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Gulag Night Monday 2/14, 10pm-Midnight Stream it live with chat: Gulag Night Page Call in, to listen by phone, or to ask a question: 310/807-5060 . Barack Obama Liar? Plagiarist? Fraud? Who is he, really? ..Listen to Jack Cashill, Ph.D., author, investigative journalist, historical researcher, and literary analyst, the evening before his new book is released! .Click here, to order Deconstructing ObamaJack will also give us his views of the CPAC conference and it's fireworks..He was there and so was James Simpson, who will also be joining us, to share in the discussion. Jim is doing an excellent series on...

At the National Prayer Breakfast on February 3, President Obama threw a knuckleball down the middle, and the media whiffed. Most simply took Obama at his word that as a young man in Chicago, he "came to know Jesus Christ for myself and embrace him as my lord and savior" and that as president, he asks "the Lord" every day to make him "an instrument of his will." In a moment, I will address the sheer gamesmanship of this theological flutter to the center, but first, a word on the most revealing part of the sermonette. This revelation was missed...

WASHINGTON – Did Barack Obama write his own books, and is the story they tell true? Those two questions are the focus of a new book by WND columnist Jack Cashill, and the definitive and persuasive answer to both is a resounding "no way." In "Deconstructing Obama," veteran author and filmmaker Cashill builds on his voluminous columnist work on the subject of who wrote Obama's books – especially his autobiographical "Dreams of My Father." "I've written two books," Obama told a crowd of teachers in July of 2008. "I actually wrote them myself." The teachers exploded in laughter. They got...

January 28, 2011 7am Published 3 hours ago from Peter Boyles Show Jack Cashill from the American Thinker comes on to talk about his latest birther article. audio download at link http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18227/1h/cchannel.download.akamai.com/18227/podcast/DENVER-CO/KHOW-AM/01282011PETE7A.mp3

Sarah Palin may be the reigning Republican "idiot," but she shares in a proud legacy that dates back to at least Dwight David Eisenhower, if not earlier. The "idiot" talk began as soon as Palin was named McCain's running mate. As I drove to the 2008 Republican Convention in St.Paul -- my first -- the radio blared all Palin all the time and just about all negative. The talking heads were busy telling Republicans how they ought to think and what they ought to do -- namely, dump Sarah Palin. What with that Marge Gunderson accent and University of Idaho...

. . . . . Jack Cashill holds the clue.. . . . .

On Monday morning of this week, after reviewing my book proofs and shipping them off to Simon & Schuster, I picked up a copy of Dinesh D'Souza's new book, The Rage of Obama's Roots, and read it until I finished. Happily, it is a short book. In my own forthcoming book, Deconstructing Obama, I ask two basic questions: one is whether Barack Obama wrote the books and speeches penned under his name, and two is whether the stories he tells therein are true. Like D'Souza, I focus on the most important work in Obama's canon: his celebrated 1995 memoir, Dreams...

Through a combination of massive, Somali-driven voter fraud, stunning Election Board incompetence, and the willful blindness of the Kansas City Star, machine Democrat J.J. Rizzo managed to beat conservative Democrat Will Royster by one vote in a Missouri State House primary on August 3. There is no Republican running in this heavily Democratic, multi-ethnic Kansas City district. The Democratic nominee will face only a seriously outgunned Libertarian in the November election, and truth be told, Royster may be to the right of the Libertarian. What the Democratic machine and the Star, which endorsed Rizzo, did not count on was for...

Two years ago I inadvertently began my exploration of the authorship of Barack Obama’s 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father, with an inquiry into how Obama got into Harvard Law School in 1988. In the summer of 2008, I was tipped to a story that the media were scrupulously ignoring. It involved the venerable African American entrepreneur and politico, Percy Sutton. A Manhattan borough president for 12 years and a credible candidate for mayor of New York City in 1977, Sutton had appeared in late March 2008 on a local New York City show called " Inside City Hall." When...

In 1934, "Boss" Tom Pendergast handpicked a Jackson County administrative judge to be the next United States Senator from Missouri, and for the next ten years Harry Truman wore the tag, "The Senator from Pendergast." Truman began to find his own footing after Pendergast was shipped off to nearby Leavenworth in 1939, but until then, he pretty much carried Pendergast's water in Washington. Should Democrat Joe Sestak be elected the next United States Senator from Pennsylvania -- he beat Arlen Specter handily on Tuesday -- he might best be known as the "Senator from Sandy Berger." Sestak owes his political...

