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The supermarket tabloid the Globe features a cover story this week proclaiming Barack Obama's "official birth document" a fake and suggesting the president may actually have been born in Canada. The Globe, known for sensationalism and entertainment scandals, cites reports by unnamed document analysts as claiming the Hawaiian certification of live birth the Obama campaign distributed to select news agencies and websites is fraudulent. The blogosphere has been rife with such allegations for 10 months. It also cites WND's reporting about the changing stories about the hospital in which Obama was born. Despite assertions Obama was born in Honolulu, officially...

Jonestown resident Marlon Coplin lives on the north side of Lake Travis and enjoys his lakefront property. But he is being taken to court by the city of Cedar Park because the city wants eminent domain rights of his property. By September, an intake barge in planned on being built in order to supply water to Cedar Park... "Just the land itself is worth $800,000," said Coplin. "They're offering me $42,000." As it stands now, Coplin feels he's being cheated. "Some day I'd like to sell my property, and now I'm going to have to sell it 50 cents on...

If Hawaii officials ever concede to skeptics' demands to release President Barack Obama's birth certificate to the public in order to confirm he was born in Hawaii, there's no reason they should stop there. Some other prominent people claim to have been born in the islands — also without Lou Dobbs' vetting — while other celebrities you think would have a Hawaiian hometown mysteriously don't claim one. (Perhaps they, too, were all part of a vast conspiracy, concocted by America Online, IMDB.com and MSNBC, among other sources consulted here.) But if privacy rules prevent us from seeing the official paperwork,...

Despite government documents showing President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, at 7:24 p.m. on Aug. 4, 1961, some Americans _ known as "birthers" _ still contend he was born outside the country and is ineligible to be president. (snip) ..critics dismiss the birther movement as a radical fringe that could damage the Republican Party.

Born in the USA? BILL WOULD FORCE OBAMA TO REVEAL BIRTH DOCUMENTS State Senator: 'Why wouldn't they be available to the public?' Posted: August 07, 2009 12:30 am Eastern By Jerome R. Corsi © 2009 WorldNetDaily Hawaii state Sen. Will Espero, a Democrat, has confirmed plans to introduce legislation through which the state's lawmakers would force the public disclosure of all President Obama's birth documents held by the Hawaii Department of Health, including President Obama’s long-form original birth certificate. Espero told WND his bill is aimed at "giving citizens access to birth records" under a standard of government transparency which...

In response to a direct question from WND, the Hawaii Department of Health refused to authenticate either of the two versions of President Obama's short-form Certificate of Live Birth, or COLB, posted online. One recipient of this COLB image was Factcheck, an organization funded by the same left-leaning Annenberg Foundation that also employed Barack Obama and former Weatherman bomber, Bill Ayers. In June 2008, Tommy Veitor, Obama's campaign spokesman, sent a scanned image of Obama's COLB to Factcheck, saying that "I know there have been some rumors spreading about Obama’s citizenship, so I wanted to make sure you all had...

The White House Thursday morning expressed exasperation with news that a poll of indicating that only 53% of Virginians in a recent poll were sure that President Obama was born in the U.S. “You couldn’t sell this script in Hollywood,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters of the conspiracy theorists, called birthers. “Tell me if you’ve heard one that’s this totally crazy,” Gibbs said. “A pregnant woman leaves her home to go overseas to have a child -- who there’s not a passport for -- so is in cahoots with someone…to smuggle that child, that previously doesn’t exist...

All, I am looking for information on the town hall meetings that are sure to come to Hawaii, and to attempt to organize a response to the Democrats latest attempt at passing a single-payer health care system.

SDI: If you missed the news, which isn't hard given how poorly these things are covered, our "unproven" missile defense proved itself again last week, when a U.S. warship downed a simulated North Korean missile in flight.The test, conducted in Hawaiian waters by the Navy and the Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency (MDA), was the 23rd firing by ships equipped with the Aegis ballistic missile defense system. It was the 19th success, including the shoot-down of a dead U.S. spy satellite last year. A short-range ballistic missile simulating a missile like North Korea's Nodongs or Scuds was fired from...

