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Florida man says his HIV-positive partner incarcerated in Georgia not getting proper treatment

By | 10.19.11 | 5:54 pm | More from The Florida Independent

John Edmonson, a businessman from Jacksonville, tells The Florida Independent that his HIV-positive partner has not received adequate medical treatment after being arrested in early April.

Sugar industry big player in campaign cash flows, favoring Dems, GOP evenly

By | 09.19.11 | 11:43 am | More from The Florida Independent

Many of the most influential American agricultural interests are headquartered in specific parts of the country: The majority of peanuts come from Georgia, corn from Iowa and sugar from Florida. But even though agricultural interests have a significant presence in only a small number of congressional districts, they play an More…

Anti-abortion websites cite report claiming medical abortions ‘less safe than surgery’

By | 05.12.11 | 9:13 am | More from The Florida Independent

Image by: Matt MahurinWithin hours of each other on Tuesday, four anti-abortion news websites posted information on a recently-released Australian report claiming that medical abortions are “less safe than surgery.” Previous research conducted in the U.S. contradicts the survey’s findings. #

Or Maybe al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Is Pretty Weak

By | 01.08.10 | 8:36 am

Apropos of White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan’s comment yesterday that al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula had made a new strategic decision to attack the U.S. homeland, Leah Farrall, an al-Qaeda expert and former terrorism adviser to the Australian federal police, says it’s nothing new. “I watched AQAP congeal More…

Australian Conservatives Worry About a Climate Change Vote

By | 09.23.09 | 1:12 pm

Cory Barnardi, a Liberal Party senator from South Australia, is in Washington for meetings with some stateside conservative groups. (The Liberal Party in that country is the conservative opposition to the ruling Australian Labor Party.) I talked with him briefly and asked about the impact of the House vote on More…

‘Punkin’ the Birthers: Priceless’

By | 08.06.09 | 1:18 pm

It’s looking more and more like the forged “Kenyan birth certificate” released by Orly Taitz on Sunday was a prank by a supporter of President Obama. Politijab points to an anonymous blogger at FearlessBlogging, who has uploaded four photos of the original forgery and a mocking declaration:

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The Greatest Conspiracy of All

By | 08.05.09 | 10:00 am

This thread at the Right Side of Life, keying off of a FreeRepublic.com thread, is actually a pretty useful look at the way facts bounce off of the “birther” community like so many eggs off of a Humvee.

David Wiegel (sic) is a regular poster at the 

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David Bomford Talks About the Forgers Who Used His Birth Certificate to Smear Obama

By | 08.04.09 | 10:36 am

PM, a series on the Australian Broadcast Channel, tracked down David Bomford, the man whose Australian birth certificate was used as the basis for the forged “Obama Kenyan birth certificate” that Orly Taitz posted online Sunday.

The key bit of the interview:

DINA ROSENDORFF: Looking over the documents in

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Is This the Source of the Forged ‘Kenyan Birth Certificate?’

By | 08.03.09 | 7:34 pm

[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 passes on quite the discovery: a 1964 “certified copy of registration More…