Oct 7 2009

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 [...]

Jun 12 2009

"My First Thought Was, Hey, Don’t Disparage Flight Attendandts"

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Sarah Palin on David Letterman’s crude jokes:

The weeklong feud between late-night’s David Letterman and last-year’s Sarah Palin came in for a landing this morning on the Today show, where Matt Lauer interviewed the Alaska governor.about the comedian’s lines of attack.
“If you must,” Palin [...]

Jun 9 2009

Blending in with the locals

It may not be the great Washington novel we’ve been waiting for, but this story by Washington Post writers Mary Beth Sheridan and Del Quentin Wilber about the couple accused of spying for Cuba will do for now The first paragraph alone, though it may seem like a parody to out-of-towners, presents a [...]