Free Republic

The tea-party movement has no leader. But it does have a face: William Temple of Brunswick, Ga. For months, the amiable middle-aged activist has been criss-crossing America, appearing at tea-party events dressed in his trademark three-cornered hat and Revolutionary garb. When journalists interview him (which is often—his outfit draws them in like a magnet), he presents himself as a human bridge between the founders' era and our own. "We fought the British over a 3 percent tea tax. We might as well bring the British back," he told NPR during a recent protest outside the Capitol. It's a charming act,...

President Barry Hussein Soetoro had a lot on this mind at the National Prayer Breakfast February 4, 2010. He thought that he’d confess the fact that he’s not always right. Something that he apparently thought his religious audience would like to hear, but certainly not at all what he really believes. (see 1:03min video) President Soetoro elected to miss the first prayer breakfast of his presidency last year. Maybe because it was a little too much prayer for his liking or maybe a little to religious for his taste. Or maybe he was still trying to earn his Muslim street...

The eligibility issue has constantly been mischaracterized as a "citizenship" issue, or a "birth certificate" issue, and major media outlets keep playing on this same theme over and over, ridiculing those who want the truth. I suspect they are partially driven by fear. Fear they won't get interviews, fear they won't get invitations, fear they won't get to cover important issues if this issue is included in what they cover. Even Fox News continues to ridicule and mischaracterize this very important Constitutional issue. Can we attack this administration on other valid issues? Yes, of course. I don't advocate doing anything...

American Grand Jury has archived extensive records over the past year which we used in our jury hearings. We now believe beyond a reasonable doubt that Obama is not a “natural born” citizen and it is even possible that he may be an illegal alien. We also have records showing the Democratic National Convention fraudulently declared Obama constitutionally eligible while never vetting the “natural born” requirement with the electorate. Now, new evidence has come to light whereby Dr. James Manning has declared that Obama never attended Columbia University [New York].Dr. Manning has hired a team of investigators to comb over...

(Feb. 8, 2010) — Another thought-provoking article appeared yesterday in The American Thinker, where Jack Cashill takes “Another Look at Obama’s Origins.” As the author of several previous articles regarding ”eligibility,” I received a lot of ridicule and criticism, being one of the early writers to suggest the man bore a striking resemblance to Malcolm X in my articles published in the British newspapers. -more at link - http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/02/08/where-are-our-security-services/

The presidential eligibility issue reached critical mass last week when Barack Obama addressed it in his National Prayer Breakfast speech and I hit it hard at the nationally televised tea-party convention, representing the first time the importance and legitimacy of the birth-certificate controversy has been dealt with in such a media forum. From the beginning, this issue has separated the wheat from the chaff, the men from the boys, the constitutionalists from the political pragmatists. It's an issue that makes many weak in the knees. I keep hearing how it is not a "winning issue." How do I put this...

The so-called "birther" movement apparently is alive and well at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville. While the bulk of the three-day affair has been spent on strategizing for the 2010 elections and figuring out how to grow the conservative activist base, convention-goers shifted their attention from tax-and-spending complaints to President Obama's citizenship during a rousing speech after dinner Friday night by WorldNetDaily.com founder Joseph Farah. Farah, a conservative newsman whose raison d'etre of late has been to challenge Obama's eligibility to be president, used the bulk of his remarks to hit that point -- and got quite a...

Here’s some new information – haven’t even added it to my blog yet. According to http://uspolitics.about.com/od/senators/a/barack_obama.htm , Axelrod started videotaping Obama in 2003 for footage that he later used in Obama’s January 16, 2007 announcement that he would run for the presidency. According to the UIPA responses received by Terri K and myself and the retention schedules for receipts, Obama’s amendment happened sometime between September of 2006 and January of 2007, since those records are to be retained for 3 years and receipts for fees to amend Obama’s vital records were denied to Terri K in September of 2006 and...

Just a year ago "tea party" was, for Americans, a term stuck in history, associated only with the glorious 1773 uprising in Boston. Now it pertains to a movement whose supporters – and their champion Sarah Palin – believe they can deliver another revolution against forces also seeking to ruin the country with high taxes and the big boot of intrusive government. A loose, grassroots coalition of disaffected conservatives, evangelicals and a smattering of libertarians, they have already helped derail Barack Obama's health care reform and kill plans for a carbon tax. Tea party volunteers and canvassers aided the capture...

