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​Political Vel Craft ("Veil of Politics") is an amazing site with ads against the climate change "con," a link to the U.S. Debt Clock and blanket coverage of the WikiLeaks-exposed marriage between the United Kingdom and The Illuminati. There's also a call for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to intervene on behalf of Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, who is being court-martialed for refusing to serve under Barack Obama. The military man seems destined to lose his "courageous" legal quest to have Obama declared ineligible to be Commander in Chief, laments the site. But Political Vel Craft notes in...

this would be a direct way to kill the bill

U.S. Attorneys with the Department of Justice have moved to dismiss Orly Taitz's Quo Warranto case for lack of jurisdiction. Additionally, the U.S. Attorneys' Office asserts that any judicial or bar sanctions against Dr. Taitz are the consequences of her own actions. "Although, to Defendant's knowledge, this is Dr. Taitz’s first case in which she serves as Plaintiff, this is not her first bite at the apple, or even her second: she has unsuccessfully represented plaintiffs in at least three judicial districts seeking to raise similar claims. In each of these cases, the United States district courts have declined to...

In case you don't know, after the terror attacks of 9/11/01, there were indeed a few Americans who honestly believed that the federal government was so corrupt that it was behind and responsible for the events of September 11. Even though we all watched in shock, as hijacked planes flew into the twin towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, these folks imagined that someone in Washington DC might have blown up those buildings instead. Not that our federal government isn't capable of such things, mind you... but they are not likely to pull off such a thing without anyone...

In case you don’t know, after the terror attacks of 9/11/01, there were indeed a few Americans who honestly believed that the federal government was so corrupt that it was behind and responsible for the events of September 11th. Even though we all watched in shock, as hijacked planes flew into the twin towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, these folks imagined that someone in Washington DC might have blown up those buildings instead. Not that our federal government isn’t capable of such things, mind you… but they are not likely to pull off such a thing without anyone...

When a lawyer files complaints and motions without a reasonable basis for believing that they are supported by existing law or a modification or extension of existing law, that lawyer abuses her privilege to practice law. When a lawyer uses the courts as a platform for a political agenda disconnected from any legitimate legal cause of action, that lawyer abuses her privilege to practice law. When a lawyer personally attacks opposing parties and disrespects the integrity of the judiciary, that lawyer abuses her privilege to practice law. When a lawyer recklessly accuses a judge of violating the Judicial Code of...

<p>In a new twist to the Washington arguments against questioning President Obama's birthplace, the senior senator from South Dakota says it just doesn't matter.</p> <p>Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Jr.</p> <p>In a letter responding to an inquiry from a constituent, Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., says Barack Obama "is a natural born citizen of the United States regardless of the location of his birth."</p>

Tim Johnson: He's natural born citizen 'regardless' of place Posted: October 01, 2009 12:30 am Eastern © 2009 WorldNetDaily In a new twist to the Washington arguments against questioning President Obama's birthplace, the senior senator from South Dakota says it just doesn't matter. Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Jr. In a letter responding to an inquiry from a constituent, Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., says Barack Obama "is a natural born citizen of the United States regardless of the location of his birth." "President Obama's mother was a citizen of the United States, and children of American citizens are conferred citizenship...

Leo Says: ATTENTION…. I want as much focus on this blog as possible when I publish Part 3 of the TerriK Investigation Report, subtitled: STATE OF HAWAII LAW DEMANDS THAT VITAL RECORDS INFORMATION FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA BE RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC ALONG WITH ALL RECORDS PERTAINING TO DoH DIRECTOR FUKINO’S JULY 27, 2009 PRESS RELEASE. Not only has Obama waived privacy interests, the state waived them as well. More important is the fact that state law governs that no privacy interest exception applies when the information requested is required to be released under the UIPA at 92F-12. The only question...

The so called Kenyan Bith Certificate ogf Obama has a footprint at the bottom. The one thing that bothers me to this day is this: After the Lucas Smith Birth Cert. was publicized, there is not one single comment I can find from anybody regarding the Footprint and how it can disprove the birthers. I have heard people say that all we have to do is match up Obama’s footprint and we have our evidence. But, I have not heard anybody from the Obama camp state that it is not his footprint!!! Because it just might be. This lack of...

