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The petition was filed on behalf of Keyes and Drake, candidates on the 2008 ballot for president and vice president, and Markham Robinson, an elector for the state of California in 2008. As candidates during 2008, Keyes and Drake “had an interest in having a fair competition for those positions. This interest is akin to the interest of an Olympic competition, where one of the competitors in an athletic competition is found to be using performance enhancing drugs, but is not removed.” The case explains that in such cases, “all of the athletes who had trained for the event legitimately...

Yesterday, the first day of the month, came with no good news for the Obama campaign– a jobs report showing a slow-down in an economy the President was arguing had been growing, in an election year where the economy was first and foremost in the minds of voters. On last night’s Anderson Cooper 360º, host Anderson Cooper noted that the jobs numbers were, in fact, bad, but spent a much greater time correcting claims by the Romney camp that the President had made certain promises– an editorial choice that seemed to diminish the day’s biggest headline. Cooper played the clip...

www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents: David Morgan and I have been having too many precious metals panic reports, so we figured it was a good time to give a rally report. Today gold is up over $66 per ounce and silver's rallied over $0.80 per ounce. These are dramatic, sudden, and possibly significant moves. Gold's up over 4 percent in one day, an extremely rare occurrence, with silver following suit; silver's up at just around a three percent increase. There have been signs of a precious metals rally on the horizon. The volume at the downside was slowing dramatically. The volume today was...

If it’s not the global warming schemers deserting the cause, and global warming profiteers going belly up, and real life contradicting the premise, it’s another bulletin of bad news. Where will it all end for the global warming worshippers? Here’s the latest, which just happens to devastate another assumption of the warming theorists (emphasis ours): . . .

Yesterday, Eric Holder’s Voting Section ordered Florida to stop purging foreigners from the voter rolls. Two weeks ago, Florida found 53,000 dead voters registered to vote. Florida has also found non-citizens on the voter rolls and Secretary of State Ken Detzner has started the process of removing them. Not so fast, says Eric Holder’s DOJ. In a letter to Detzner, the DOJ says to stop removing foreigners from the rolls. The Voting Section makes a dubious argument under Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act, a law the Obama administration has refused to enforce because of ideological opposition. The...

In the 14th century Bubonic Plague killed about 25 million people inEurope. That same deadly disease is back and it has appeared inNew Mexico. There is good news and bad news about it’s immergence in our country: it can be treated which is good news; but the bad news is even treated cases will lead to a mortality rate of up to 15%. We have this medieval disease here in our midst thanks to Barack Obama’s open borders policy. Obama’s “immigration policy” is a fake just as he is. It is designed to appear to be “tough and effective” but...

Had a rare video surfaced in which a black toddler was being brutalized by agents of the Transportation Security Administration, President Barack Obama would have enough solidarity, and some to spare. “If I had a son,” he’d say, “he’d look like the boy whose breeches were breached by adults who should know better.” I don’t wish the homegrown terrorists of the TSA to become equal-opportunity offenders; I want Congress to call off these attack dogs, now. Still, I am unconvinced that when they travel, black women, tots and geriatrics are subjected to the same invasive searches as are whites. My...

He never claim to have found it, but, in 2011, when asked about Obama's Birth Certificate, Gov. Neil Abercombie stated, "It was actually written I am told, this is what our investigation is showing, it actually exists in the archives, written down ". Also Dr. Chiyome Fukino, the former Director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, stated that she had seen it twice, and that it was, "half typed and half hand written". It appears they were telling the truth. The Pdf file released by Obama is a low resolution file, but, looking at the version released by AP,...

www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents: Our favorite whipping boy Little Brother aka Nanny Bloomberg, formally known as Michael Bloomberg, is at it once again. Nanny Bloomberg wants to ban sugary drinks that are sold in containers larger than 16 ounces. As usual he knows better than you, and he wants you to retain your boyish or girlish figure. But don't be too upset, you can still get that 1,000 calorie milk shake from Mickey D's and as of yet refills don't seem to be on his radar. These out of control, wannabe dictators must stay up nights thinking up these looney ideas. There's...

