In my career in advertising and publishing, I have reviewed the portfolios of a thousand professional writers, but only a handful of these writers would have been capable of having a written a book as stylish as Dreams. I have also written a book on intellectual fraud, Hoodwinked, and examined any number of bogus biographies. Obama's ascent seems to follow a century-old pattern.
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read moreAs the lead federal prosecutor of the Weathermen in the 1970s (I was then chief of the criminal division in the Eastern District of Michigan and took over the Weathermen prosecution in 1972), I am amazed and outraged that Senator Barack Obama is being linked to William Ayers's terrorist activities 40 years ago when Mr. Obama was, as he has noted, just a child.
proposing a 90-day moratorium on home foreclosures at some banks and a two-year tax break for businesses that create new jobs.
read moreThe offensive new vogue in cable TV talking points goes something like this: Wall Street is melting down because the government forced banks to make loans to poor people -- especially poor minorities.
They claim that the entire weight of the global financial collapse rests on the shoulders of unqualified poor, minority borrowers who got loans as a form of economic affirmative action
www.sfgate.com>Obama has 8,482.
McCain has 16.
On Saturday, John McCain's campaign said he'd be introducing "a bold new economic agenda" on Monday. By Sunday he'd changed course again. The result: Sorry, folks, no "bold new economic agenda." Erratic? Confused? Out to lunch? Lost in the strawberry patch?
Did you realize that we conservatives got all we wanted and that's what screwed up just about everything, from hurricanes and Iraq to the global financial meltdown?
Barack Obama says he will give 95 percent of all American workers a tax cut but does not mention that his plan would send checks to tens of millions of tax filers who pay no personal income taxes - payments that critics say look "suspiciously like welfare".
The world's governments will fail to meet their agreed target of curbing biodiversity loss by 2010, according to experts questioned by BBC News.
read moreRight on schedule.
Venezuela's daily oil production has fallen by a quarter since President Hugo Chavez won power, depriving his "Bolivarian Revolution" of much of the benefit of the global boom in oil prices.
Posted by Kim Priestap
Published: October 11, 2008 - 9:14 PM
ACORN's voter fraud has been broken wide open now that its offices in Nevada were raided and a about a dozen other states are now investigating voter fraud and ACORN's role in it. Well here's Barack Obama in a video telling ACORN and others that should he win the presidency they will help him shape his presidential agenda.
Princeton economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman won the Nobel economics prize on Monday for his analysis of how economies of scale can affect trade patterns and the location of economic activity.
read moreSenior members of the Republican party are in open mutiny against John McCain's presidential campaign, after a disastrous period which has seen Barack Obama solidify his lead in the opinion polls.
John McCain, who admitted on Sunday that "the economy has hurt us a little bit in the last week or two," is desperately trying to turn the political page.
