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The Constitution says that only "natural born citizens" are eligible to be president. Is Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas eligible, given that he was born in Canada of a U.S. citizen mother and a Cuban immigrant father? If Cruz runs, 2016 will be the third consecutive election in which there were questions about the right of a major party candidate to serve. Unfortunately, the Framers left few clues about exactly what a "natural born citizen" is; Congress has not used the phrase in citizenship statutes since 1790.

President Obama’s campaign website simply won’t stop with the accusations of criminal activity by Mitt Romney. This morning, Grant Fuller posted a long post about Romney’s “tax havens.” Once again, Fuller quoted the Obama-coordinated Vanity Fair hit piece on Romney’s foreign accounts. No mention of Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s. And then Fuller goes for the jugular: Is any of this actually illegal? It appears not, but it’s impossible to know for sure because Romney refuses to release enough information to let people make their own judgments...

This post originally published on Patheos.com. According to this Reuter's article, this week Bobby "What me, a vice presidential candidate?" Jindal, governor of Louisiana, released a copy of his birth certificate. This was done as a response to an editorial that was in response to his support of Birther inspired legislation that would require all candidates for federal office on Louisiana ballots to show their birth certificates. Good grief. And again I say, "Good. Grief." First . . . for those who can muster up their best, "What? What's wrong with asking if people are born here?" and can do...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who was born in Baton Rouge to immigrant parents from India, has released his birth certificate. The Republican made the move Friday, nine days after President Barack Obama released his own long-form birth certificate to further prove that he was born in the United States.