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Trump Claims Obama's 'Dreams of My Father' Ghost Written by Bill Ayers
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsApparently, the birth certificate was just the beginning. Donald Trump, the real estate mogul and reality TV star recently turned birther, now says that liberal activist Bill Ayers wrote President Barack Obama's signature book, "Dreams of My Father." "'Dreams of My Father' was genius, and they give him full credit," Trump said of Obama in an interview Wednesday with conservative radio host Laura Ingraham. "But now it's coming out that Bill Ayers wrote it. And [Obama's] only there because of 'Dreams of My Father.'" Ayers, a co-founder of the radical Weather Underground movement that carried ...
Scott Brown: Could Erin's Law ('Get Away, Tell Today') Have Helped?
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyAs a child, I learned how to duck and cover in case of a nuclear attack. My mother told me not to run with scissors, lest I "put out" my eyes. And instructional films, similar to this one, warned me not to walk off with strangers. Why these strangers were coming around in the first place, or what could happen to me if I succumbed to an invitation, I had no idea. Erin Merryn aims to change all that with a simple, memorable phrase: "Get away, tell today." Merryn, who testified before the Illinois Legislature in 2010, states her case eloquently: Currently in the state of Illinois, schools ...
Rape Victim Forgave Attacker, Then Pressed Charges
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsLiz Seccuro says forgiveness is one thing, justice another. So when the man who raped her when she was a college freshman at the University of Virginia wrote her a letter of apology nearly 20 years later, Seccuro heard him out. And then, she pressed charges. "Forgiveness is a journey you must take," Seccuro, 43, said in an interview on NBC's "Today" show. But, she said, "that's different than our criminal justice system." The business owner, wife and mother of two from Washington, D.C., has written a memoir about her decades-long struggle for justice and closure, and is speaking out today, ...
Rumsfeld Files Reveal Pre-9/11 Focus on Iraq
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsThousands of documents made available by Donald Rumsfeld to coincide with the publication of his memoir today reveal an early focus on Iraq, even before 9/11, and his willingness to consider a variety of options that critics might consider hypocritical but that the former defense secretary regarded as thoroughly rational. "At the right moment, we may want to give Saddam Hussein a way out for his family to live in comfort," Rumsfeld wrote on Sept. 21, 2001, in a one-sentence memo. Rumsfeld's so-called "snowflake" memos -- he issued hundreds of them from 2001 to 2006 -- are now available as ...
Rumsfeld Memoir Highlights VIP Access to Government Files
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsTwo days after WikiLeaks began publishing classified diplomatic cables, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stepped forward to condemn the massive leak, declaring on his Twitter feed, "I was a co-sponsor of [the Freedom of Information Act] in 1966. There is an appropriate, lawful process for declassifying material. It's not #Wikileaks." To emphasize that "lawful process," Rumsfeld then added that his soon-to-be released book, "Known and Unknown," would be accompanied by hundreds of supporting documents -- some once secret -- and that all of them would be cleared by the U.S. ...
Condi Rice: Pro-Choice, Libertarian . . . and Evangelical
By David Gibson - Politics DailyFormer Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared in a recent interview that she is proudly evangelical but also distanced herself from many of her fellow believers by saying that she tends to support abortion rights and civil unions for gay couples, and she feels evangelicals too often alienate others with in-your-face rhetoric. "It's extremely important not to assault people," Rice told Christianity Today, the flagship evangelical magazine, in a Dec. 20 interview. "Sometimes I think evangelicals come at people so hard and so fast and don't take time to listen to where somebody is," she ...
Rocker Patti Smith Wins National Book Award
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(Nov. 18) -- Rocker and writer Patti Smith has won the prestigious National Book Award for her memoir "Just Kids," a haunting chronicle of poverty and pain while living in New York City with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe during the early years of their careers. In an emotional acceptance speech, the singer, songwriter, poet and playwright also known as the "Godmother of Punk" pleaded with publishers not to let new technology do away with the printed word. "Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book," Smith said Wednesday night at the awards ceremony ...
Bush Says He Would Have Endorsed Obama in '08 if Asked?
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 10) -- Bet you didn't see that one coming! According to a story published by the Financial Times, former President George W. Bush told a group of British White House visitors that he would have likely given his endorsement to candidate Barack Obama, if only he had been asked. Discussing fellow Republican John McCain's lackluster campaign, Bush is said to have quipped, "I probably won't even vote for the guy." Then, according to the recollection of two people in the room, Bush added, "I had to endorse him. But I'd have endorsed Obama if they'd asked me." Considering that Bush actively ...
Bush Takes a Shot at McCain in His 'Decision Points' Memoir
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 8) -- George W. Bush once kicked John McCain when he was a threat, but now he's kicking him when he's down. In his new memoir, "Decision Points," Bush says McCain responded poorly to the financial crisis and should have asked him for help in taking on Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential race. McCain may be guilty of the first charge: As the financial crisis exploded, the Arizona senator suspended his campaign, then quickly backtracked, all the while offering no substantive proposals for righting the nation's economy. But as for the second claim, Bush had only a 25 percent approval ...
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