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We start from the premise that the rights of citizenship of the native born and of the naturalized person are of the same dignity and are coextensive. The only difference drawn by the Constitution is that only the “natural born” citizen is eligible to be President. Art. II, § 1. Link to full decision.Note that Craig had previously appealed to the Supreme Court while the appeal was pending and is scheduled to be discussed on September 29, 2009.

Cut to scene: Dimly lit, filthy, Chicago back alley. Various nefarious characters lurking in the shadows, discussing the ideal king, the one to bring all their villainous dreams to fruition. At the end of the alley stands a young man, the king in waiting, fresh out of the Chicago political machine, unscathed. The king saunters slowly towards the power brokers, a ringing thud sounding between the buildings, as he dribbles his way closer to the king makers. Tossing the basketball into a nearby dumpster, ala another Chicago king, Michael Jordan, the alleged moderate, purported blue collar savior, champion of hope...

Twitter is experience a DNS attack. Facebook is also sluggish as is blogspot.com. Hide the women and children. I'd link the wired article, but I can't. Is Twitter Down?

BOSTON, MA—Six former managers of Aggregate Industries N.E., Inc.’s concrete division, the largest asphalt and concrete supply company in New England, were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States by a jury in U.S. District Court in Boston late yesterday. Acting United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks; Theodore L. Doherty III, Special Agent in Charge of the New England Regional Office of the United States Department of Transportation, Office of Inspector General; Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Boston Field Division; and Colonel Mark Delaney, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police...

Material from Wired not to be posted on FR, per FR posting rules. Link to article here

I'm looking for a list of government-run FUBARS in recent times and a brief , one sentence explanation of how it's a boondoggle. what came to mind was : AMTRAK - has never made money in a fiscal year ,ever. USPS- expecting a $70 billion deficit this year. MEDICAID MEDICARE SoSh Security

The fight over Obamacare has really heated up over the past couple of weeks -- enough to have drowned out the last lingering remnants of the Michael Jackson funeral, Sarah Palin's resignation as governor, the elections and demonstrations in Iran, the State of California's budget, cap-and-trade, the Birth Certificate controversy, the financial meltdown in California, continuing grim economic news, Justice Sotomayor's confirmation hearings, the Professor Gates / Officer Crowley reenactment of Bull Connor in Cambridge (and subsequent kegger with the President), and the release of hostages journalists from North Korea. Let's review some of the highlights: it hardly seems possible...

Forget [ignore] for a moment that Democrats have a supermajority in Congress, control the White House, and that most of the media directly parrots their message without apprehension (I actually saw Howard Dean HOSTING a show the other day on a cable "NEWS" network). Forget [ignore] that with total unchecked power Democrats are responsible for changing/fixing/screwing-up anything and everything in DC now. Instead, let's focus on the mating call of the Australian Lady Gouldian grass finch...or the rantings of people on the political right of the spectrum...both of which are equally important to today's political success/failure in DC. There's been...

Twenty-eight percent of Republicans believe President Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States, and 30 percent are "not sure," according to this poll. But before liberals begin to smirk, here's a poll from 2007, in which 35 percent of Democrats said that President Bush knew in advance about the 9/11 attacks, and 26 percent were not sure. So if 58 percent of Republicans are living in a delusional fantasy world because they are out of power, then 61 percent of Democrats were doing the same thing until just recently (perhaps they still are). It's a clean, apples-to-apples...

WASHINGTON – Sometimes you just want to shake your head and wonder what’s in the water.

Today we get a ludicrous effort by head Nirther Orly Taitz to foist off an obviously fake “Kenyan birth certificate” with Barack Obama’s name on it...

Conservative commentators, leaders and thinkers have a responsibility to denounce idiocy put forward under the conservative banner. Republicans and conservatives have a real opportunity to take back the country in 2010 and 2012. But they aren’t going to do it by promoting outlandish conspiracies.

