…reminiscence about that unique, funny, effervescent wild man Andrew Breitbart. It’s written by Matt Labash of the Weekly Standard, who does a good job of showing why so very many people couldn’t help but like Breitbart—including Bill Ayers. Yep, that … Continue reading →
What does Heartlandgate prove about AGW? Absolutely nothing. But it does say something about what AGW’s more fanatical proponents are prepared to do in furthering the cause—at least, what one of them, Dr. Peter Gleick, a noted freshwater scientist and … Continue reading →
Jack Cashill has recently published a book called Deconstructing Obama, in which he advances his theory that Bill Ayers ghost-wrote Obama’s well-known memoir Dreams From My Father. Cashill has been called a racist for his pains. This accusation was as … Continue reading →
Jack Cashill, who has previously stirred up controversy by alleging that Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s Dreams From My Father, connects some dots about the prevalence of plagiarism and/or ghost-writing among Harvard Law School professors, and the dubious role of Supreme … Continue reading →
I happened to catch David Remnick on television the other day pluggng his new biography of President Obama, The Bridge. It was the first time I’d ever seen New Yorker editor Remnick, and I was transfixed by the hushed and … Continue reading →
I’ve figured something out about Obama, and that is this: nearly everybody’s trying to figure Obama out. That’s one of the few things that unites America at the moment. Left and Right alike, people are busy asking the question “Who … Continue reading →
Dr. Sanity reminds us to connect a few dots between President Obama, Bill Ayers, and Hugo Chavez. The picture we end up with when we do so is not a pretty one. And Byron York points out the increasingly obvious … Continue reading →
My attitude towards Barack Obama has changed over time. As I wrote recently, some of the things I have to say about him now approach what once (and not all that long ago, either) had seemed like tinfoil hat territory. … Continue reading →
Aren’t they the ones who are supposed to be good at listening to hateful diatribes against the US and all its evils, sitting there looking bored while taking notes, and then pretending the whole thing never happened? Presidents, on the … Continue reading →
On the one hand CNN actually manages to present a piece about Obama and Ayers that makes some hard-hitting points. On the other hand CNN continually pulls the most important punch. The significance of the Obama/Ayers connection (as I wrote … Continue reading →
There’s a fascinating reminiscence by a series of aging boomers (are there any other kind?) in the Spring 2008 City Journal. It’s entitled “May 1968: Forty Years After,” and all of the writers appear to be to members of that … Continue reading →
It’s an ongoing disaster in North Carolina and also Georgia, and I’m reading varying reports on rescue efforts. It seems fairly clear that preparedness was lacking although it was known that the storm would be pretty bad in North Carolina, … Continue reading →