“We want to let them know that there is a theological responsibility (emphasis added) to participate in the political process…” said House Congressional Black Caucus chair, Emanuel Cleaver of a meeting with hundreds of black Pastors representing various denominations in the U.S. Speaking to MSNBC, the congressman added “…we’re going to have the IRS administrator there, we’re going to have the Attorney General Eric Holder there, we’re going to have the lawyers’ organization from around the country, the ACLU — all giving Ministers guidance about what they can and cannot do.” (1) Of course Cleaver was referring to “guidance” in...

Upon his investigation a Canadian journalist has concluded that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi submitted TWO DIFFERENT DNC documents attesting and/or pertaining to the eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama in 2008. The Canada Free Press’, JB WIlliams, obtained the two separate documents “prepared by Democrats to certify Barack Obama as their nominee for president in 2008 that suggest House Speaker Nancy Pelosi knew there was an unresolved issue with his [Obama’] eligibility under the U.S. Constitution.” The first verification contains the legal language stating both Obama and Joe Biden “are legally qualified to serve under the provision of the U.S. Constitution.”...

So once again we have a president blaming his problems on nefarious figures who work in the shadows (see also Bill Clinton’s Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy): "Shadowy conservative groups pledge $1 billion to take down the President..."Courtesy of conservatives on Twitter, we now have a wonderful hashtag of all those #ShadowyConservativeGroups: Voters with IDsInvestorsBitter ClingersWest Virginia The list goes on , and you can see who many of these shadow figures are on Twitchy (or simply check out the hashtag on Twitter). I must say that Conservatives have truly become the stars of Twitter these days. If you doubt it, just...

Actually, I know the answer to my own question. The answer is manyfold: Hussein has lifted the drilling moratorium; Hussein approved Keystone; Hussein has opened domestic exploration, drilling, and production; Hussein has opened the "strategic reserve"; Hussein didn't actually "invest" all those billions in Brazil's, etc. petroleum industries, he invested it our petroleum industry; Hussein Obama pees oil thereby increasing domestic supply driving the price down; isn't Obama wonderful? NOT I'm not an industry economist so what did I miss? Don't tell me it's all because of Memorial Day and summer's arrival, that doesn't make sense. This is not an...

The day before Memorial Day, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan lamented that Mexico had lost territory to America due to the Mexican-American War and disparaged American military action around the globe. The poorly-timed rant took place in San Diego in front of a partially Hispanic audience. The oft controversial minister began by disparaging “White Mexicans” of Spanish decent before announcing that “Africans were in that part of the World [Mexico] maybe before [Mexicans] got there.” The minister lamented that illegal Mexicans are called “aliens” and declared that Americans “ought to be praising the Mexicans because we living on land...

Amid the controversy over the spread of Stand Your Ground gun laws and their role in the death of Trayvon Martin, gun rights activists are pushing for even fewer restrictions on firearms through a status they call “Constitutional Carry.” •Constitutional Carry would sanction individuals to carry weapons concealed or openly with no permit •Push for federal law to force states to honor other states’ looser gun laws •Next step is “Diplomatic Carry” allowing gun owners to pack heat in schools, shops, etc On a RINO Hunt Activists in Michigan have taken to the streets, proclaiming that they are hunting politicians...

Very quickly, today's ECB data shows that Euroland's money supply is contracting again. M3 fell by €51bn in April. M1 fell by €55bn. Private credit fell €55bn. I don't yet have the country breakdown. My guess is that the Club Med implosion is grim. The chart is based on the annual rate. It has not yet picked up the month-on-month contraction. Clearly the sugar rush from the ECB's 3-year credit blitz has worn off, leaving behind some very toxic effects. Those banks in Italy and Spain that used the money to play the Sarkozy redemption trade by purchasing sovereign debt...

