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Shortly after being elected first black president of Harvard Law Review, Barack Obama signed a deal to write a memoir of his life. Remarkably literate, given it was written so young, the book revolves around his quest for identity as the child of a white teenage mother and an African father who walked out when he was just two. Despite titling it Dreams From My Father, the absent parent was little more than a shadow. ‘After a week of my father in the flesh, I had decided that I preferred his more distant image,’ reflected Barack Obama on the short...

U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine) disagrees with the Navy's decision to name a cargo ship under construction in San Diego for California farm labor leader Cesar Chavez. The decision, announced Tuesday, "appear[s] to be more about making a political statement than upholding the Navy's history and tradition," Hunter said in press release....

According to the Honolulu Advertiser, a "son" was born to "Mr. and Mrs. Barack Obama" (Sr.) on August 4, 1961. That's all it says. No more; no less. See the birth announcement here. Barack Obama Sr. was married at the time to Kezia Obama from Kenya. America, here are the real "Mr. and Mrs. Barack Obama," legally man and wife in 1961: The Honolulu Advertiser birth announcement raises many more questions than it answers. 1. How does Stanley Ann Dunham fit into the picture? 2. Was 18-year old Ms. Dunham really married to Barack Obama Sr. as well? 3. If...

My Bigamist Boyfriend Tricked Me Into Marrying Him In Africa Chris Brooke 28th January 2010 When Julie Stead [Pic in URL] arrived to visit her boyfriend's family in Gambia, she was pleased to be given an elegant cream and white outfit. She wore it on her birthday a few days later, believing she was going to a party. But she soon discovered that the big event was her own marriage - and there was nothing romantic about it. Julie Stead eagerly accepted Jobe's invitation to spend a two-week holiday with his family in Gambia - little did she know she...

A new detail about the courtship of Michelle Obama: It took two years for Obama to finally propose. Though she knew he didn't fear commitment, Michelle had become a bit irritated with his struggle over whether marriage had become an outdated institution. Wow. And with this offhand comment, a thousand new excuses are born. "Honey, it's not that I fear commitment. It's that I'm struggling over whether marriage has become an outdated institution." I recall from that other Obama profile in the New Yorker, this one on Michelle: Barack had a more bohemian attitude toward romance. “We would have this...

Barack Obama's Struggle Over Whether Marriage Had Become 'An Outdated Institution'A new detail about the courtship of Michelle Obama: It took two years for Obama to finally propose. Though she knew he didn't fear commitment, Michelle had become a bit irritated with his struggle over whether marriage had become an outdated institution. Wow. And with this offhand comment, a thousand new excuses are born. "Honey, it's not that I fear commitment. It's that I'm struggling over whether marriage has become an outdated institution."I recall from that other Obama profile in the New Yorker, this one on Michelle: Barack had a...

Jim Geraghty takes a look at longstanding blog buzz over Barack Obama’s birth certificate, which the campaign refused to release to the St. Petersburg Times in April: We tried to obtain a copy of Obama’s birth certificate, but his campaign would not release it and the state of Hawaii does not make such records public. Has anyone seen it? Why shouldn’t the record be in the public domain for presidential candidates? Geraghty walks through various rumors now circulating in the wake of the Obama campaign’s birth certificate blackout, including this one: Rumor Three: His mother did not want to name...

Bigamist caught out when he invited the same guest to BOTH his 'weddings' A bigamist was caught out when he invited the same guest to both his 'weddings' - and then had the bravado to arrive at court hand-in-hand with his first wife while he continues to live with his second wife, a court heard. Ageing truck driver Randolph 'Ranchie' Edge, 54, married his first wife Edna Winkle and then struck up a relationship with innocent Patience Carey, 21, who is more than 30 years younger than him. The bizarre chain of events only came to light when a wedding...

MONTEREY, Calif. - A former administrator at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey has been indicted in Virginia on a felony bigamy charge. Charles Edward Hicks, 61, was married to a total of seven women over the last 40 years, according to court records. Three of the marriages took place while he was married to someone else, according to the records. The charge followed a complaint from a Virginia woman who said she discovered in April two years after marrying Hicks that he was still married to another woman at the time. That woman, a former resident of Marina, north...

Archie Belaney's life of deception brought his cause to the worldAlmost as soon as the man known as Grey Owl died in a Prince Albert, Sask., hospital on April 13, 1938, his many secrets began to emerge into the open air. That same day, The North Bay Nugget ran a story it had sat on for three years, revealing that the famous Indian naturalist was actually an Englishman named Archie Belaney. And not just any Englishman, it eventually turned out, but a binge-drinking bigamist who had had five "wives." His closest supporters, especially Lovat Dickson, the Canadian-born London publisher who...