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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger made light of the possible presidential bid of another ex-secretary — Hillary Clinton – while presenting her an award at a Washington, D.C., dinner Wednesday. First, he joked about his own presidential aspirations. "At least four secretaries of state became president," Kissinger said, according to news reports. "And that sort of started focusing my mind even though there was a constitutional provision that prevented me from doing it. I thought up all kinds of schemes to get around that." Kissinger was ineligible to be president because he was born in Germany.

We can drop this debate over his birth certificate because we have something even more valuable. We have his mother’s passport files. Snip~ When Obama was young, children traveled as an addition to their parents’ passports. Passport regulations required a photo of parent and child together, as well as a certified copy of a hospital birth certificate. State-issued IDs came much later. If Obama was born in the United States, as everybody says, then there should be a photo of little Barack Obama with his mother, as well as a certified copy of his Hawaiian birth certificate in her file....

When the Obama EPA is not spying on cattle and pork ranches with drones, they’re illegally releasing information on livestock producers to far left extremist groups. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the National Pork Producers are furious after the Obama Environmental Protection Agency illegally gave information on livestock farmers to extremist animal rights groups. Farm Futures reported: NCBA and the National Pork Producers Council are both furious with EPA for handing extremist groups illegally gathered data on farmers who operate confined animal feeding operations. NCBA said early this week it was notified by the EPA that the agency had...

It is remarkable that the idea of same-sex marriage has gained ground so rapidly. Those most quick to accept the idea have been elite liberals, with ordinary Americans lagging behind but becoming more accepting of the idea. In the thick of the struggle over the law and politics of marriage, we can easily forget how novel is the idea of two men or two women marrying each other. This fact came home to me when I participated in a forum on the subject at Princeton University last spring. Present in the room were two lions of the liberal academy, each...

CLEVELAND - Thom Rankin and Ray Zander have been in love for nearly two decades. They own a home together. They volunteer together at church. They're active in their community. On Friday, they will ask for a marriage license they know the state of Ohio forbids them to get. But that won't stop the pair who will be among about 100 couples who plan to ask Cuyahoga County Probate Court to grant them the licenses. As much as they'd like to, getting hitched is not the point. "I hope that it at least brings people to the table to hear...

I've always assumed that President Bush is surrounded by political advisers of the first order. With a campaign chest in excess of $140 million, he can afford the most skilled. But just this once, they may have failed him. For deep-dyed Republicans, the log cabin has always been a near-sacred symbol, reminding us as it does of their party's first president, the immortal Abraham Lincoln. Not all Republicans could have been happy, years ago, when gay and lesbian members – as statistically plentiful within GOP ranks as at any other level of humankind – formed their own unit within the...