...Can we all agree, or mostly agree, that the full-blown birthers are nuts? They aren’t conservative, they aren’t Republican, and they don’t tell us anything about conservatives or Republicans in general. They’re just nuts, but they’re nuts in a very special, entertaining and almost endearing way...

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Link only...funny stuff. http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/afterbirthers_demand_to_see?utm_source=a-section

Right before the media light dimmed on birthers, however, birther attorney Orly Taitz made a bit of a splash - at least in the birther community - when she posted a birth certificate purported to be for Obama from the Republic of Kenya and filed a motion in federal court to determine its authenticity... ...We e-mailed the purported Kenyan birth certificate to Salim Lone, spokesman for Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, to see what he thought. Here was his three-sentence reply: "It's a forgery. Kenya only became a Republic in December, 1964. Other arguments could also be marshaled, but they...

We've all had our fun watching people stand up at town hall meetings and loudly assert that President Obama was born in Kenya. It was a giggle to see the anonymous online hordes argue that an obvious forgery - apparently done by a kindergartner, with crayon - is the president's real birth certificate. There's an undeniable majesty in the pretzel logic employed to argue that Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate, two newspaper announcements, and repeated statements by the state's Republican governor are all part of a 48-year-old conspiracy. But the grand prank that is the "birther" movement needs to be wrapped...

A naive person might believe that Barack Hussein Obama was born, as he has long said he was, in Hawaii to a young American mother and a distant father from Kenya. There are notices in two local papers and the certification of birth is filed in the state of Hawaii’s records. An independent body — FactCheck.org — part of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, asked to see a copy of the original during last year’s campaign. FactCheck is non-partisan and takes all sorts of politicians’ claims to task. Here’s its take on Obama’s birth certificate:...

To the Oscars, the Grammys and the Emmys, you can now add a wonderful new distinction: the Dobbies. Awarded by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Dobbies, named after CNN commentator Lou Dobbs, honor the year's greatest declaration of bigotry, chauvinism and plain stupidity. My candidate for the Dobbies this year is the "birther" movement, which claims that President Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate is not kosher, and, therefore, he may not have been born on American soil. Was he even born in American airspace? Was he even born in American outer space? Good questions, all raised by this supposedly dubious...

The first encounter I had with what is now commonly known as a "birther" was right after the 2008 election. It was with one of my relatives. "Obama wasn't even born in this country," she-who-will-remain-nameless proclaimed. "No, you've got it mixed up. McCain wasn't born in this country," I said. "He was born in Panama, but it was a U.S. territory at the time." "No, it's Obama. He was born in Hawaii, and Hawaii wasn't a state yet." "Hawaii became a state in 1959," I busted out with some grade-school civics class knowledge. And then, there it was, the thing...

It used to be tough and unrewarding to be a crank. You had to communicate by inky mimeograph. The big media monopolies refused to accept your calls. Your neighbours ignored you or laughed at you. How that has changed! Modern communication technology has empowered cranks, enabling them to build entire virtual crank communities. It has multiplied the number of media outlets --and thus the number of hours to fill -- creating new crank opportunities on radio and television. Among the greatest beneficiaries of these new opportunities: the cranks known as "birthers." The birthers claim that U. S. President Barack Obama...

Was the president of the United States secretly born abroad? Was there an elaborate conspiracy to hide his true origins so he could get elected commander in chief? Is the birth certificate his campaign provided before last November's election really incomplete or fraudulent? Sounds like the stuff of a tabloid novel or an episode of "The X-Files" more than a series of claims that have gained traction through chain e-mails and cable news shows, newspapers and even the federal court system. We refer, of course, to the so-called "birther" movement, which maintains that Barack Obama isn't a "natural born citizen,"...

Say something often enough and it will become true. Some people believe that wholeheartedly and, in limited instances, I agree. In dealing with insufferable people, for example, I find that repeating the mantra ``This too shall pass'' or ``It could be worse'' can make any interaction tolerable. When it comes to an attitude adjustment, dogged repetition works wonders. Facts, however, don't bend to insistence. I wish the ``birthers'' would face up to that. Claiming that President Obama is not a native-born U.S. citizen, repeating it on talk shows, websites and blogs, won't make it so. He was born in Honolulu,...

Truth, they say, is the first casualty of war. And politics, some say, is war by other means. So you know where that leaves truth in politics. It’s a sad thing to say, especially to young people, who should be seeing politics as a way to make their society better. Some hold out the view that politics in a free society can be about truth, because all the lies get aired and get rebutted, and the truth emerges. In some degree, in the long run, there’s some, uh, truth to that. Meanwhile, though, a lot of people just listen to...

