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Obama Mythology 101

By Lin Farley • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Top Story

Cross-posted from MyDD 
Here are the facts, not the spin:
State Sen. Obama helped secure thousands in state money for a Chicago entrepreneur who had paid him as a legal adviser.
Robert Blackwell, a Chicago entrepreneur also became an Obama donor.
Obama’s Ethics disclosure forms do not make the link clear.
William Ayers Employed Barack Obama for eight years.
The Los […]



Obama Mythology 101

By Lin Farley • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Top Story

Cross-posted from MyDD 
Here are the facts, not the spin:
State Sen. Obama helped secure thousands in state money for a Chicago entrepreneur who had paid him as a legal adviser.
Robert Blackwell, a Chicago entrepreneur also became an Obama donor.
Obama’s Ethics disclosure forms do not make the link clear.
William Ayers Employed Barack Obama for eight years.
The Los […]



My Weather Underground

By Lin Farley • Apr 19th, 2008 • Category: Top Story

Cross posted from SavagePolitics.com 
by Lin Farley
It is amazing how often this primary season has prompted me to haul out a spyglass to peer back into my life. A lot of the memories are soft focus now, a little more so with each passing year; but the time period from the early 60’s to the end […]



Land of Snows Uprising

By Lin Farley • Mar 14th, 2008 • Category: One World

 There is terror once more in the Land of Snows which has been under Chinese occupation by force of arms for close to 50 years.  New rioting by thousands of monks and angry crowds in Tibet has swept out of Lhasa across the nation and the region. Nepal has closed climbing on Mt. Everest.
For more […]