If I may appeal to our good friends pinning their hopes on this birther nonsense, please read up on the nature of conspiracy theories. Best regards; Now an excerpt: Pres. Barack Obama has a birthday coming up, a week from Tuesday. We hope he takes the day off—or even the whole week, the briefest of respites from his busy schedule of truncating our liberties while exhausting both the public coffers and our patience. The president’s birthday comes to mind because we recently spent some time looking at a photograph of his birth certificate, being held by Joe Miller of Factcheck.org,...

“The 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, was born in Hawaii”: So resolved the House of Representatives yesterday, by a 378-0 vote. The broader purpose of the nonbinding resolution was to assert that the House “recognizes and celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the entry of Hawaii into the Union as the 50th State.” That’s typical: Such anodyne resolutions almost always pass by unanimous vote, or with a lone dissent from...Rep. Ron Paul, who was not present yesterday. But a “controversy” has arisen over President Obama’s birthplace.... there’s no real dispute over the matter, just some nuts with a...

Although my thoughts may be a little unorthodox; sometimes when the economy, the government, and the market are working in an unknown manner unorthodox thinking is all that makes sense...Conspiracy? Lies? Deception? Over the past couple of weeks more and more people are beginning to believe the great recession has ended. I have been considering this and trying to decide whether or not the current market run up is just a strong bear market rally or something more. Like all bears, over the last couple of weeks I have been squeezed in my trading (as well as in my thinking)...

This has happened once before, but today it happened 3 times! I decided to pop into NewsMax.com see what's going on, and instead of going to the main page, I get a popup window stating about a possible virus attack.... yeah yeah ok, the warning was fake, but no matter how you try to click out of it, it brings up a fake "scanning files" page, so I immediately shut down the network to prevent an actual virus upload (that's how these things work--they also shut off your firewall) Did all my usual scans, everything clean. So I tried again,...

Exposed “Ethicsgate” Obama and the democrats multiple direct links to the political effort to destroy Sarah Palin. Video exposes for the first time multiple communication and coordination in the filing of bogus ethics charges against Palin Watch video: http://rattube.com/2009/07/24/ethicsgate-obama-and-the-dems-direct-links-to-the-effort-to-destroy-sarah-palin/

"The latest economic stimulus bill promises to do just that by providing a huge bailout --up to $5.2 billion in taxpayer funds -- for some of the same liberal groups that helped get Barack Obama elected"... "Before I(BHO) even get inaugurated, during the transition, we're going to be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda. We're going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America."

Sources say White House cadre bypassing agencies, jeopardizing security JERUSALEM – A small group of officials working mostly from the White House are tightly controlling U.S. foreign policy, bypassing other government agencies and making decisions without employing the expertise of those agencies, according to diplomatic sources speaking to WND. The sources said some of the decisions may be jeopardizing U.S. security. A senior Middle East diplomatic source said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently apologized to a Mideast leader, explaining to him U.S. policy regarding his country is being dictated by the White House and not her agency. The diplomatic...

<p>Freepers, get the word out loud and wide. The Vancouver Sun "journalist" Chris Parry that defamed Jim Robinson and FreeRepublic is none other than radical left blogger "Hollywoodoz" at the Daily Kos. In addition to writting for the Vancouver Sun, Chris is a frustrated and failed internet entrepreneur, having launched many websites and blogs, all of which have virtually no traffic, following, or success. Chris also writes movie reviews, though these are pretty lame.</p>

I know many of you scratch your heads as to how Obama could have been elected. I don't. I'm out on the streets everyday and know full well just how many profound morons there are in this country. And what makes it worse, they have outlets to voice their thoughts. Witness... Video

Area drivers looking to outwit police speed traps and traffic cameras are using an iPhone application and other global positioning system devices that pinpoint the location of the cameras. That has irked D.C. police chief Cathy Lanier, who promised her officers would pick up their game to counteract the devices, which can also help drivers dodge sobriety checkpoints. "I think that's the whole point of this program," she told The Examiner. "It's designed to circumvent law enforcement -- law enforcement that is designed specifically to save lives." The new technology streams to i-Phones and global positioning system devices, sounding off...

