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By avoiding the contentious question of Obama's "natural born" eligibility, America's academic establishment has also stifled discussion on the inextricably related issue of citizenship law in our country, in the greater context of immigration reform. The first instance of academia's cloak-throwing was noted in an American Thinker article which described the revision made by Professor Larry Solum to his scholarly paper that addressed Senator McCain's eligibility, "Originalism and the Natural Born Citizenship Clause." The original version was published in 2008. Without saying it explicitly in his footnote of explanation, Solum's revision implied, subtly, that he also supported the eligibility of...

Should Mitt Romney be the nominee of the Republican party for president in 2012? Perhaps. Should voters support him because he's the "inevitable" nominee? No. For one thing, his nomination is evitable - perhaps all too evitable (see below). For another, we are a proud, self-governing people. We're sometimes even an obstreperous bunch—and a good thing it is for the cause of liberty. We often balk at yielding meekly to claims of inevitability. Here in America, we the people rule by electing. We don't bow to those anointed by pundits. But really, you might ask - isn't Romney inevitable? And...

"Birthers cite an 1875 Supreme Court case, Minor vs. Happersett, in which the court used the term "natural-born citizen" to refer to people born in the United States born to U.S.-citizen parents.""The arguments aren't crazy," said Georgetown law Professor Lawrence Solum. But, he added, "The much stronger argument suggests that if you were born on American soil that you would be considered a natural-born citizen."

On Friday October 21, 2011, this column exposed the scrubbing of Supreme Court Cases from legal research website Justia.com. On the following Monday October 24th, Justia founder and CEO Tim Stanley gave a very short response to Declan McCullagh at cnet.com about this scandal. (CNET is a tech heavy website dedicated to developers more so than the legal community.) There Stanley asserted that citations in the 25 relevant cases (and more) were “mangled” due to a coding error. The code in question is called Regular Expressions, Regex for short. This code is essentially a filter. It is simple in that...

On 10/25/11 Liberty Legal Foundation filed two simultaneous lawsuits against the Democratic Party. Both lawsuits request injunctions prohibiting the Party from certifying that Obama is Constitutionally qualified to run for the office of President in the 2012 election. Without such a certification from the Party, Obama will not appear on any ballot in the 2012 general election. (Tennessee TN Complaint) (Federal DNC Complaint) Neither lawsuit discuss Obama’s place of birth or his birth certificate. These issues are completely irrelevant to our argument. LLF’s lawsuit simply points out that the Supreme Court has defined “natural-born citizen” as a person born to...

During his rise to political prominence, Sen. Marco Rubio frequently repeated a compelling version of his family’s history that had special resonance in South Florida. He was the “son of exiles,” he told audiences, Cuban Americans forced off their beloved island after “a thug,” Fidel Castro, took power. But a review of documents — including naturalization papers and other official records — reveals that the Florida Republican’s account embellishes the facts. The documents show that Rubio’s parents came to the United States and were admitted for permanent residence more than 21 / 2 years before Castro’s forces overthrew the Cuban...

Important constitutional issues regarding Rubio: does a child of political refuges have split allegiance? ....Prominent birther, Orly Taitzrecently met with Sen. Rubio’s staff during a visit to Washington. “We need the court to finally adjudicate this issue, who is a natural born citizen,” Taitz, a California dentist and lawyer told the St. Petersburg Times. … Yesterday I was interviewed at length in regards to Marco Rubio and other issues by Alex Leary, reporter from St. Petersbug times. I have to say, that he was very well informed and respectful during the interview, far outcry from many other reporters and I...

Someone was incredibly busy in June 2008 working on an illegal front invisible to the public; searching and altering Supreme Court Cases published at Justia.com which cite the only case in American history - Minor v. Happersett (1875) - to directly construe Article 2 Section 1's natural-born citizen clause in determining a citizenship issue as part of its holding and precedent.  In this unanimous decision, the Supreme Court defined a "native or natural-born citizen" as a person born in the US to parents who were citizens; a definition which excludes from eligibility both Barack Obama and John McCain.  In June 2008...

The critical issue for the 2012 election is whether or not a government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall perish from the earth. The US Government has been hijacked by a self-serving, permanent political class, which considers itself above the law and elections as bothersome formalities temporarily interrupting their plundering of the nation’s wealth. Having become comfortable with ignoring the will of the people, American politicians have created a culture of corruption in Washington, D.C., while they steadily whittle away at the Constitution to remove any remaining obstacles in their pursuit of personal power and...