Recently I posted about how UCLA hosted a "debate" between Islamic supremacist Jew-haters Reza Aslan and Hussein Ibish arguing over the "one-state solution" or the "two-state solution" -- that is, whether Israel should be destroyed by "Palestinian" jihadists working from within or from a "Palestinian" state. There was no discussion of the legitimacy of the Jewish State. Atlas reader Wallace Edward Brand ("Salubrius") posted this comment: I have been trying to offer the students at UCLA a view of a one lawful Jewish state West of the Jordan River. One of the UCLA faculty members told me it was impossible....

I’m watching Fox News Sunday this Memorial Day listening to the great “Progressive” icon of the right, Senator John McCain, whine about the failure of America to protect some Middle East terrorists from other Middle East terrorists in Syria. Following up his disgraceful support, (along with that of S.of S. Hillary Clinton and President barack Obama), of the Muslim Brotherhood takeovers in Libya and Egypt, he is near apoplectic in our failure to fight terrorist’s battles for them. I would like to ask this great “Progressive” icon of the right, Senator John McCain, what our upside has been in Libya...

Good video that explains the Smudges that the Teaparty Power Hour claims were discovered last week. Mark Gillar, from the Tea Party Power Hour, claims that smudges that appear on the edge of Obama's long form Birth Certificate Pdf, are supposed to prove that that it's a forgery. In the end, this is much to do about nothing. Yes, the document is a fraud, but, the smudges prove nothing. You can read in the comments that the Tea Party Power Hour really got in a latter over the simple explaination, and they were finally blocked from posting because they starting...

Regardless of how much of your money Obama throws at them, Government Motors clearly has NO interest in working with his UAW pals over the long-run- and why should they?  GM executives were left to do pretty much as they please... You can be forgiven for thinking that the serially-incompetent Obama Administration might have placed some restraints upon the $80B TARP bailout- but they didn't.  The result? GM has been aggressively expanding not only sales networks but manufacturing and R-n-D work to the People's Republic of China, where Buick is their leading brand. Since the TARP bailout of GM, almost...

“The secret of Republican political success since the rise of the right is not, as many liberals believe, that they play no-rules hardball. Instead, it’s their skill at projection—at accusing Democrats of doing what they are doing themselves, or are planning to do, or have done.” —Michael Tomasky, Daily Beast Nothing stirs up white racial anxiety in an election year like a black-against-white race war. Never mind the fact that there isn’t one. When has that ever stopped the inventive right wing? Those of us living in the world of objective facts and reality might be mistaken for thinking that...

These students from South L.A. say people often assume they're doing something wrong based on their race. In April 2012, neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman was arrested in the Feb. 26 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old unarmed black teenager, in Florida. Zimmerman saw Trayvon walking through his gated community, followed him and shot him. He claims it was in self-defense after Trayvon attacked him. In March, two Pasadena police officers shot and killed Kendrec McDade, an unarmed 19-year-old black college student. Police were responding to a 911 call in which the victim said he was robbed at gunpoint,...

Wolf Blitzer interview meltdown with Donald Trump Over Obama's Forged Birth Certificate - VIDEO HERE - Hat tip SA.

Mainstream media often portray African-American youths, especially black men and boys, as criminals, crime victims and predators. These stereotypes, according to social justice advocates, can create a racially charged atmosphere that results in violence such as the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin. U.S. popular culture has become increasingly desensitized to one-dimensional portrayals of black youths. Perpetuation of them as dangerous has been embedded in American society not only by words and images projected by journalists but also by a wide variety of other media and entertainment sources, including the Internet, movies and video games. Clearly, the perception of African-Americans...

While Libertarians point to innovative 'choom gang' pioneer Barry Obama's towering hypocrisy in continuing to persecute the war on drugs and close medical marijuana dispensaries, others say it's not hypocritical to outgrow youthful indiscretions and then favor prohibition as a mature adult- all I want to know is 'when did he actually quit?' The Left loves to paint his pothead past as irrelevant ancient history, but since we can't even get anything resembling a legitimate birth certificate or even college transcript out of this secretive charlatan (yet again) and all we ever hear is BS when asking straightforward questions re. his enduring ciggy habit... what's...

