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Harvard University Professor Alan Dershowitz is warning that Media Matters could hurt President Obama's 2012 campaign just like Rev. Jeremiah Wright did four years ago.   

Frank Rich, the Award-winning journalist, recently explored the personal influence of Romney's Mormon faith and its political significance in his presidential run. In a New York Magazine piece entitled, "Who in God's Name Is Mitt Romney?", Rich interviews ...  

This would be a huge gaffe - if it were ever given wide publication. David Axelrod, as canny and smart as any political operative who has ever worked for a national campaign, has inexplicably resurrected Rev. Jeremiah Wright and brought him back ...  

David Axelrod, chief political strategist for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign and former White House political adviser, defended Jeremiah Wright on Tuesday evening in a speech in Thousand Oaks, CA. Axelrod described the initial news reports in 2008 on Obama’s long-time family pastor and mentor as “ninety seconds of vitriol plucked from thirty years of sermons by some enterprising opposition researcher.” The claim that Wright’s...  

Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul’s foreign policy outlook isn’t so dissimilar to that of President Obama’s long-time pastor and mentor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, says Washington Post editorial writer Charles Lane. On “Fox News Sunday ...  

The war is still on to be fought – the war for freedom, justice and equality for all. And fighting it requires leaning on the word of God, according to the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, pastor emeritus of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of ...  

Most had little interest in holding Barack Obama responsible for the actions of his Pastor, Jeremiah Wright, because they believed Obama ... like trying to support their families. Kevin Kervick is a social entrepreneur and freelance writer.  

Obama’s Chief Political Strategist doubles down on Jeremiah Wright | Wizbang Amazing that they would not only bring up Jeremiah Wright but actually defend the man and his hatred. Cantaloupe sized I’m telling ya. The antidote to this bullshit is … Continue reading →  

If this Facebook session is any indication, the book matches Kantor’s previous promotional coverage of the First Couple. On Facebook Kantor describes the First Lady as someone “with important ideas of her own about opportunity, access ...  

Former Air Force lecturer Robert Pape and Ron Paul's foreign policy are under attack from those who refuse to learn the motivation for 9/11 and who ignore the real threat that only Paul understands by Evan Mazur (libertarian) Tuesday, January 10, 2012 ...  

Where does Ron Paul get his anti-Israel ideas? Apparently from a University of Chicago professor named Robert Pape.But where did Paul get this idea? We learn exactly from whom in the next paragraph:Robert Pape has extensively researched this issue and goes in depth in his book “Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It.” In fact, of 2,200 incidents of suicide  

It's odd David Axelrod is so excited to see the attacks on Mitt Romney's business career in the Republican primary, considering that four years ago, the early airing of another emotional issue in the primaries was expected to stop Axelrod's own candidate, Barack Obama. Axelrod told old The New York Times' Jackie Calmes Thursday that Romney won't get valuable practice in responding to his rivals ...  

How much of Pastor Jeremiah Wright's race-based "theology" does Barack Obama really share? In 2008 America elected a president whose pastor for 20 years preached anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, advocated bizarre pseudo-scientific racial ideas, opposed interracial marriage, praised communist dictatorships, denounced black "assimilation," and taught Afrocentric feel-good nonsense to schoolchildren. When Americans discovered the Rev. Jeremiah...  

Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) is surging in the polls, but that doesn't prevent Zo from telling you why he isn't supporting this Texas congressman's presidential bid. Hear more. (Video at link)  

Jack and Judy Payne of Zeeland announce the engagement of their daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Payne, to William Allen Boes, son of Wayne Boes of Grand Haven and Karen Bunnell of Ann Arbor. The couple is planning a June 16, 2012 wedding.