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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: All right. For you Oprah fans, we have Oprah-style news here. Dylan Byers, writing in a blog at The Politico, has uncovered an interesting fact. In Obama's 1995 autobiography, Dreams From My Father, there is the story of his "girlfriend." We've asked on this program, "Where are Obama's former girlfriends? Everybody has former girlfriends. You can find 'em and find out what kind of guy the guy was, especially if he's running for president." He was such a "cool guy," you would think women would be falling out of the woodwork here telling us what a great,...

Scotch, Cigars, Family - Mark Twain Awakens After 100 Years By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Hartford, Connecticut ---- December 21, 2010 ..... Before there was Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube - there was Mark Twain. Quicker than the digital status updates that we have all become familiar with, Mark Twain's creative, aggressive and friendly wit jumped all over the globe touching millions. Making them smile, laugh and reflect. This American legend, globe trotting journalist and renowned author born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Mo. in 1835, who worked on a Mississippi river boat and at the age of 13...

Newt Gingrich said to National Review Online recently, "What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anticolonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?" Gingrich's comment sparked off Dinesh D'Souza's Forbes article, which argues that America is "governed by the ghost" of Obama's "Luo tribesman" father.

In a chance meeting with conservative blogger Anne Leary, Bill Ayers makes a stunning claim that he wrote--not just edited--President Barack Obama's autobiography, Dreams from my Father." Wow. He makes this claim to a stranger who approaches him in Reagan National Airport. Can you believe anything this man says? Or, should I say, either man? This is no small matter. We have been lead to believe that Obama's eloquence is his strength, his trump card. Is it possible that all of this is a charade? A gigantic lie?

Last Friday we posted an article on these pages asserting Bill Ayers' authorship of President Barack Obama's 'Dreams From My Father,' based on claims made by Obama biographer Christopher Andersen. It is possible that we have now gotten direct confirmation of this from Bill Ayers himself. Anne Leary of Back Yard Conservative was passing through Washington, DC's Reagan National Airport yesterday, and was surprised to come across Bill Ayers at Starbucks: "scruffy, thinning beard, dippy earring, and the wire rims, heading to order."

There I was, sitting in Reagan National Monday morning, sipping a Starbucks by the United counter before going through security. I had a little time, so I was browsing through the news. That's when I saw Bill Ayers, an instant blight. Scruffy, thinning beard, dippy earring, and the wirerims, heading to order. I gathered my things, got my camera ready, and snapped a shot right when he got his coffee. He gave me an uneasy cheesy smile when he realized I was taking his picture. I asked--what are you doing in D.C. Mr. Ayers? [He said] he was giving a...

Mark Steyn analyzes the postmodern mess that is Barack Obama's autobiography, Dreams From My Father HUGH HEWITT: When we’re lucky on Thursday, we start with Columnist To the World, Mark Steyn. You can read all of his writing at www.steynonline.com. Mark, good Thursday to you. MARK STEYN: Happy Thursday to you, too, Hugh. HH: Thank you. Now I know you’ve read Dreams From My Father. I don’t know if you’ve listened to it yet. Do you think looking back, it was a wise idea for Barack Obama to record this book? MS: Well, let me say first of all, about...

This post is a compilation of the known connections. On Feb 15/08 Usama K. Dakdok, President of The Straight Way of Grace Ministry called Obama's Church I then asked her what I needed to do to join. She told me that I needed to attend two Sunday School classes in a row and then I would walk the aisle. I replied, "That sounds easy. One last question please. IF I AM MUSLIM AND I BELIEVE IN PROPHET MOHAMMED, PEACE BE UPON HIM AND I ALSO BELIEVE IN JESUS, PEACE BE UPON HIM, DO I HAVE TO GIVE UP MY ISLAMIC...

WASHINGTON - Breaking his 16-year public silence on his bitter confirmation hearings, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says Anita Hill was a mediocre employee who was used by political opponents to make claims she had been sexually harassed. Thomas writes about Hill, his former employee in two government agencies, and the allegations that nearly derailed his nomination to the high court in 1991 in his autobiography, "My Grandfather's Son." A copy of the book, which goes on sale Monday, was obtained Friday by The Associated Press. He writes with indignation of the nationally televised hearings that he memorably called a...