Like Rodney Dangerfield, ‘the Constitution don’t get no respect’ either, especially from the entire 111th Congress, the Judiciary and the Supreme Court, and the de facto pResident Barry Soetoro/aka Barack Hussein Obama! If you, as do I, respect the Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land, and; If you, as do I, respect the Office of the President and Commander in Chief; Then you, as do I, must dis-respect (and reject) anyone who dis-respects the Constitution and the Office of President and Commander in Chief. The Constitution is a ‘contract’ between we, the sovereign citizens only (not illegal aliens...

Thomas Jefferson said a number of memorable things about the young country of America and what it truly meant to be an American, but the above sentiment holds a special meaning. It speaks not to our laws or freedoms, but to the noble character and human spirit that lies at the heart of our laws and freedoms. Jefferson is telling us that morality and honor should be cherished and preserved, for without them all else is lost. Sadly, today Jefferson’s words fall on deaf ears in our halls of power, and the key to turning this country around lies in...

Joseph Farrah's speech at this Tea Party Convention this week brought the "Birther Movement" back into the forefront at least for a few days. At the convention Farrah said that the "Birther movement" was a key part of the Tea Party agenda, a thought that seemed to be rejected by most of the people at the convention. After his speech Andrew Breitbart and Farrah had a heated conversation about the speech and Brietbart's correct assertion that the birther argument is "not a winning issue.” (read more about their spat at Hot Air) I guess I can be considered a "reformed...

Investigating the roots of the Obama birthplace conspiracy theory, John Avlon—author of Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America, available now on Beast Books—uncovers the first Birther and finds she's a Hillary Clinton supporter also implicated in Dan Rather's exit from CBS.

The Obama Timeline is the complete timeline of the life of Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Obama, from his birth in 1961 through his first 100 days in the Oval Office.Here are the people and the events that shaped the life of Barack Obama . . . from his birth, through childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, high school, college in California and New York, Harvard Law School, his community activism, his entry into Chicago politics, the U.S. Senate . . . and the election that may enable him to transform the United States of America into something unrecognizable. Intertwined with Obama's...

Obama in 1980 said he was born in Mombasa, Kenya >> a chance meeting in the vicinity of Kalakaua Blvd., one evening in early August of 1980. The former Marine is a highly respected member of the Free-Republic online-community>> "We spoke of where I had been and the world as I saw it. I told him I had been to Africa, Mombassa specifically, and he said to me abruptly, “I was born there.” ----------------------------------------------------- Posted at freerepublic this AM: >>I cant prove it, no one was with me, but I DID meet a young Mulatto male in 1980 about 1...

A rare article from Obama's Columbia University days along with background on possible associates of his from that time.

Back in October of 2008, when the subject of Obama’s Constitutional eligibility to be president of the United States was just a blip on the radar screen of public awareness, I wrote an article about how easy it was to find my then -92-year-old mother’s birth certificate. Frankly, I didn’t think finding my mother’s birth certificate was possible, given the fact that she had been born in a farmhouse in Storrs, CT, along with nine of her 10 siblings, to parents who didn’t speak English. Despairing that she would never be “qualified” to receive the care [in a nursing home}...

If you believe in Obama's birther conspiracy, World Net Daily's Joseph Farah is a hero. If you think it's destroying the Republican Party limb by limb, he's a criminal. If you're liberal, you probably think he represents the true feelings of a majority of conservative Americans, and that he's dragging the Republican Party into oblivion. Farah doesn't represent the feelings of a majority of conservative Americans. But he represents some of them. And some were in the audience here at the Tea Party Convention when he gave his speech last night. They weren't in the majority. The hoots and hollers...

Return to the Article February 07, 2010Another Look at Obama's OriginsBy Jack Cashill The murky circumstances of Obama's birth invite attempts to make the known facts fit together. This article was prompted by two emails.  The first asked me why I had never weighed in on the birth certificate controversy surrounding President Barack Obama.  I responded that although I was troubled by the lack of documentation regarding all phases of Obama's history -- I'd be content with his SAT scores -- I could not understand why any pregnant American woman would go anywhere near Kenya. The second email was...

