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George Soros is the biggest sugar daddy of the Democratic Party, and naturally wants to ensure that the Democrats have a monopoly of power in America. Recently, I wrote an article for American Thinker on the role that George Soros has played in helping the Democrat Al Franken in his race against the Republican incumbent Norm Coleman for a Senate seat in Minnesota. However, there may be one other reason that Soros was determined that Norm Coleman in particular lose his seat. This was personal. Norm Coleman was the chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and as...

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said the Senate won't seat Roland Burris without the signature of Ill. Secretary of State Jesse White, the Associated Press reports.

One would be hard pressed to find a more vocal advocate for the Charleston area than Mayor Joe Riley, and as such I can certainly understand his reaction to my recent comments about it being a bad idea to try and bail out cities and states with borrowed money. I don't begrudge him that view — after all, his job is to look after Charleston and not to look after the best interests of the taxpaying public at large. That being said, I think it's important to put these proposals for supposedly more "stimulus" in context because of their long-term...

Investigating Obama, above the browser bar - feel free to refer in blog or forum, email, etc.: Congress voted yesterday to "certify" the E.C. vote for The Unkown, Unvetted, Usurping President.It is time today, 1/9, for SCOTUS to confer about what to do with pesky Philip Berg. Do they now deign to grant him standing, this mere Sovereign Citizen? Then, on the 1/16, he gets another meeting of the Supreme How 'Bout That Bogus Potus Committee. Is Tom Waite right and does SCOTUS not like it that BHO has not responded to Souter's prior... invitation?Attorney, Orly Taitz appreciates that Chief...

No. 08A524 Title: Gail Lightfoot, et al., Applicants v. Debra Bowen, California Secretary of State Docketed: Lower Ct: Supreme Court of California   Case Nos.: (S168690) ~~~Date~~~  ~~~~~~~Proceedings  and  Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dec 12 2008 Application (08A524) for a stay pending the filing and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, submitted to Justice Kennedy. Dec 17 2008 Application (08A524) denied by Justice Kennedy. Dec 29 2008 Application (08A524) refiled and submitted to The Chief Justice. Jan 7 2009 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of January 23, 2009. Jan 7 2009 Application (08A524) referred to the Court. ~~Name~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    ~~~~~~~Address~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   ~~Phone~~~ Attorneys for...

I previously have posted the Oxford English Dictionary definitions and usage histories for natural-born and native born in some long thread about the question of Obama's Constitutional eligiblity to assume the office of President. But that thread was eventually deleted, and I think these definitions should be available for discussion here. Lawyers use the OED because it is sometimes the only way to examine what words meant at the time they were used to craft legislation. So here are the entries for these phrases: Of note to me is that at least some of the usages of native-born and particularly...

POSTED: 5:29 am HST January 5, 2009 UPDATED: 9:20 am HST January 5, 2009 Gabbard Wants Answers On Cause, Length Of Outage HONOLULU -- Some powerful state senators are seeking an explanation for why the power went out the day after Christmas and why it took so long to restore it. The chairman of the Senate committee on energy and environment announced Sunday he'll hold a hearing later this month to look into the power outage. Parts of Oahu were without electricity all night Dec. 26 and into the next day. On Sunday, Sen. Mike Gabbard called a news conference...

Washington has issued an APB for former Representative and putative Chief of staff for the Obama White House Rahm Emanual. Emanuel is 5' 7" tall, slight of build and has salt and pepper hair. He is known to cuss like a sailor. He was last seen on December 12th claiming he is getting "death threats" over his multiple meetings with corrupt Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Emanuel has been known to hang around with several unsavory characters in the past. It is commonly known that Emanuel has been a close confidant to impeached presidents and senators that have experienced intense sniper...

Sarah Obama, 86, will fly from her native Kenya to attend the inaugural festivities, the Kenyan government announced on Tuesday. Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama isn't actually related to the next president by blood - she was the third wife of Barack Obama's paternal grandfather. The two must speak through an interpreter as she knows only a few words of English. But they formed a close bond when he first visited Kenya in 1988. Sarah Obama will attend a pan-African celebration the night of the inauguration. It's not the first time she's been to Washington: she came in 2004 to celebrate...