WASHINGTON – In another bid to persuade Barack Obama to release his long-form birth certificate publicly, WND Editor and Chief Executive Officer Joseph Farah today said he would donate $10,000 to the birth hospital listed on the document. Obama has resisted pleas from a growing chorus of Americans who can't understand why he would spend more than $800,000 fighting lawsuits calling for the release of the document rather than let the American people see it. "We've tried the stick," said Farah. "Today, as Barack Obama celebrates what he claims to be his birthday, I want to try the carrot approach....

Ronald Reagan's birthplace, a second-story apartment over what was once a small-town tavern in Tampico, Ill., is today marked by a museum. John Adams' birthplace is a national park. Even Rutherford B. Hayes, whose birthplace is today covered over by a BP gas station, merits a metal plaque commemorating the location. But while most of America's 44 presidents have tourist attractions or monuments of some kind marking their birthplaces, President Barack Obama – for several reasons – may not be granted the honor. Three obstacles in particular stand in the way: First, though Obama maintains he was born in Honolulu,...

In response to a direct question from WND, the Hawaii Department of Health refused to authenticate either of the two versions of President Obama's short-form Certificate of Live Birth, or COLB, posted online – neither the image produced by the Obama campaign nor the images released by FactCheck.org. Janice Okubu, the public information officer for the Hawaii DOH, also had no explanation for why Dr. Chiyome Fukino's initial press release last October and subsequent press release last week also avoided declaring the posted images to be of authentic documents. In June 2008, Ben LaBolt, an Obama campaign spokesman, released the...

The issue: Conspiracy theories that President Barack Obama isn't a natural-born citizen. Our view: Such claims have been disproved, and those who tout them are in danger of provoking violent lunacy. Please allow us to take a moment to wish President Barack Obama a happy birthday. No, his birthday isn't today; Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, meaning he will turn 48 on Tuesday. We know this because it says so on his birth certificate, which has been available for the world to see on Obama's campaign Web site since last year and which has been examined by government officials...

Who is Eligible to Apply for an Amended Certificate of Birth? As provided by law (HRS §§338-17.7, 338-20.5), the following persons may apply for an amended certificate of birth: A person born in the State of Hawaii who already has a birth certificate filed with the Department of Health and has become legally adopted, or has undergone a sex change operation, or a legal determination of the nonexistence of a parent and child relationship for a person identified as a parent on the birth certificate on file has been made, or previously recorded information in relation to the person’s surname...

The whole birth certificate issue gets weirder still: "I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago...." But why are we supposed to rely on the testimony of Dr Fukino, whom I believe entirely. It is not my job as a journalist or yours as a...

The state of Hawaii has made a series of procedural changes that would allow officials to destroy President Obama's original long-form birth certificate, concealing its contents forever. The warning comes in a report by an investigator commissioned by a retired CIA officer. The report was posted online by the Western Center for Journalism, which withheld the name of the officer. "We know from a document posted on June 10, 2009, on the Department of Hawaiian Homelands website that, up until very recently, either the original paper Certificates of Live Birth and/or scanned images of those paper certificates were maintained by...

On the Decosta COLB (which no one alleges is a fake,) every field header matches that of the Obama COLB except for one. On hers it says : Date ACCEPTED By State Registrar. On Obamas it says Date FILED By Registrar (Notice not the state registrar, this would be the local one ). Two different things. Either that field header is forged in Obamas ( they are from the same form - OHSM 1.1 Revised (11/01) ) or it means his registration was FILED at that date BUT was not ACCEPTED. If you look at the long form copy of...

Several readers have written over the past few days taking us to task for dismissing so-called birthers as lunatics without bothering to refute their claims. We reluctantly concede their point. The birthers have managed to sow confusion in the minds of some who are not lunatics, and for the latter group’s benefit it is worth clarifying matters.

On the 50th anniversary of Hawaii’s birth as a state, it was another birth that clouded the celebration. The House of Representatives on Monday passed a resolution that honors Hawaii’s statehood including a controversial clause stating proudly: “President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii August 4, 1961.” Such a statement should be routine, however, there are numerous groups and individuals that question the location of Barack Obama’s actual birthplace. In fact, several lawsuits have been filed seeking to have Obama’s election as the 44th president of the United States overturned by the Supreme Court for violating the Constitutional requirement that...