A lot of us have heard by now that there is a movement of people who deny and refuse to accept that President Barack Obama was born in the United States. These "Birthers" have a lot in common with the people who despite overwhelming evidence, refuse to believe humans are dramatically changing the global climate. Here is a list of 5 common things both Global Warming Deniers and "Birthers" have in common: 6. Both hold to be true unpopular beliefs. The "Birthers" belief that Barack Obama was not born in America and the belief that Global Warming doesn't exist, are...

President Barack Obama was born outside of the United States, according to certain conspiracy theorists. Perhaps Kenya, they say. In Hawaii, where Obama grew up, the president’s birth certificate is on file, but the theorists say it’s all part of a government cover-up. They say it’s a fake and he shouldn’t be allowed to hold office. We shake our heads at these theories and wonder why people waste their time on such nonsense. Last week, members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously on House Resolution 593, which we hope will put an end to “birthgate.” Officially, the resolution...

It looks like Orly Taitz and her fellow Obama "birthers" have been "punk’d" by an Obama supporter, said David Weigel in The Washington Independent. An anonymous blogger posted four photos apparently showing the creation of the "infamous" fake Kenyan Obama birth certificate touted by Taitz, along with a "mocking" itemized list, MasterCard-style, that starts with "Fine cotton business paper: $11" and ends with "Punkin’ the Birthers: Priceless."... After she was "punk'd' by the Kenyan birth certificate, Taitz has "become too much even for the Birther movement,' said Eric Kleefeld in Talking Point Memo. Even "the apparent godfather of Birtherism,' Andy...

The White House Thursday morning expressed exasperation with news that a poll of indicating that only 53% of Virginians in a recent poll were sure that President Obama was born in the U.S. “You couldn’t sell this script in Hollywood,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters of the conspiracy theorists, called birthers. “Tell me if you’ve heard one that’s this totally crazy,” Gibbs said. “A pregnant woman leaves her home to go overseas to have a child -- who there’s not a passport for -- so is in cahoots with someone…to smuggle that child, that previously doesn’t exist...

The Orly Taitz circus must be shut down. First, Taitz is professionally incompetent. She is a dentist with a questionable law degree. She knows as much about law as I know about filling teeth (because she was trained in Israel, I assume she is an excellent dentist; but who knows?). Second, most of Taitz’ conspiracy claims originate in disinformation. I don’t know who creates all of this disinformation, but I have a strong suspicion. Third, Taitz exercises no professional discipline, and manifests professional incompetence, by filing claims and documents with courts when these claims and documents have no arguable validity.

It’s looking more and more like the forged “Kenyan birth certificate” released by Orly Taitz on Sunday was a prank by a supporter of President Obama. Politijab points to an anonymous blogger at FearlessBlogging, who has uploaded four photos of the original forgery and a mocking declaration: Fine cotton business paper: $11 Inkjet printer: $35 1940 Royal Model KMM manual typewriter: $10 2 Shilling coin: $1 Pilot Varsity fountain pen: $3 Punkin’ the Birthers: Priceless

The White House on Thursday mocked the idea that some continue to disbelieve that President Barack Obama was born in the U.S., saying "you couldn't sell that to The WB." White House press secretary Robert Gibbs joked about what he sees as the absurd notion that a pregnant woman would fly to Kenya to have a child, being in "cahoots" with someone in order to smuggle the newborn illegal alien back to the U.S. and forge a birth certificate so that child could run for president "46 and a half years later." "You couldn't sell that script in Hollywood," Gibbs...

the Democratic National Committee in a new web video is depicting the protestors as irrational birthers who want to "destroy" President Obama.Woodhouse said: "The right wing extremists’ use of things like devil horns on pictures of our elected officials, hanging members of Congress in effigy, breathlessly questioning the president's citizenship and the use of Nazi SS symbols and the like just shows how outside of the mainstream the Republican Party and their allies are. This type of anger and discord did not serve Republicans well in 2008 -- and it is bound to backfire again."