WASHINGTON – A conference is scheduled Friday at the U.S. Supreme Court during which justices will consider behind closed doors – again – taking up a case that could put to rest the questions about whether President-elect Barack Obama qualifies to occupy the Oval Office under the Constitution's requirement that he be a "natural born" citizen. Twice before the justices have heard the questions, and twice before they've decided to ignore them. The lingering questions continue to leave a cloud over the impending presidency of a man whose relatives have reported he was born in Kenya and who has decided,...

LIMA, Ohio — The most underreported story of 2008 has to be the continuing saga of a few brave souls who are working through the courts to force President-elect Barack Obama to prove his citizenship. In fact, a report from The Associated Press dismissed the whole thing as nothing but Internet conspiracy theories. This lack of coverage is just the latest example of why I have mostly lost hope for the mainstream media in the United States. Thanks to the lack of media coverage, many of you reading this may be unaware of the multitude of lawsuits challenging Obama’s citizenship...

When Young reminded Obama that he had attended Sunday school at First Unitarian, "his eyes lit up, and he said, 'Oh, that's right!'" No records can be found that Dunham was a member of the church, or of how regularly Obama attended ... Young said he was not overly surprised or nervous, "just excited," when he first got a call from Borthwick Mortuary three weeks before the service was to be held. It all made sense. Young said Obama's book "Dreams from My Father" mentioned that he "went to Sunday school here when he was between 6 and 10, around...

Amid the controversy over whether he should become Illinois' next U.S. senator, Roland Burris has been described by friend and foe alike as an earnest public servant with a long history in state politics. A closer examination reveals a prototypical Illinois politician, who put a relative on the public payroll, steered legal business to political supporters and sought to trade on his ties when he became a lobbyist. While not in the core circle of power brokers and fundraisers who have dominated the state's pay-to-play culture, Burris has always hovered in the outer ring. His lobbying clients have gotten tastes...

Good news: Someone in the Justice Department took the Election Day intimidation tactics of the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia seriously. The DOJ filed an injunction today against the NBPP bullies over their billyclub-wielding thuggishness at a Philly polling place, which was captured on video: Remember?

So the Chicago Way hauled off and slapped the U.S. Senate in the face—one of those backhands with the knuckles to unsuspecting lips—and guess who blinked? It wasn't Chicago. It was the Senate. Get used to it, America. And it won't be the last time either. Roland "Tombstone" Burris, the amiable Illinois Democratic political hack who is being called eminently qualified by the national Democrats—perhaps because he's from Illinois and he hasn't been indicted—has almost reached his goal of being addressed as "Yes, sir, Senator." Now Tombstone has President-elect Barack Obama behind him, muscling Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid in...

SNIP [" ... he (Obama) can be blackmailed internally and externally.]This cabinet, for example, is a shock. Robert Gates? What’s to say that the defense people didn’t sit down and say something along the lines of “play ball or else?” I don’t know for sure, nobody but those in the room knows for sure, but you can’t tell me that people aren’t aware of this. This cabinet really isn’t a cabinet of change. What’s to say that what we’re seeing is not internal blackmail? Obama has been vetted, people have found out the truth, and this is what could be...

How do we know Stephen Harper was born in Toronto? Sure, there may be hospital records, and he probably has a birth certificate. But have any of us seen such proof? For all we know, he could have been born in the United States. He certainly seems well-steeped in American-style politics. The question may seem silly, since it doesn't matter much where he was born. But in the U.S., where the constitution explicitly states that only a "natural-born citizen" can become president, the question has provided fodder for spurious attacks on president-elect Barack Obama. Obama was born in Hawaii, where...

Tonight from attorney Orly Taitz: 01.07.09. Good news, Chief Justice John Roberts agreed to hear my case Lightfoot v Bowen, challenging eligibility for presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. He distributed the case to the full conference of the Supreme Court. The timing of this decision by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, is absolutely remarkable. On January 7, one day before the January 8 vote by Congress and Senate, whether to approve or object to the electoral vote of Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, as president of the United States, Chief Justice Roberts is sending a...

Press Release from Dr. Orly Taitz, ESQ01.07.09. Good news, Chief Justice John Roberts agreed to hear my case Lightfoot v Bowen, challenging eligibility for presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. He distributed the case to the full conference of the Supreme Court. The timing of this decision by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, is absolutely remarkable. On January 7, one day before the January 8 vote by Congress and Senate, whether to approve or object to the electoral vote of Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, as president of the United States, Chief Justice Roberts is sending...