When Barack Obama’s two faculty mentors at Harvard Law got in trouble for plagiarism, they were rescued by Dean Elena Kagan. In 1989, Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe hired first-year Harvard law student Barack Obama as his research assistant.  After Obama was elected president, Tribe would gush, "His stunning combination of analytical brilliance and personal charisma, openness and maturity, vision and pragmatism, was unmistakable from my very first encounter." Obama had one other prominent mentor among the Harvard faculty, Professor Charles Ogletree, an African American.  In the run-up to the election, Ogletree would enthuse, "I'm so excited about this candidacy...

What is ultimately behind the the world's banking and financial crises?Jack Cashill is one of America's truly cutting edge political and cultural analysts, and one of our best writers. Join us as we discuss banking and usury, central bank manipulation, derivatives mania, how it all got to be this way, what in the world happened in 2008... and... how America's and the world's economies so dangerously pivot, lurch, and sway, here and now.We appear to be in the eye of a giant economic storm and now, facing the wall cloud. To find solutions, we need to know what works right...

It surprised me to learn that David Remnick had dedicated three pages of his comprehensive new Obama biography, The Bridge, to my thesis that Bill Ayers helped Barack Obama write Obama's 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father. It will surprise Remnick even more to learn that he has unwittingly reinforced a thesis that he set out to discredit. I stumbled on the reference to yours truly rather by accident. I was searching the index to see what Remnick had to say about Bill Ayers and found the first mention on page 253 in this intriguing context, "The true author of...

It surprised me to learn that David Remnick had dedicated three pages of his comprehensive new Obama biography, The Bridge, to my thesis that Bill Ayers helped Barack Obama write Obama's 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father. It will surprise Remnick even more to learn that he has unwittingly reinforced a thesis that he set out to discredit. I stumbled on the reference to yours truly rather by accident. I was searching the index to see what Remnick had to say about Bill Ayers and found the first mention on page 253 in this intriguing context, "The true author of...

Kudos to William Douglas of McClatchy newspapers. That reporter can write and file stories with amazing speed. One such story was this article that Douglas filed about the March 20 Tea Party protest in Washington, D.C. where racial slurs were supposedly hurled. Jack Cashill of American Thinker was so impressed with the speed in which Douglas wrote his story that he wrote this American Thinker blog about this feat accompanied by a video. Here is Cashill as he observes with awe how quickly Douglas wrote his McClatchy story: ...I checked with my source on the scene, Greg Farrell, to get...

On the cover of its November 24, 2008 edition, Time Magazine photo-shopped Barack Obama into a classic image of a jaunty Franklin Delano Roosevelt, right down to the politically incorrect cigarette holder. The article is headlined, "The New New Deal." There is no question mark. Back in those heady days of hope and change, Obama promised to remake Washington in his own image, much as FDR had before him. "His top priority will be stabilizing the financial system," Time ingenuously reported, "followed by investing in renewable energy, universal health care, middle-class tax cuts and education reform." A year and a...

I finally started reading Dreams From My Father, the book which emotionally bonded millions of voters to Obama, thereby radically changing American history. Coming to it completely fresh, three insights jumped off the page. First, it’s blindingly obvious Obama did not write this book. Three years into our daily bombardment of all things Obama, we’re numbingly familiar with his cadence, vocabulary, and mode of thinking. The man who, decoupled from his teleprompter, accuses his opponents of getting “all wee-wee’d up,” who assures us Austrians speak Austrian and that our health premium costs will plunge a mathematically impossible 3,000%, is utterly...

Pop” prompted Cashill to dig more deeply into the murky past of the current leader of the free world, whomever he may be. Cashill’s investigation provides what has to be the most cogent explanation thus far of the issues so troubling to those birther slurred not only by the mainstream media, but by fellow conservatives as well. The liberal media is creating a make believe antagonist: the Tea Bagging Birther Party; those heavily armed, frenzied right wing radical guerillas that all good Americans should fear. With Timothy McVeigh out of commission, they are insistent on commissioning Sarah Palin as the...

Return to the Article March 07, 2010What I Learned from Obama's PopBy Jack Cashill "Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!"  - Alice in Wonderland A little more than a month ago, I began my first descent into the rabbit hole of Barack Obama's origins, a place known to swallow reputations whole. What prompted my inquiry was an e-mail from a correspondent asking my opinion of "Pop," a poem published under the 19-year-old Obama's name in the spring 1981 edition of Occidental College's literary magazine, Feast. Having no prior bias going in, here is what...

In 1981, the 19 year-old Barack Obama published two poems in the spring 1981 edition of Occidental College's literary magazine, Feast. One is a silly adolescent ode to "apes that eat figs" called “Underground.” The second is an obviously superior poem called “Pop.” Critic Warwick Collins rightly describes it as "by far the more powerful and complex" of the two, and his is the consensus opinion. Several mainstream reviewers have chosen to see in "Pop" the seeds of the literary genius that would flower in Obama's 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father. A closer inspection, however, shows an early sign...