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The Washington Post “Fact Checker” has been going very easy on Barack Obama, but today they’re actually asking the pertinent question about Obama’s “Auschwitz” tale: Where in the world is Auschwitz? - Fact Checker. Granted, it is getting late in the campaign. The candidates are tired, and prone to ...
History, Auschwitz, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Media Bias, Washington Post, LGF
Rand Simberg points out that Obama’s “Auschwitz” story is nothing new. He was telling similar stories about his grandfather back in 2002, in his now-famous Iraq speech, which I’d never previously read: My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton’s ...
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, History, Veterans, Opportunism, Auschwitz
Newly released photographs taken in 1944 at a recreation home for the SS team in charge of running the Auschwitz death camp chillingly demonstrate what Hannah Arendt called “the banality of evil.” Second from the left in this photo: Josef Mengele. UPDATE at 9/22/07 6:14:20 pm: Here’s the full ...