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Good Insta-advice. But there's one thing that makes the nascent Palin cult quite a bit less creepy than the Obama cult: There's a tongue-in-cheek quality to at least some of the Palin fandom. Irony and Obama-love often seem to be like oil and water.

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The American Spectator

The Spectacle Blog

Don't Get Cocky

About the Author

Special Feature

A Time for Choosing

James Piereson

Empowering Individuals or Bureaucrats?

Rep. Paul Ryan

The Road from Serfdom

Stephen Moore and Peter Ferrara

The Millennial Perspective

David N. Bass

FLASHBACK TO: 1984

The Fairness Delusion

Media Smears: One Man’s Experiences

Chuck Colson vs. The Fundamentalists

The Reagan Doctrine

The Woman Problem

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