“I heard another voice from heaven, saying, ‘Come out of her [Babylon the Great], my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues; for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.’”  Revelation 18:4-5.               At present, it appears that the infernal conspiracy to establish a socialist global empire, or, to quote Barack Obama, a ‘new global regime’, is nearly realized.  Engaged in this plot are communists, radical Moslems, and occultists who desire the slaughter of Christians and Jews (contrary to the allegations of some...

<p>Harlem, especially the Apollo, is the media's unofficial spot to get Black America's reaction to Michael Jackson's death. Matt Harvey dropped by last Friday and listened in on a conversation that was full of adoration and, yes, angry conjecture.</p>

Whether it's smacking down 9/11 conspiracy theories, the North American Union, or the Birthers, the freaks really come out at night when you start poking holes in their theories. In all fairness to the Birthers, I understand that there are intelligent people of good will, who simply don't see eye to eye with me on whether Obama was born in the United States. Sometimes people, even people on the same side who see most issues the same way, just have to agree to disagree. However, the kookier Birthers, I do have to make fun of -- just a little bit....

Finally, the burgeoning Nirther movement is starting to attract some serious celebrity star power, as the great one, Pat Boone, leverages his considerable gravitas to demand {...} : Mr. Obama, Show Us Your Birth Certificate.

Is the Left trying to Kill us? I know the Swine Flu news has taken a back seat recently even though now over a million people have been affected. This journalist is claiming that the Swine Flu (yes I know they changed the name to H1N1 but I am not too politically correct) was man made. I do know that biological materials were missing from an Army lab and who knows how much is really missing? I do know that a certain firm predicted over a 531% increase in profit from the sale of Tamiflu last year before the flu...

[From the webstie]. . . Notice: In spite it may constitute a violation of Netiquette I decided to copy the full article, however with refference to Israëlinsider, in order to ensure it’s continued availabilty on the internet. Given the possible implications of the information contained herein we cannot exclude attemtps to surpress it. Futhermore at this stage of the investigations oilforimmigration does refrain from expressing a clear opinion about the validity of the theories and conclusions reached by Israëlinsider...."If Barack Hussein Obama II is Malcolm X’s biological son and ideological heir, it would uniquely explain the mystery of why he...

On March 20, 1969, Dr. Richard Day, the National Medical Director of the Rockefeller-sponsored "Planned Parenthood" told a meeting that American industry will be sabotaged and shown to be uncompetitive. In view of the recent bankruptcy of General Motors, his remarks are especially pertinent. "The stated plan was that different parts of the world would be assigned different roles of industry and commerce in a unified global system. The continued preeminence of the United States and the relative independence and self-sufficiency of the United States would have to be changed... in order to create a new structure, you first have...

Some pesky scientists have just pointed out an appalling design error in NASA’s latest attempts to find life on Mars. This is beginning to look like a conspiracy. Does someone not want us to find life on Mars? NASA has tried looking for signs of life on Mars precisely once, in the 1976 Viking mission. The result was positive. The reason nobody says there is life on Mars is that another experiment, part of the same mission, couldn’t find any carbon-based “organic” chemicals in Martian soil. This, NASA decided, overruled the other result: with no carbon present, there could be...

Over the past few weeks, there have been a number of clarion calls that "Obama is trying to overturn democracy" or "he is trying to destroy capitalism". Interspersed with these claims have been choice quotes from Rahm Emmanuel "never let a crisis go to waste" and Joe Biden's quote "He's going to be tested in the first six months", which only serve to keep Obama's detractors guessing between the Heinleinian choice between malice and stupidity. I think it would be worthwhile to take a step back and to look at several different fronts on which the Obama machine has been...