When this blog exclusively started exposing the "sleeping your way to the top" of Madelyn Dunham in her odd rise at a Kansas war aircraft plant, it started a process which none of the "sane folks" who just can not figure this blog out, so they term the things here crazy, need yet to be led down the path of this Peyton Place. What people do not comprehend is Madelyn Dunham was the brains in this family, and Stanley Armour Dunham was ............. well he pimped a good deal to rise in the communist 5th column in America. There are...

In Barack Hussein Obama’s America, ordinary Americans exercising their Constitutional rights are considered “terrorists”, simply because they oppose his radical agenda. Obama’s contempt for us knows no bounds. His plan to suppress us is no longer constrained by the Constitution and the rule of law. Or so he hopes. Although Obama is trying to empty Guantánamo Bay of real terrorists, it is still too small for Obama to house the millions of Americans who now realize that he is an illegal President and has committed felonies both before and after occupying the White House. To facilitate the suppression of free...

In Barack Hussein Obama’s America, ordinary Americans exercising their Constitutional rights are considered “terrorists”, simply because they oppose his radical agenda. Obama’s contempt for us knows no bounds. His plan to suppress us is no longer constrained by the Constitution and the rule of law. Or so he hopes. Although Obama is trying to empty Guantánamo Bay of real terrorists, it is still too small for Obama to house the millions of Americans who now realize that he is an illegal President and has committed felonies both before and after occupying the White House. To facilitate the suppression of free...

America's little princess, Beatrice Whoresane Obama, had a little identity episode that all of you missed in negotiations with John Boener and Eric Cantor, which is going to be exclusively explained here. America's little girl, was confirmed to have run his hands back through his hair and then shoved his chair back and walked away from the table. Psychologically my children this is a break point of quite immense proportions and will be dealt with in an upcoming post here called WONDERLAND, but this is very important as Barack Obama, the fictional character created on Whore Island is having an...

The GOP needs Marco Rubio on the Ticket in 2012 as VP. If we do not carry Florida and if we do not take some of the Hispanic vote away from Obama nation-wide, he might very well be reelected. We need enough votes to prevent the Chicago Thug-style Politics from stealing the Election. Don't think it can't happen. Remember how the Kennedys stole the 1960 Election from Nixon. The Question then arises: IS MARCO RUBIO CONSTITUTIONALLY ELIGIBLE? The answer is emphatically YES! So is Bobby Jindal. There are many authorities I could cite but I'll use one to conserve space...

The American political and media elite have determined, for whatever reason, that the Constitution's eligibility requirements for the presidency are not important. That is the only conclusion one can draw from the misinformation, disinformation and disinterest they have shown to the serious questions swirling around not only the unique case of Barack Obama but also to the definition of "natural born citizen" in future presidential elections. It's not unprecedented that failing republics dumb down eligibility requirements for the presidency. It's not unprecedented that failing republics ignore or obscure eligibility requirements for the presidency. It's not unprecedented that failing republics make...

KGB Operation: "Barack obama"

Barack Obama actually was born in Seattle, Washington, and his birth name of Barak Mounir Ubayd, which was later changed to the present Barack Obama, was registered in a very small mining camp in British Columbia, Canada, just over the border from the United States, says Attorney and Author Stephen Pidgeon. To prove what he has written in his book The Obama Error, Pidgeon says he possesses a raised sealed copy of the name change document numbered 1973-203489. Based on his own conjecture Pidgeon has said, “I believe Malcom X is the true father!” You can view this mind rattling...

President Obama is pointing to problems in Japan and Europe as challenges for the U.S. economy, placing some blame on events abroad for a domestic recovery that is showing signs of slowing down. Photo by: Pete Souza Government data released Friday showed employers in May hired the fewest number of workers in eight months and U.S. unemployment rose to 9.1 percent, up from 9.0 percent in April. That bump is a political challenge for the president, whose re-election in 2012 may depend on his ability to convince voters that his economic policies have been successful. Part of his pitch will...

As part of the mainstream media's ongoing effort to sway and distort American thinking, liberal "analysts" for decades continually have conveyed the impression that ideological liberals are just-plain-smarter than mortal humans while conservatives -- even the good ones like the RINOs -- just are not all that smart, and in fact are stupid. Thus, Ronald Reagan was a moron, an actor who shared a bed with a monkey in "Bedtime for Bonzo." George H.W. Bush, despite having achieved extraordinary results during Operation Desert Storm, was no intellectual match for the Clintonites who derisively mocked: "It's the economy, stupid." You could...

