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• Thirteen Ideas for the 2013 GOP, by Patrick Reddy. Advice for a directionless party.
• Navy SEAL who wrote American Sniper Murdered at Charity Event in Texas, by Ed Driscoll. Chris Kyle, 38, the most lethal sniper in US history, had 160 confirmed kills in Iraq. He was shot on Saturday at a shooting range, apparently by a fellow vet, who was reported to be possibly suffering from PTSD.
• The UN Bigotry Machine, by Claudia Rosett. Still obsessively savaging Israel …
• The 3 Best Monty Python Sketches (Aren’t Necessarily the Funniest), by Kathy Shaidle. Monty Python saved my life. Their best sketches stand up today because they’re such accurate portraits of human nature.
• A Hill To Fight On — Not a Desk to Die Under, by Michael Walsh.
• For once, the battle over the Second Amendment is a fight conservatives can actually win. More: Is the NRA Winning the Influence Battle?
• What Near-Death Experiences Tell Us, by P. David Hornik. What happens when science demonstrates consciousness can exist outside the body?
• Muhammad Morsi’s Islamic Jew-Hatred, Bernard Lewis’ Islamic Negationism, by Andrew G. Bostom. Why do the media’s Middle East pundits ignore the Jew-hatred intrinsic to Islamic doctrine?
• Modern Democratic ‘Fire-Eaters,’ by Clayton E. Cramer. The outrageous rhetoric and threats coming from some Democrats demonstrate the necessity of the Second Amendment.

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• California at Twilight, by Victor Davis Hanson. The soft apartheid of a once-Golden State.
• Another Private Company Announces Plans to Mine Asteroids, by Rand Simberg. Deep Space Industries go beyond mining to include space-based manufacturing.
• Game Show Prizes in the Obama Era, by Andrew Klavan. I can’t wait for the American Idol spin-off Sing for Your Supper, in which the most talented young people in the country perform their hearts out for a crust of
• ‘Free of Party Ideology or Partisan Bias’ by Ed Driscoll. The New Republic, the home of center-left politics for decades, says it’s now neutered of its ideology? Uh-huh.
• Who Is John Kerry Trying to Kid? By Robert Spencer. At this point there is no reason whatsoever for the U.S. to continue to send billions of taxpayer dollars to Pakistan.
• Whittaker Chambers: Taking Freedom’s Part, Irritating Everybody in the Process, by Lauren Weiner. Ronald Reagan could quote from memory the first pages of the foreword to Witness.
• Please Let This Happen: Hillary 2016 Super Pac Launched, by Stephen Kruiser. What difference does it make?
• Obama Readies Unilateral Move on Cybersecurity, by Rodrigo Sermeño.Even with a new Congress in session, the president will argue that lawmakers aren’t moving fast enough.

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• Are Obama and Rubio That Far Apart on Immigration Reform? By Bill Straub. And are Republicans racing to get to a comprehensive plan first?
• Descendants of Apes, Pigs, And the Devil You Know, by Roger Kimball. The line of the day, from Andrew McCarthy…
• Shocked! Shocked! By Human Rights Violations in North Korea, by Claudia Rosett. The UN finally notices a totalitarian hellhole. What, if anything, happens next?
• 5 Things My Dogs Taught Me About Human Beings, by John Hawkins. You can learn a lot from a dog.
• Far from Complete: Great Books Missing in the Kindle Format, by Ed Driscoll. Here’s my personal wish list. What’s yours?

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• Our Old Grand Fantasies About Radical Islam, by Victor Davis Hanson. The Obama administration’s therapeutic approach to the War on Terror.
• Best Thing Ever To Emerge from a Celebrity Trip to North Korea, by Claudia Rosett. The latest Bill Richardson expedition to Pyongyang did produce one pleasant surprise.
• Proof of Heaven Isn’t… Still… by Andrew Klavan. I found the book oddly believable.
• The Next Target of Leftists: Talk Radio, by Roger Kimball. Why? Because it represents an independent source of opinion.
• Study Indicts New York Times for Anti-Israel Bias, by Ricki Hollander. The “paper of record” and its pro-Palestinian slanted coverage.
• The Society of St. Pius X and Antisemitism, by Jeanette Pryor. How “good” people compartmentalize evil.

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• Message from Mali: Keep Fracking, America! By Roger L Simon. Start fracking, over here. Stop sending money to basket case nations, over there.
• Liestrong, by Ed Driscoll. Lance Armstrong’s acolytes bullied the press into silence. And he’s far from the first athlete whose PR flacks have done so.
• Extreme Constitution Makeover: Amendments of the New Congress, by Bridget Johnson. From removing presidential term limits to tweaking the First Amendment to make sure it doesn’t apply to businesses.
• Murdered Diplomacy: Israel-Palestinian Conflict Enters New Stage, by Barry Rubin. Two decades of fragile diplomacy are gone. Is anyone paying attention?
• Can Kicked on Farm Bill, Leaving Ag Advocates Disappointed, by Fallon Forbush. One year extension crammed into fiscal cliff deal with many issues still hanging in the air.
• Does ‘Gun Show Loophole’ Actually Result in Gun Crime? By Clayton E. Cramer. Statistics do not point to criminals using this tactic.
• Grown Men Don’t Read Comic Books: Here’s an Alternative (That Might Just Save America), by Kathy Shaidle. Looking for a superhero? Try your first president.

