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Critics say that the tone and brevity of Obama's remarks on Fort Hood 'did not appreciate the gravity of what he represents' while others say he had the right presidential instincts. As the U.S. military and law enforcement were scrambling to save lives after a deadly shooting rampage at Ft. Hood, Texas, President Obama opened his remarks Thursday with a two-minute "shout out" to audience members who attended the Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Interior Department. Obama's initial comments on the shooting that killed 13 and wounded scores of others came at the conclusion of Thursday's conference, which was...

A simple poll on Bill O`Reily's blog asks the question, which of these four candidates will beat Obama in 2012? Mike HuckabeeMitt RomneySarah PalinNewt Gingrich Answer the poll question on O`Reily's blog My personal opinion is that the office is Sarah Palin's to lose. However, I want to know how anyone can think that Newt Gingrich even has a chance after his disastrous support for the liberal Scozzafava over Hoffman?

Bob Oster was CFO of Oracle when it went public, also CFO of Syntex, and holds a Ph.D. in economics from UC-Berkeley. Since 1987, he has been an angel investor and private venture capitalist. He is also on the Board of Overseers at the Hoover Institution. My 6 Month Evaluation of the Obama Presidency In November 2008, I drafted my evaluation of the Obama candidacy and what it might mean to America. I filed it away, but sent it to family members and a few close friends and associates, just so I’d be accountable for my real time observations. It’s...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Charles F. Kerchner Jr. and others against Congress, alleging members of that institution failed in their constitutionally specified responsibility to evaluate Barack Obama and make sure of his eligibility to occupy the Oval Office. Attorney Mario Apuzzo had filed the action in January on behalf of Kerchner, Lowell T. Patterson, Darrell James Lenormand and Donald H. Nelson Jr. Named as defendants were Barack Hussein Obama II, the U.S., Congress, the Senate, House of Representatives and former Vice President Dick Cheney along with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The case focuses on the...

Looking for evidence of Obama's past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there, but none remembered him. Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama, a political science major at Columbia who also graduated in 1983. In 2008, Root says of Obama, "I don't know a single person at Columbia that knew him, and they all know me. I don't have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia. Ever! Nobody recalls him. I'm not exaggerating, I'm not kidding." Root adds that he was also, like Obama, "Class of '83 political...

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Drunk with a delusional sense of authority, the American media has become the tool of a powerful and corrupt media conglomerate that calls the shots and picks the players. Public perception of the media has changed and the trust once enjoyed is now destroyed. The former ‘free press’ role of the media was hijacked long ago and what’s left is an echo chamber where dissenting voices are attacked personally instead of debated openly. In place of reporting news as it breaks in an unbiased fashion, the media promotes big government while actively suppressing newsworthy events that contradict the progressive political...

A majority of this country’s electorate voted for the man. Not because of his ideas, not because of his experience, not because of his intellect! No, they voted for him because he promised some vague, never defined “hope and change.” Meanwhile, listening to his speech in Cairo, seeing him bow to the Saudi King, and being embarrassed by his vacuous self serving words at the UN, America is starting to wake up. His work ethic is all but presidential. He found 14 plus hours, in his busy schedule, to fly out to the Olympic Committee and plead Chicago’s (read: Tony...

There is an Obama hearing at 8:30AM this morning in U.S. District Court, Santa Ana, CA. I hope all those who can will attend. The turnout was so large on 9/8 that Judge Carter(a fellow Marine) moved the hearing to a larger courtroom. My fellow Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen & Marines need your support. God Bless America! Semper Fi, Kelly

(snip) Paglia responded: First of all, I reject the idea that the 'birther' campaign is motivated by racism. There may be racism among it, but there are legitimate questions about the documentation of Obama's birth certificate. I'm sorry, I've been following this closely from the start. To assume that all those signs about the birth controversy were motivated by racism, that is simply wrong. She continued, explaining she first came on the scene in the 1990s and has dealt with cries of sexism and homophobia, calling such battle cries "emotional" triggers. Paglia said the fact there was little racism in...

President George W. Bush's former speechwriter Matt Latimer reveals that Bush considered Barack Obama unfit for the White House and predicted that vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin would be a disaster for the GOP. "After one of Obama's blistering speeches against the administration, the president had a very human reaction: He was ticked off," Latimer writes in his forthcoming book, "Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor," which has been excerpted in the October issue of GQ. "He came in one day to rehearse a speech, fuming. 'This is a dangerous world,' he said for no apparent reason, 'and this...

