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That's what Barack Obama and his literary agents thought: Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii." The booklet, which was distributed to "business colleagues" in the publishing industry, includes a brief …
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When there's tax money on the table: Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again. It used to be conventional wisdom that liberals were unpatriotic, after their performance during the …
I recently came across a fascinating book entitled The Handbook of Palestine by H.C. Luke and E. Keith-Roach. Produced in 1922 by the British Mandate government which had just taken control of the country after a long Ottoman Turkish rule, it's a fascinating snapshot of the Holy Land beginning its transition to the State of …
I had a hard time properly verbalising this until I saw the following in Peking (This Beautiful World) by the Japanese author Hikotaro Ando. Produced in the immediate wake of the Cultural Revolution and under obvious supervision of the Chinese Communist Party, in a section on education he said the following: Not only university students, …
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I recently came across a fascinating book entitled The Handbook of Palestine by H.C. Luke and E. Keith-Roach. Produced in 1922 by the British Mandate government which had just taken control of the country after a long Ottoman Turkish rule, it's a fascinating snapshot of the Holy Land beginning its transition to the State of …
It's conventional wisdom that we are a deeply divided nation these days. And the conventional wisdom, for once, is right: we are. Where things diverge is the explanation for same. Although day-to-day politics are one thing, the divides we experience these days run deeper that "go along to get along" or the horse-trading of patronage …
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A few days back I commented on Elizabeth Warren's claim that she's Native American. Since then we've had the piece at Breitbart which shows that a) her claimed Native American ancestor wasn't and b) another ancestor helped round up the Cherokees for their sad journey to Oklahoma. This has thrown her campaign into a tizzy. …
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This business about Massachusetts senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren's Cherokee heritage is getting out of hand: Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, fending off questions about whether she used her Native American heritage to advance her career, said today she enrolled herself as a minority in law school directories for nearly a decade because she hoped to …
Nobody--yet--is thinking about this as things develop: In an article in the current National Journal called "The Post Al Qaida Era," I write that the Obama administration is taking a new view of Islamist radicalism. The president realizes he has no choice but to cultivate the Muslim Brotherhood and other relatively "moderate" Islamist groups emerging …
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Oh, yes he should have: Clashes between supporters of two prominent Shi'ite clerics in Iraq have spread from Nasiriya in the southern province of Dhi Kar to other parts of the country, as Baghdad struggles to calm tensions between them. The trouble began on February 17, when a recently-opened office of Shi'ite cleric Mahmoud al-Hasani …
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