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You may be wondering why President Obama has been mum on the subject of Libya until tonight, even though for the last week Dictator Maummar Gaddafi has been massacring people on his streets. One possible reason is that the White House does not know how to spell "Libya." Another: President Obama's spiritual leader, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, has been tied to Gaddafi. This is not to necessarily imply that President Obama didn't criticize Gaddafi because he favors Gaddafi's regime, but that the President had trepidation because he was aware of his pastor's ties to the iron-fisted ruler. It all goes back...

Now on bookshelves: “Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves and Letters of America’s First Postmodern President” by Jack Cashill, published by Simon & Shuster. The new book uncovers “major discrepancies in the accepted narrative” of President Obama‘s life, particularly his earliest years. Mr. Cashill says the news media is indifferent to such information. He’s also convinced that former University of Illinois professor Bill Ayers — who co-founded the radical Weather Underground in 1969 — helped craft “Dreams From My Father,” the president’s much-acclaimed memoir.When I started this inquiry, I was less interested in President Obama‘s birth certificate than I was in...