citizenship

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 [...]

The Senate voted today to end debate on the Commerce, Justice and State appropriations bill without considering the controversial amendment proposed by Sens. David Vitter (R-La.) and Bob Bennett (R-Utah) that would have stopped the U.S. Census from taking place without an additional question about each individual’s citizenship and immigration status.
Vitter had claimed that counting [...]

The immigration restrictionist group Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) said it’s flooding Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, and planning another round of Tea Parties, to motivate what they hope will be a huge backlash against any attempt to legalize any undocumented immigrants in the United States. The group is gearing up to fight comprehensive immigration [...]

The conservative blogger at JustOneMinute, who’s surprised some people on the right by asking silly questions about President Obama’s citizenship, accuses me of being in on the “Kenyan birth certificate” hoax.
As to Dave Weigel’s involvement in this, we can take for granted he will deny being in on it, even though he brought the Politijab [...]

I usually skip the advertisements that Townhall.com sends its readers, from unaffiliated conservative groups that buy their lists. But this one was a doozy. PatriotUpdate.com appealed to Townhall.com readers with a series of “jokes” about the president’s citizenship.
Email below the fold.

Illegal immigrants could get up to 300,000 construction jobs financed by the federal stimulus, reports USA Today.  Based on studies conducted by two conservative think tanks, whose numbers are based on the U.S. census, article reports that some 15 percent of the 2 million new construction jobs could go to immigrants without working papers.
Although immigrants’ [...]