Read more Maureen Dowd stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/8337/maureen-dowd.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 11:21:30 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72699/obama-emerges-from-white-frat-house.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTurns out Tom Friedman played golf with President Obama last month—and fellow New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd isn't ashamed to admit she felt "a twinge of envy." Dowd's happy that Obama finally invited a woman to join him on the links this weekend, after catching heat over all-male...http://www.newser.com/story/72699/obama-emerges-from-white-frat-house.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 28 Oct 2009 7:44:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72240/maybe-sports-betting-can-save-newspapers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWith newspapers sinking deeper into trouble by the day, Maureen Dowd explores the idea of saving the day with a little vice. Specifically, allowing papers to rake in money by setting up online sports betting on their websites. Dowd herself isn't pushing it, but she has fun kicking it around...http://www.newser.com/story/72240/maybe-sports-betting-can-save-newspapers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 21 Oct 2009 12:01:13 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71133/cmon-dave-letterman-is-no-bill-clinton.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThese days you can't drink and smoke in the office like the ad execs on Mad Men , but when it comes to affairs with young women, working men are still living in the 1960s, writes Maureen Dowd. David Letterman is only the latest boss to fall for the interns and...http://www.newser.com/story/71133/cmon-dave-letterman-is-no-bill-clinton.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 07 Oct 2009 8:05:30 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70095/dancin-delay-this-is-the-real-tom.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAmerica is getting to see a whole different side of Tom DeLay on Dancing with the Stars , and he wants you to know it's the real Tom DeLay. Maureen Dowd chats up the man once dubbed the “meanest man in Congress” and ponders the meaning of his transformation. “I’m being...http://www.newser.com/story/70095/dancin-delay-this-is-the-real-tom.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 23 Sep 2009 8:21:23 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69287/wilson-i-am-not-going-to-apologize-again.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagResponding to threats by Democrats demanding he apologize to President Obama on the House floor, Rep. Joe Wilson was adamant today: “I am not going to apologize again.” The South Carolina Republican told Fox News Sunday, “I apologized to the president on Wednesday night. I believe that is sufficient. The...http://www.newser.com/story/69287/wilson-i-am-not-going-to-apologize-again.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 13 Sep 2009 9:15:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63016/in-affair-mark-became-marco-canoodling-lothario.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMark Sanford’s affair stemmed from his love of a woman—and his love of the “dashing new version of himself he saw in her molten eyes,” writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times . Mark, the Sanford we knew, “was the self-righteous, Bible-thumping prig who pressed for Bill Clinton’s impeachment,...http://www.newser.com/story/63016/in-affair-mark-became-marco-canoodling-lothario.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 28 Jun 2009 9:02:29 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62422/fly-strike-shows-another-side-to-prez.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama’s precision fly-swatting has caught the nation’s attention—perhaps because it showed a surprisingly forceful approach, writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times . “Some Americans fear that President Obama is too prone to negotiation, comity and splitting the difference,” Dowd notes. “This moment didn’t involve any talking or...http://www.newser.com/story/62422/fly-strike-shows-another-side-to-prez.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 21 Jun 2009 6:18:05 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61525/rove-maureen-dowd-has-bitter-little-heart.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagKarl Rove fired back today at Maureen Dowd for criticizing former President Bush’s frequent vacation time in Texas, Politico reports. “I think Maureen Dowd is a bitter, twisted, deranged columnist for the New York Times ,” Rove told Fox News, “who misses no opportunity to show her disdain for the conservative...http://www.newser.com/story/61525/rove-maureen-dowd-has-bitter-little-heart.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 10 Jun 2009 16:31:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59522/marshall-back-off-plagiarism-charges.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJosh Marshall of Talking Points Memo isn't joining the chorus of critics against Maureen Dowd, who admitted she inadvertently lifted one of Marshall's lines in her weekend column. "I generally think we're too quick to pull the trigger with charges of plagiarism," writes Marshall. "Whatever the mechanics of how it...http://www.newser.com/story/59522/marshall-back-off-plagiarism-charges.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 19 May 2009 22:22:16 CDT