Daily Archives: 16 September, 2008

Corsi’s Dull Hatchet

FactCheck.org:

Despite its place near the top of The New York Times’ nonfiction bestseller list, where it has been riding high for the past six weeks, Jerome Corsi’s “The Obama Nation” is not a reliable source of facts about Obama.

Corsi cites opinion columns and unsourced, anonymous blogs as if they were evidence of factual claims. Where he does cite legitimate news sources, he frequently distorts the facts. In some cases, Corsi simply ignores readily accessible information when it conflicts with his arguments.

Elfreth’s Alley

Orignally, the city was designed with wide streets because Penn learned a few lessons from the great fire of London. As more and more people moved in, however, some property owners started subdiving their property and creating their own streets/alleys.

In Candidates, 2 Approaches to Wall Street

NYTimes.com

The crisis on Wall Street will leave the next president facing tough choices about how best to regulate the financial system, and although neither Senator Barack Obama nor Senator John McCain has yet offered a detailed plan, their records and the principles they have set out so far suggest they could come at the issue in very different ways.