Today's the day Corsi is unleashed to tell all about that 'birth certificate' WASHINGTON – Jerome Corsi's blockbuster making the case that Barack Obama is ineligible for the presidency hits bookstore shelves across the nation today – a day on which Corsi is turned loose to tell Americans what he has discovered about what he claims is a fraudulent birth certificate released in desperation to hush widespread public concern about Obama's constitutional qualifications for office. Read more: It's out! The book that proves Obama's ineligible http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=299345#ixzz1Md1FxJ5J

The Honolulu hospital indicated on the Obama birth record released by the White House barred WND from its premises and threatened to call police in a visit seeking medical records of the president's mother. Kapi'olani Medical Center also has hidden away the letter President Obama purportedly wrote Jan. 24, 2009, naming the hospital as his birthplace. Sen. Sam Slom, Hawaii's only Republican state senator, confirmed to WND at a meeting in Honolulu at his legislative office May 4 that Kapi'olani now has put the letter in a safe. Nothing that would commemorate Honolulu and Kapi'olani as the president's place of...

WE MUST NOT ABANDON THE ELIGIBILITY WAR Dean C. Haskins Having been a “birther” since the movement's inception, I would say I've seen most, if not all, of the arguments proffered by members of the United Church of Obama against those of us who know that their lord and savior, the “lamb of Soros,” is ineligible to hold the office of president of the United States. Although their assertions inevitably fly well below the standard of even rudimentary logic, it typically stuns me that they can level them with such Fred-Phelps-like fervor. Most at fault in this constitutional apostasy would...

The Birth Certificate Trees Obscuring the Forest Dean C. Haskins On April 27, 2011, after the White House had claimed for more than two years that the Certification of Live Birth (COLB) Barack Obama had released during his presidential campaign was the only available government-issued proof of his birthplace (which, of course, was a mantra echoed by the media—both liberal and “conservative”), a new, and different, image was released to the world. So, regarding those claims, were they lying then or are they lying now? The answer is, “yes.” The first image (COLB) has been thoroughly debunked by professional forensic...

Yeah, Okay, It's Racism, You Liar Dean C. Haskins If there is one thing I have learned since the last presidential campaign, it is that Obama's myriad supporters (common folk) and worshipers (media) are either incapable of, or unwilling to, understand that our forefathers, when framing the Constitution, used a then-commonly-understood term when defining the requirements for holding the office of president; and, because that requirement has never been altered through the process of amendment, nor has the simple, historic definition of the term ever been changed, many of Obama's followers commonly take the path of least intellectual resistance, and...

MSNBC is reporting that 150,000 copies of the "Where's the Birth Certificate" book have been pre-sold and Farah was counting on 500,000 to 1,000,000 copies being sold. Now that we know where the birth certificate is (and the book obviously offers no claim that it's false) what happens, refunds? What would the ethical thing to do?

Immigration documents about President Barack Obama's Kenyan father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., obtained by the Arizona Independent show that Obama senior was an illegal alien for a time after over staying his student visa while at Harvard.Documents show that Obama, Sr. was denied an extension on his student visa in July, 1964, in part because Harvard University, where Obama, Sr., was a Ph.D. candidate, sought his removal. Obama Sr. eventually left the United States willingly after becoming an illegal alien for remaining in the country past the expiration of his visa.An INS investigator, M.F. McKeon, wrote “They (Harvard officials) weren’t...

...or did some insider kite his ignorance into this display of low-level shooping? If so, thank you.

Dr. David Sinclair's six children grew up accustomed to him often leaving home at all hours and holidays to deliver babies. On Wednesday, the late Honolulu obstetrician's family members were "blown away" and "honored" to learn that a newborn he delivered in 1961 was President Barack Obama — a discovery that came after the White House released a copy of the president's original birth certificate. Below Obama's mother's signature was one which appeared to read: "David. A. Sinclair." "It's my husband's signature," said his widow, Ivalee Sinclair, 82, from her downtown Honolulu office. She held up a copy of the...

The widow of the physician listed on President Obama's purported birth certificate works on a state taskforce that advises the agency that released the document, Hawaii's Department of Health, WND has learned. Following more than two years of controversy surrounding the issue, the White House today released a copy of President Obama's "Certificate of Live Birth." The certificate bears the signature of David A. Sinclair, a retired physician who died Aug. 20, 2003, at the age of 81. Sinclair's wife, Ivalee Mae Sinclair, 82, works for the state of Hawaii's legislature. Be the first to get the new eligibility book...

(CNSNews.com) – Although the Obama administration officially lifted the six-month ban on offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in October 2010, a new report finds that the “de facto” moratorium still in place is harming American consumers and the budgets of local and state governments. Since October, the Department of the Interior has approved only a handful of deepwater drilling permits in the wake of last year’s BP well explosion and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The report, issued by the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), said increasing offshore drilling production could add nearly $5...