El Mundo reports that the country can no longer resist the bond markets as 10-year yields flirt with 6.5pc again, and the spread over Bunds – or `prima de riesgo' — hits a fresh record each day. Premier Mariano Rajoy and his inner circle have allegedly accepted that Spain will have to call on Europe's EFSF bail-out fund to rescue the banking system, even though this means subjecting his country to foreign suzerainty. Mr Rajoy denies the story, not surprisingly since it would be a devastating climb-down, and not all options are yet exhausted. "There will not be any (outside)...

Yet another salvo in Obama's war against Israel: the Obama Administration is giving the UN funds for illegal African immigrants into Israel, who suddenly open up businesses there while Jewish-owned businesses are being shut down. It seems as if Obama will stop at nothing to undermine the Jewish State. Who among Obama's antisemitic cronies is profiting from this fresh betrayal of our only real ally in the Middle East? Here is some background on what is going on: Israel Can't Solve Africa's Problems - Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary Israel, much to its surprise, has found itself being swamped by unwelcome...

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is inviting public comments on its new rule regarding shotguns. It plans to ban them. There will be a ban on imports. (Note: watch prices rise on those already in the USA.) The basis of this ban will be the guns’ semi-automatic status. It the magazine has more than five rounds, the weapon will be banned. Why? Because the BATF designates these as “military.” Somehow, I cannot see Sergeant York with a 7-round shotgun taking on the Germans. Gen. George Patton wore ivory-handled revolvers. I wonder if these are scheduled for a ban....

“When men have died horrible deaths on foreign soil to protect the Constitution, can any man be forgiven when he ignores the Constitution to save his career?” (1) In late January, Liberty Legal Foundation lead attorney Van Irion argued before Georgia Administrative Judge Michael Malihi that Barack Obama was constitutionally ineligible to hold the office of president because he did NOT satisfy the Article II requirement of being a “natural born citizen” of the United States. Irion’s argument was based on precedent derived from an 1875 Supreme Court ruling which stated: “The Constitution does not in words say who shall...

“…mountain of evidence ……Obama was not born in Hawaii is a fake. Did you hear that snarky media people? Nobody over ten believes this phony twerp was born in Hawaii. Those who publicly say they believe Obama’s birth certificate and biography are real are simpletons who are hoping to have the liberal alligator eat someone else first. Their cowardice doesn’t make them people bad people, but their snarky swipes at those of us who understand that two and two has always been four and will never change makes them despicable. The truth is staring all of us in the face...

“For starters, just because there is no long form birth certificate on file in Hawaii, that doesn’t rule out President Obama being born elsewhere in the United States, or even in Hawaii,” states Hawaii’s former Senior Election Clerk Timothy Lee Adams in his Masters Thesis which was signed off on by four English Department Deans at Western Kentucky University in partial fulfillment of the Requirement for Degree of Master of Arts, on June 13, 2011. Adams was the Chief Elections Clerk (Pg. 30) for the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii. “On a temporary contract, I ran an office that...

Much has been said about the bullying history of both of the presumed presidential nominees for 2012. Last week a North Carolina teacher was put on paid suspension because she got caught bullying her own classroom on the topic of which candidate had been the worse bully years previous. Bullies--we are told--are the cause of everything from eating disorders to teen suicide. The Trayvon Martin case had originally been sold through the media as a case in which an older vigilante wanted to bully a young child. ---snip--- ...the Department of Justice issued an "advisement" to the university earlier this...

The Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project (IRDP)—a program of the University of California, Berkeley's Center for Race and Gender (CRG)—recently held its third annual conference, "Critical Discourses on Islamophobia: Symbols, Images, & Representations." As in previous years, speaker after speaker decried an imaginary racist, imperialist, Orientalist Western juggernaut, while disregarding the very real predations of Islamism. The first day of the conference brought in approximately eighty people at its peak, including a number of women in hijab (head scarf), typing furiously on laptops. Others sported keffiyehs and dreadlocks; a smattering of Arabic and French could be heard; and a scruffy,...

