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...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...

Video. Obama's Fake Family Photo. It appears that this photo of Obama and his grandparents has been photoshopped. We know that much of Obama's history is phoney-were fake photos also made to back up his fake history?

Washington — Defying his reputation as a 1950s square, the new, more casual Mitt Romney is popping up around the country as he readies a second run for president. He's going tieless on network TV, strolling NASCAR pits in Daytona and sporting skinny Gap jeans bought for him by his wife. His latest campaign book, just out in paperback, opens with a regular-guy scene: wealthy Mitt in a Wal-Mart checkout line, buying gifts for his grandsons and comparing the surroundings to Target, another discount store he says he's familiar with.

“Trust but verify” is perhaps the greatest words ever spoken, for it is inherent in the human being to shortcut the truth in favor of personal gain. Since the dark ages of time the temptations of evil have overshadowed our ability to act civilized. It started in America when we lied and drove the American Indians into the dust and stole all their land. Centuries later, we as a society condone and participate in the evil workings of mankind. But now we have gone a bridge too far, we have finally crapped in our own mess kit so bad that...

A Palm Springs man who wore a Marine Corps uniform with medals and bragged about fighting in a battle in Iraq was sentenced Monday to a year of probation, authorities said. Steven Douglas Burton, 39, was also ordered to pay a $250 fine and a $25 sentencing assessment by U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips in Riverside, authorities said. In his plea agreement, Burton admitted to wearing the uniform and medals on several occasions, including at least two Halloween parties and his 20-year high school reunion in Martinez in the Bay Area, said Assistant U.S. Atty. Joseph Akrotirianakis, who prosecuted...

Stand-up comics call it a "tough crowd," but then tough crowds are part of their business. It's a whole other matter to be met with cold stares when you are the President of the United States, talking in prime time before a joint session of Congress, when your party controls both chambers by historic margins. President Obama spoke the first 676 words of his State of the Union address on Wednesday night before the first hand clap. His tone was so somber, and the room's mood so grave, that no one moved when Obama said, "We must answer history's call."...

Stare into a mirror long enough and it’s hard not to wonder whether that’s a mask staring back, and if so, who’s really behind it. A similar self-doubt can cloud a public identity as well, especially for anyone who has just stepped into a new role. College graduate. New mother. Medical doctor. Even, for that matter, presidential nominee. Presidents and parents, after all, are expected to make crucial decisions on a dime. Doctors are being asked to save lives, and graduate students to know how Aristotle’s conception of virtue differed from Aquinas’s conception of — uh-oh. Who’s kidding whom? Social...

A blogger writes to me as follows: PALLYWOOD Blogger, the Arab Muslim ‘Palestinian’ that comments on blogs posting as a “jew” If you thought that ‘Pallywood’ [The infamous Palestinian industry of lying “stories” and faking images] is limited to Gaza and Ramallah, think again. Among their devious propagandists, there’s one articular Arab that goes from one blog to another trying to make Zionists look bad, interesting enough you have a few chit-chats with him you expose him, he immediately bugs off with his tale between his legs. He likes to stress the phrase: “we Jews”, or/and “I am a Jew”....

On Feb. 21, Doubleday will publish the book that cost me my job: "Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy." The germination began when I heard about the extraordinary efforts made by the White House to ram the Medicare drug benefit through the House of Representatives during the night. Until that point, I had given President Bush the benefit of the doubt—even on things with which I was uncomfortable. For example, I had reluctantly concluded the Iraq War was justified on the basis of what I knew at the time it began. I don't normally...

Bruce Bartlett, a former advisor in the Reagan White House and economist has written a new blockbuster book titled: Impostor : How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy What is so disappointing to me is the way he has carried on in the publicity of his book. He claims that he is trying to send a wakeup call to the Republican Party, that we run the risk of losing the White House or congress or both unless we get control of the reckless spending, a spending Bartlett contends, breaks from the great traditions of Ronald Reagan....

Last week, I published a new book, "Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy." A lot of my friends are not happy with me for writing it, and I have been embraced by a number of people on the left whom I would ordinarily consider my political enemies. Both are mistaken about why I wrote the book and what I hope to accomplish with it.Some of my former friends on the right have attacked me as an opportunist who sold out his party and his president to get a best-seller. They would not think so...

Last week, I published a new book, Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy. A lot of my friends are not happy with me for writing it and I have been embraced by a number of people on the left whom I would ordinarily consider my political enemies. Both are mistaken about why I wrote the book and what I hope to accomplish with it. Some of my former friends on the right have attacked me as an opportunist who sold out his party and his president to get a best-seller. They would not think...

What happens if you're a Republican commentator and you write a book critical of President George W. Bush that gets you fired from your job at a conservative think tank? For starters, no other conservative institution rushes in with an offer for your superb analytical skills. "Nobody will touch me," said Bruce Bartlett, the author of the forthcoming "Impostor: Why George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy." He added, "I think I'm just kind of radioactive at the moment." Bartlett, a domestic policy aide at the White House in the Reagan administration and a deputy assistant Treasury...

French Woman to Ordain Herself a Catholic Priest, Facing Automatic Excommunication The Associated Press LYON, France Jul 2, 2005 — A French woman defied a threat of excommunication by the Roman Catholic Church and held a ceremony proclaiming herself a priest on Saturday. In a small ceremony on a boat, Genevieve Beney was joined by other women from around the world who have taken similar dramatic action to draw attention to the church's policy against women priests. "This is not a rupture with the Roman Catholic Church," Beney said in a statement read aloud before she boarded the boat.. The...

Independence man charged with pretending to be Medal of Honor recipientBy MATT CAMPBELL - The Kansas City Star The man in the photograph wore the summer white uniform of a U.S. Navy admiral with a Medal of Honor upon his breast.The man said he had been a highly decorated Navy SEAL in Vietnam and was writing a book about his experiences.But the man never served a day in the Navy, authorities say.However, he may serve time in prison for wearing a naval officer's uniform and the Medal of Honor without any right to do so.Ralph Ervin Crowder of Independence,...

U.S. fugitive was hitting on local women 'He probably thought ... we wouldn't notice, but we noticed' OWEN SOUND, Ont. -- A man wanted by the FBI for impersonating a U.S. special forces captain at a fatal interstate bridge collapse in Oklahoma strutted around the small Georgian Bay community of Tobermory for three days before his arrest this weekend, says the woman who turned him in to provincial police. Carla Watson, who telephoned police early Sunday to tell them about the fugitive's whereabouts, said yesterday that William Clark may have been on the run, but he was certainly not...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) -- A man who showed up at last month's deadly bridge collapse in eastern Oklahoma claiming to be an Army officer may be a Missouri ex-convict with a history of impersonation, according to a newspaper report. The FBI is investigating the man who arrived in Webbers Falls two hours after a barge struck the Interstate 40 bridge and caused it to tumble into the Arkansas River, killing 14 people. The man, dressed in fatigues and a beret, identified himself as Capt. William Clark from Fort Carson, Colo. A Missouri law officer and a relative of the...