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• 2013: The Year To Strike a Blow Against Climate Alarmism, by Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris. The next UN climate report will be released this year. Be prepared to refute it.
• Instavision on PJTV: The Singularity: Will Technological Innovation Doom Our Species? By PJTV. Click to watch Glenn Reynolds’ newest video.
• Notes from Atlantis, by Ed Driscoll. Sir Kenneth Clark’s 1969 video history of civilization, from the perspective of a civilization that’s now already history.
• Doomsday Preppers Week 8: Of Castles and Kings, by Bob Owens. The worst part of the “Brent experience” was watching him attempt to train his kids how to shoot.
• Leftism and the Dangers of Modernity, by Michael Widlanski. The futile quest to save us from ourselves.
• Public Highlights Mass Murders, Ignores Most Murders: Racism? By Clayton E. Cramer. Cornel West’s assertion is as simplistic as that of gun control advocates.
• The Worldwide Evolution of Life Expectancy, by Theodore Dalrymple. Life expectancy in Angola, Ethiopia, Niger and Rwanda has increased by 10-15 years since 1990.
• Interview: The History of Epiphone Guitars, by Ed Driscoll. Veteran Gibson historian Walter Carter discusses his latest title, The Epiphone Guitar Book: A Complete History of Epiphone Guitars.
• Obama Authorized U.S. Participation in Botched French Somalia Mission, by Bridget Johnson. U.S. combat aircraft entered Somali airspace in the Friday operation, “in furtherance of U.S. national security interests.”
• Piers Morgan, Filleted, by Roger Kimball. This is CNN, where the Constitution = “Your little book.”
• A Review of David Solway’s The Boxthorn Tree, by P. David Hornik. A masterful look at Israel’s history and current dilemmas.

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• Chris Christie’s Long Game, by Rick Moran. The New Jersey governor looks over the horizon to divine what politics might be like in 2016.
• Payroll Tax Holiday Takes a Permanent Vacation, by Bill Straub. Capitol Hill has no intent of bringing that missing 2 percent back into your paycheck.
• Biden Drafts Gun Agenda While Acknowledging Weak Links to Tragedies, by Bridget Johnson. For each recent shooting, “It’s hard to be able to pinpoint what you could have done to assure it wouldn’t have happened.”
• PJTV: Danny Ayalon, Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel, Discusses Hagel Nomination and More, by Roger L Simon. Click to watch video.
• The New, Media-Numbed Normal, by Tom Blumer. Who do you believe about the economy, the press or your lying eyes?
• Recasting History: Scholarly Study Finds that Race, Class, and Gender Studies Crowd Up University American History Classes, by Bryan Preston. Don’t know much…
• You Say You Want a Revolution, by Michael Walsh. If conservatives seem dispirited after the election, it’s not because we lost — it’s because, unlike Churchill, we didn’t fight.
• Obama’s Treasury Appointment Shows He’s Gearing Up to Pick a Fight, by Rodrigo Sermeño. What Jack Lew lacks in financial experience he has in rankling congressional Republicans. Update: Opposition builds.
• The Top 10 Funniest ‘Right-Sided’ Political Videos of 2012, by Sunny. What’s your favorite?

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• Wind Subsidy Breezes Through Fiscal Cliff Compromise, by Rodrigo Sermeño. The product of “quiet conversations” on the Hill about how to wedge it into the 11th-hour deal.
• Illinois Tax Hikes, Two Years Later: A Failure, by Kyle Stone. The Land of Lincoln is still aflame.
• PJTV’s Afterburner: Rule of Lawlessness, by PJTV. Click to watch Bill Whittle’s latest video.
• Of Complexities, Contradictions and Second Chakras, by Ed Driscoll. How the world’s most prominent environmentalist learned to stop worrying and love Big Oil.
• The 10 Gun Bills Introduced on Day One of the New Congress, by Bridget Johnson. Eight are from Dems. Two are from freshman Republicans who voted against Boehner. Things could get interesting.
• An Iranian-American in Defense of Shahs of Sunset, by Banafsheh Zand. Put your money where you live and let live.
• Moran: Without Government Poking Into Business, We Wouldn’t Have the Bar Code, by Bridget Johnson, Decries “Ayn Rand’s virtue of selfishness” and declares “E. Pluribus Unum.”

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• Are Young Black Men Rejecting Obama?  By Walter Hudson. One stat suggests so.
• Gun Crazy II, by Michael Walsh. When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
• #MyJihad: CAIR’s New Twitter Campaign to Whitewash Islam, by Robert Spencer. “The Islamic state, whose principal function was to put God’s law into practice, sought to establish Islam as the dominant reigning ideology over the entire world…” — Majid Khadduri.
• Knowing Chuck Hagel from His Supporters and His Opponents, by Ron Radosh. Getting to know the possible nominee for secretary of Defense by listening to friend and foe.
• Obama’s Middle East Mess, by Jaime Daremblum. He has seriously damaged U.S. credibility and influence.
• Remembering Judge Bork, by Andrew C. McCarthy. Bork was a trailblazer of “originalism,” the theory that judges must construe the Constitution in accordance with what it was understood to mean at the time of its adoption.
• Robert H. Bork, 1927-2012, by Michael Ledeen. He maintained his fabulous intellect to the end. See also Roger Kimball’s tribute.
• Will GOPs Back Jindal’s Push to Put the Pill OTC? By Bridget Johnson. The Louisiana governor’s controversial proposal to banish “birth control politics” has both the left and right a little dizzy.
• Are Banks that Violate Sanctions Getting Off with Slaps on the Wrist? By Rodrigo Sermeño. By the DoJ forging cash settlements instead of prosecuting, the government is still able to do business with the guilty firms.
• Disgraceful: Obama Invokes Newtown Massacre to Pressure Republicans to Go Along with His Tax Hikes, by Bryan Preston. Perspective.
• Saving Souls, the Amazing Musicorps, by Michael Ledeen. Musicorps is a program that gives (often very severely) wounded combat veterans the opportunity to play music.
• 8 Great Last Minute Christmas Gifts for Children, by J. Christian Adams. These classic books belong in every family’s library.

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• Newtown, Beslan, Ma’alot: Defending The Targeted School, by Abraham H. Miller. Soft targets will always be attractive to the murderous.
• Interview: Roger L. Simon and Sheryl Longin on The Party Line, by Ed Driscoll. Meet Walter Duranty: Perhaps the first journalist to keep the news to himself — but certainly not the last.
• Modern Wisdom from Ancient Minds, by Victor Davis Hanson. You can’t stop aging, Nancy.
• Why You Should Take the 2012 Apocalypse Seriously, by Walter Hudson. The world may not end, but our way of life is certainly under threat.
• What’s Gun-Control Proponents’ Next Move After Sandy Hook? By Bridget Johnson. Obama says he’s game for “change,” but stops short of elaborating. Congressional Dems are planning on pushing him.
• Democratically, Egypt Becomes Anti-Western Dictatorship, by Barry Rubin. And the West plays along.

