Andrew Sullivan posted this image: Which originally came from The Consumerist , except that it’s wrong. They chose to ignore the same history I’m sure Coca Cola wants to ignore, just to make a point. Except the point doesn’t really exist if the data used to make the point was altered drastically along the same vector as the point itself, right? Remember these? I mean, this is how the giant echo chamber of the internet happens.

One of my friends in the small community of Obama “birther”-debunkers passes on quite the discovery: a 1964 “certified copy of registration of birth” from Australia, easily available on Bomford.net, a genealogy site. There are striking similarities between this document … The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan found this 3 hours ago on washingtonindependent.com Find more top political news, videos, and blogs on BeltwayBlips: White House , Barack Obama , Australia

Andrew McCarthy wonders at National Review : “If Obama wants to strike a connection with graduating students in Moscow, he makes up a story about meeting his “future wife . . . in class” (Barack and Michelle Obama met at work). If he wants to posture about his poverty and struggle in America, he waxes eloquent about his single mother’s surviving on “food stamps” so she could use every cent to send him “to the best schools in the country” ( Obama was raised by his maternal grandparents, who had good jobs and were able to pull strings to get him into an elite Hawaiian prep school).

Staff Report Source:  S.C. State Ethics Commission http://www.sc.gov/PublicReporting/IndividualCandidate/ViewContributions.aspx Candidate: Peagler, Daniel E Position Sought: State House Representative District/Locale: 69 Election Type: General Election Date: 11/02/2010 Filing Type: Original Filing Date: 07/08/2009 Online disclosure reports show Mr. Daniel Peagler’s campaign is financed solely by trial lawyers from across the State of South Carolina including a SC Trial Lawyers Assn.

“The American economy shrank at an annual rate of 1 percent from April through June,” reports The Times’s Jack Healy. And there was much rejoicing! Why? Healy explains that the report stoked “hopes that the worst recession since the Great Depression was nearly over” and that “the Commerce Department revised its earlier assessments of the country’s woes, saying that the economy contracted at a pace of 6.4 percent in the first three months of the year, compared with an earlier figure of 5.5 percent.” Things are better than they were back when we didn’t know how bad they were.