr. leaves an unfilled spot where wit and joy once stood.' NEW YORK, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- In the current issue of Newsweek, Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas looks at how William F. Buckley Jr. largely inspired and held together the conservative movement that is collapsing today. "He changed the personality of conservatism," New York Times columnist David Brooks tells Newsweek. "It had been sort of negative, and he made it smart and sophisticated and pushed out all these oddballs and created a movement." More recently, says Brooks, conservatism has "lost something." In the conservatism spawned by talk radio and TV, the hater...