Monthly Archives: March 2011

New Republican candidate for President in 2012 is a birther

Republicans have brought out a supercomputer to battle Barack Obama in 2012. The computer Watson proved itself greater than or equal to humans winning a game of Jeopardy against former grand champions of that game, so why not a computer … Continue reading

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An odd point of view

The My Very Own Point of View offers an investigative report that reads more like a work of fiction. No evidence is presented for its startling claim that the official Hawaii Birth Index has been tampered with. Continue reading

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Obama’s birther joke

Speaking at a fundraising event in Boston this week, President Obama said: I think there’s nothing — there’s no weakness in us trying to reach out and seeing if we can find common ground. Now, there are going to be … Continue reading

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Birthright Citizenship Roundtable

Some serious heavyweights in citizenship law have been debating birthright citizenship over at the PrawfsBlawg. While the main question is citizenship of the children of illegal aliens, there is much relevant discussion to what we talk about here, and in … Continue reading

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Legislators attempt to outlaw natural-born President

I have been pretty frustrated with the media coverage of the so-called “birther bills.” The articles almost uniformly characterize the bills as attempts to make Presidential candidates prove their eligibility, but these bills go much further by requiring that the … Continue reading

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New Hampshire says eligibility bill not about Obama

We’ve been tracking legislation in 14 states that in some way limits access to the ballot for President and Vice President to persons who prove they are eligible for the office. These are popularly called “birther bills” because some of … Continue reading

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