Google is learning that $704,000 in political donations to Obama doesn't buy protection ......four federal probes are looking into how Google does business with investigations into its hiring practices and questions by the FTC about directors who also sit on the board of Apple Inc.........several key Google execs have taken jobs in the Obama admin.....Andrew McLaughlin, was Google's high-powered lobbyist and head of its global public policy. And Schmidt has appeared at Obama's side as a star member of the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology. One probe focuses on a deal between Google and authors over putting...

Four Plead Guilty to Conspiring to Provide Material Support to the LTTE, a Foreign Terrorist Organization Defendants Include the Leader of the LTTE in the United States and one of the LTTE's Senior Arms Procurement Agents Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, defendants Karunakaran Kandasamy, Pratheepan Thavaraja, Murugesu Vinayagamoorthy, and Vijayshanthar Patpanathan pled guilty to, among other crimes, conspiring to provide material support to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a designated foreign terrorist organization. The guilty plea proceedings were held before Chief United States District Judge Raymond J. Dearie. Kandasamy and Pratheepan face a 20-year maximum...

Syed Haris Ahmed Faces Up to 15 Years in Federal Prison WASHINGTON—After a bench trial held last week in the Northern District of Georgia, U.S. District Judge William S. Duffey, Jr., announced today that Syed Haris Ahmed, 24, has been found guilty of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. "This case has never been about an imminent threat to the United States, because in the post-9/11 world we will not wait to disrupt terrorism-related activity until a bomb is built and ready to explode," said David E. Nahmias, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. "The fuse that...

In my development finance work in the developing world, I have undertaken a lot of negotiations with businesses (mostly media companies) in places ranging from South Africa to Guatemala to Serbia looking to borrow money. The nonprofit private equity fund I work with has standard loan documents, of course, and over the years has looked to tailor them to fit risky investment in these environments with less than perfect adherence to the rule of (contract) law. As I watch the Detroit restructurings unfold, particularly the strong-arming of senior and secured creditors, I wonder what new covenants creditors might want to...

ASHEVILLE, NC—Bryan Noel, 39, of Hendersonville, NC, has been indicted and arrested on one count alleging conspiracy to commit mail fraud, 25 separate counts alleging mail fraud, and two separate counts alleging making a false oath in connection with a bankruptcy proceeding, all in connection with an investment scheme which resulted in losses of approximately $7 million. Noel made his initial appearance before a U.S. Magistrate Judge today and was detained pending a hearing. That hearing is scheduled for Friday, June 5, 2009, at 12:00 p.m. Today’s announcement is made by Edward R. Ryan, Acting United States Attorney for the...

I mean, the title pretty much says it, doesn't it? Obama's game of peek-a-boo with Islam continues. As he gets ready for his big speech in Cairo tomorrow, Obama makes sure to include the USA among his mental checklist of Muslim nations. It would be pathetic if it weren't so offensive and infuriating.

<p>BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The owner of an Alabama abortion clinic that was once hit by a deadly bombing says protests at the clinic have increased since President Barack Obama's election.</p> <p>Diane Derzis said Monday the fatal shooting of Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller appears to be part of a pattern that's taken hold since the vote last year. Derzis said she has been seeing more protesters outside her clinic in Birmingham, and their rhetoric is getting tougher.</p>

Obama looks to be gearing up for the health care reform fight, leading many to believe that he will push for the legislation this summer. Having allotted $635 billion for health care over the next 10 years, shows he means business, even though it is more likely to cost around $1.2 trillion (Hey look! More deficit). Obama’s plan has eight principles: • Guaranteeing choice of health plans and physicians; • Making health coverage affordable; • Protecting families’ financial health; • Investing in prevention and wellness; • Providing portability of coverage; • Aiming for universality; • Improving patient safety and quality...