( Really...who in the world is this phantom we have elected president?) Investigator casts doubt on Obama's birth residence-- Neighbor believes family didn't live at address in newspaper announcement Posted: December 16, 2008 Baro sent a team of investigators to Honolulu to explore records regarding current residents of Kalanianaole Highway and to track down residents back to 1961. Baro's investigators were unable to locate any current or past resident of Kalanianaole Highway who could recall Obama or his family living at the address listed in the Sunday Advertiser announcement. Baro also sent investigators to the newspaper offices to examine files,...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In just a matter of weeks, Barack Obama may force Americans to spend millions for unproven embryonic stem cell research. Yet, scientists admit they are having significant problems overcoming one of the major hurdles that may prevent the cells from every helping human patients. While adult stem cells have helped patients with a wide range of dozens of diseases and conditions, embryonic stem cells have yet to help one patient and have had problems in animals. One major problem is that they tend to form cancerous cells or tumors after they are injected -- and scientists...

If the Senate Republicans truly wanted to make Tombstone Burris' march on Washington a spectacle to bedevil the Democrats, here's what they'd do. They'd put on some choir robes, stand outside Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office Wednesday and invite every news organization in the land to hear them sing. They'd sing a cappella, in a mournful baritone, to mark the latest Democratic public relations disaster—the all-white Senate controlled by Democrats denying a seat to a duly appointed African-American. So if they wanted a true spectacle, the Republicans would hold hands and begin to croon: "When Roland was in Harry's...

Reversing themselves, Senate Democratic leaders on Wednesday morning opened the door to allowing Roland W. Burris to replace President-elect Barack Obama in the Senate. After a private 45-minute meeting with the former Illinois state attorney general, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, and Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, said that they were open to recognizing Mr. Burris’s appointment as long as he meets a series of conditions.

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The brother of Terri Schiavo, the woman whose former husband subjected her to a painful starvation and dehydration death, is upset that Barack Obama has chosen a top Justice Department lawyer who was the attorney for the man who condemned her to death.Obama has named Thomas Perrelli, who won an award for representing Schiavo's former husband Michael, as the third highest attorney in the Justice Department.Perrelli will be an associate attorney general, but the news isn't something Bobby Schindler likes.Schindler, Terri's brother and one of Terri's family members who fought to be given the right...

Petition for Point of order: Barack H. Obama II is not qualified to become president. Grievance: Barry Soetoro/a.k.a. Barack Hussein Obama II is not qualified to become president, having had primary allegiances to other nations, and not providing unambiguous evidence he is a "natural born Citizen" without other allegiance, to satisfy the Constitution Article 2 Sect. 1. Prayer: By your oath to uphold the Constitution, your privilege to raise a Point of Order, by the 10th Amendment powers retained by We the People, and by the right of petition for redress of grievances, I pray that you cosign/raise an Objection/Point...

WASHINGTON – A conference is scheduled Friday at the U.S. Supreme Court during which justices will consider behind closed doors – again – taking up a case that could put to rest the questions about whether President-elect Barack Obama qualifies to occupy to Oval Office under the Constitution's requirement that he be a "natural born" citizen. Twice before the justices have heard the questions, and twice before they've decided to ignore them. The lingering questions continue to leave a cloud over the impending presidency of a man whose relatives have reported he was born in Kenya and who has decided,...

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Could knowledgeable attorneys, judges, activists please explain our Firs Amendment Rights at Shopping Malls, Airports, Restaurants, Sidewalks, Parking Lots? Thanks.

Concerning President-Elect Barack Obama and VP-Elect. Joe Biden: Are they agents of hope for reform and positive change? Or, are they just some more of American government's 'Kings of Corruption'? The 2008 election process is NOT yet complete. Are there good reasons for the American people to ask or instruct their Senators and Representatives in the US Congress: On Thursday, January 8th, "Just Say NO! - to Barack & Joe!" Please list and document any corruption information about Obama and Biden here.