According to Congressman Darrell Issa, there are some 80,000 pages of information now in the possession of the D.O.J. Inspector General as she continues to feign an official investigation into the Fast and Furious related activities of her longtime friend Eric Holder. But Issa’s House Government Affairs Committee has received only about 6,000 related pages from the DOJ, many redacted to the point of irrelevance and some little more than reprints of articles published long ago by members the mainstream media. Issa has filed numerous subpoenas demanding the Attorney General turn over those documents the Committee knows to have been...

Examining the life and faith of Karl Marx, the patron saint of the left, offers insights into the mind and the actions of the left today. Rev. Richard Wurmbrand, the author of Marx & Satan makes a convincing case regarding the satanic beliefs and practices of Marx and his coterie of radicals. The amoral philosophy of Marx, the dialectic, the convoluted and inverse style of communication, the worship of earthly power, these are all telltale signs of satanic worship and are the hallmark of the left approach to life and politics today. Certainly Marx’ spawn, Nazism and Communism, unleashed more...

Video at link (Geraldo says "birthers" must be racists to be questioning Obama's Birth Certificate and smears Arpaio, but Moncton manages to explain the numerous forensic defects of the White House LFBC based on his own independent inquiries and vouches for Arpaio)

Judge Greg Mathis, comedian Marlon Wayans and others will join Trayvon Martin family attorney Daryl Parks for an NAACP-hosted panel discussion on the late teenager, the justice system and its treatment of black and minority youths. Titled "Protecting Our Black Men Walking," the two-hour town hall will feature talks on racial profiling, the high incarceration rates of minorities, police misconduct and more. The event, which is the centerpiece of the NAACP's annual leadership conference in Destin, Fla., will be streamed live below, and viewers can submit questions to the panelists via Twitter...

Things have spun out of control in the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case in Sanford, Fla. (“Zimmerman’s account of killing corroborated,” Web, Thursday). The police were instantly and unfairly blasted for failing to arrest Mr. Zimmerman, the Sanford police chief stepped down when he shouldn’t have, Mr. Zimmerman was already fingered as the guilty party before a thorough and fair investigation was completed, civil rights leaders descended upon the town pointing accusatory fingers, and a bounty was placed on Mr. Zimmerman’s head. In addition, media outlets and talking heads put their own spin on the story. The case has now devolved...

. . . We have devised a foolproof means of guaranteeing that tax increases will be approved on the ballot. Here’s how . . . Only allow people to vote who are willing to pay the tax, and of course they must vote “Yes.” In other words, a new tax or a higher tax can be approved, but only if those voting Yes are the only ones to pay it. If you want higher taxes, you can vote Yes and pay the higher taxes. . .

Grass Roots North Carolina sent out an update this evening regarding the NC Senate Judiciary I committee substitute for HB 489. The proposed language of this substitute would effectively negate the win that Alan Gura secured in Bateman v. Perdue. The substitute has been pulled from the calendar to give the Judiciary I committee "more time to study the issue." As to why it was even proposed, GRNC speculates that it was legislative staff run amok. What is becoming clearer, however, is that this might be a case of inadequately supervised staffers running amok. When emergency management bill HB 843...

George Zimmerman gave a scathing review of the Sanford Police Department and accused its chief of engaging in a cover-up during a public meeting in January 2011. Zimmerman's anger stemmed from the case of Sherman Ware, a black homeless man who was beaten by the son of a white police lieutenant. Since Zimmerman shot and killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in February -- in what he insists was self-defense -- Zimmerman's family has pointed to his efforts to "get justice" for Ware in response to people around the country who have accused him of racially profiling the 17-year-old. Zimmerman is...

Before the dust began to settle around New York City’s twin towers, Washington’s political elites were contemplating the benefits in sheer legislative power a terror attack of such magnitude could bestow upon the benevolent despots of Capitol Hill. In a secretly recorded, 1992 address to the Bilderberg Organization, Henry Kissinger made this statement: “Today’s Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened [their] very existence.” Though Kissinger was speaking...

