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Well, it didn’t take long, did it? Folks, many of us warned you that Barack Obama’s past involvements with rabid Marxists and leftist groups were no coincidence or mere juvenile flirtations. From the new Obama website America Serves “When you choose to serve — whether it’s your nation, your community or simply your... »

Before the fateful second House vote, let’s review “how we got here” — which is essential to know, if we are not to repeat the same mistakes again. From economist Russell Roberts in today’s Wall Street Journal: Beginning in 1992, Congress pushed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to increase their purchases of mortgages going to low... »

To: Charles Gibson, ABC News Dear Mr. Gibson: As a professional journalist and editor, I am gravely disappointed by ABC’s various broadcasts of excerpts from your interviews with Governor Sarah Palin. I do not criticize your tough questioning of the governor — that’s a journalist’s job — although I found factual errors embedded in some of your... »

Okay, I’ve now watched ABC’s Sarah Palin interview excerpts on “Nightline” Thursday night, plus two more segments broadcast on “Good Morning America” today (Friday). A clear pattern has emerged: ABC’s heavy-handed editing is lifting Palin’s replies to questions out of context in order to undercut their coherence and substance. Why do I say that? Because... »

It’s the feeling you get in an earthquake. It’s also the feeling you get when the unexpected happens, rocking your world metaphorically. Like, when you, God’s Gift to the World, are comfortably leading your moral and intellectual inferiors in all the political polls — but suddenly find yourself trailing, while everyone runs off to worship a... »

Perhaps the most reassuring message coming out of South Carolina’s Republican Primary on Saturday is that presidential contender Mike Huckabee’s loss to John McCain puts a final, symbolic nail in the coffin of what has been called “the religious right.” Even in a state loaded with self-described evangelical and “born-again” Christians (60% of... »

Robert Bidinotto is editor-in-chief of The New Individualist, a monthly magazine of culture and politics (www.newindividualist.com). This review appears on his blog: http://bidinotto.journalspace.com. Let me officially and publicly swallow words of worry that I wrote based on what turns out to be highly inaccurate advance news reports about the “feminization” of James Bond in... »