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NASHVILLE — The woman dubbed by the Orange County Register as “queen of the birthers” arrived at the National Tea Party Convention today and did what she always does: hustle around talking to reporters and trying to get media coverage. Pictured below: Taitz talking to Lydia DePillis of The New Republic.

Even with no support from Republicans, Democrats hope to vote for a jobs bill as early as Monday.
Facing low poll numbers, Harry Reid pumps cash into his re-election campaign.
Obama jokes about birther accusations.
Before bashing R-word Rahm, Palin might want to take a look at her friends.
Low unionization rates could adversely affect minorities.
Obama and [...]

The conservative Post & Email reports that Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.), who’s running for governor in Georgia, has asked the White House for proof that Barack Obama is an American citizen.
Todd Smith, Chief of Staff for Representative Nathan Deal of the United States House of Representatives serving Georgia’s 9th district, has confirmed today that Deal [...]

On his radio show today, Glenn Beck accused someone, somewhere, of orchestrating phone calls about the conspiracy theory that President Obama was not born in America.
“Today there is a concerted effort on all radio stations to get birthers on the air,” said Beck. “I have to tell you, are you working for the Barack Obama [...]

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Sept. 28, 2009.
Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) accidentally walked into the world of “birther” conspiracy theories last month, when a local newspaper seemed to report that Franks was considering a lawsuit against the president. Franks cleared the matter [...]

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Aug. 3, 2009.
[Update: Credit where it's due—my source tipped me off to this in the Politijab web forums, which have become a good site for "birther" debunking.]
One of my friends in the small community of Obama “birther”-debunkers [...]

Another year is behind us, so what better way to reflect than to take a look back at TWI’s best, most popular, cleverest and head-smackingest blog posts of 2009? All day, we’ll be re-running our favorites.
Throughout the year on The Independent Streak, we followed the nation’s biggest stories, including: the inauguration of a new president, [...]

Too far-fetched for even the likes of Rush Limbaugh to discuss as anything but the punchline to a joke, “birtherism” has gained 9/11 truther-like staying power this year, triumphing over widespread ridicule from liberals and conservatives alike. Despite the fact that Barack Obama long ago produced his Hawaiian certification of live birth, a stubborn fringe [...]

Reviews of Obama’s Nobel speech: unusually good, realistically idealistic, academic and verbose, elegiac and strange.
Trust between the United States and Japan has “dissolved faster than wasabi in soy sauce.”
Rove predicts there’ll be “44, 46 or more” Republicans in the Senate in 2011.
The long-awaited Spitzer comeback may be nigh.
It’s not just the birthers: 39 percent of [...]

Here, via Charles Johnson, is audio of Sean Hannity telling a critical caller that questions about President Obama’s birth certificate are perfectly legitimate. The disagreement starts when the caller knocks Hannity for citing WorldNetDaily as a source, given its “birther” content.
HANNITY: Let me ask you a question. What was so wrong in saying ‘Can we [...]