An analysis of Hawaii's birth recording requirements around the time of Barack Obama's 1961 birth reveals several ways to generate a "Certificate of Birth," including some that require no documentation other than the assertion of a adult. The word comes in a report by an investigator commissioned by a retired CIA officer. The report was posted online by the Western Center for Journalism, which withheld the officer's name. "In the State of Hawaii, back in 1961, there were four different ways to get an 'original birth certificate' on record," the investigator says, including a report to the Department of Health...

A certain segment of the population is being dismissed as “kooks” for doing nothing more than not blindly swallowing the information given to them. I’m talking about the legitimate concerns people have about whether President Obama is a natural born citizen and thus eligible to be a U.S. president. A long time ago it was honorable to stand up for the Constitution, but not any longer, it seems. My first concerns about a future President Obama came when I saw his name: Barack Hussein Obama. That certainly sounds like the name of someone born outside of America. Of course, he...

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So... If we can't ask about Obama's birth certificate without being dismissed as nutjob, tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorists, can we ask a few other questions without being maligned solely through the use of childish name calling, silly syllogism and sorry sophistry? Ok. So let's forget the birth certificate for a moment and ask Mr. Obama a couple of other questions...or are we still allowed to do that? * Kindergarten records (not even a kindergarten record?) * Punahou school records * Occidental College records * Columbia University records * Columbia thesis * Harvard Law School records * Harvard Law Review articles *...

Republicans and conservatives opposed to a rapid increase in the size and scope of government should be heartened by the American public’s gradual turn away from Obamaism. But when we need Republican and conservative leadership the most, when we need our leaders and thinkers to clearly differentiate their vision for the country from Barack Obama’s vision, many of our leaders have failed us. Instead of taking the opportunity presented to proclaim the conservative vision to the American people, some Republican leaders have opted to latch on to wild conspiracy theories promoted by the fringes of the Republican Party. Or, at...

Officials Try To Put End To Questions HONOLULU -- The issue of President Barack Obama's birthplace that came up during the presidential election keeps resurfacing. It was raised again on Monday and state officials responded. Despite a birth certificate available for viewing on the Internet, those who believe Barack Obama is not an American citizen keep the issue afloat. It came up Monday at a White House daily briefing when White House spokesman Robert Gibbs was asked if there was something he could do to make it go away. "A year and a half ago, I asked that the birth...

Reporting from Washington -- It is the Internet rumor that has been discredited but will not die: President Obama is not a naturally born U.S. citizen and therefore constitutionally is not qualified to serve. This week, months after the allegations first cropped up on the Web and talk radio, the White House and Hawaii officials addressed the rumor -- with the state's health director saying that she had reviewed the records in question and found that they verified Obama was born in Hawaii. At the same time, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, there probably was nothing that would quiet...

Is the State of Hawaii trying to help "birthers" by giving clues to Obama "late" birth certificate? What is a "late" registration birth certificate? If you were born in the state of Hawaii but your birth was never registered there you can apply for a late registered birth certificate. The Hawaii Department of Health says this: Who is Eligible to Apply for Late Registration? As provided by law (HRS §§338-15, 338-29.5), the following persons may apply for late registration: * Any person born in Hawaii who is one year old or older and whose birth has not been previously registered...

Images of two 1961 Hawaii birth certificates similar to the one President Obama purportedly has on file have now been unveiled. The Honolulu Advertiser published photostats of the original long-form birth certificates of twin daughters born to Eleanor Nordyke at Kapi'olani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital Aug. 5, 1961, one day after Obama was supposedly born at the same facility. The Nordykes' certificates include information missing from the short-form document for Obama published online, including the name of the hospital, the name of the attending physician, name and address of the parents, the race of the parents and the race of...