Joseph Farah at Tea Party Convention in Nashville compares the evidence of the birth of Jesus vs. evidence for President Obama...Erick Erickson slams Farah, From Redstate: "I was profoundly disappointed to hear Joseph Farah of World Net Daily hijack the convention and try to treat the birther issue as legitimate. Yesterday, I spent a lot of time talking about the meaning of the tea party movement and voter angst. Once Farah opened his claptrap, every

NASHVILLE — During WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah’s Friday night dinner speech, which spent around 10 of its forty minutes on questions about Barack Obama’s citizenship, Andrew Brietbart was among the conservatives in back of the room grumbling audibly about what he was hearing. After he introduced the evening’s closing entertainment — a film titled “Generation Zero” — Breitbart walked outside to the convention hall. There, I heard Breitbart criticizing Farah, and briefly talked to him about it before I noticed that WorldNetDaily’s Chelsea Schilling was already talking to him, holding up a voice recorder. I backed up to allow her...

Why The Need To Lie About “Birthers?” We all, those of us on the ironically enough referred to “right,” understand without any explanation why it is that the Liberal Left and their complicit major Media lapdogs feel a need to demonize and intentionally misrepresent the thrust of what is insultingly called the “birther” movement. According to the ‘straw man’ set up by these disingenuous smut peddlers so that they can easily knock it down, is that this “birther” movement is kooks who insist that there is a ‘vast conspiracy,’ an evil, well-orchestrated cover-up of the fact that Barrack Obama was...

This is another episode of “At Your Beck and Call” where Beck points out that the Obama administration needs the birthers around. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8CN9N-BHd8&feature=player_embedded# Skip to the 4:00 mark.

Order at the link.Judge Gonzalez's 25 page opinion here.

February 6, 2010 12:10 PMBreitbart Busts Birther at Tea Party Confab by Charles Cooper Attending the Tea Party Convention in Nashville this weekend, The Washington Independent's always-excellent David Weigel recounts an extraordinary hallway confrontation between online publisher Andrew Breitbart and WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah over the question of President Obama's citizenship. *snip*"Prove your case." "I should prove, what, a birth certificate that may or may not exist?" Farah had gotten irritated. "That’s ridiculous. You don’t even understand the fundamental tenets of what journalism is about, Andrew. It’s not about proving things. It’s about asking questions and seeking truth." Breitbart tensed...

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia is one of the largest foreign investors in the United States. Prince Alwaleed's nickname is "The Warren Buffett of the Gulf" and he is one of the world's richest people. The Prince is a private entrepreneur and an international investor. The Prince was born to Prince Talal, son of the founding King of Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz Al Saud, and Princess Mona Al-Solh, Daughter of Lebanon's first Prime Minister. The Prince is the nephew of the Saudi Arabian King Abdullah. The Carlyle Group counts Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud of...

The sooner the whole truth about Obama and his radical enablers is generally known, the better. Law students are told not to assume. It's good advice for everyone, especially when it comes to President Obama, about whom much is assumed and much is not generally known. Support for Obama's radical policies, like Obamacare, has plunged, but Obama's personal popularity remains high, thanks to the liberal media establishment's lack of scrutiny of, and willingness to turn a blind eye or even cover up or lie for, Obama. As I reported on October 22, 2008: ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief "had been working...

(SNIP) I have a dream. My dream is that IF Barack Obama even seeks re-election as president in 2012, he won't be able to go to any city, any town, any hamlet in America without seeing signs that ask, "Where's the birth certificate?" It's a simple question. The rest of the media think it's ridiculous, which makes me certain it's one of the most important questions we can be asking. It really hits the target. Polls now show 33 percent of Californians either believe Obama was born outside the country or have doubts about his alleged Hawaiian birth. Nationwide it's...