Birther Movement Product of Clinton Campaign. So all you birthers are merely following the lead of a Clinton campaign "strategist." Larry Johnson is the guy who came up with the Obama birth certificate farse. He did so while working for the Clinton campaign. For those of you who do not know him, Johnson was a former CIA analyst. The Democrats used him to criticize the Iraq war. He then worked for the Clinton campaign as a propagandist. Before his entry into politics, this sh*t was previously famous for writing in a July 2001 NY Times op-ed that foreign terrorists were...

The Democratic National Committee has released a new video to push back against protests happening at town hall meetings across the country, and according to ABC's Jake Tapper, these demonstrators are being depicted as "irrational birthers who want to 'destroy' President Obama."

If you’re the sort of person who believes there’s still doubt that Barack Obama was born in the United States, you can go to WorldNetDaily for all of your news. There you’ll find several updates a day on this developing story. You can also order a DVD documentary, “A Question of Eligibility,” set for release Tuesday, Aug. 4 — the date on which Obama was born 48 years ago in, presumably, some other country, which would make him ineligible to be president. Or you can check out the blog of Orly Taitz, the attorney-dentist who is helping to raise awareness...

THREE stories that have kept the US news media on a breath taking slew of commentaries in recent weeks, producing some of the worst racial hype in years. First: President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor -- a federal judge on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit -- to replace the retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter had stirred the Republican base to try to denigrate and defeat the nomination. Sotomayor, a Princeton graduate and a Yale Jurist Doctor, has heard appeals in more than 3,000 cases and has written about 380 opinions in the Second Circuit, is considered...

They are living in denial. In America they are equated to lunatics, but their push to drop anything credible to force President Obama out of office includes forgery in the land of Obama’s father. The group — the birthers — are the fringe “lunatics” who insist Obama is not a natural-born citizen — a US constitutional requirement for the presidency. Russian-born lawyer, dentist and estate agent Orly Taitz, on the eve of Obama’s 48th birthday, told CNN’s David Shuster: “Your listeners need to know the truth”. But the birth certificate purporting Mr Obama was born in Kenya differs with genuine...

Writing in the New York Daily News, James Kirchick highlights the curious trajectory of the recent spate of news stories and blog posts about "birthers"--a fringe group of conspiracy theorists who deny President Obama’s birth in Hawaii and concoct elaborate but specious arguments in favor of his removal from office on the basis that he is not a "natural-born citizen". Because the United States uses a jus solis rule for determining citizenship by birth within the territory of the United States and because the birth certificate already displayed by the Obama campaign last year meets all the legal requirements used...

I was watching the opening of Glenn Beck's TV show a short time ago. He was talking about the DNC ad claiming the Republican party sending mobs to town hall meetings to oppose BO's socialist health care plan. One clip from the ad showed a woman at a town hall meeting in Delaware showing her birth certificate and asking why BO can't do the same to prove he is a natural born citizen. Beck then made the observation they had to use a clip of a "birther Idiot". The term birther couldn't be more misleading since it refers to people...

For the last few days I have been trying to shake the overwhelming sense that we have all been flipped into a novel, an outrageous conflation of 1984, The Manchurian Candidate, and Idiot America. In this version, O’Brien need not torture Winston into believing that five is actually four, because the part of Winston has been hijacked by Orly Taitz. And Orly is maniacally, manically angry that Big Brother hasn’t yet posted Goldstein’s long-form birth certificate on the telescreen. We’re not even in Kansas anymore – the proles voting against their own interests for the benefit of an ever-greater Oceania...

OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE SPOTTED IN BOGUS MOON LANDING FOOTAGEAugust 5, 2009 Tardy though they are, we welcome MSNBC to finally joining every major conservative news outlet -- including Fox News, The American Spectator, Human Events, National Review and Sweetness & Light -- in discrediting the idea that President Obama wasn't born in this country and, therefore, is ineligible to be president. Now the big question: Was Joe Biden born on this planet? Inasmuch as the "birther" movement was hatched in the station wagon of MSNBC's favorite left-wing fantasist, Larry Johnson, maybe the mainstream media can stop acting as if it's...

I've never really been called a "Broad" -- but I've been told that once upon a time it was actually a compliment. A Broad could hold her liquor, make a guy laugh, comment about a ballgame... Think Maclaine or Dickinson in the Rat Pack days. I like to think I'm a Broad. (Ok the liquor thing -- not so much anymore. I'm a lightweight now. Practically a teetotaler.)Shirley Maclaine when she was a fun broad -- not a New Age quack.And I've managed seldom to be called a "Witch with a B" -- to my face anyway. I deliberately chose a husband who does not use such...