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• Cory Booker’s Food Stamp Falsehoods, by Tom Blumer. Cynical political opportunism.
• The Road to Damascus, by Richard Fernandez. The Syrian debacle is a reminder that the Obama administration never misses and opportunity to miss an opportunity.
• The Face of the Enemy, by Andrew Klavan. Whether or not the devil exists, the world behaves exactly as if he does.
• Bloomberg Uses Tragedy to Tell the 99% How to Live, by Howard Nemerov. Baron Bloomberg says gun control will make us safer. The question remains: Safer for whom?
• Everything You Think You Know About Autism Is Wrong, by Bookworm. Meet Ido (pronounced “Ee-doh”) Kedar, a 16-year old young man who has written about his journey from isolation to communication in Ido in Autismland: Climbing Out of Autism’s Silent Prison.
• 5 Moral Boundaries You Do Not Want To Cross, by John Hawkins. “Man is the cruelest animal.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Doomsday Preppers Week 5: Hot Sauce and Helicopters, by Bob Owens. There has been a trend this season towards Doomsday Prepper Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, and Bob Kay fits the mold.
• Libertarian Party: Repeal Law Designating Schools as ‘Gun-Free Zones,’ by Bridget Johnson. Party contends law keeping adult staff from carrying has turned campuses into an “open killing field.”
• If the Second Amendment Is to Blame for Mass Murder, Then so Is the First, by Helen Smith. Do we get rid of both?
• Why J.R.R. Tolkien’s Enduring Popularity Is a Cause for Hope in Our Popular Culture, by David P. Goldman. The young soldier-scholar of World War I viewed the uncertain fate of European nations through the mirror of the Dark Ages, when the life of small peoples hung by a thread.

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• Aristotle, Curiosity, and the Mainstream Media, by Roger Kimball. Aristotle taught that “All men by nature desire to know.” The MSM’s radio silence on Benghazi proves him wrong.
• How Realistic Are Golden Spike’s Plans? By Rand Simberg. The company’s proposed lunar mission will depend on whether investors have confidence in its plans.
• Is a Second Stimulus Around the Corner? By Bill Straub. With ranges from $200 billion to $600 billion, McConnell said Obama appears to believe voters will “magically forget that government spending is completely out of control.”
• Morsi Staggers Referendum on Constitution, by Andrew C. McCarthy. The road to sharia.
• Exposing Joseph Stalin’s Media Apologist, by Bryan Preston. A first look at The Party Line.
• Assault in Lansing: Leftist Blogs Go Into ‘False Flag’ Mode, Mainstream Media Goes Silent, by Bryan Preston. Monolithic silence encourages violence.
• U.S. Stumbles on Palestinian Statehood Vote, by Stephen Bryen and Shoshana Bryen.
• Dire consequences that could have been avoided with a strong U.S. presence at the United Nations.
• Battle for Damascus Begins, by Jonathan Spyer. But the Syrian civil war is far from over.
• Palestinian Fantasy Land, by Jaime Daremblum. The UN statehood vote emboldened Hamas and severely damaged the peace process. (You can read this article in Spanish here.)
• The 5 Most Overrated Pop Culture Heroines, by Leslie Loftis. The heroes who just happen to be women.

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• ‘Mind Your Own Beeswax!’: How Social Conservatives Can Win By Losing, by Roger L Simon. On gay marriage, it’s the fourth quarter, the score is about 80-0 and you’re on the your own five yard line with two minutes to go.
• A $12 Minimum Wage in Retail? By Tom Blumer. A lefty organization tries to repeal supply and demand
• Conservative Stockholm Syndrome, by Mary Grabar. Republicans need to shake off the false guilt and false reality that they have been imprisoned by.
• The Truth About Who Really Murdered Yasir Arafat, by Barry Rubin. The Middle East is, of course, the place where conspiracy theories abound. Yet what can one say of those in the West who swallow every slander against Israel?
• Feinstein, Tea Party Sen. Lee Wage War on Obama’s Indefinite Detention Powers, by Bridget Johnson. Their top lieutenant? Rand Paul, who’s threatening filibuster and warns Americans on the right could be in the government’s sights.
• Rice Hill Tour, Day 2: The Terrain’s Getting Rougher, by Bridget Johnson. GOPs leave meetings with her less impressed, more doubtful than before.
• Washington Post Goes Full Bigot, by Bob Owens. The paper prints an editorial suited for the Dearborn Independent.
• Your Wednesday Dose of Doom and Gloom, by Stephen Green. Greece is the word that you heard. It’s got a groove, it’s got a feeling, it’s got…hyperinflation.
• Mies van der Rohe: Creating the Architectural Language of 20th Century America, by Ed Driscoll. A review of Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition by Franz Schulze and Edward Windhorst.

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• Twilight Struggles, Then and Now: A Review of The Party Line, by Bruce Bawer. Walter Duranty meets Pim Fortuyn and Aleister Crowley in the new play by Sheryl Longin and Roger L. Simon, with a foreword by Ron Radosh.
• Announcing THE PARTY LINE, by Roger L Simon. From Moscow to — with a little luck and your help — Broadway.
• Marco Rubio and the Progressive Atheist Orthodoxy, by Paula Bolyard. “How old do you think the Earth is?”
• The Reality of Living as a Gay Man in Egypt, by Robert Wargas. That someone like Gloria Steinem is still considered an appropriate choice to pronounce on human rights is one of the reasons why the Arab Spring Dreams of this book’s title may remain unrealized.
• Aw Shucks, Why Not Let the UN Control the Internet? By Claudia Rosett. Look at the bright side: letter-writing could make a comeback.
• A Closer Look at Hispanic Voting Trends, by Patrick Reddy. From now on, both parties have a new priority.
• 7 Principles That Will Guarantee Constant Misery, by John Hawkins. Being unhappy takes a lot of work!