With Gov. Blagojevich facing impeachment, Mayor Daley is trying to engineer a political end-run around Springfield when it comes to Chicago's share of the $800 billion economic stimulus plan being crafted by President-elect Barack Obama. "Mayors are going directly to the federal government. They have to. We can't wait. You can't allow Springfield to take your money, hold the interest, then eventually give it to you in the middle of winter. You'll never get the job done in the middle of winter," Daley told reporters. "You just go straight to the federal government and say, 'We have all the construction...

Who is to blame for the Illinois Senate Seat mess? Barack Obama is to blame. Other than here, at this Pink website, few, if any, took notice when Barack Obama resigned his senate seat in early November. At the time we made several points regarding the Obama resignation: (1) Obama accomplished nothing in the U.S. Senate other than advance himself; . (2) Obama demonstrated once again that he will “flick off the burden of responsibility” when responsibility, as it usually does, counters self-advancement; . (3) Obama knew he was not qualified to run for president from the very beginning (see...

At approximately 4:45 p.m. on Thursday, August 21, 2008, I was in the Clerk of Court's office in the Federal Courthouse in Philadelphia doing part of my job as a legal writer and reading the civil cases which had been filed that day. (Snip) After the man left, the clerk told me that I should probably take a look at the complaint. (Snip) You filed a new lawsuit last week. Tell me about it. This lawsuit is an interpleader action, and the reason we went this way is because an interpleader action will shift the burden of proof to Barack...

(AP) Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine is set to become the next chairman of the Democratic Party. Two Democratic officials said Sunday that President-elect Barack Obama has chosen the governor to take over the Democratic National Committee. The officials spoke to The Associated Press on a condition of anonymity because the decision had not yet been officially announced.

[...] For those on the chase, I’m recommending you look at a pro Obama site called What’s Your Evidence? This is the first site I’ve found that analyzes the Berg complaint, as well as, the collateral issues surrounding this epic journey into whether or not Barack Hussein Obama II is eligible to hold the office of POTUS under our Constitution from an opposing view of those of us who believe that Obama is not a natural born citizen or eligible to hold the office of POTUS. [...]Clearly, someone has taken a great deal of time to “debunk” the Berg claim....

Information on Obama's ongoing efforts to prevent the public from seeing his birth documentation: Obama The Fraud. The links on that page are updated as they become available. Check back regularly for new links.America's DNC-owned news media wants this story to go away or, like the Republicans, they are too cowardly to confront the issue. It's up to us to tell others about this.

Case of Berg vs. Obama, U.S.S.C. Case No. 08-570, in the U.S. Supreme Court has been scheduled for two [2] Conferences [January 9th and 16th, 2009].The Justices of the Supreme Court will read letters sent to them. Let them know how important it is for them to hear our case; how “standing” is important on the issue of Obama’s qualifications; how we are headed for a “Constitutional crisis” if Obama’s qualifications are not resolved; how important it is to follow “our Constitution;” and how Obama’s records: his original ‘vault’ birth certificate, immigration records when he as Barry Soetoro [adopted in...

Heidi Re: SUPREME COURT JUSTICE.......... « Reply #3 on: January 03, 2009, 03:17:42 PM » Draft of what will go out on Monday Dear Chief Justice Roberts, I respectfully come before you today pleading with you, in your position of service to the people of this great Nation, to protect and defend the Constitution. I implore you to intercede on behalf of the common citizens of this country who wish only to know the individual voted by the people to become the next President of our Country is constitutionally eligible to do so. Please grant us standing as We the...

FR and others need to have a working group for Jan 8 when Congress meets in a Joint Session to count the votes from the Electoral College. Many conservatives are NOT interested. So THIS is the Thread for all the negative and silly comments. If I have time to post other threads, there is work to be done. For those who are interested in a FR Working Group for the Congress to "Say NO to Barack & Joe" on Jan. 8th, don't post here. If I don't get the threads posted tonight, start one yourself. I can imagine some of...

Local News | Memories of Obama's mother | Seattle Times Newspaper Memories of Obama's Mother   Nicole Brodeur  Tuesday, February 5, 2008 - Page updated at 12:00 AM Box called her friend "Stannie," a nickname for Stanley. She was named for her father, who wanted a boy — and the girl knew it. As a result, their relationship was strained. "He was hard on her, in that he picked on her," Box said of Stanley Dunham, a furniture salesman in downtown Seattle. "He had a sarcastic humor," Box said, "and she could give it back." Dunham's mother, Madelyn, a bank employee,...