In my personal opinion, Obama is a disaster for America. I believe future historians will describe this period as the OBAMA CATASTROPHE - the time when America collectively lost its mind and voted for a man and a group of leftists who quickly destroyed the nation in favor of socialism and income redistribution. However, if people want to save the American nation and way of life - the best and most benevolent society in human history; opposition must be passionate and RATIONAL. The entire legitimacy or birther issue is indeed passionate but definitely not rational. It has been frustrating to...

LUNACY in America has become so bad that, last night on a cable news TV network, Orly Taitz, the queen of the “birther” movement, called those who believe that Barack Obama is an American citizen by birth “brownshirts”. Birthers are the fringe lunatics challenging Obama’s eligibility to be president of the United States. They insist that he is not a natural-born citizen — a US constitutional requirement for the presidency. Brownshirts were the armed and uniformed Nazi party militia of 1930s Germany — the Sturmabteilung. Russian-born lawyer, dentist and estate agent Taitz, on the eve of Obama’s 48th birthday yesterday,...

Aug. 5, 2009 | There are, sadly, a lot of Birthers out there. A recent poll showed that 11 percent of Americans -- including 28 percent of Republicans -- don't believe President Obama was born in the U.S. Another 12 percent aren't sure. So, at some point, you're likely to find out that a friend or relative is a Birther. Your Uncle Floyd will forward you a chain e-mail that says Obama was actually born in Kenya and there's a Kenyan birth certificate that proves it and hundreds of government officials and reporters are in on a conspiracy to hide...

On Aug. 2 there came to light a birth certificate showing that Barack Obama was born in Coast General Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya in 1961. It was published far and wide, but was quickly shown to be a forgery: It says it was issued by the Republic of Kenya on Feb. 17, 1964, before there was a Republic of Kenya, and when Kenya was still a British Dominion. Who would have an interest in publishing such an obvious forgery at this time? How did the Obama birth certificate question, so widely ridiculed by both the left and the right, become...

Silly me. Silly you. Here we were thinking that the presidential election of 2008 was over and done with in—well, in 2008. And that the winner was a certain junior senator from the great state of Illinois, who rolled up a victory margin of landslide proportions (at least by modern-day standards, and certainly by George W. Bush standards, to pick a name at random). Anyway, you were somehow under the impression that all of that was settled business. Fat chance. Not that you were expecting the loyal opposition to roll over and play dead. That was never in the cards—not...

Orly Taitz, the Birther lawyer who released the document that was supposedly a copy of President Obama's Kenyan birth certificate, has now taken to her blog with an angry screed in response to the evidence that her find is in fact a poorly done forgery.Referring to the discovery that the purportedly Kenyan document was almost certainly based on a copy of a birth certificate issued for an Australian man, David Jeffrey Bomford, Taitz writes, "Recently Obama’s thugs in main stream (sic) media came up with this Bomford report in order to stop my efforts in exposing and prosecuting Obama. Though...

PM, a series on the Australian Broadcast Channel, tracked down David Bomford, the man whose Australian birth certificate was used as the basis for the forged “Obama Kenyan birth certificate” that Orly Taitz posted online Sunday. The key bit of the interview: DINA ROSENDORFF: Looking over the documents in question Mr Bomford still can’t quite believe his eyes. DAVID JEFFREY BOMFORD: It’s little old me and my mum and everything else up there. Oh I definitely confirm that the birth certificate was mine. That was quite easy to see – my address, even the style of the birth certificate was...

First of all, we believe that two vibrant political parties are necessary for a strong America. Competition almost always leads to good ideas. When one party dominates, you tend to see arrogance and foolish policies creep in, and that may already be happening to the Obama administration. According to Real Clear Politics, President Obama's job approval rating is falling faster than any modern president except for Bill Clinton. Since his inauguration, the president has lost 16 points in about six months. Now, that should bolster Republicans, especially conservatives who dislike the president's policies. But here's the interesting deal: Many conservative...

WASHINGTON — Six Texas congressmen are in the middle of a summertime political tempest sweeping the nation's capital over legislation to require future presidential candidates to show birth certificates to prove they are “natural born citizens” of the United States eligible to serve as president.