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• Rob Long, James Lileks, and Roman Genn, from the 2012 National Review Cruise, by Ed Driscoll. Our final interviews recorded onboard the NR Cruise focus on conservatives and pop culture.
• Instavision on PJTV: Michael Barone on Why So Many Failed to Predict the Reelection of Obama, by PJTV. Click to watch video.
• Why Oliver Stone Will Not Be a Happy Man this Weekend, by Ron Radosh. The New York Times obliterates the filmmaker’s recycled Marxist version of history.
• News Flash: Egypt’s Islamist President Assumes Dictatorial Powers, by Barry Rubin. Another step in the process toward the fundamental transformation of Egypt into an Islamist, Sharia-ruled state.
• A Physician’s New Reality: Patients Ask Me to Break the Law, by Dr. Peter Weiss. Ironically, but expectedly, the ones who do this now are likely to have supported Obamacare.
• Breaking the Monopoly of the Mainstream (Conservative) Media, by David P. Goldman. Is the intellectual bankruptcy of the “Muslim democracy” project coming into clarity yet?
• The Ideological Underpinnings of the Tax Rate Debate, by Rand Simberg. One side supports “growth” while the other side supports “social justice.”
• PJTV’s Trifecta: Will the GOP Allow Obama to Raise Taxes on the Rich? By PJTV. Click to watch video.

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• As the Benghazi Plot Thickens, Congress Must Not Get Sidetracked, by Andrew C. McCarthy. A three-ring circus of distractions, follies, and false narratives.
• Interview: Victor Davis Hanson on the 2012 Presidential Election, by Ed Driscoll. Checking in with VDH on the state of the culture, conservatism, California, and Obama.
• Los Angeles Following in the Footsteps of Detroit, by Jack Dunphy. The long, slow, steady decline of a once-great city.
• Letters of Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Security Council, by Claudia Rosett. “Another day. Another rocket. Not one word from the Security Council.”
• House Aims to Block UN Arms Trade Treaty Implementation, by Bridget Johnson. Members are fearful that Obama’s post-election amenability to the treaty puts Americans’ Second Amendment rights in danger.
• 4 Thoughts on Conservatism’s Future, by Ron Radosh. All we need are individuals and candidates who can explain carefully and logically why the Left’s policies are harmful and wrong for the nation.
• The Cult That Plans to Kill You, by Jeanette Pryor. Part IV of PJ Lifestyle’s ongoing series Cults: The Mind Enslaved by ex cult-member Jeanette Pryor.
• The Surrealistic States of America, by Roger Kimball. Enoch Powell’s career-destroying prescience.
• PJTV: Israel vs. Hamas: Israeli Consul General David Siegel Gives His Take on the Violence, by Roger L Simon. Click to watch video.

The Gospel According to Apostle Barack – A Real Book Title

Seriously, this book entitled The Gospel According to Apostle Barack: In Search of a More Perfect Political Union as “Heaven Here on Earth” is not a joke. It is just an incredibly sacrilegious and downright embarrassing book given that its author, Barbara A. Thompson, is a professor at Florida A & M University.

Pity her poor students who are going into hock to attend her classes.  Now I fear even more for the future of our nation if this is the kind of manure students are hearing from their professors.

The book’s premise is God spoke to Professor Thompson, telling her that Apostle Barack Obama’s 155 speeches made between February 10, 2007 and January 20, 2009 had the answers to unlock the kingdom of “heaven here on earth.”

This book was written to be taken seriously but I find “God’s words” to Ms. Thompson totally laughable.

Get ready for more books discussing Obama’s legacy, real or imagined, from both a divine and human perspective.  All I know is that it is going to be a very long four years.

In case you were wondering if there is any sanity remaining among Americans in light of President Obama’s reelection, read the customer reviews at the end of this piece.  This one is my favorite:

I know Jesus, Jesus is a savior of mine. You sir (Obama), are no Jesus, or an apostle of Jesus.

Now, the following information about the book and author was taken directly from the Amazon purchase page.  I decided not to edit what appears on Amazon because I wanted to give Tatler readers the full flavor of the book’s content and the author’s intentions so that you would not waste your time and money buying or reading it.

Warning: Read these descriptions at your own risk especially if you did not vote for our “Apostle” president because I guarantee your blood pressure will rise to unsafe levels.

Book Description

Publication Date: July 31, 2012

Yes, Barack had worked tirelessly on behalf of the American people, especially those who elected him in 2008. His followers needed to re-elect him to a second term, so that he could continue to accomplish the promises he made, thus, realizing his vision of America as a more perfect political union or “heaven here on earth.”

Then, as I began to contemplate ways to assist Barack in his 2012 re-election bid something miraculous happened. I felt God’s (His) Spirit beckoning me in my dreams at night. Listening, cautiously, I learned that Jesus walked the earth to create a more civilized society, Martin (Luther King) walked the earth to create a more justified society, but, Apostle Barack, the name he was called in my dreams, would walk the earth to create a more equalized society, for the middle class and working poor. Apostle Barack, the next young leader with a new cause, had been taken to the mountaintop and allowed to see over the other side. He had the answers to unlock the kingdom of “heaven here on earth” for his followers. The answers were repeated – over and over – in speeches Barack had made from his presidential announcement to his inaugural address. Those speeches or his teachings contained the answers to the middle class and working poor people living in a “heaven here on earth.” For when the answers were unlocked and enacted, Apostle Barack’s vision of America would be realized.

 About the Author

Barbara A. Thompson is a native of Tallahassee, Florida, with graduate degrees from Florida A&M University and Florida State University. She has been teaching for more than twenty-five years at the university level with experience in the areas of health, physical education and sport management. She is a professor at Florida A&M University, a former assistant vice president for academic affairs, past president of her university’s chapter of United Faculty of Florida, a graduate of the National Education Association’s Emerging Leader Academy and a two-time recipient of the Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers Award.

