BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

For goodness sake, Rush! I am not a fan of Obambi's (and I am certainly not a fan of yours) but can you just PRETEND to have some journalistic integrity and check things before you bloviate about them? Oh wait! I forgot - you don't have to - you're Rush! It must have seemed so perfect. An obscure blogger unearths some pages of President Obama's college thesis. The report supposedly comes from big-time journalist Joe Klein of Time magazine. And the thesis has some real gems: like Obama's disdain for the Constitution. The whole thing was nothing more than a satirical post on a humor blog. But Rush Limbaugh, who quoted from the supposed thesis on his radio show, sure wasn't laughing. Here's how it went down. An unknown blogger picked up on a made-up post meant as a joke, which claimed that Joe Klein had gotten his hands on 10 pages of student Obama's college thesis. Rush Limbaugh jumped on it, which immediately sparked Web searches on "obama thesis....

I was 12 when the U.S.A. landed on the moon. Kennedy's dream realized. I remember it was a muggy July night. My whole family was gathered in our living room. My little brother had stayed up late. I sat on a chair next to my beloved Nana, who was in her usual spot in her rocking chair. (A chair I now proudly own.) The sliding door was open and the sound of the crickets under our six apple trees in our large back yard was all you could hear between the crackling of conversation between the astronauts and NASA. I remember clearly, after the "one small step" comment, taking my Nana's hand. I felt part of something so very big. And yet the pictures of Earth from space made me also feel so very small. I was too young to realize until years later, my Nana grew up riding in a horse and buggy. She'd lived to see the invention of the car, the airplane and now space travel. She was quiet, kept her thoughts to herself but watched intently. Nana would be very proud th...