The illegal undocumented alien says… I don’t question your faith. I already know your a Muslim. You yourself admitted it on ABC, George Stephanopoulos had to correct you. Your apology tour that started in Cairo, where again you lived as a Muslim in not one, not two, but three countries. Where you lied about America being a Muslim nation. You lied again, you prayed at the Mosque in Turkey. Religion is not something that normal people lie and decieve about. God will not be mocked! Read the rest and see the video's

A reader pointed out this gem posted on Orly Taitz's blog yesterday: "I decided to check out possibility of running and called Orange County elections office. nobody answered. I left two messages, nobody called back. I drove to the office at the 1700 E Garry Str, ste 231, Santa Ana CA. The office is locked, no schedule of working hours. "I wonder: if one wants to run for office, how does one register, picks up forms, how does one communicate?" This is hilarious. Why? Well, there's no government office at 1700 E. Garry Street in Santa Ana. What's there, though,...

Please join Phil Berg, Jeff Kuhner and others at 12pm Eastern to hear updates and events surrounding the Constitutional issues regarding Barry Soetoro a/k/a Barack H. Obama serving as the President of the United States. Kuhner pre-show trailerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7n_kSVRpBQ

Tennessee state Senate speaker and gubernatorial candidate Ron Ramsey has joined the growing ranks of officials and prominent commentators who say they are unsure of whether President Barack Obama is a U.S. citizen. Ramsey was asked Feb. 2 about the issue by Maclin Davis, a former state lawmaker and attorney for the state GOP, the Associated Press reported. "I don't know whether President Obama is a citizen of the United States or not," Ramsey responded. "I don't know what the whole deal is there." However, Ramsey added that he doesn't believe citizens are concerned about Obama's citizenship status. "But I'm...

The radical-loon Web site Daily Kos has a new poll out, but don't get too excited. Their poll in Massachusetts had the Senate race too close to call. Apparently the leader of the Kos brigade is writing a book comparing Republicans and conservatives to the Taliban, and so this poll was designed to back up his insane point of view. The survey says 39 percent of self-identified Republicans believe President Obama should be impeached. Sixty-three percent believe he is a socialist. Only 42 percent of GOPers think the president was actually born in the United States. And 31 percent believe...

Lawyers defending the government-orchestrated deal by which Chrysler was purchased by Fiat and hundreds of dealers were thrown out of the network have raised President Barack Obama's eligibility for office as a possible issue in the dispute. In a footnote in their latest court filing, attorneys representing the old car company at the firm of Jones Day have cited a "scheme" purportedly on the part of the lawyers for the former Chrysler dealers – the plaintiffs in the case. "Although the debtors have no independent knowledge of these matters, the debtors have taken note of certain public statements connecting the...

At prayer breakfast, Obama jabs "birthers"

Hey, he brought it up, not us. Using the National Prayer Breakfast to whine about how everyone is picking on him, Obama raised the issue of his citizenship. Using talking points presumably prepared by Chris Matthews, Obama also bleated straight-faced about the lack of “civility” in DC. This from the guy whose chief of staff just referred to his fellow democrats as a bunch of effing “retards.” Former ballerina, Rahm Emanuel quickly recognized the offensiveness of his comments and apologized to the retards for comparing them to democrats. In what would have been one of the best lines of his...

Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast, President appeals for a return to "civility" in politics. "You can question my policies without questioning my faith -- or for that fact, my citizenship," he says, a reference to those who insist Obama wasn't born in Hawaii.

Obama takes shot at birthers in speech to prayer breakfast By Jordan Fabian - 02/04/10 10:11 AM ET During an address Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast, President Barack Obama said critics should not question his citizenship. "Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith — or, for that matter, my citizenship," Obama said, drawing chuckles and a round of applause from some of the nearly 4,000 attendees at the Washington Hilton. "Birthers" who question whether Obama is a U.S. citizen have raised questions about his birth certificate since the 2008 campaign. Even after proof has been offered...