The Gospel According to Apostle Barack: In Search of a More Perfect Political Union as Heaven Here on Earth, her first work of nonfiction was inspired solely for the desire and the goal of re-electing Barack Obama, Jr. to a second term as President of the United States. The words contained in this manuscript were extracted from one hundred and fifty-five (155) speeches Barack made between February 10, 2007 and January 20, 2009. It is the intent of the Author to offer this manuscript as a guide to the President’s followers in their formulation of re-election focus groups based on the percepts espoused herein. Further, it is the intent of the Author to utilize the materials contained in the speeches as a means of teaching Apostle Barack’s followers about him and guiding them towards understanding “politics as religion” and “religion as politics” The manuscript would also serve as a guide for his followers – to unlock the answers – to creating and living in the reality of a middle class lifestyle that was so economically and ethically sound that it appeared to be “heaven here on earth.” Barbara, a newcomer to politics, enjoys writing in her leisure. She has been married to her husband, Willie for over thirty years. The Thompsons have one adult son, Gibran.

 Customer Reviews

“ Well, once you read the title you can guess how bad the book is going to be. ” Booker T. Reader  |  4 reviewers made a similar statement

“ “Beware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep but are really vicious wolves.” ” KthomasVA  |  1 reviewer made a similar statement

“ You sir (Obama), are no Jesus, or an apostle of Jesus. ” Joseph  |  1 reviewer made a similar statement

Are you OK?

I warned you didn’t I?

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• Dramanoids Deployed for Maryland’s Gay Marriage Campaign, by Lauren Weiner. Mine is no longer the clear majority view – and it certainly never was among my fellow homosexuals.
• Hating Breitbart, Race, and Election 2012, by Roger L Simon. Let’s go out and win this one for Andrew.

For Men, Little Due Process on the College Campus

I have been reading Greg Lukianoff’s new book Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate on the violations of free speech on campus. The book goes beyond free speech to show how campuses are making criminals out of students who have done no wrong. In one chapter, Lukianoff looks at the lack of due process in sex cases on campus and finds that sexual harassment now includes “the broadest possible range of everyday activities” and makes us all guilty of sexual harassment. Campus judiciaries “have been pressured to lower due process standards for those accused of sexual assault and to broaden the definition of sexual misconduct.”

Naturally, most of the cases in point in the book are men. One in particular is Caleb Warner who was kicked out of school and banned from every North Dakota state campus for three years after he was found guilty by a campus tribunal of sexually assaulting another student. The police investigated and filed charges against the accuser for filing a false police report about the assault. Warner asked for a rehearing but was denied until FIRE got involved and exposed the University North Dakota in the Wall Street Journal. Imagine sending your son off to college not realizing that he has fewer rights on the college campus than a criminal in your state or federal court. But that’s the reality in today’s PC colleges. Get this book, read it and pass it on to your son as he heads to college. He needs to know what he faces as a male on the college campus.

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• Sandy Now a Hurricane, and a Serious U.S. Threat, by Brendan Loy. Sandy has the potential to be a billion-dollar disaster for the Mid-Atlantic, and could impact the presidential election.
• Mon Dieu! Actual Romney Supporters in France? By Roger L Simon. Why Romney must win: a French perspective, by Philippe Karsenty, et al.
• Polls with Large Voter Samples All Favor Romney; Smaller, Less Reliable Polls All Favor Obama. Why? By Zombie. Romney leads in all polls with over 1000 respondents; Obama leads in polls with fewer than 1000 respondents. Bias, or sloppiness?
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The October Surprise, by Michael Ledeen. Talk — and more talk.

Things I Want to Shout to the World before the Election, by Helen Smith. Building the leftist utopia: Is rent-control and free birth control pills a fair exchange for destroying our children’s future and taking away our liberty?

What Happened to the October Surprise?  By Roger Kimball. Who knows what dirt Gloria Allred is running her hands through.

Bill Clinton Thinks Americans Are ‘Impatient’ for Recovery, by Rick Moran. Gee, Bill. We’ve only been waiting three years.

5 Life Advantages You Acquire from Experiencing Poverty, by John Hawkins. Being poor isn’t as good as being rich, but it’s not all bad either.

Habibi: A Moroccan Poet Sings to His Love, by P. David Hornik. A new book of poems by Canadian poet-essayist and frequent PJM contributor David Solway.

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• It’s Romney’s Race to Lose, by Rick Moran. The Republican must close the sale by offering himself as a credible alternative to Obama.
• Instavision: Is Atlas Shrugging? Job Creators Are Giving Up on the U.S. Economy, by Glenn Harlan Reynolds. Click to watch video.
• Meet Tom Smith, the Farmer and Businessman Who May Seal Pennsylvania’s Transition from Blue to Red, by Bryan Preston. Democrat incumbent is vulnerable.
• Director Andrew Marcus Discusses Hating Breitbart, by Ed Driscoll. Marcus discusses his new documentary on the late Internet impresario, which debuts this weekend.
• Time to Read Ayn Rand? By Keith Lockitch. That copy of Atlas Shrugged has been sitting on your shelf for a while. Time to open it up?
• Why People Now Ignore Paul Krugman, by Roger Kimball. And I suspect that Paul Krugman is going to find his street corner even more lonely in the weeks to come.
• Redirecting Human Organs to the Third World, by Theodore Dalrymple. Hello, can we have your liver and give it to a Jordanian?
• Paranormal Activity 4 Serves Up Enough Spooks for a Satisfying Sequel, by Bridget Johnson. What the horror world needed: another creepy kid.