A top-rated talk radio host in Denver, Colo., has received some good news about his hopes to erect "Where's the Birth Certificate?" billboards in front of hundreds of thousands of drivers a day when a local businessman heard his radio show and agreed to donate the sign space. Now, WND has learned, that businessman is planning on donating signage in multiple states to get the message out that Barack Obama has yet to prove his constitutional eligibility to serve as president. As WND reported, Peter Boyles, who hosts the top-rated morning program on Denver's KHOW-AM, has been fascinated with the...

Are "anchor babies" eligible at 35 to be POTUS?

If Obama's father was a Kenyan then how could Hussein be eligible to be POTUS?

Despite the mainstream news media's silence regarding this matter, an increasing number of Americans are concerned that Barack Obama might not be eligible, under the Constitution, to serve as President. According to the U.S. Constitution, an individual born after 1787 cannot legally or legitimately serve as U.S. President unless he or she is a "natural born citizen" of the United States. Among members of Congress and the mainstream news media, the consensus of opinion is that anyone born in the United States is a "natural born citizen". However, when we researched this issue a bit more carefully, we found that...

Discovery hearing re. Obama’s Kenyan BC, request for depositions of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates scheduled for September 8th, 8am.

The President announced today that one of this year’s 16 Presidential Medals of Freedom would go to none another than…O.J. Simpson! Oh sorry, I’m confusing my notorious accused murderers. I meant to say Senator Ted Kennedy. Throughout his career in the Senate, Kennedy has criticized the Republicans for helping the rich, and has insisted that the government take a Robin Hood stance on taxes, taking from the wealthy and giving to the poor. And to Kennedy, the term “rich” applies to any household making more than $130,000. So much for fighting for the middle class. Yet when it comes to...

This past weekend in Atlanta, RedState.com held its first Gathering of online conservative activists. Liz Cheney, Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter, gave the keynote address to the crowd. A partial transcript of her remarks is below. Joining Liz Cheney were Congressman Tom Price (R-GA), Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel, Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams, Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio, Virginia State Senator Ken Cuccinelli, Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz, and South Carolina State Representative Nikki Haley. Friday night at the RedState Gathering, the attendees heard from Congressman Roy Blunt, former Congressman Pat Toomey, Senator Jim DeMint, and Governor Rick...

After being dismissed in Georgia and refiled in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Judge Richard A. Lazzara quickly dismissed the claim of Major Stephan Cook against various defendants, including President Barack Obama. The ground for dismissal without prejudice given by the court is lack of jurisdiction. The order was signed on July 27, 2009. Apparently, since the allegations of the Florida claim are grounded on Federal statutes against employment discrimination, such a claim must be presented first before the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission for resolution. Maj. Cook’s original claim contesting the validity of his...

Obama eligibility arguments

The video features an angry woman in red, armed with a birth certificate and a small American flag, scolding Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del., at a town meeting. She is angry, she said, because President Obama "is not an American citizen. He is a citizen of Kenya." Castle, a descendant of Benjamin Franklin, seemed to not know how to respond. He calmly replied that Obama is a citizen. Some audience members booed. "You can boo," Castle told them, "but he is a citizen of the United States." There's no good way to address a "birther" -- that's the term for conspiracy...

Almost a third of British pensioners face poverty, the same level as that found in Lithuania, according to European Union statistics. Pensioner poverty in Britain is more than a third higher than the European average. Pensioners, many of who rely on income from savings accounts, have been particularly badly hit by sharp falls in interest rates. Stockmarket falls have also reduced the value of pension schemes.

Just six months into his Presidency; facing the worst economic downturn since the great depression and with America at war on two fronts (with two more possibly lurking - North Korea and Iran), Barack Obama is finding out rather quickly what black achievers in positions of "power" and "influence" have known for a while now. It does not matter what the challenges and obstacles are that you face, when you are black, just get it done and oh by the way, don't expect to have too much "on-boarding" time either. There are some, who after reading this article, will proceed...

Presidents Day has taken a deep back seat these days on our holiday calendar to the point that not only do schools go on as scheduled, but so do many state and government offices. This is not surprising in 2008, and many revel in it. Presidents Day now celebrates all presidents, not just our greatest. That being the case, let's "celebrate," or at least recall, the three worst presidents in our country's otherwise proud history.

