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July 2009

Democrats are tripping over the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not born in Hawaii and that there is a cover-up by Hawaiian state officials, among others, who falsely have issued a "certificate of live birth." On the one hand, Democrats and supportive blogs push...

One of the joys of blogging under your real name is getting e-mails like this:Mr. Jacobson,You wrote: "While the mainstream media and left-wing blogs constantly tell us that Republicans and conservatives are dead politically, I don't think they actually believe what they are saying."Actually, some...

The meeting at the White House yesterday between Barack Obama, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and James Crowley (with Joe Biden as the fourth wheel) has been dubbed the "Beer Summit." Perhaps a better name would be the Thanksgiving Summit (emphasis mine):Pres. Obama: "I am thankful...

Freddie Med. Never has a phrase better summed up the danger of Democratic plans to have the federal government run the health care system.What Freddie Mac did for mortgages, Freddie Med will do for health care: A politicized system in which political correctness and social...

Blogger and media professor Jeff Cohen argues at HuffPo that the reason Obama's health care plans are failing is that the liberal netroots are not pushing hard enough for a full-blown, nationalized, "single-payer," "one nation, one plan" style medical system: Activists must recognize the surest...

A Democratic pollster is quoted as saying that “this is a president who needs a vacation.” Obama is making a big push on everything all the time, but the polls are moving against him.If Obama were an endurance cyclist, we'd say he was bonking or...

Will Newsweek ever stop trying to get attention by declaring things coming to an end?First it was the end of Christian America. Then the end of the recession. Now the end of monogamy as the basis for socially acceptable relationships, in a lead article captioned:Only...

"Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun," so said Noel Coward.*So must it seem to Barack Obama and the leading Democrats who are trying to force through a vote on health care "reform" without anyone having a fair opportunity to read the...

You know the Democrats are sensing a loss of momentum, and increasing resistance to their plans to ram through changes the American people do not want, because they have brought out the big smear that opposition to Barack Obama is racist.The most pathetic is TPM,...

Gary Margolis, Executive Director of College Mental Health Services and Associate Professor in the English Department at Middlebury College in Vermont was moved to pen a poem in support of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The poem was titled "Ajar" and was published at the Boston...

I have not devoted much attention to the Barack Obama "Birth Certificate" conspiracy theories, because I have been bogged down debunking so many other conspiracy theories, like Andrew Sullivan's Trig Palin birth conspiracy theory and the recent theory that the Bush administration "concealed" evidence as...

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Wendy Murphy, the lawyer for Lucia Whalen, who placed the 911 call which led to the arrest of Henry Louis Gate, Jr., was interviewed tonight on the Greta Van Susteren show. Murphy, speaking for Whalen, stated that Whalen heard Gates screaming at police, but refused...

The Cambridge Police have released the 911 call by Lucia Whalen about a possible break-in at the home of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Here is the complete audio.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg7mHjr_d0c]The interesting part of the call is the caller, Lucia Whalen, is very circumscribed in what...

The big, breaking news of the day on the Henry Louis Gates, Jr. case is that the person who called the police to report a possible break-in, Lucia Whalen, denies that in the phone call she identified the race of the two alleged perpetrators, which...

The global warming debate has entered the conspiracy-theory phase with this hysterical article at The Guardian: Revealed: the secret evidence of global warming Bush tried to hide.Contrary to what the global-warming alarmists claim, however, there is scientific dispute over ice measurements.What is not lacking, however,...

The proper ending to the controversy over the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. should not be an apology or a sit down for beer at the White House. This no longer is a private affair, so Prof. Gates' desire to "move on,"...

The Congressional Budget Office once again has poked a massive hole in the Democratic health care "reform" bubble, in a report issued today.One of the key elements of the Democratic proposals is to hand over the power to make cost cuts to an unelected, unimpeachable...