VITAL STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES 1961 at  http://www.nber.org/vital-statistics/historical/nat61_1.CV.pdf  says on page 231 under the section "Race and color" the following:  "Births in the United States in 1961 are classified for vital statistics into white, Negro, American Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Aleut, Eskimo, Hawaiian and Part-Hawaiian (combined), and "other nonwhite."  "The category "white" includes, in addition to persons reported as "white," those reported as Mexican or Puerto Rican. With one exception, a reported mixture of Negro with any other race is included in the Negro group; other mixed parentage is classified according to the race of the nonwhite parent and mixtures...

Take that, "birthers," said Eric Kleefeld in Talking Points Memo. The House of Representatives has just passed a bill recognizing the 50th anniversary of Hawaii's statehood and noting the state as President Obama's birthplace. The 378-0 vote was a "none-too-subtle jab at the Birthers"—who claim Obama wasn't really born in the U.S. and therefore isn't eligible to be president. And the real insult came when Rep. Bill Posey, sponsor of the "infamous Birther Bill," and other Republican sympathizers cast their votes for the language recognizing Obama as a natural-born citizen. It's true that "a few misguided souls among the Right"...

It's not because the president is black, of course. It's because those upstanding Americans who cheered as Barack Obama's predecessor rode roughshod over the constitution in his war on terror have found a new enthusiasm for a strict adherence to the US's supreme law. Specifically they're interested in a clause requiring the president to be born a natural born citizen (although that doesn't mean to say they're not still worried about Obama also being a secret Muslim). A long brewing conspiracy theory has it that Barack Obama entered this world as a subject of the British crown in East Africa...

CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein told staffers at the cable news network Thursday night that the supposed controversy regarding the legitimacy of President Obama’s birth certificate is a “dead” story after anchor Lou Dobbs drew attention for raising the issue repeatedly on his radio program. The website TVNewser reported today that Klein sent an e-mail to staffers of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” just as the program went to air, informing them that CNN researchers had determined that Hawaiian officials discarded all paper documents in 2001. A long-form birth certificate with details about the doctor who delivered Obama no longer exists, they reported....

“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...

Hawaii Health Department’s Fukino Now Constitutional Lawyer? Well kiddies we really shook them up yesterday with our  post revealing the US Supreme Court’s most on point decision regarding the definition of “natural-born citizen” in the case of Minor v. Happersett which was decided six years after the 14th Amendment was adopted.   They were quick to respond weren’t they.After building up the main stream media pressure for the last week for what was sure to be a long form BC in the face, they were confronted with a severe blow to the mantra that the 14th Amendment defines “natural born citizen”.  ...

Responding to the growing controversy over the White House's refusal to release President Obama's original long-form birth certificate, Hawaii's director of health issued a statement yesterday about the document in apparent contravention of Hawaiian law. Dr. Chiyome Fukino declared she has seen the "original birth records" that verify Obama was born in Hawaii and is a "natural-born American citizen," the Honolulu Advertiser reported. But in two separate telephone interviews with WND, Janice Okubo, the Health Department's public information officer, told WND that Hawaii law prohibited her from commenting on the birth records of any specific person. Okubo cited Hawaii Revised...

It seems to me in the name of transparency and fair play---that the President of the United States should now work to dispel any suspicions of some underlying ulterior agenda by coming out in the open with his birth certificate for our inspection. McCain did not expect us to rely on a statement from a state adminstrator that he was born where claimed. In fact, the democrats would have relentlessly wailed against such a thing--the media would have demanded to see the evidence, not just a third party 'statement'. McCain understood this and proactively released his actual, detailed birth certificate--verfiable...

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, who took the time to examine it. President Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at 7:24 p.m, in Honolulu County, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu. The serial...

HONOLULU – State officials in Hawaii on Monday said they have once again checked and confirmed that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen, and therefore meets a key constitutional requirement for being president. They hoped to stem a recent surge in the number of inquiries about Obama's birthplace. "I ... have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen," Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said in a brief statement. "I have nothing...

In another carefully worded statement, Hawaii's health director claimed today to have seen "original vital records" that prove "Barrack [sic] Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen." Chiyome Fukino issued the brief statement in response to the rising chorus of concern across the country about Obama's failure to release a copy of his long-form birth certificate that would reveal the hospital in which he was born, the attending physician and other pertinent details. "I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawai'i State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by...