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• Twilight of the Sort-Of Gods, by Rick Richman. Obama represents a fourth stage of the path begun by Woodrow Wilson.
• Iranian Agent Admits Plot to Kill Saudi Ambassador in D.C., by Barry Rubin. Knowing about such an operation should have been a real game-changer for Obama’s Middle East policy.
• The Secret Life of Willard Mitty, by Zombie. Ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.
• The 20 Creepiest Campaign Emails of the 2012 Season, by Bridget Johnson. Which politician wants to meet you at midnight — and is “asking one last time”?
• Wargaming the Electoral College, by Stephen Green. Firewall? Triage? Ride right through it, no matter what it’s called. Also read: Hey Obama, Your Firewall Is on Fire.
• McCarthyism I Can Support, by Roger Kimball. Constitutionally protected speech can never be legitimized as a cause of violence. Period.
• Homeland’s Implausible Take on Islamic Radicalization, by Teri Blumenfeld. Showtime’s terrorism drama presents a delusional fantasy about the roots of jihad.
• Interview: Author Elizabeth Nickson Discusses her new book, Eco-Fascists, by Ed Driscoll. An MSM journalist gets mugged by the green police.
• Wave of the Present: Newsweek Edition, by Roger Kimball. Legacy Media sees the light.
• It’s Not Just Obama’s Libya Lies — It’s Their Premise, by Andrew C. McCarthy. Government’s only proper role re: the Nakoula film is to protect the right to provoke.

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• The Obama Breaking Point, by Victor Davis Hanson. In the next three weeks, Obama has only three hours left to save his presidency.
• GOP Senate Prospects Still Lagging, by Rich Baehr. Chances dim for a Senate takeover.
• Welcome Back to the Woman Wars, Camille Paglia…, by Leslie Loftis. The return of the “pro-sex, pro-porn, pro-art, pro-beauty, pro-pop” sixties feminist art critic from Philadelphia who can rescue our national cultural conversation.
• Mugged and Ann Coulter Derangement Syndrome, Part 2, by Kathy Shaidle. Arguing with Coulter-haters is futile because their reaction to her is visceral, not logical.
• Romney/Ryan: Missed Debate Opportunities on Social Security, by Tom Blumer. It’s in crisis right now, not decades from now. Also read: Obama to Hit Romney on Bain During Debate.
• Florida Board of Education Thinks Blacks Are Dumber than Whites, by Rick Moran. The establishment of different standards of achievement based on race.
• Biased Against the Bright, by Janice Fiamengo. Grading has fallen victim to the “social justice” mandate of the university.
• Obama Praises ‘Fiercely Independent’ Specter as ‘Never Putting Party’ Ahead of People, by Bridget Johnson. Reaction from the Hill and from less congenial corners.

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• Announcing the Winners of the Inaugural Walter Duranty Prize, by Roger L Simon. Inside, the transcripts from last night’s award ceremony held in New York City by PJ Media and The New Criterion.
• VP Debate: Kid Wonk vs. The Gaffemeister, by Rick Moran. Will youth be served? Or will the cagey veteran pin his young opponent to the mat?
• Director Andrew Marcus Discusses Hating Breitbart, by Ed Driscoll. You can judge a man by his enemies…
• Re-Elect Obama — The Ultimate FAQ, by Frank J. Fleming. Frank J. Fleming answers all your questions about why the president deserves re-election.
• Latest O’Keefe Video Shows Obama Campaign Voter Fraud, by J. Christian Adams. Say this footage of Organizing for America director Stephanie Caballero is just an “isolated incident”… More: Second DNC Voter Fraud Video Hits; House Judiciary Chairman Calls for Firings.
• ‘Security in Benghazi Was a Struggle… Diplomatic Security Remained Weak’, by Bridget Johnson. The Oversight Committee comes back from recess to probe the Sept. 11 attack and encourage official use of the T-word; Dems cry campaign stunt.
• Obama on His Own Middle East Record: Zero Percent Success, by Barry Rubin. Say, if Obama is such a big supporter of America, why does he keep subverting U.S. interests? More: [VIDEO] Watch Jay Carney Dance Over Benghazi.
• Is There a Fix in for the Vice Presidential Debate? By Bryan Preston. Debate moderator has connections to the Obama administration and campaign.
• The Incompetent President, by Richard Fernandez. What Andrew Sullivan saw being pummeled in public last week was the real Obama, not the one who is petulantly withholding his genius.

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• The Real Debate: The Good Father vs. The Abandoned Son, by Roger L Simon. Forget the styrofoam columns of 2008. The face-to-face clash of Obama and Romney is the real stuff of Greek drama.
• Roger Kimball: A Voice in the Cultural Wilderness, by Victor Davis Hanson. Victor Davis Hanson reviews Kimball’s new book, The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia.
• Al Sharpton’s Race Baiting Tour Heads to Virginia on Tuesday, by J. Christian Adams. The MNSBC anchor will take on VA’s voter ID law.
• Why They Love Osama and Hate Obama, and How Obama Uses the Same Tactic at Home, by Barry Rubin. Mob mentality.
• Free Speech, Muhammad’s Character — And Ours, by Andrew G. Bostom. Following violent Muslim reactions to the amateurish Innocence of Muslims video, international and domestic Islamic agendas are openly converging with vehement calls for universal application of Islamic blasphemy law.
• Escaping Cults: The Mind Enslaved, Part II, by Jeanette Pryor. “Did Venus blow your mind? Was it everything you wanted to find? Did you fall from a shooting star and say, did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there?”
• Stunner: Turkey Infiltrating Native American Tribes — and May Get Congressional Help, by Marc J. Fink. Stunner: Islamists select a new target, and a “see no evil” House bill may facilitate the effort.
• Labor Numbers Give Obama Back Some Anti-Mitt Mojo, by Bridget Johnson. PJM covers Obama rally: The president whips up a swing-state crowd with the attack lines — and attitude — he wishes he had on Wednesday.
• Ohio Poll Analyst: Voter Turnout Modeling Predicts Big Ohio Trouble for Obama, by Paula Bolyard. Conventional wisdom turned upside down: massive drops in registered Democrats and independents in Cuyahoga County will be tough for the president to overcome.

