Here is a preview of this week's column. Contrary to the conventional take on the Obama-Farrakhan Debate Moment, Sen. Obama did not reject Farrakhan's support. See for yourself below.

OBAMA'S TRUTHINESS ABOUT FARRAKHAN

Transfixed by the two-candidate "horse race," maybe we didn't focus precisely on what happened in the home stretch of the last Democratic debate when Barack Obama tried to pick and nuance his way through a straight-ahead question from MSNBC's Tim Russert.

Q: Do you accept the support of Louis Farrakhan?

The question arose because the longtime racist and anti-Semitic leader of the racist and anti-Semitic Nation of Islam had delivered a two-hour speech devoted mainly to praising Obama's candidacy.

Here is Obama's answer: "You know, I have been very clear in my denunciation of Minister Farrakhan's anti- ...

Britain's Prince Harry has been fighting the Taliban--in secrecy, as far as the rest of the world (including the Talbian) was concerned until Matt Drudge broke the story today. The Daily Express reports:

The 23-year-old Household Cavalry officer has spent the past 10 weeks serving in war-ravaged Helmand Province.

The deployment had been cloaked in secrecy under a news blackout deal agreed across the UK media to prevent details reaching the Taliban and endangering Harry and his comrades.

But the arrangement broke down today after news was leaked out on the US website the Drudge Report.

Which was a lousy thing to do.

    After William F. Buckley, Jr. died this week, I was asked if I would be writing about him in Friday’s column. No, I replied, realizing I didn’t feel I had much to say about him that wouldn’t be much more vividly expressed by those who had known and worked for him. I never had the pleasure of meeting him; I have never written for National Review. I did attend Yale—and as a student with conservative views—so I feel some loose connection to what I know of the ideas expressed in God and Man at Yale. Still, my first editorial job was working for Irving Kristol at The Public Interest, which placed me on the neoconservative side of opinion journalism, even if that is not where I ...

Picked up on Hollywood's latest mass perfidy--Oscar-chic, orange lapel-ribbon solidarity for Gitmo jihadists--at the always-invigorating Atlas Shrugs. The Miami Herald spotted so many stars wearing their terror-sympathies on their Oscar outfits it was able to put together a slide show. It starts with Julie Christie (below).  Time to watch your favorite John Wayne  (Robert Montgomery, Robert Taylor, Jimmy Stewart, Ginger Rogers...) movie.

Will The Washington Times under its new editor John Solomon (late of the Washington Post) remain DC's "conservative" newspaper? Here are some new style rules:

"Hillary" must be called "Clinton" when she merits a headline. (By golly, this is a Serious newspaper, and Hillary, I mean, Clinton is a Serious senator....)

There is to be no further use of stylistic markers indicating political and cultural controversy over same-sex marriage.

And, most indicative of the new PC, the paper has determined that the untold millions of "illegal aliens" flouting this nation's laws (and effectively transforming an English-speaking people into a Spanish one) deserve a  significant euphemistic promotion: From hereon in, such "illegal aliens" are to be reported on as "illegal immigrants." What strikes me about the implication ...

Today is the birthday of Tex Avery (1908-1980), famous for producing Dat Wabbit (above), among other pop immortals. According to lore (does Wikipedia count as "lore"?), his catch-phrase as a student at North Dallas HIgh School (Class of 1927) was "What's up, doc?" The rest is cartoon history.

I've been reading Peter Brock's Media Cleansing--a white-hot excoriation of media malfeasance, laziness, gullibility, and mendaciousness in reporting the civil wars in what we came to know of in the 1990s as "the former Yugoslavia." The elemental, systematic misreporting of these wars that he uncovers at least rivals the misreporting of the Tet Offensive, and seems to have a more indelible quality, still defying revision all these years later.

While wondering what he might have to say about Kosovo--couldn't find anything--I came across this 2006 piece by Julia Gorin  weaving together  (shockingly) related topics including Musharraf, Daniel Pearl, Bill Clinton, MI-6, Serbia, Israel, OBL, being o ...

Stuart Taylor considers the question in thought-provoking detail, kicking off from Sen. Obama's 2007 statement that his own daughters should be regarded as "folks who are pretty advantaged" by college admissions officers--and not as applicants requiring racial preference. As Taylor explains, if Obama is the Democratic nominee, racial preferences could become a hugely significant issue in the presidential campaign.

Here is an excerpt:

[Taylor hopes] to see Obama at least acknowledge that it's time to start phasing out racial preferences and replacing them with special consideration for promising low-income kids without regard to race. Indeed, Obama might need to go at least that far to win the general election if the Republicans are smart enough to shine a spotlight on the logical implications of his response to Stephanopoulos and of his pos ...

Andy McCarthy sees through some of the conventional confusion on Pakistan at The Corner: specifically, about Sen. Obama's alleged Bomb Pakistan's Jihadist Regions policy (which McCarthy guesses is completely insincere) and conservative scorn for said policy against "our ally Pakistan," which McCarthy notes is completey inconsistent with anti-jihad doctrine. This is particularly true now that Musharraf is on his way out (thanks to "democracy") and what McCarthy  calls "an amalgam of pro-jihadists and Leftists, united by their mutual legacy of corrupt governance" and willingness to enter into "dialogue" with jihadists is now taking power.

Addressing another Cornerite, McCarthy writes:

What you, Senator McCain, and others who spout this "our ally ...

After police in Denmark discovered a plot to assassinate Kurt Westergaard, one of the 12 Danish Mo-toon creators (his is above), he and his wife had to abandon their home last November. Earlier this month, after Danish police arrested his three potential assassins, Westergaard and his wife were asked to leave their police-protected hotel. Now, reports Der Spiegel, they are HOMELESS.

That's right. In the heart of Europe, an artist's life is threatened, his home-life destroyed, and now his sanctuary disrupted by what? Islam in the heart of Europe. And why? I'm going to answer by pulling a paragraph out of