The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners had previously sustained an objection to the nominating petitions of Lynch because of insufficient valid signatures, and subsequently sustained objections to the nominating petitions of Askia—who was left with only 688 valid signatures on his nominating petitions, 69 short of the required 757 valid signatures after almost two-thirds of the 1,899 signatures on his nominating petitions were found to be invalid, and Ewell—who was left with only 671 valid signatures on his nominating petitions, 86 short of the required 757 valid signatures after almost half of the 1,286 signatures on his nominating petitions were...

I know what you’re thinking…‘but he was born in Hawaii.’ Yes, yes and even if that were true (None of us knows for sure) Barry Hussein Soetoro, whom Qaddaffi calls Baraka Hussein Abu oumama, has a problem. The problem is with Article II Clause 5 of the United States Constitution. No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President—Article II,Clause 5 of the United States Constitution But before I detail president Soetoro’s problem with the constitution please take...

For as long as I can remember scientists have been trying to put together a Theory of Everything which would explain and connect all the knowledge we have of physical phenomena. So far they haven't been successful, but they keep trying. I wondered if it would be possible to explain the many contradictions of Obama and the mystery of his origins and incomprehensible nature of his domestic and foreign policies to better understand him and predict why he seems to be steering the ship of state onto the shoals. I think I've finally got it, though a night of watching...

Obama has clearly been the greatest (most effective) President in the history of the nation. Many take his seeming incompetence as a flaw instead of a means to his larger ends. The evidence: 1. Basic economic annihilation of the U.S. economy and the drowning of the Federal Government in permanent and unsustainable debt. Status: COMPLETED 2. Working with the Muslim Brotherhood to establish rule in all Islamic Countries. Status: UNDERWAY, PROSPECT of TOTAL SUCCESS. 3. Creation of local brigades (union/student/progessive) to transform "days of rage" into permanent revolutionary action, intimidate all opponents. Status: UNDERWAY, PROSPECT of TOTAL SUCCESS. 4. Neuter...

“Why has Obama, for over 2 years, employed numerous private and government attorneys to avoid presenting a legitimate birth certificate and college records?”…Citizen Wells and millions of concerned Americans “Live free or die.”…New Hampshire state motto The mainstream media and the US Justice Department have been protecting Obama since 2008. In the LTC Terry Lakin Court Martial last year, Judge Denise Lind addressed the opening up of evidence about Obama’s eligibility in this manner: “opening up such evidence could be an “embarrassment” to the president.” An embarassment means that he is not president. More states are addresing the issue of...

Many people ask me why I put so much emphasis on the need to obtain Barack Obama's birth certificate over the concerns many Americans have regarding his shocking willfulness in withholding virtually any meaningful documents about his early life. First of all, let me say in my own defense that it was my news agency at my direction that first chronicled, going back nearly two years, in a piece called, "Where have all the records gone," the almost unfathomable laundry list of personal papers Obama has deliberately and consistently shrouded in unprecedented secrecy. Before reviewing what's contained under lock and...

For someone who refuses to discuss or release information about his original birth certificate, President Obama certainly likes to make jokes about it. The latest quip came this week at a fundraiser in Boston. "There's no weakness in us trying to reach out and seeing if we can find common ground," he told attendees. "Now, there are going to be times where we can't. I was born in Hawaii. What can I say? I mean, I just ... I can't change those facts." The "fact," however, still has not been publicly documented, as he's not only refused to release his...

CONCORD, N.H.—Presidential candidates who want on New Hampshire's primary ballot next year may have to produce a birth certificate under a proposal being brought before a House committee. Election Law Chairman David Bates said Tuesday that his committee will consider amending a bill Wednesday to require candidates to provide a birth certificate and affidavit swearing they're old enough and lived in the United States for 14 years as called for in the U.S. Constitution before being allowed to file to be on New Hampshire's presidential primary ballot. Bates, a Windham Republican, said he does not want people to think this...

Proposals to demand evidence of eligibility from presidential candidates has hit the 13th state this legislative season. According to reports in New England, the chairman of the New Hampshire Elections Law Committee said a proposal will be considered to require that candidates provide a birth certificate giving evidence of their status as a natural born citizen as well as an affidavit swearing they meet the U.S. Constitution's requirements that presidents be 35 years old and have lived in the U.S. for 14 years. State Rep. David Bates, of Windham, said in the report, "They need to produce a certified copy...

