Crazy, Or Left-Wing? Is There Still A Difference?
Venezuela is sponsoring an international conference of socialist parties in Caracas, which it pretentiously labels the Fifth International. Socialists from 40 countries, representing 50 political parties, are attending. On Friday, Hugo Chavez addressed the conclave. He praised Carlos the Jackal as a hero, describing him as “one of the great fighters of [...]
The Obama Administration’s Inner Mao
White House Communications Director Anita Dunn says that her
comment about Chairman Mao as one of her “favorite political
philosophers” has been badly distorted. Perhaps she meant to say
that Mao is one of her favorite media strategists.
It is telling what Dunn regards as a reassuring defense:
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Ayers Obama Book Conspiracy Resurfaces; Bill Ayers Responds - Huffingtonpost.com
Way back in the fall of 2008, when some people were terribly concerned that then-senator Barack Obama had met a former terrorist named Bill Ayers, a few conservatives came up with a truly mindboggling conspiracy theory: That Ayers had written Barack …
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Troubled Dreams
According to Rusty Humphries, writing at Big Government, Bill Ayers’s claim that he wrote Dreams from My Father is a “blockbuster story.” I say it’s an interesting story, but a mistake to take Ayers’s claim at face value, as Humphries appears to do.
Incidentally, Humphries calls Obama’s memoir Dreams of My Father; he [...]
Whose Dreams?
In the run-up to the election, Jack Cashill framed a speculative argument that Bill Ayers wrote Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father. Cashill first ventured his thesis in “Who wrote Dreams From My Father?” Cashill cited Obama’s sophomoric stabs at poetry from his days at Occidental. Obama’s sophomoric poetry doesn’t provide much [...]
Obama’s ‘Lack of a’ Work Ethic
Oh, how well we are gradually getting to know “Him”:
[...] Barack Obama has displayed a disturbing pattern of work ethics: shirking work; claiming success when he was not entitled to do so; hiding his failures; and claiming the work of others as his own — when it was successful. These are not character traits that [...]