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• It’s the Gas Prices, Stupid, by Paula Bolyard. Team Romney needs to get out of the coal weeds and stay focused on the issue that really matters to Ohio voters.
• An Economic Primer: Why Americans Won’t Invest in Themselves, by David P. Goldman. Barack Obama has turned us into our own worst enemies.
• Western Courts Bend to Islamic Practices, by David J. Rusin. Courts that yield to Islamic norms encourage Islamists and cast doubt on the future of equal rights and responsibilities under the law.
• Obama at the UN: The Speech That Had Nothing to Do With Anything, by Barry Rubin. His words did not remotely match the reality of the Middle East (or his record).
• Picture This: Netanyahu’s Clear Red Line Steals the 67th UNGA, by Bridget Johnson. Bibi: “Today, a great battle is being waged between the modern and the medieval.”
• The Five False Assumptions Behind Poll-Skewing , by Zombie. Amateur mass psychology as campaign strategy?
• [VIDEO] Obama Voter Says Vote for Obama Because He Gives Out Free Cell Phones, by Bryan Preston. Takers.
• Crazifornia: How California Is Committing Suicide, by Bookworm. Behold the handiwork of the leftist Rube Goldbergs wasting taxpayer money in the Golden State.

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• Will Dinesh D’Souza Save the World from Obama? By Roger L Simon. The horrifying terror attack in Benghazi alone could serve as the trailer for D’Souza’s 2016: Obama’s America.
• Thank Obama for Russia’s Resurgence, by David P. Goldman. Let’s talk about how to tame the bear, rather than just tease it.
• The Leftist Leviathan, by Janice Fiamengo. David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin expose the new reality of American politics.
• Media to Romney: Stop Telling the Truth, by Andrew Klavan. One more “disastrous” week for Romney and he could win by a landslide!
• Under Obama, Food Stamp Costs Growing Much Faster than Food Stamp Rolls, by Kim Zigfeld. It’s not just the increase in recipients: Obama allows each recipient to receive much more. Can’t blame that on Bush.
• Why There Cannot Be a Decent Left, by Ron Radosh. An answer to Richard Landes.

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• Newton’s First Law of Motion Applied to Political Strategy (With a Brief Excursus on Gaffes), by Roger Kimball. And finally: why there is often much to be said for shooting before you take aim.
• Shame and the Obama Voter, by Andrew Klavan. This November many Democrats of good will are going to betray every value they profess to hold dear because they simply can’t bear to acknowledge the fact that they were wrong.
• How to Commit Voter Fraud in Ohio, by Paula Bolyard. The Buckeye State: where a utility bill counts as acceptable ID.
• More on Eric Holder’s Flying Monkeys at Media Matters, by J. Christian Adams. How did the Department of Justice become so intertwined with one of the most venomous, dishonest, and radical Websites?
• Global Warning: How Gaia Replaced God, by Barbara Kay. A review of frequent PJM contributor David Solway’s new book, Global Warning, Trials of an Unsettled Science.
• Sequestration Intervention? Report Does Little to Spur Action to Avert Cuts, by Bridget Johnson. Republicans decry lack of presidential leadership to avoid onerous defense cuts, while Dems dig in with a tax-the-rich bargaining chip.
• What Really Happened in Egypt and Libya, by Barry Rubin. A simple answer, and a surprising one.
• Nice Guys Finish Last, by Michael Walsh. Glengarry Glen Romney.

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• Obama’s Middle East Delusions, by Victor Davis Hanson. The premodern Middle East and postmodern West don’t mix, Mr. President.
• Interview: Mark Steyn on After America, One Year Later, by Ed Driscoll. Riots in the Middle East? A First Amendment-trampling POTUS? An out of control Federal Reserve? It can only mean that Mark Steyn has a new edition of a book out. (Audio interview with full transcript.)
• Spring Time for Sharia in Araby, by Andrew G. Bostom. A review of PJM columnist Andrew C. McCarthy’s timely and essential Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy.
• Standing with the Oppressed, Until Muslims Are the Oppressors, by Dexter Van Zile. Black liberation theologists and even mainstream Christians get subjective about Islamist-fueled suffering.
• The Muhammad Movie Riots, by Robert Spencer. The latest battle in the Islamic war against the freedom of speech.
• The Truth About the Wave of Anti-American Demonstrations, by Barry Rubin. It’s not about a film. It’s about a struggle for power.
• Spontaneous Uprising or Premeditated Murder? By Roger Kimball. Ambassador Susan Rice continues peddling the administration’s desperate fantasy narrative about the Benghazi attacks.
• If Quentin Tarantino Were President, by Michael Walsh Here’s how he’d probably sort out the Middle East in response to the atrocities in Libya …
• Free Speech for Pussy Riot, but not for Innocence of Muslims, by Rick Moran. Obscene Russian punk rockers more worthy of support?
• 3 Turning Points in the History of Blogging, by Kathy Shaidle. A blogging pioneer picks out three major events that forever changed online (and “dead tree”) media.

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• Tea Party Reaction to Romney-Ryan as Fractured as Movement, by Walter Hudson. Love it or hate it, Romney-Ryan is now the alternative to Obama-Biden. Does the Tea Party have a dog in this hunt?
• Interview: David Gelernter on America-Lite, by Ed Driscoll. How Imperial Academia dismantled our culture, and ushered in the Obamacrats.
• No Peace Between Socons and the Rest of the GOP, by Rick Moran. Mike Huckabee and his allies ignite a party war over the Akin controversy.
• Islamophobic Hysteria Becomes Conventional Wisdom, by Andrew C. McCarthy. Calling the Arab Spring “radical” once made us Islamophobes. Now even the New York Times agrees.
• Increasing Iraq Violence: U.S. Withdrawal to Blame? By Aymenn Jawad. June and July have seen an increase in deaths.
• Who’s Speaking at the RNC and Who, Notably, Isn’t, by Bridget Johnson. The roster leaves off some names that many would associate strongly with the GOP over the past four years — and with the party’s future.
• Niall Ferguson Cleans House at Newsweek, by Roger Kimball. His piece has the Left raging, to whom he has already issued a damning reply.
• If I Were Queen: My First 3 Acts Upon Becoming Your Beloved Empress For Life, by Kathy Shaidle. There’s a saying in recovery: “Don’t let the junky drive the bus.” Here’s what happens if you throw me the keys.