A person was called stupid kinda nutty if he or she didn’t believe Al Gore’s opinion about global warming. We are told that all scientists agreed and that there is nothing more to discuss. The earth’s temperature was rising because of trapped CO2 emission cause by man. But if we allowed a world tax on carbon plus a cap and trade carbon “world market” similar to the stock market we could lower emissions. The absurdity of this thinking is absolutely astonishing. It’s like saying that more money will fix our schools. Just a look at schools that spend the most...

Since the Big Media seem determined to grill Republicans about Barack Obama's "eligibility gap" rather than the man whose actions prompted widespread public doubt about his qualifications for office, maybe it's time for a lesson on how to handle those questions – especially for those who aren't familiar with the issues and simply don't know what they are talking about. Here are some recent examples of political missteps: Sarah Palin: Asked if she questioned Obama's faith and citizenship, she replied: "I don't, and those are distractions. What we're concerned about is the economy. And we're concerned about the policies coming...

The Hawaii state legislature has abandoned plans to develop and sell for $100 a newly created document carrying the official seal of the state designed to convince an increasingly skeptical American public that Barack Obama actually was born in Hawaii. There is no indication the Hawaii state legislature made any effort to locate Obama's long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate in the vault archives of the Hawaii Department of Health as part of its work. But the bill, HB1116, died in the House Health Committee without a hearing, after the legislature missed a Friday deadline for the plan to advance to the...

A famous Holmesian dictum provides that "a page of history is worth a volume of logic."

Drudge has linked this story from World Net Daily that notes the odd decision by the Supreme Court to hold a new “conference” on Obama’s eligibility to hold the presidency. Let’s research WHY the court could be compelled to do this. It MUST have something to do with the fact that Obama has no birth certificate on file in the Hawaiian Hall of Records with the name “Barack Hussein Obama” on it — since his original Hawaiian birth certificate with that name was sealed in the 1970s when he was adopted in Indonesia by Lolo Soetoro, his stepfather. At the...

SNIP During the interview with Stephanopoulos, Bachmann was asked whether she believed Obama is a Christian and a citizen of the United States. Bachmann: Well that isn't for me to state, that is for the president to state. And I think that the president makes-- Stephanopoulos: Do you believe it? Bachmann: When the president makes his statements I think they need to stand for their own. Stephanopoulos: But he has said it very clearly, I'm just asking if you believe it. Bachmann: Well I think we should take the president at his word. (Video of interview at source link.)

According to a new poll released this week, the majority of Republicans doubt President Barack Obama was born inside the United States. This would mean that the President, now in his third year, would have been ineligible to run for our highest office in the first place. The poll, conducted by Public Policy Polling, stated that "51% [of Republicans] say they don't think Barack Obama was born in the United States." Going further, the article stated that 28% "firmly believe" that the President was born outside of the U.S., while only 21% firmly believe he was born in the country.

My first reaction to stories about the Public Policy Polling survey that found that 51 percent of GOP primary voters believe President Obama was not born in the United States was disbelief. Informed Americans understand that Barack Obama is American-born. Conspiracy theories that suggest otherwise are too tortured to take seriously. And I'm sick of the left -- PPP is a Democratic polling firm, if with a reputation for accuracy -- flogging a story that makes Republicans look like rubes. MSNBC talking heads live to hype birther stories because, it seems, they so want Republicans to believe the conspiracy theory....

Checks And Balances: A federal judge has told the government it can't implement ObamaCare because it's unconstitutional. Has the White House complied? No, it's knowingly breaking the law. Less than three weeks ago, U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson ruled from his Florida courtroom that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act violated the Constitution. No, he didn't order an injunction to shut down enforcement of the law as the plaintiffs had asked. But he did cite a previous case and note that his ruling "is the functional equivalent of an injunction." As if he anticipated the administration ignoring his...

Ok, who saw the UNBELIEVABLE display of O'Reilly just now? He went on and on and on---with hyperbole and cracking voice hysteria about how INSANE the birth certificate issue is. He tells us tonight there is absolutely NOTHING to it...no traction, nothing there..nobody cares but some delusional fringe. Of course he offers NO counter evidence. Not a scintilla, not a microdot. But we are to accept his insults and mindlessly nod in agreement because he SAYS SO. WHAT IS UP? This is getting out of control. This is our country. We are being shoved around like chess pieces by media...

It seems that we might have been directing our efforts to determine whether or not this nation has a legally serving President at the wrong target. Congress should not be left out of the debate as though they where not in some way involved in answering this question. They are very much involved and deserve our scrutiny. Congress is COMMANDED by the U.S. Constitution to verify eligibility of a President-elect or name a replacement. Here is the case. First off, what is a “President elect” in the full legal sense of the description? Since we are talking about the Constitution,...