One of the little-explored issues relating to the controversy over Barack Obama's eligibility to be president under the U.S. Constitution's demand for a "natural born" citizen in that post is the impact of his move to Indonesia as a child. WND has reported on multiple legal challenges to Obama's eligibility to be president based on doubts that he was born in the United States or was granted "natural born" citizenship at birth. Some of the legal challenges contend he was born in Kenya, wasn't a "natural born" citizen because of his father's Kenyan citizenship, that he was a dual citizen,...

An Iraqi military commander on Monday likened the present state of American GIs in his country to being "under house arrest," a comment passed off as "grandstanding" by a senior U.S. defense official. "Success in my mind was preventing the attack and capturing the individuals with admissible evidence," Navarro, a cavalry commander from Dallas, was quoted saying. "Success in his mind is that there is no attack and no one gets caught. Any attack or any capture would have been perceived as a failure on his part because it means enemy forces and mortar systems were able to get inside...

Fair-minded people are still baffled by Obama’s refusal to clear up the continuing controversy over his birthplace, and by his determination to stop every attempt to delve into this matter through harassment and costly litigation. He is reported to have spent over a million dollars in legal fees fighting the determination of this issue. His relatives have testified that he was born in Kenya, but not under oath. His original birth certificate has been withheld; what are we to believe? Our Constitution clearly states that a person born on foreign soil when only one parent is a USA citizen cannot...

First, we did a story about an Army Major who filed suit regarding his deployment to Afghanistan on the grounds that Obama was not America’s legitimate Commander-In Chief.World Net Daily thought highly enough of this article to link to it on their front page.Then we did an article pointing out the differences between a Birth Cerificate and a Certification Of Live Birth.Some of the biggest names in conservative news have weighed in on this topic, such as Michelle Malkin, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and numerous others have offered their opinions. One of the people at the forefront of this issue...

Earlier this week, we reported on the $10.000 bounty being offered by Joseph Farah, editor of WorldNetDaily, to anyone who could prove he or she was present at the birth of Barack Obama. "Barack Obama claims to have been born in Honolulu Aug. 4, 1961," explained Farah. "His entire constitutional claim to the presidency rests on this premise. Yet, he refuses to release a copy of his long-form birth certificate – the only document that could possibly corroborate his claim. Therefore, in the interest of truth, justice and the Constitution, I am making the extraordinary offer to entice someone to...

Audio: Alan Keyes and Orly Taitz on Obama's natural-born citizenship

Lou Dobbs reported tonight that the Federal Election Commission does not require any proof of citizenship to run for Presidency.

Link:http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/blog1/

Urban Dictionary defines a 'birther' as "A person who believes that Barack Obama has controversy and/or fraud surrounding his birth…" At last count, at least 17 lawsuits had been filed in 17 different states questioning Barack Obama's status as an American citizen and his right to prop his feet up on the desk in the Oval Office. One of those lawsuits will now get the chance to see the light of day. Dr. Orly Taitz, attorney for Alan Keyes in Keyes vs. Obama, announced late this evening that a judge has ruled in favor of Mr Keyes' request for a...

‘Meet John Doe’ and the Old Fakearoo Posted By Michael McGruther On June 30, 2009 @ 11:10 am In Classic Hollywood | No Comments Dear Reader, Do you have a little time to sit back and examine a classic movie that will absolutely shock you when seen through the prism of now? This is not my typical short article or essay. This is my own argument that what occurs in the 1941 picture “Meet John Doe” is exactly what has come to pass in America today with the Democratic Congress and their Presidential puppet. All the players and plays...

While I agree that all 'angles' should be pursued (the BC may help to establish weather he is actually legally in this country or not (i.e. no record of Naturalization)), I also am of the opinion that the main...root issue here is his admitted British Citizenship AT BIRTH which begs the question Leo asks at the end of this snippet: [Quote]" World Net Daily Drops The POTUS Ineligiblity Ball… Whether they know it or not, WND is causing massive distraction by feeding the birth certificate smokescreen more and more fire while consistently failing to concentrate national focus on the core...

GOP's Coburn likes plan to require birth certificates. BY BOB UNRUH Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., says it's the responsibility of the states to make sure political candidates are eligible for the offices they seek, but he's in favor of both state and federal demands that future presidential candidates have a formal procedure to document their qualifications. The relatively strong statement from Coburn on the issue of the eligibility of a president came in a recent letter to a constituent who contacted WND. WND has reported on a federal plan in the U.S. House by Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., that would...