Disclaimer: The following is a series of fictional accounts of theoretical situations. However, the information contained within was taken from established scientific journals on covered technology and military studies of real life combat scenarios. Alt-Market does not condone the use of any of the tactics described within for “illegal” purposes. Obviously, the totalitarian subject matter portrayed here is “pure fantasy”, and would never be encountered in the U.S. where politicians and corporate bankers are forthright, honest, and honorable, wishing only the sweetest sugar coated chili-dog best for all of mankind…

The Orlando Sentinel reports that several witnesses have changed their stories from the initial interviews, mostly (but not completely) to the detriment of George Zimmerman: Evidence released last week in the second-degree-murder case against George Zimmerman shows four key witnesses made major changes in what they say they saw and heard the night he fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford. Three changed their stories in ways that may damage Zimmerman. A fourth abandoned her initial story, that she saw one person chasing another. Now, she says, she saw a single figure running. They were reinterviewed in mid-March, after Sanford...

WHO SHOULD BE ON MOUNT BLUSHMORE? America should have a second Mount Rushmore, for the four worst presidents. Where? Well, not in South Dakota, maybe in the Adirondacks so that eastern liberals can easily get there. Or the Sierra Nevada, same reasoning, other coast. Now, who should appear on Mount Blushmore? My futile four would be Obama, Carter, Hoover and Fillmore. How about your picks? By the way, any chance of expanding Mount Rushmore to include Ronald Reagan?

After downloading the file from whitehouse.gov and importing it into Adobe Illustrator, one need only to release the clipping mask in order to see two pieces of vital statistics coding not present on the original Ms. Guthrie photographed. A clipping mask that hides information is in and of itself a clear sign of document tampering, but we'll save that for another day. Since it is impossible to scan a document and have additional information show up on the computer file that was not on the original, one must conclude that the electronic file Obama released has been tampered with and...

Madeleine McAulay is, in many ways, an exemplary American teenager. At 16, she’s a "one-of-a-kind, politics-obsessed teenager dedicated to the fight for America’s future” who keeps herself busy by writing for her own blog as well as contributing to conservative staples such as Big Government, Big Hollywood and Smart Girl Politics all while obtaining "straight As" in school, according to her blog bio. She’s also a Sarah Palin admirer, who she discovered when she had to watch the former Republican vice presidential nomanee's 2008 speech to the GOP national convention for a school assignment. “I was amazed that a wife...

Greece's ex-premier Lucas Papademos has put a figure on the post-drachma fallout. "Some calculations I have seen suggest that inflation could accelerate to 30pc or even to 50pc, depending on the impact of such developments on inflation expectations and on the strength of the second-round effects of price increases on wages," he told the Wall Street Journal. It certainly could, but there is no reason why it should. That would be a policy error. Iceland saw a 50pc crash in the exchange rate after the Viking bust in late 2008. Its inflation was 12pc in 2009, 5.4pc in 2010, and...

Democrats know their supporters are generally not very smart. They know that to get their base to remember and understand a point they have to reduce it to a “four legs: good, two legs: bad” mantra. In recent years they have been very successful with this “reduce it to a bumper sticker” approach. By using Pavlovian conditioning they have trained their followers to foam at the mouth at the words “Gingrich” “DeLay” and “Halliburton.” Now they are trying to train their base to throw things at their TV sets when they hear the words “Bain Capital.” So far they have...

I posted my fears of Obama and Associates for the near future (below) at FR 3 months ago. It seems some of the feared Obama and Associates plans of action are beginning in earnest. More drastic actions perhaps will happen in the next 5 months? Obama and Associates are continuing to play by the ALSINKY playbook. Notable incidents lately; The Travon Martin case in which Obama and Associates used to begin acts of “extreme” racial division.The older citizens can see through HIS crap but it is working with the adolescents and younger adults. The recent rantings (Brietbart.com) by Shabazz Muhammad,...