Today, Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) introduced a resolution commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hawaii's statehood. The resolution also proclaims the state as President Obama's birthplace, a point the Plum Line’s Greg Sargent noted may “put House GOPers who are flirting with birtherism in a jam.� This afternoon on the House floor, Abercrombie spoke of his measure and specifically noted that Obama had been born in Hawaii.

Janice Okubo:"I am not aware of any birth certificate records that have been destroyed" http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=105233 CNN wrong once again – birth record not destroyed Hawaii contradicts network boss' claim that Obama certificate no longer exists Posted: July 27, 2009 8:36 pm Eastern By Jerome R. Corsi © 2009 WorldNetDaily Directly contradicting CNN chief Jon Klein – who ordered host Lou Dobbs to quit discussing President Obama's birth certificate – the Hawaii Department of Health affirmed that no paper birth certificates were destroyed when the department moved to electronic record-keeping. "I am not aware of any birth certificate records that have...

HONOLULU -- State officials again are confirming that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said Monday she has seen the original birth records that verify Obama was born in Hawaii, and is a "natural-born American citizen." Fukino made the announcement in hopes of ending any lingering rumors about Obama's citizenship. She issued a similar press release Oct. 31.

Bill O'Reilly said The Factor debunked the birth certificate theory over a year ago. "It was easy," he said "the State of Hawaii sent us a copy."

Title and link only http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090727/BREAKING01/90727082/Obama+Hawaii+born++insist+Isle+officials

WASHINGTON, July 27 (UPI) -- Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, countering a movement challenging President Barack Obama's U.S. birth, introduced a measure commemorating Hawaii's statehood. Hawaii celebrates its 50th anniversary in August. Ambercrombie's non-bonding resolution to commemorate the Aloha State's admission has a slight twist -- it also describes Hawaii as Obama's birthplace, the Daily Kos reported Monday. So-called birthers argue -- despite credible evidence to the contrary -- that Obama is not U.S. born and so is ineligible to be president. Obama's campaign last year provided a copy of his certificate of live birth issued by Hawaii. "In the language...

H RES 593 2/3 YEA-AND-NAY 27-Jul-2009 6:56 PM QUESTION: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree, as Amended BILL TITLE: Recognizing and celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the entry of Hawaii into the Union as the 50th State Yeas 378 Nays 0 Not Voting 55

Okay, this is getting really good. Dem Rep. Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii is going to introduce a resolution on the House floor today that seems designed to put House GOPers who are flirting with birtherism in a jam. The measure Abercrombie will introduce commemorates the 50th anniversary of Hawaii’s statehood. But here’s the rub, his spokesman tells me: It describes Hawaii as Barack Obama’s birthplace. “In the language of the resolution, there is a statement that Hawaii is the birthplace of the 44th President of the United States,” Abercrombie spokesman Dave Helfert confirms. That confronts House GOPers with a choice:...

Here is an actual Hawaii birth certificate from 1963 (the same era as Obama's birth), which while redacted includes detailed information documenting a birth, including the name of the birth hospital and the attending physician. Beneath it is the short-form "Certification of Live Birth" offered by Obama as proof of his Hawaiian birth. It is possible to have been born outside of Hawaii and still obtain the latter form, but not the former: Here is an example of a Hawaiian Long Form http://www.wnd.com/images/misc/longform.jpg Here is what Obama has released http://www.wnd.com/images/misc/shortform.jpg

Besides being the First Sister Maya has a HawaiiaCertification of Live Birth despite be born in Jakarta Indonesia.

Summertime, and the living is queasy. The looniest fringes of the Republican Party are obsessing over President Barack Obama's birth certificate. This eagerly embraced distraction is a perfect indicator of how little they have to say on other pressing, serious topics. Those prefers-GOP congressmen who introduced legislation about presidential birth certificates do not care how wacky they appear. Anything to change the topic from the economy, health-care reform, oversight of the nation's financial system, and foreign affairs. Looking foolish is preferable to being exposed as having no substantive ideas to contribute. Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs and the usual media suspects...