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This article by Devvy Kidd explains the latest twists and turns in Berg’s lawsuit against Obama.  It also mentions lawsuits in several other states where someone is demanding someone else produce an authentic copy of Obama’s birth certificate.  As I mentioned yesterday, the claim that Obama isn’t a US citizen may in the end be [...]

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In the time leading up to the 2004 presidential election, my husband and I spent some time on the Little Green Footballs web site.  Many of the LGF members would post comments as they were watching the various conventions, debates, and then the election results coverage itself.  The comments were often quite funny, irreverent, and [...]

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Candidate worship

Today I caught a bit of the Glenn Beck radio show and he played one of apparently many over-the-top pro-Obama adds.  This particular one had people in the background singing the popular Christian chorus “Sanctuary” with a prominent quasi-traditional drum beat, and on the screen (Beck was reading that part out loud) were words saying [...]

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If this isn’t a good reason to boycott both McCain and Obama and vote for a third party candidate I don’t know what is.
In a nutshell, European leaders are calling for a global currency and President Bush is calling for summits to discuss the economic troubles and somehow save the free market by interfering with [...]

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I don’t want to fall into the partisan trap of going off on all Barack Obama’s faults and why he’d be a bad choice for US President, and I definitely am not a “we gotta vote for McCain just to stop Obama” groupie. 
The question of a presidential candidate’s US citizenship, though, goes beyond Barack Obama.  [...]

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Was anyone else surprised and maybe a bit perturbed by the House of Representatives’ flip-flop on the Mega-Bailout bill?  In about four days it went from overwhelming defeat to overwhelming victory.
Well, apparently, several members of Congress were personally threatened with Martial Law upon the country should the bill fail.  A couple of them spoke out [...]

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Bush, in one of his oft-repeated “let’s destroy this country” moves, recently signed into law the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act, a measure that will allow the Millitary to be used on US soil for police work–things like crowd control, traffic control, and other forms of control–in the event of natural or manmade disasters, emergencies [...]

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