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• Wasserman Schultz, Party Girl, by Jean Kaufman. Who is Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and how did she get to be such a transparent party hack?
• Mitt’s Mea Culpa & Obama’s Waterloo, by Roger Kimball. And people wonder why I predict Romney/Ryan will win by a landslide.
• Paul Ryan, Ayn Rand and the Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged, by Michael Walsh. Oh noes! The MSM discovers that a Catholic Congressman has an affinity for the economic philosophy of one of the 20th century’s best-known atheists.
• MSNBC’s Toure: Romney Is Engaging in ‘Niggerization’ of Obama (Updated), by Bryan Preston. Race troll.
• Mitt’s Mea Culpa & Obama’s Waterloo, by Roger Kimball. And people wonder why I predict Romney/Ryan will win by a landslide.
• Why Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, and Truman Capote All Failed to Write the Great American Novel, by Bruce Bawer. It’s not a coincidence all three befriended murderers.
• Poll Analysis: Paul Ryan Pick a Big Winner, by Rich Baehr. A shifting landscape.
• Troubling Questions About al-Awlaki, Fort Hood after ‘Misleading’ FBI Testimony, by Bridget Johnson. The chairman of an Appropriations subcommittee wants answers from the FBI director on “potentially misleading, uninformed or incomplete” statements.
• The Biggest D.C. Spy Scandal You Haven’t Heard About (Part Two), by Patrick Poole. The Pakistani spy who went undetected in D.C. for 20 years was deeply involved with U.S. Muslim Brotherhood front groups.
• NBC and Tom Brokaw’s Olympic Tribute to the Battle of Britain, by Chuck Chalberg. We occasionally need to be reminded of the horrors of, and sometimes, the necessity for war.
• VIDEO: Roger L Simon Makes Fool of Self on Kudlow Show, by Roger L. Simon. Video at link.

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• Obama’s Casualties, by Tom Blumer. If we apply his supporters’ “standards.”
• An FAQ on Christianity for the Unbeliever, by Frank J. Fleming. A helpful guide for those who find it impossible to understand the religion thing.
• The Pitfalls of Private Investing in the Obama Era, by David H. Horwich. Obama created a high-risk, low-reward environment, yet the left wonders why companies aren’t investing.
• United Church of Canada to Consider Israel Boycott, by Steve McDonald and Mark David. The BDS movement returns at the UCC triennial meeting.
• Ryan Speaks in Colorado, by Robert Zubrin. I can’t remember when I’ve seen a candidate address a mass audience at such a high level. Update: Photo added.
• Why Michele Bachmann Touched a Nerve, by Teri Blumenfeld. Confronting Establishment Liberalism’s PC denial that Islamism has an impact on national security.
• Eric Holder: Racial Preferences Needed for … National Security, by J. Christian Adams. Perhaps the first time he has treated national security as a priority.
• Michelle Obama Needles Gabby Douglas for Eating Egg McMuffin, by Bridget Johnson. “You’re setting me back, Gabby,” the top food cop told the Olympic gold medalist.
• 5 Differences Between Boys and Real Men, by John Hawkins. Being 18 and male doesn’t make you a man.
• ‘Why Is There No Liberal Ayn Rand?’ By Ed Driscoll. Always the last to know: A Yale history professor inadvertently stumbles into a topic explored in depth four years ago in Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism.

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• How the Obama Campaign/Media Alliance Works, by Rich Baehr. If this were a hockey game, you could say that Obama is playing with a man advantage.
• Remembering the Dead, from Selma, by Victor Davis Hanson. VDH looks back on meeting a pair of very different recently deceased authors, Gore Vidal and John Keegan.
• The Intense Warrior Ethos of Act of Valor, by Andrew Klavan. And why 75% of critics missed out on it.
• Five Angry Pieces, Revisited, by Ed Driscoll. Did Jack Nicholson’s legendary meltdown in 1970′s Five Easy Pieces inspire Adam Smith to videotape himself berating a Chick-fil-A drive-through clerk?
• Cognitive Dissonance on the March, by David Solway. How getting it wrong is regarded as doing it right.
• The Real War Redux: Syria’s Only One Battlefield, Stupid, by Michael Ledeen. The Iranian pot continues to boil.
• The Politics of Parity and ‘The Odd Man In,’ by Patrick Reddy. Parity increases the profile of fringe candidates.
• The 5 Most Politically Incorrect Ideas Smuggled into The Dark Knight Rises, by John Boot. Christopher Nolan, one of Hollywood’s most skilled practitioners of stealth conservatism.

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• ‘You Didn’t Build That’ and the Darkness of Collective Punishment, by Oleg Atbashian. The fallacy of collective achievement led directly to last century’s murderous scapegoating.
• Interview: Michael Malone on Eagle Scouts and the Four Percent, by Ed Driscoll. Today is the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts’ Eagle Scouting Award — a.k.a, “The PhD of Boyhood.”
• Ted Cruz Rises to Victory in Texas Senate Runoff, by Bryan Preston. A comprehensive and timely win says the Tea Party is alive, and Texas is still deep red.
• Dictation for the Rest of Us — Built by Apple, Not the Government, by Tom Blumer. Dictation in Apple’s Mountain Lion is a game-changer.
• Abbott and Costello Explain California for You, by Michael Walsh. Who’s on first? Certainly not 21st century California.
• The Jewish Federation vs. Zionism, by Pamela Geller. It’s like saying that I want my heart removed from my body.
• The Call of Cthulhu in Syria, by Richard Fernandez. The Syrian civil war, like the Spanish one in the 20th century, has become a proxy battleground for foreign powers.
• That’s Not Funny: The 5 Biggest Comedy Taboos, by Kathy Shaidle. Rape isn’t the only subject that can book a comedian’s embarrassing apology tour.