Provides the reasons why Obama refuses to either speak publicly about where he was born or to produce his original birth certificate

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich doesn't have many friends these days, particularly among the lawmakers who will decide whether to throw him out of office.

WASHINGTON (AP) - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Sunday announced that he was withdrawing his nomination to be President-elect Barack Obama's commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation into how some of his political donors won a lucrative state contract. Richardson's withdrawal was the first disruption of Obama's Cabinet process and the second "pay-to-play" investigation that has touched Obama's transition to the presidency. The president-elect has remained above the fray in both the case of arrested Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and the New Mexico case. A federal grand jury is investigating how a California company that contributed to Richardson's...

First, Obama's fellow Daley machine hack, Rod Blagojevich, tried to sell Obama's Senate seat. Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel, discussed the future of the Senate seat with Blagojevich. Obama has since "cleared himself" of any wrongdoing. Then, Obama's advisor, Caroline Kennedy, tried to steal a Senate seat in New York, citing royal prerogative. Now, Obama's Commerce Secretary nominee, Bill Richardson, has withdrawn his nomination, amid speculation that he will be indicted for corruption. All this, and Obama hasn't even been sworn in!

OBAMA-BUST: Bill Richardson will withdraw as Commerce secretary... Developing...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in early December to discuss the seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama, his spokesman said.

The most underreported story of 2008 has to be the continuing saga of a few brave souls who are working through the courts to force President-elect Barack Obama to prove his citizenship. In fact, a report from The Associated Press dismissed the whole thing as nothing but Internet conspiracy theories. This lack of coverage is just the latest example of why I have mostly lost hope for the mainstream media in the United States. Thanks to the lack of media coverage, many of you reading this may be unaware of the multitude of lawsuits challenging Obama's citizenship and his legal...

The ENQUIRER exclusively reports a "sex pervert" was Sen. Barack Obama's longtime mentor and "father figure". For seven years, the presidential candidate had a "father-son" relationship with Frank Marshall Davis, who has confessed to having sex with children, sadomasochism, bondage and practicing a wide array of deviant sexual activities. In his 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father, Obama identifies his childhood mentor only as "Frank," but Obama insiders later confirmed he was referring to Davis, a journalist and poet who was a pal of Obama's maternal grandfather, Stanley Dunham. Frank Marshall Davis admitted in his private papers that he had...

'Thousands of phone calls' on feds' wiretaps MORE TARGETS | 'Multiple witnesses have come forward,' authorities say $$$ Prosecutors revealed Wednesday that they captured "thousands of phone calls" on secret wiretaps in their investigation into Gov. Blagojevich. The disclosure came in a government filing in which prosecutors asked for a 90-day extension to indict Blagojevich and his former chief of staff, John Harris. The filing also revealed that the government has additional targets in its ongoing probe and that the governor's Dec. 9 arrest spurred more witnesses to talk to prosecutors. "Multiple witnesses have come forward in recent weeks to...

01/03/2009: PRESS RELEASE - New Issue of GLOBE Magazine Highlights Berg vs. Obama U.S. Supreme Court Case and you can Vote if “natural born” or not. (Contact information and PDF at end) (Lafayette Hill, PA – 01/03/09) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of “qualifications” to serve as President of the United States and his case, Berg vs. Obama, [is in the U.S. Supreme Court with two (2) Conferences scheduled on 1/09/09 & 1/16/09] announced today that the new issue of GLOBE Magazine [1/12/09 issue] highlights Berg vs....

Barack Hussein Obama - Usurper-elect January 2, 2009 · 6 Comments by -Jefferson Paine Lady Liberty Crumbling I’d like to take up our reader Ted’s challenge regarding the roiling controversy over Barack Hussein Obama’s (BHO) insouciant inability to provide sufficient evidence that he is duly eligible to be elected to the office of President of the United State of America (POTUS). Challenge, can anyone prove this wrong?:- 1. Constitution Article II requires USA President to be “natural born citizen”. 2. BHO’s website admits his dad was Kenyan/British, not American, citizen when BHO was born. 3. BHO is therefore not a...