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Here’s a somewhat surprising result from the new Fox News poll. Asked which president is “more responsible for the current state of the economy,” only 18 percent say President Obama. Fifty-eight percent say former President George W. Bush. Nine percent blame both of them. Republicans are the only subgroup of voters who blame Obama, and [...]

If you didn’t listen to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show today, you missed the news that an obscure blogger had gotten his hands on ten pages of Barack Obama’s college thesis, thanks to Joe Klein of Time magazine. Michael Ledeen had jumped on the news, publishing an excerpt that revealed how the president had “doubts” about [...]

Thomas Lipscomb, a fairly prominent conservative investigative journalist last seen defending the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth against charges of dishonesty, dives head-first into the “Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s first memoir” conspiracy theory. The crux of his rather argument is that Ayers, by exasperatedly joking to blogger Ann Leary that he wrote the book, may [...]

Speaking for the first time since receiving the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama accepted the honor while outlining some of the goals he still hopes to accomplish.
“I will accept this award as a call to action, a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century,” he said.
After a light [...]

The Republican National Committee has issued a political response to the president’s Nobel Peace Prize, blasting the Nobel Committee for denying the prize to unnamed “tireless advocates” and attacking the president’s domestic record. The quote, from RNC Chairman Michael Steele:
The real question Americans are asking is, “What has President Obama actually accomplished?” It is unfortunate [...]

I emailed Michael Ledeen, the neoconservative scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, for comment on President Obama receiving the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. His response:
The Nobel Committee is following its well-known proclivity of awarding the Peace Prize to people who make war more likely. Remember Jimmy Carter and Yasser Arafat?

For a domestic audience, President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is arguably awkward. Concern-troll Mickey Kaus is already editorializing that he should turn it down, in a concession that, as Morrissey once crooned, he just hasn’t earned it yet. And I don’t know.
But turning it down would be a slap in the face to an international [...]

Here’s the full text of the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s announcement of President Obama’s selection for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize:
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has [...]

One of the key storylines of the year has been the GOP’s inability to grab a real advantage from voter disappointment with President Obama and the Democrats. A new Quinnipiac Poll has only 25 percent of Americans approving of the Republican Party, the same low number approving of Republicans in Congress, and only 29 percent [...]

I’ve written in the past about conservative author Jack Cashill’s quest to prove that Bill Ayers wrote President Obama’s “Dreams From My Father.” Cashill’s still beating the drum.
The Washington Independent’s David Weigel, for instance, is among those who dismiss [Christopher] Andersen’s claim because he credits me as a source… Had he read Andersen’s book, which [...]