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The coronavirus that emerged from Wuhan, China, last year is causing alarm across the world, with fear that this could become the next pandemic. Late last month, the World Health Organization declared the virus, named COVID-19, a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern" and urged an immediate international response. It advised its member states to put in place national preparedness plans and procedures for identifying and responding to any COVID-19 cases that might present. The death toll of more than 2,600 people far exceeds that of the SARS outbreak nearly 17 years ago.

No one much cared about Obama’s second book, The Audacity of Hope, a policy brief written by committee and published in 2006. It was his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, that emerged as the sacred text in the cult of Obama. “There is no underestimating the importance of Dreams from My Father in the political rise of Barack Obama,” New Yorker editor David Remnick would later write in his exhaustive look at Obama’s life and career, The Bridge. The problem, of course, is that Obama did not write either of his books in any meaningful way. On October 9,...

Barack Obama has displayed a disturbing pattern of work ethics: shirking work; claiming success when he was not entitled to do so; hiding his failures; and claiming the work of others as his own -- when it was successful. These are not character traits that we should associate with Presidents. Barack Obama won praise for Dreams From My Father, a 1995 memoir of his life that was published when he reached the grand old age of thirty-four. The provenance of the book has come into question, led by a series of American Thinker columns by Jack Cashill, who used textual...

Note to Chris Matthews: when mocking someone for using a ghostwriter, it's best to avoid doing so on a day when Hillary Clinton is prominently in the news . . . On this evening's Hardball, Matthews went out of his way to mock Joe The Plumber for his use of a ghostwriter on his just-released book, Joe The Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream. This on the day Hillary Clinton was in the headlines, having been named Barack Obama's Secretary of State. You know, Hillary Clinton. The woman famous, in writing "It Takes A Village," for failing to credit her...

New York ON A THURSDAY they had the book party. It was a simple affair: just family, friends, coworkers, and journalists. They came to Ambassador Joseph Wilson's house, nestled in the ritzy Palisades neighborhood of Northwest Washington, to celebrate the release of his first book, The Politics of Truth. One thing Joe Wilson keeps track of is his "Notoriety Quotient," or the amount of attention he receives from the media. And that Thursday it seemed to be on the rise. For the past week The Politics of Truth was mentioned in the same breath as Ron Suskind's The Price of...

OK, back from the frontlines...we had a blast Freeping the idiots waiting in line to meet the bride of Satan in her pink pantsuit. Me and MO4BUSH were right outside the door of the store. I had the great Doctored photo of Hillary's LYING HISTORY with me and made alot of copies. We got a lot of stupid comebacks but just as many thumbs up. I was able to tell the people as they were going in that they were not allowed to make eye contact and they had to kiss her ring. I swear, some people thought I was...

According to ghostwriting guru Mahesh Grossman, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is a ghostwriters 'nightmare' who worked with five writers on three books.Part of the reason is Clinton's hard nosed reputation. Grossman says she is a tough taskmaster who has a certain way of seeing things.Also, Clinton doesnt like discussing the messy details of her past and is bound to hate any ghostwriter who brings up Monica Lewinsky and Whitewater-even if she agreed to talk about it.She's also cheap. Grossman claims Clinton tried to stiff one ghostwriter out of $30,000.00.But that doesn't mean ghostwriters have no way to retaliate. Back in...

Who wrote Hillary's book?William F. Buckley (archive) June 2, 2003 | Print | SendThere is a swirl of controversy having to do with writing, with credit for writing, and with disclosure about who writes what and under what circumstances.One critic on television deems it outrageous that Hillary Clinton has been paid $8 million to write a book which she did in fact not write. It appears to be everywhere accepted that she didn't, one day, sit down and start reading the 5 million pages of news clips, election returns, campaign speeches, editorials, columns, journals, trip itineraries, and personal letters that...

A BIZARRE PHENOMENON first observed in the 1940s became a crime-fiction epidemic by the 1990s. Famous entertainers, athletes, and presidential relatives began sitting down at the typewriter to bang out mystery novels. Or so they would have us believe. In truth, nearly every one of those celebrities made a deal through an agent or book packager, collected a nice advance for the use of the name, and left to a professional ghostwriter all the actual writing. Ghostwriting is a time-honored practice, and most readers surely realize that movie stars and baseball players have help with their memoirs--just as all politicians...