barack obama

It’s been a little while since a good confrontation between a birther and a member of Congress, but here’s one from last week: a constituent of Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.) asking his congressman why Republicans won’t do anything about the “eligibility issue.” It makes for awkward viewing, as Garrett’s staff clearly wants a change of [...]

On his MSNBC morning show today, Dylan Ratigan asked me if I thought the decision to bring the suspected 9/11 co-conspirators to trial in a New York federal court was an attempt to “deboogeymanificate” those notorious terrorists we’ve heard so much about. After all, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his alleged al-Qaeda co-plotters have often been [...]

Blogger Jordan Carmon catches Marco Rubio’s upstart Senate campaign putting together an ad against Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) — his opponent in the 2010 GOP primary — that looks and sounds exactly like a hard-hitting ad then-presidential candidate Barack Obama ran against Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in 2008.
After the jump, check out the ads.

Phil Berg, who by my lights is the original “birther” attorney — he filed a lawsuit challenging then-candidate Barack Obama’s citizenship in August 2008 — has been dealt a serious blow in his quest to overturn the results of the presidential election. The Court of Appeals for the Third District has affirmed the dismissal of [...]

It’s worth taking some time to read Sam Stein’s piece on the New York Post and its disgruntled ex-employee Sandra Guzman. Her story, and her complaint against the paper, cast a harsh light on how one of the most popular conservative media outlets works inside. One detail that’s enlightening, if not surprising, is how blunt [...]

[UPDATE: Quick clarification. This is definitely a conservative media outrage, but Boaz is a libertarian.] I’m reporting out something unrelated, so I’ve almost missed this, but apparently President Obama has made a major error in not going to Germany for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Politico’s Arena is all over [...]

Here’s a somewhat surprising result from the new Fox News poll. Asked which president is “more responsible for the current state of the economy,” only 18 percent say President Obama. Fifty-eight percent say former President George W. Bush. Nine percent blame both of them. Republicans are the only subgroup of voters who blame Obama, and [...]

If you didn’t listen to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show today, you missed the news that an obscure blogger had gotten his hands on ten pages of Barack Obama’s college thesis, thanks to Joe Klein of Time magazine. Michael Ledeen had jumped on the news, publishing an excerpt that revealed how the president had “doubts” about [...]

Thomas Lipscomb, a fairly prominent conservative investigative journalist last seen defending the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth against charges of dishonesty, dives head-first into the “Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s first memoir” conspiracy theory. The crux of his rather argument is that Ayers, by exasperatedly joking to blogger Ann Leary that he wrote the book, may [...]

Speaking for the first time since receiving the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama accepted the honor while outlining some of the goals he still hopes to accomplish.
“I will accept this award as a call to action, a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century,” he said.
After a light [...]