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Obama's "lost" law review note revealed
Power Line — ... . It turns out that, reports to the contrary notwithstanding, Barack Obama also wrote an unsigned 1990 law review note as a student member of the Harvard Law Review. Ben Smith and Jeffrey Ressner report on Obama's lost law review article ...

The Early Word: More Clues, Still No V.P.
The Caucus — ... — contrary to popular Internet rumors. In addition, the organization writes: “Of course, it’s distantly possible that Obama’s grandparents may have planted the announcement just in case their grandson needed to prove his U.S. citizenship in order to run for president someday. We suggest that those who choose to go down that path should first equip themselves with a high-quality tinfoil hat.” Lost and Found The Politico finds an unsigned law article from Mr. Obama’s law review years that the campaign (and Harvard) confirm was written by him. “The six-page summary, tucked ...

Obama's law review case comment — about the rights of a fetus againt its mother.
Althouse — Politico has unearthed Barack Obama's lost law review article — a short, unsigned piece known a "case comment." The six-page summary, tucked into the third volume of the year's Harvard Law Review, considers the charged, if peripheral, question of whether fetuses should be able to file lawsuits against their mothers. Obama's answer, like most courts': No. He wrote approvingly of an Illinois Supreme Court ruling that the unborn cannot sue their mothers for negligence, and he suggested that allowing fetuses to sue would violate the mother's rights and could, perversely, ...

More Unearthings: Obama Law Review Edition
The Stump — ... Over at the Politico, Ben Smith and Jeffrey Ressner have done some good work chasing down the case comment Obama wrote in his Harvard Law Review days: ...

Lost And Found: Obama’s Law Review Article On Abortion Policy And The Law
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — ... … Babies Die The abortion issue, along with his views on national defense, are very important and telling indictments on this man who would be Messiah to this country. He IS out of touch with the majority in this country … and I do not mean ‘majority’ in the sense of racial. I mean ideologically. His “Change” is pretty much the change Che and Castro inflicted on 1950s Cuba … By BEN SMITH & JEFFREY RESSNER - (Politico) As president of the Harvard Law Review and a law professor in Chicago, ...

Obama's Lost Law Review Article
The Corner on National Review Online — ... Friday, August 22, 2008 [image] Obama's Lost Law Review Article [Andy McCarthy] The Politico has the details [h/t Scott Johnson at ...

Obama has views on abortion, kind of
The Swamp — ... This would be scoop enough. But it turns out the piece was about one of the most volatile questions in American politics: abortion. ...

Obama’s Harvard Law Review Case Comment
Patterico's Pontifications — ... The Politico confirms Barack Obama wrote one case comment that was published a month before he became President of the Harvard Law Review. ...

Carol Platt Liebau: Barack's Writing Unearthed
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Ben Smith found Barack's unsigned case comment from Volume 103 of the Harvard Law Review . It's the only piece of legal writing of his that's been found, so far. Even that was the subject of some pretty fancy footwork on the part of the campaign staff -- which, as Smith notes, had told everyone that as the Review's President, Barack "didn't write articles, he edited and reviewed them." Yes, well, given the Review's publication schedule (at least at the time), this was written in around August of 1989, published in November of '89, and Barack became President in February ...

Friday's Mini-Report
Political Animal — ... Fair " today, a media blog "featuring news links and progressive media criticism from around the web, along with commentary from Eric Boehlert and Jamison Foser." * How do you know a right-wing ad is way too over the top? When Fox News declines to run it . (Except, as it turns out, Fox News ended up running the ad it had rejected.) * I'm probably a big geek, but I really like the video fact-checking clips the Obama campaign's been doing. * Obama's " lost " law review article turned out to be no big deal . * Krugman : "So the Obama ...

Barack Obama: International Man Of Mystery
Wizbang — Well, it took some serious digging, but folks have finally found a single article apparently written by Barack Obama while he was editor of the Law Review at Harvard . oddly enough, it's tangentially related to abortion -- it's about whether or not a fetus has legal standing to sue its mother. (Unfortunately, this was written in 1990, before John Edwards could have told us what the fetus was thinking and feeling.) Obama sides with the consensus of court decisions, and says "no." This, however, highlights the incredibly skimpy paper trail Obama has left behind in his life. ...

Is An Ivy League Eduction Really Important?
All articles at Blogcritics — ... world view, or better preparation to answer the important questions which affect the survival of our society? Occasionally perhaps, but not necessarily. Do folks who did not attend top universities fare worse? Occasionally perhaps, but not necessarily. Does the fact that Senator Obama was the President (or Editor in Chief, depending on the source of information) of the Harvard Law Review mean much? He is said to have been a good leader there, although he is credited with only one comment, unsigned and unattributed, until recently. The lack of attribution is not unusual, ...

Did Bill Ayers Write Obama’s Books?
The Anchoress — ... . Cashill is wrong when he says Obama contributed “not one word” to the Harvard Law Review - it has been determined that he contributed at least this piece, on abortion rights - while he was editor, there. ...

NYT Publishes Misleading Article About 'Pragmatic Views' of 'Law Professor' Obama
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Kantor would be advised to leave out mention of Obama's supposed scholarship especially considering this commentary from Politico: ...

Media Malpractice: Ayers 'Dreams authorship suppressed
American Thinker — ... . It is worth noting that as editor of the Harvard Law Review, Mr. Obama wrote one short article . For such a supposedly gifted writer this is truly odd. And as Cashill has noted, Obama's ...