Those who subscribe to 9/11 conspiracy beliefs are generally suspicious and inquisitive, a new study suggests. Shortly after terrorist attacks destroyed the World Trade Center and mangled the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, conspiracy theories blossomed about secret and malevolent government plots behind the tragic events. A report scheduled to appear in an upcoming Applied Cognitive Psychology offers a preliminary psychological profile of people who believe in 9/11 conspiracies. A team led by psychologist Viren Swami of the University of Westminster in London identified several traits associated with subscribing to 9/11 conspiracies, at least among British citizens. These characteristics consist...

Ricky didn't want to admit that he was the star of the famous Sasquatch video, but when his shaved image appeared on a website beside Bigfoot himself, there was no denying his past.

EC goes deep inside Bilderberg. The 2009 meeting, the membership, their ideology, their strategy, and their tactics are all explored in this interview with Daniel Estulin, author of The True Story of the Bilderberg Group, and the #1 expert on this highly influential, powerful, and clandestine group. is now LIVE Monday-Thursday at 10PM EDT on the Liberty Works Radio Network

Wednesday - Go Inside Bilderberg '09 with Daniel Estulin, author of The True Story of the Bilderberg Group... Obama vs. Cheney Update...California Says Enough!...Socialized Healthcare is coming- Why that means you should buy tools... Carmen will help us sort through the conspiracies with a swine flu update as well... and MORE!

Souls, spirits, ghosts, gods, demons, angels, aliens, intelligent designers, government conspirators, and all manner of invisible agents with power and intention are believed to haunt our world and control our lives. Why? The answer has two parts, starting with the concept of “patternicity,” which I defined in my December 2008 column as the human tendency to find meaningful patterns in meaningless noise. Consider the face on Mars, the Virgin Mary on a grilled cheese sandwich, satanic messages in rock music. Of course, some patterns are real. Finding predictive patterns in changing weather, fruiting trees, migrating prey animals and hungry predators...

From today until May 17, approximately 150 of the most influential members of the world's elite will be meeting behind closed doors at a hotel in Greece. They are called the Bilderberg Group or the "Bilderbergers," and you have probably never heard of them. The group, co-founded by Prince Bernard of the Netherlands, has been meeting in secret every year since 1954. This year, says the British broadsheet The Times, they are meeting at the Nafsika Astir Palace in Vouliagmeni. The individuals at the meeting come from such power houses as Google and the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Senate...

Bilderberg '09 is happening this weekend in an exclusive European resort outside of Athens. Reportedly the Bilderbergers now see themselves as "one crisis" away from the transnational, global control they want. Who are the Bilderbergers and what is their agenda? What is their history and how do their aims conflict with our Constitution? EC looks into this as Bilderberg '09 opens up in Greece.

The Web site Pakistan Daily is an Islamabad-based hub for Pakistani citizen journalism, promising Pakistani readers: “Your News. Powered by You.” It is also an excellent place to turn if you want to read in on the latest conspiracy theories making the rounds in that country. Or just get very scared. Somewhat disturbingly, the source for the “top story” on Pakistan Daily today is Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari. As an anonymous article on the site reports accurately, in an interview with NBC News which aired on Sunday, Mr. Zardari claimed that he “knew” that Osama bin Laden was an...

A PENTAGON official formerly of the US Air Force has been charged with conspiracy to pass classified information to an agent of China, the US Justice Department said. A criminal complaint said today that retired Lieutenant Colonel James Wilbur Fondren, a deputy director of the US Pacific Command's Washington Liaison Office, "unlawfully and knowingly conspired" to communicate secrets.

It seems that every day, our "friends" in the Middle East come out with another thing to blame on the Jews. First it was that the Jews own the banks, and the media. Now Iran, the country that President Obama is doing his best to "reach out to" has a new theory. Now the Jews can create disease. I never heard that before (other than the heart burn associated with Jewish cooking). According to Iranian TV the swine flu is a joint Zionist/American conspiracy. As we say in the old country, Who Knew?: