Yesterday Andy McCarthy at The Corner wrote the following about President Barack Obama’s tenure at Columbia University which was finally covered, at teeny bit, in the NY Times:

During the campaign, I wrote a piece called “Why Won’t Obama Talk About Columbia? — The years he won’t discuss may explain the Ayers tie he keeps lying about.” So now, nearly six months into the Obama presidency, the mainstream media has finally done a bit of the candidate background reporting it declined to do during the campaign — other than in Wasilla — and whaddya know? The New York Times unearthed a 1983 article called, “Breaking the War Mentality,” that Columbia student Barack Obama wrote for a campus newspaper. The article shows that Obama dreaded American “militarism” and its “military-industrial interests,” while effusing enthusiasm for the dangerously delusional nuclear-freeze movement.

Moreover, while indicating a preference for the political wisdom of reggae singer Peter Tosh over Ronald Reagan or Scoop Jackson, Obama bewailed the “narrow focus” of anti-militarism activists, worrying that they were targeting the “symptoms” rather than the real “disease,” namely, America’s underlying economic and political injustice:

Seeing as Obama is currently in Russia, getting Putin’s title mixed up with Medvedev’s and extolling the virtues of the former KGB head while at the same time laying the groundwork for unilateral nuclear disarmament by U.S. — whadda think, that the rest of the world is gonna disarm because we say, “Pretty please?” Now, all Prez BHO has to do is agree to stop the missile defense installation in Poland and the Ruskies will play nice and get rid of 1/3 of their arsenal. Why, he’s even declared that this is such a big time emergency that maybe the Senate’s ratification would have to be side-stepped for expediency’s sake.

The Anchoress has an idea of why the Obama administration is in such a hurry to make this a done deal:

Well, that is, if the deal actually does put in place an effective verification system and doesn’t amount to a de facto unilateral disarmament. With exactly five months to win Senate approval, the effort by the Obama White House in floating this idea now makes it sound like Obama wants to give away the store in order to score some points with his 1980s no-nukes agenda. And as much as the Democrats howled over the supposed devotion of George Bush to a “unitary executive,” Obama seems to have no trouble bypassing the check on executive power for treaty negotiation written explicitly into the Constitution, in Article II, Section 2.

Such a deal! Still, if you consider Obama’s proclivities from his Columbia years, all this make perfect sense. Would have been nice to know some of this last Summer and Fall, eh? Laer at Cheat-Seeking Missiles calls for a whole lot more lookin’ into Obama’s collegiate past!

So now, way too belatedly, the NYT has found one measly article and written a story about it. Obama was in college for eight long years and left many, many more footprints than this one article. The marginalized media can never overcome the black mark [can I say "black mark?"] earned from its lack of negative coverage during the campaign – but that shouldn’t stop it from finally covering the story now.

Our MSM’s Obama coverage has been constant adulation — almost as disgusting as what they’re giving today to the memorial service for the “King of Pop”. As the American public will begin to find out as the college years of President Obama are revealed over time, they’ve bought themselves one hell of a big “pig in a poke”! McCarthy wraps it up perfectly.

Who knew?

Nice as it is of the media to scratch the surface journalists should have been mining over a year ago, the current disastrous straits for the country are that — as Jen Rubin contends at contentions — the Obama who is off to Russia to cut unratifiable deals with the recrudescent Soviets hasn’t really changed in the ensuing quarter-century.

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I was never a big Michael Jackson fan. The little bugger was cute at 5, and if Fred Astaire thought that he was an amazing dancer, so be it for me to disagree. He was even a pretty good lookin’ guy, as can be seen on the cover of Thriller — before he started his many rounds of self mutilation to remove his “blackness” and in many regards, his “maleness”. Let’s face it, trying to look like a white Dianna Ross is weirdness run amok, even for a proclaimed “King of Pop”.

But, enough already. Hundreds, if not thousands of hours of media coverage since his death — Michael Jackson songs on the radio ad nauseum — as if he were the equivalent of Princess Di. I think that Peter King puts it all in proper perspective in the YouTube clip above. King’s criticism has even struck a couple of nerves. Michelle Malkin highlights the “masses” that are trying to unseat King in the next election — Oooooooooooooo!

Genghis over at Ace nailed it last night with his evening message to the morons:

I imagine you all want to hit the rack early tonight so you can get up at the crack of dawn and not miss a second of the solemn and dignified events taking place in L.A. tomorrow (forecast is for mostly sunny skies with a 90% chance of riots by those turned away from the memorial).

Folks massing at Staples Center, turning over cars and burning trash cans — didn’t we just do that last month after the Lakers won their NBA title? Yawn . . .

Sorry, think I’ll pass. Time to move on folks, nothin’ really to see here.

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Wow! July 4th once again — over half of 2009 in the books and time keeps screamin’ like a Koenigsegg hammered by Top Gear’s Stig! The flag’s out, flapping gently in the breeze of a heavily marine-layered sky — was sunny for the early dog walk — and there’s 17-1/2 pounds of brisket in the smoker with only nine hours to go before major chow time. 16 pounds of turkey will hit the Weber kettle in about 4 hours or so — life is good!

A few months ago I thought that I might be giving a Tea Party report today from good ol’ Santa Monica, but looking on the Tea Party site the other day none was scheduled. Probably for the best, as the last one was notable only for the fact that anyone in/around this “People’s Republic” would show up for such a right-wing event — no organized speeches, just a lot of folks wavin’ banners and screechin’ “No More Taxes!” Mostly Ron Paul fans . . .

Sarah Palin announced yesterday that July 25th will be her last day as Governor of Alaska. Crazy that! Or, maybe not. Over at Ace guest writer Russ from Winterset lays out 9 important steps for her to take if this is a prelude to her making a serious run at 2012. After reading much and praying over it The Anchoress thinks that Sarah Palin is declaring her independence and reacts to her announcement with this:

And I suspect Sarah Palin has looked around and decided, no – she is not going to die on that hate-constructed hill. I think she’s going to do her thing, forge her own path by her own lights, and eventually head back into politics on her own damn hill – and with (one fervently hopes) a hum-dinger of a speech-writer.

One of the jobs of a believer -whether Christian or not- is to find meaning in what is going on around and within. I suspect Palin is finding meaning in the abuse she’s been handed. I suspect her interior strength and her interior narrative of faith, family and love of homeland are commingling into a strategy, based on that meaning; a strategy that will be broad in scope, takes the long-view and is played close to the vest.

The Republican Examiner quotes Mark Levin at The Corner in full — hey, I’ll borrow that for you readers:

Palin is running for president, get used to it.

The reason is pretty simple. Sarah Palin loves America. And she knows we are a hair’s breadth from losing much of what we and millions of our countrymen have painstakingly built with sweat and blood over more than two centuries. She knows that Cap and Trade is not just another piece of legislation. It is a hollowpoint bullet aimed straight at the heart of the American economy. She knows that health care reform is designed to, and will, utterly devastate the quality and availability of health care that is currently the best the world has ever known. She knows that American presidents don’t nationalize automakers. Third-world dictators do that.

Sarah Palin has five children. She doesn’t want to subject them to a future of soft tyranny and poverty.

But unlike nearly every other American, Sarah Palin can do something about it. Conservatives know she is the real thing. And so do Liberals. How else to explain the daily, spittle-flecked rage spewed at her and her family? Is there anything about Sarah Palin that is vile, repugnant, or amoral? There is one thing and only one thing driving the Left’s hatred of Sarah Palin: fear. It is the fear that she is the next Reagan, who was viciously attacked in the same way. It is the fear that she will, through her classic American values and sensibility (think Truman), sweep all the rubes in flyover country into a tidal wave of support and decimate Liberal power.

Palin is not your standard politician. She is not Mitt Romney, John McCain, or Mike Huckabee. To judge her by the standard playbook is a fool’s errand. There is no playbook for people like Sarah Palin, just like there was no playbook for Barack Obama. So when you hear folks speculating that her career is over for whatever reason, e.g., she will be seen as a less-than-one-term governor or she doesn’t have enough experience, remember that our side (and the Clintons) said that about our current president. Sarah Palin is the rare politician who can play by her own rules.

So, if you are a conservative and what President Obama is doing to our great country is making you physically and emotionally sick, let’s all keep good thoughts coming for the Sarah Palins of the world — not many like ‘em, that’s for sure!

Happy 4th, folks! Stay safe, eat well, have fun, and may God Bless America!