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Admitting a mistake is a hard thing to do. But, here goes. To the nay-sayers and poopoo-ers, you guys were right. There's no there there. DOH! In light of all I've read, watched, and heard these last few days, both pro and con concerning the BC's authenticity, the concensus is clear. It looks real. It has real information. No conclusive or compelling evidence to disprove it. It must be real. It better be real.

Your birth certificate may be a fake if, . . . . . . unlike a real BC, the first word/number on each line don't line up correctly at the left margin. Obama's BC is a forgery because these 5 words are not flush to the left margin. Male (box 2), Kapiolani (box 6c), BARACK (box 8), 25 (box 10), STANLEY (box 13), and 18 (box 15) should all be lined up, vertically, under the word Male. They would if typed on a real typewriter. Your birth certificate may be a fake if, . . . . . . unlike...

A controversial animal-rights group preparing to embark on its annual harassment campaign against Japanese whalers has stepped up its effort this season by enlisting the aid of ... Godzilla. The swift and ominous-looking interceptor vessel has the moniker Gojira, named after the ferocious monster in the legendary Japanese film, which in English means Godzilla. The 115-foot boat was launched by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society on Monday in Fremantle, Australia, and has joined the larger vessels, Steve Irwin and Bob Barker, in Hobart. At midweek all three will begin their journey to Antarctic waters, where their crews will await the...

Mexican soldiers seized 5 1/2 tons of cocaine from a commercial plane arriving from Venezuela, Mexico's Defense Department announced Tuesday.

NICOSIA, CYPRUS - The first Christian church in the conservative Muslim state of Qatar since the arrival of Islam in the 7th century is to be built on land donated by the reform-minded Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani.

WASHINGTON - The nation's murder rate declined last year for the first time in four years, dropping to the lowest level in 40 years. Experts said local rather than national trends were mostly responsible.

DALLAS, Oct. 7 -- This city was already on edge, divided along racial and class lines over how to desegregate public housing, under court order to change an election system that kept minorities out of power, and seething from a series of police shootings that killed innocent blacks. So when a black county commissioner was arrested after a physical altercation with an off-duty police officer who allegedly had spat a racial slur at him, more than 1,000 demonstrators marched on City Hall. Many feared violence until Harriet Miers, a first-term City Council member and local lawyer, spoke to the