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Guest Blogger: The Obama Eligibility Question (Update)

May 5th, 2010 · 4 Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: Yes, I’ve been criticized for publishing posts about the case of Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, a career Army officer being court-martialed for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan until President Barack Obama proves his eligibility under the Constitution to serve as president of the United States.  Still, I published the posts.  Why?  Guest blogger [...]

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Army Officer Shares Text of Letter Sent to President

April 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Nine days ago, Army Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin announced he is wiling to risk a court-martial if that’s what it takes to determine whether or not President Barack Obama is eligible to serve as president of the United States.  Today, in addition to announcing that he has officially received a written warning from his brigade [...]

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Top 10 Observations About President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan War Strategy Speech

December 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments

Following President Barack Obama’s a war strategy speech Tuesday night, myriad observations surfaced about the way forward for the United States military in Afghanistan.  Below are my Top Ten observations about that speech: 1) It took three months for President Obama to come up with this; 2) President Obama believes we can end a war [...]

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2004 Headline from Kenya’s Oldest Newspaper: ‘Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate’

October 15th, 2009 · 10 Comments

This morning, Don Surber points his readers to a web archive image (above) of an article published in the June 27, 2004, edition of the Sunday Standard, Kenya’s oldest newspaper.  The headline, Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate, makes me think about two things:  (1) Michael Johns’ article about Barack Obama’s birth documents and [...]

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Five-Part Video Series Examines Barack Obama’s Eligibility to Serve as President of the United States

September 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Call me a kook, a right-wing nutjob, whatever, but in more than two-dozen posts during the past two years, I’ve looked at the issue of Barack Obama’s eligibility to serve as president of the United States.  Today, I offer a five-part video series, Barack Obama: A Question of Eligibility, that includes interviews with several individuals [...]

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Obama Embraces Muslim Principle of Al-Takeyya

June 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments

After hearing President Barack Obama’s address to the Muslim world from Cairo yesterday, I concluded that it matters little whether or not President Barack Obama calls himself a Christian or a Muslim.  What matters most is the fact that the nation’s 44th president appears to have embraced the Muslim principle of Al-Takeyya. What is Al-Takeyya?  [...]

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Kenya Serving as Fairness Doctrine Test Market

December 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Congressional Democrats are not expected to begin their push for reinstatement of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” until next year.  Until then, however, I expect they’ll be paying close attention to news reports from Barack Obama’s family stomping grounds in Kenya.  Why?  Because the East African nation appears to be functioning as a test market for [...]

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