Here is video of President Obama today speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast, where he lectured attendees on the need for "civility," and told them "surely you can disagree with my policies without questioning my faith - or for that matter my citizenship." Obama makes the remark at around the 1:30 mark of the video. . . . (VIDEO)

While political momentum is building within the Democratic Party from coast to coast to make the issue of Obama’s claims to be born in Hawaii a litmus test for its political opponents in the 2010 general elections for Congress, a key component in such a strategy has been undermined by the Hawaii Attorney General’s Office. In correspondence with The Post & Email, Jill T. Nagamine, Deputy Attorney General for the State of Hawaii, has made it clear that her office will not corroborate or back in any way the July 27, 2009 Statement of Dr. Chiyome Fukino, Director of the...

From O'Reilly's opening: "The FACTOR has proven Obama was born in the United States!"

The following announcement is posted at Orly Taitz's website. I am unable to post the link. Jeff Kuhner on WTNT in DC is going to dedicate an entire show to Obama’s birth certificate issue! Just confirmed – its Friday from 12-3 EST Jeff Kuhner is calling it a citizen show ! this should be a great show to listen to and possibly call in…. \www.freedom570am.com/

Editors note: Doug Edelman argues that while the eligibility question is valid and needs to be resolved, we should shelve the issue until after the 2010 mid-term elections. He believes that the issue could distract conservative from the important job of winning elections. What do you think? Leave a comment. Glenn Beck spent considerable airtime on his January 4, 2010 radio program dismissing and ridiculing the “Birthers” and the idea that President Obama was born in Kenya. Of course this raised immediate ire amongst those who question Obama’s constitutional eligibility to serve in the office of President of the United...

"Ron Ramsey: 'I Don't Know' Whether Obama Is Kenyan During the Q&A period after his speech to Nashville Republicans' First Tuesday Club a few minutes ago, Ron Ramsey was given the opportunity right off the bat to state an opinion on whether President Obama is foreign-born--and Ramsey said he doesn't know. That's right, the state's lieutenant governor says he doesn't know whether the president holds his office legitimately. The Obama birther who popped up with his question in this roomful of suits? Maclin Davis, the former attorney for the state Republican Party and a partner in the prestigious firm of...

Despite his lies to the contrary, the Usurper and Dictator-in-Chief Barack Hussein Obama was the one (not President George W. Bush) who proposed (and had voted in by his Marxist-Democrat run Congress) the first USA trillion-dollars budget. This was affected by the-One-who-was-chosen-to-decimate-then-completely-destroy-the-United-States-of-America in 2009 for 2010. Now, Obama’s 2011 budget at almost $4Trillions ($3.8T) is destined to complete the purpose and mission of this being who is not and never has been a citizen of the country he purports to lead. Note: If he were, he would have produced a real and viable birth certificate instead of paying between $1-2...

State Senate speaker and gubernatorial candidate Ron Ramsey said Tuesday he doesn't know whether President Barack Obama is a U.S. citizen, but that it's not an issue that voters care about. Ramsey was asked after a speech to a Republican group about his views on the president's citizenship by Maclin Davis, a former state lawmaker and attorney for the state GOP. "I don't know whether President Obama is a citizen of the United States or not," Ramsey responded. "I don't know what the whole deal is there. "But I'm going to tell you something. When you walk out on the...

January 2, 2010 Obama's make-believe life By Alan Caruba I have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he's led a kind of make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were opened because at some point early on somebody or some group took a look at this tall, good looking, half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in politics where his facile speaking skills could even put him in the White House. In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very...

A new Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll, conducted among 2,000 self-identified Republican respondents nationwide, gives an interesting peek into the psyche of the minority party's base. Kos has not yet released the full numbers, but here's some early info on the poll that he has posted on his Twitter account: • 39% of Republicans want President Obama to be impeached. • 63% think Obama is a socialist. • Only 42% believe Obama was born in the United States. • 21% think ACORN stole the 2008 election -- that is, that Obama didn't actually win it, and isn't legitimately the president, with...

In the United States, courts can, in fact, remove a chief executive officer of a government if that officer is found to be ineligible, according to a court precedent cited in an appeal of a California lawsuit that challenges Barack Obama's legitimacy in the White House. A multitude of cases have been brought over the issue of Obama's eligibility. Some are by critics who have doubts about whether he was born in Hawaii in 1961 as he has written, and others are from those who question whether the framers of the Constitution specifically excluded dual citizens – Obama's father was...