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Obama, we hardly know ye

By Roger Kimball | July 30th, 2009

Sick of the Obama birth certificate wheeze? Me too. National Review has an excellent editorial about the subject here.
And yet, and yet . . . When it comes to Obama, mendacity is never far behind. Andy McCarthy has a must-read piece responding to that NR editorial and making the key point that the [...]

The Idiot’s Guide to Historical Revisionism. Chapter 18: Smile when you take that chip off your shoulder

By Roger Kimball | July 28th, 2009

They almost got away with it. Professor Henry Louis Gates and President Obama, I mean. As late as yesterday afternoon, I thought they were on the threshold of transforming an enormous embarrassment into a a public relations coup.
I suppose they still might succeed. The President is not stupid. He had hardly finished declaring that the [...]

Calibrating Your Equivocation

By Roger Kimball | July 25th, 2009

I am as sick of the Henry-Louis-Gates-Sgt.-Crowley-Obama triangle as anyone. I hope they’ll soon convene at the White House for that beer Sgt. Crowley recommended and patch up the whole mess. Advice to Professor Gates: refrain from acting on your offer to “educate” Sgt. Crowley about the history of racism in America: the sort of [...]

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