John McCormack, Author at The American Spectator

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John McCormack is a staff writer for The Weekly Standard.

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Obama’s Hipster Hell

by John McCormack | Sep 17, 2012

ON OCTOBER 13, 2008, just one month after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, presidential candidate Barack Obama delivered a speech in Toledo, Ohio, outlining his “economic rescue plan” that would bring the country out of the deepest recession since the…