Controversial filmmaker Michael Moore unveiled two new projects last night in Toronto: a documentary about the health insurance business called “Sicko” and film that chronicles the aftermath of the 2004 election, entitled “Slacker.” Moore showed clips from both films as part of a special two-hour presentation at the famed Elgin Theater. Larry Charles, director of the new comedy “Borat” and well-known from his work on the TV show “Seinfeld,” conducted the program that also consisted of a long, funny and intimate live interview with Moore.

John Daly says he has lost between $50 million and $60 million during 12 years of heavy gambling, and that it has become a problem that could "flat-out ruin me" if he doesn't bring it under control. Daly discussed his addiction to gambling in the final chapter of his autobiography, John Daly: My Life In and Out of the Rough, to be released next Monday. He told one story of earning $750,000 when he lost in a playoff to Tiger Woods last fall in San Francisco at a World Golf Championship. Instead of going home, he drove to Las Vegas...

The following was published in The New York Times. Please note what the fourth paragraph says about her soon-to-be-published autobiography. Her autobiography will either completely ignor her July 1972 trip to North Vietnam, or it will not. Either way, her autobiography's publication is a golden opportunity, perhaps the last, for those of us who know the truth of what happened in Hanoi, and its consequences, to hammer home that Jane Fonda committed the constitutional and statutory crime of treason. As many recipients of this email know, three years ago the Holzers' book -- "Aid and Comfort": Jane Fonda in North...

The Arizona Republican, who has said he's so offended by some programs on cable that he thinks parents should be allowed to choose, à la carte, the cable networks that come into their homes, appeared to plug the A&E flick based on his autobiography, "Faith of My Fathers," and to say how proud he is that it's running on A&E.

WASHINGTON — The biracial daughter of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond more than once confronted her father over his racist politics, but cherished their relationship and ignored pleas from her family that she expose her parentage. "For all his bluster, for all his racist campaign posturing, I somehow couldn't dislike him the way I wanted to," writes Essie Mae Washington-Williams, 79, in "Dear Senator," an autobiography to be released next month. The daughter of the longtime champion of segregation and his family's black maid has refrained from speaking publicly since she revealed the secret of her birth. That was a...

Blowing in the Wind September 30, 2004 By David Asman As a creature of the '60s, I spent my early teens listening to and appreciating Bob Dylan (search). At first, his rebellious nature caught my interest. But what appealed to me more was that his sharp edge cut not just through the hypocrisies of middle-class culture, but also through the phoniness of the '60s counter-culture. He did not suffer fools lightly, no matter what their affiliation, as you can see from the brilliant film biography of him called "Don’t Look Back." He smacked down softheaded hippies as eagerly as he...

Ashlee Simpson starts the journey to emerge from out of the shadows cast by her elder sibling. Jessica. Jessica Simpson's has a hit reality TV show, multimillion-selling recording career an almost over marketed persona but now younger sister Ashlee releases her rock album "Autobiography." The album looks set to top the U.S. pop albums chart when sales data are issued later this week

Reading Between the Lines "Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History (Simon and Schuster, 2003), 562 pages, $28" Fall 2003 by George Liebmann This campaign autobiography is Mrs. Clinton’s effort to establish that she knows “how Congress really works” and that she “developed relationships with foreign leaders.” In her acknowledgments, buried at the rear of the book, she thanks three associates for “spending two years of their lives working with me”; two lawyers, not part of the average author’s equipage, who “provid[ed] wise and practical counsel;” and three hundred other persons. This is not a work which will go on the shelf...

TO HIS enemies in the West, he is an evil dictator, the butcher of Baghdad, but by his own account he is the poor shepherd boy, beloved of his mother, who made the best of himself against all the odds. This is Saddam Hussein in his own words, revealed in Men and a City, the Iraqi president’s new autobiography detailing the struggles of his early life. The daily grind of out-facing the US and British forces who are closing in on him, of repressing the Kurds and the marsh Arabs, and of giving United Nations weapons inspectors the run around,...

Clinton is eager to tell his story Says writing memoirs is a way to 'come to terms' By Bob Minzesheimer USA TODAY Bill Clinton, who's getting nearly $12 million for his memoirs, says everyone eventually should write his or her life story. ''Everybody talks about how terrible this book-writing is. I've enjoyed it,'' the former president tells C-SPAN in an interview to be shown Sunday (6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. ET/ 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. PT). ''Everyone who is fortunate enough to have lived to be 50 should sit down at some point and write the story of his...