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Know Your Birthers

By | 09.09.09 | 12:42 pm

When is it fair to accuse a member of Congress of being a “birther”? I’m wrestling with this a little today. Jason Linkins calls Rep. Charles Boustany (R-La.) a “birther” because, in a video shot and edited by The Huffington Post, he said that President Obama’s birth records were More…

Another Day, Another ‘Birther’ Forgery

By | 09.08.09 | 11:00 am

Josh Gerstein is all over the Justice Department’s filing in Orly Taitz’s latest “birther” lawsuit. Taitz’s suit includes — not as evidence, but as something she wants the court to verify — a ridiculously obvious forgery of a 1961 Kenyan birth certificate, obtained by a man who identifies himself More…

Far-Right Site Gains Influence in Obama Era

By | 09.04.09 | 6:00 am

On April 12, the conservative Website WorldNetDaily published an expose on newly appointed White House “green czar” Van Jones that labeled the environmental activists a “an admitted radical communist and black nationalist leader.”

Based on readily available online sources, including an More…

Orly Taitz Files Another ‘Birther Soldier’ Lawsuit

By | 09.03.09 | 9:01 am

The entire pleading of Connie Rhodes v. Barack Hussein Obama et al, the latest attempt by Orly Taitz to use a soldier as a dupe for an Obama citizenship lawsuit, is up at this Website. My favorite part, based on a quick read:

In the words of the Henry

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Joseph Farah Responds to WorldNetDaily Critics

By | 09.02.09 | 9:20 am

Joseph Farah, who’s edited the conservative WorldNetDaily.com since its founding in 1997, is swinging back at an ad hoc campaign led by conservative blogger Jon Henke (“this fellow I have never known nor associated with nor even heard of before”) to get “decent” conservatives to boycott the site. More…

Constituent to Claire McCaskill: ‘Where’s Your Birth Certificate?’

By | 09.01.09 | 10:06 am

Kathleen O’Dell reports on a town hall meeting held by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) with some choice hecklers:

[I]t was the next question from a Rogersville man that drew more applause: “What is the procedure for recalling U.S. senators?”

Someone quickly shouted to scattered laughter, “Where’s your birth certificate?”

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Rep. Trent Franks: I Came Within Three Days of Launching an Obama Citizenship Lawsuit

By | 08.28.09 | 4:06 pm

After a week of unwanted attention that seemed to end with him signing on to Rep. Bill Posey’s (R-Fla.) bill to demand birth certificates from future presidential candidates, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) has released the audio and transcript from the town hall where, according to the Mohave Daily More…

Birthers in Seeds

By | 08.28.09 | 2:23 pm

Our Minnesota colleague Chris Steller posts this seed art tribute to President Obama’s certificate of live birth, put together over 10 hours by Mark Dahlager, who’s displaying it at the state fair (after the jump).

Only 45 Percent of Arkansans Say Obama Was Born in America

By | 08.25.09 | 1:00 pm

Public Policy Polling dips into Arkansas, one of the few states where Barack Obama won fewer votes for president than John Kerry, and finds that only 45 percent of Arkansans are confident of the president’s citizenship. Thirty-one percent of them say he was born outside of the country; the More…

Birthers: The Movie

By | 08.25.09 | 9:03 am

On Aug. 4, President Obama’s birthday, WorldNetDaily released and began shipping “A Question of Eligibility.” It’s an hour-long documentary produced by an “award-winning team” who chose, naturally, to, keep their identities “secret for fear of retribution from the administration.” To call it a “rip-off” would be to go easy More…