With more than 200 individual threads and thousands of comments on the eligibility issue alone, moderators of the White House website on "open government dialogue" have been working tirelessly to edit the dialogue about Barack Obama's elusive "long-form" birth certificate. Many of the top-rated threads are from citizens calling on Obama to release his birth certificate. The postings in the "top rated" category have received the most "looks promising" votes from users. New threads on the topic of Obama's constitutional eligibility to serve as president are appearing by the minute. WND observed the "Making Data More Accessible" section for several...

Two weeks ago, ABC News White House correspondent Jake Tapper wrote in his "Political Punch" blog that the Obama White House has begun covering its own stories, "complete with cuts, interviews and chyrons identifying who's speaking." Although Tapper called the "coverage" (Obama at the White House basketball court shooting hoops with the NCAA champs Lady Huskies) and White House logo "cute," he pointed out that ObamaTV - OTV for short - comes at the expense of pool reporters: "Your Pool was not allowed to go over and shoot POTUS (President of the United States) with the team shooting hoops. We...

Arguments that had been expected to be taking place before a federal appeals court right about now on whether U.S. citizens have a right to know that their president is eligible for the office he holds have been delayed. Philip Berg, the first lawyer to take the issue of Barack Obama's compliance with the U.S. Constitution's requirements for president to court, says he's been told by officials with the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the oral arguments in his Berg vs. Obama case, No. 088-4340, have been put off. "About two months ago I received notice that the...

Martha & James hooting it up about TOTUS, POTUS, Biden and TOTUS websites, Twitter pages, etc. Replay of Biden's original swipe at The Bogus One....

Meet Kavya Shivashankar, the National Spelling Bee winner. She can spell really well for a 7th grade girl, which for some reason got me thinking about Barack Obama. Unfortunately our president is not the brightest student. She won the National Spelling Bee for correctly spelling “Laodicean” after spelling a whole bunch of really long words correctly before. Kavya does not make rookie mistakes and is testament to the high-achieving American Dream. As a brief biography, Kavya Shivashankar is 13-years old from Blue State Kansas in small town of Olathe. This was her forth year in a row at the National...

An Ohio State University associate professor who includes election law among his specialties says there is a logical legal strategy to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the issue of Barack Obama's eligibility to be president. (snip) Tokaji told WND the "most likely scenario" for obtaining a judicial determination on the question is if someone would "bring in a state court a challenge to a particular candidate's eligibility to appear on the ballot." That could produce any number of results, but it could, importantly, create a conflict among state treatments of candidates, into which a Supreme Court likely...

He set several records as President. Theodore Roosevelt became the youngest person, so far, to become President of the United States (POTUS). The youngest to be elected remains, as of this writing, John F. Kennedy who was 43 when elected. Roosevelt was 42 when he took office as the 26th President following the assassination of his predecessor in 1901. Although other Vice Presidents had taken office following death of the President, TR was first to go on and win an election in his own right, preceding Harry S Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson in the feat. He also remains (as...

Worth the read. Here is the lead in: The new US president's first 100 days in office were expensive, glamorous and often contradictory. Barack Obama has done many things right against a host of intractable problems, but he's made at least two blatant mistakes. snip . . .Here is a report card on Obama's first 100 days in office. As everyone knows, grades are not handed out in the first year of school, but written evaluations certainly are:

President Obama denied Wednesday during his prime-time press conference that he wanted to grow government, but rather described the meltdowns in the auto and financial industries as unwanted distractions that his administration had to address with federal intervention. Obama said he'd "love a nice lean portfolio" but conceded his administration has been handed a "big set of challenges." Obama defended his heavy-handed approach to those challenges. Offering a summary of his first 100 days in office, Obama also looked back even further, complimenting President Bush's preparations to fight a possible flu pandemic while accusing the his predecessor's administration of sanctioning...

I cannot believe the level of incompetence I have to deal with on a daily basis. If it isn't the cold hand of my operator, it's Big Guy not moving his lips fast enough to keep up with my text. I can say this much: there's no truth to the rumor that swine flu had anything to do with my scroll this morning. Would it be possible to blame President Bush for this too?

FAA says low-flying plane over Staten Island is 'pre-planned' flight to take photos by Staten Island Advance Monday April 27, 2009, 10:03 AM A plane, that appears to be a commercial jet tailed by fighter jets, is a "pre-planned" military flight taking photos of the Statue of Liberty, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Reports indicate it may be Air Force One. "It is pre-planned, pre-coordinated with everyone involved," said FAA spokesman Jim Peters. "It's a military flight over New York to take photos." Peters, who stressed it is not an emergency, said the flight is circling the Statue of...