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‘Ayers Played Cyrano to Obama’s Christian’

By | 06.29.09 | 8:53 am

Conservative author Jack Cashill has been diligently working to find connections between the collected works of former Weatherman Bill Ayers and President Obama’s first memoir, “Dreams From My Father” — a strange accusation that gathered some steam in the final fevered weeks of the 2008 election, and one that More…

The Washington Times Asks Bill Ayers if He Wrote Obama’s First Book

By | 05.20.09 | 10:36 am

Kerry Picket of The Washington Times trekked to Baltimore to hear former Weatherman Bill Ayers speak yesterday and sparked an exchange that the paper is teasing on its op-ed page with a lot of huffing about Ayers’s terrorist past (“His radicalism and chosen profession bring to mind Oscar Wilde’s More…

Reader, Meet Author

By | 01.21.09 | 5:51 pm

This, from top conservative blogger (he won an award for his stuff at last year’s CPAC) Ace of Spades, threw me a little. Ace is agog at Garrison Keillor’s praise for Barack Obama as the “first genuine author-president.”

He doesn’t elaborate, but seems to forget more accomplished “author-presidents.” Presidents who

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Obama Claps Back With Keating Five

By | 10.06.08 | 11:38 am

When the McCain campaign announced this weekend that it would start attacking Sen. Barack Obama via guilt by association, peddling smears about people he barely knows, I thought the tack would lead to the Keating Five.  But I didn’t know it would happen this quickly.