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JEFFERSON CITY | There's never a dull day in the capital city. Today's evidence: a visit from Orly Taitz , the California dentist/lawyer (and black belt in Tae Kwon Do!) who's filed lawsuits disputing President Barack Obama's citizenship. Taitz spoke to a crowd of about 40 at a hotel here this afternoon, and in a little over an hour threw a kitchen sink's worth of accusations at the president. To wit: Obama has failed to produce a true copy of his Hawaii birth certificate; the birth documentation he has produced may be a forgery; Obama may have forged his selective...

One of the most exciting new frontiers in medicine today is the research on the probability that medical science could revive the "dead." Sounds like blasphemy, irreverence, or total fiction? Not quite. It's purely medical science to show the God-given special attributes of His creation, called Life, that is yet to be discovered by man. Our present thinking is that, unless cardiopulmonary resuscitation is done within 4-5 minutes following a respiratory of cardiac arrest, death ensues. Our definition of clinical death states that life is gone when the heartbeat, breathing and brain activity are no longer present, in spite of...

A St. Louis Park man says he was taunted and pelted with rocks after he left the Twin Cities Gay Pride Parade, and the attack was caught on camera. The video has already received 1,800 views after it was posted Monday on YouTube. The clip shows boys and teenagers trailing 37-year-old Adam Schreifels and taunting him after learning he's gay. "We hate fags, disgusting. Just very inappropriate things to be saying," Schreifels said. He says while he was shocked by the comments, he wasn’t scared. "Some of them threw rocks. At first, I got defensive. Then I thought okay, they...

Democracy: Nations aren't usually put to the fearsome test to "live free or die." But Hondurans are accepting it as the world pressures them to reseat a potential dictator in office. They aren't bending.On Tuesday, all 192 members of the U.N. General Assembly voted to condemn Hondurans' removal of President Mel Zelaya from office. He was ousted this week after brazenly defying a Supreme Court ruling against a reelection referendum. Using the language of the effort's ringleader, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, the U.N. called the constitutional act "a military coup." The same day, the Organization of American States gave Honduras three...

So Michael Jackson's body was going to be returned to his ranch at Neverland, where it would lie in state in a glass coffin for his helplessly grieving fans to say their goodbyes. It would be borne there in a white 'fairyland' horse-drawn coach as sobbing crowds line the route. Then would come the bad-taste funeral to end all bad-taste funerals, an orgy of saccharine camp with yet more artificially whipped-up sentiment.

RALEIGH (AP) — A longtime loyalist and aide to two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards spent the day inside a federal courthouse amid an investigation into how his former boss spent campaign funds. The Associated Press on Wednesday morning saw Andrew Young walk into the building in Raleigh where a grand jury was meeting. He declined to talk and did not leave through the public entrance.

THE Jackson family were reeling last night after being given the results of a private autopsy they had demanded. Relatives had ask ed for their own report on the singer's body after the LA Coroner's office ruled out foul play. But the second autopsy has confirmed the findings of the first, which were revealed in The Sun on Monday. The news was broken to Jacko's mother Katherine at her home by the coroner who conducted the private examination. Family lawyer Brian Oxman said the findings were consistent and that the star's body bore "a number of unique and significant marks...

He grilled Bill Burton on no tax increase pledge Obama made. Told Alan Colmes that Obama was a hypocrite for considering taxing health benefits after he trashed McCain in the campaign on this issue. He made fun of energy bill requiring green retro fitting of houses prior to sale. He mocked Obama's comparison of Congress to Abe Lincoln. He's making O'Reilly look like a wuss.

It's time to fight back against the cap and trade bill that will saddle Americans with thousands of dollars in new taxes, fees, and and costs each year. This bill has already passed the House of Representatives and now it is going to the Senate. We need to stop this tax-laden bill now!

The city's first Hasidic cop was excoriated in a anti-Semitic rant by a dog-loving subway passenger who allegedly refused to place her sick pet in an animal carrier, sources and a witness said yesterday. Brooklyn blogger Chrissie Brodigan claimed Officer Joel Witriol went ballistic when he saw her take her pug, Dempsey, out of her purse in violation of subway regulations at around 5:30 p.m. Monday. She said he cuffed her, insulted her and roughed her up. But a witness, Viane Delgado, said Brodigan was the one out of line. Delgado said Witriol "repeatedly" asked the woman to place the...

JEFFERSON CITY — Two Missouri state representatives today attended meetings conducted by Orly Taitz in which the California dentist questioned the validity of the presidency of Barack Obama. Taitz alleges that Obama’s birth certificate is illegitimate, and even if it’s not, she says, he can’t be president because his father was Kenyan. She pushed her conspiracy theories and asked for money today at events in St. Charles and Jefferson City. Taitz said the Supreme Court is complicit in “illegal activity” for blocking her attempts to remove Obama from the presidency. Rep. Cynthia Davis, R- O’Fallon, who has gotten a bit...

Editor's note: The content of this story is graphic in nature and may be objectionable to some readers. Frank Lombard News coverage of a Duke University official accused of raping his adopted 5-year-old son and offering the child to someone else is apparently lacking what some say is a key piece of information: the fact the alleged perpetrator is a homosexual who lives with another "gay" man. Frank Lombard, associate director of the Health Inequalities Program at the university's Center for Health Policy, was arrested last Wednesday in Raleigh, N.C., for attempting to induce someone to cross state lines to...

Two University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomers have found a binary star-disk system in which each star is surrounded by the kind of dust disk that is frequently the precursor of a planetary system. Doctoral student Rita Mann and Dr. Jonathan Williams used the Submillimeter Array on Mauna Kea, Hawaii to make the observations. A binary star system consists of two stars bound together by gravity that orbit a common center of gravity. Most stars form as binaries, and if both stars are hospitable to planet formation, it increases the likelihood that scientists will discover Earth-like planets.

Regulation: Ignoring the first rule of holes, a bankrupt state passing out IOUs welcomes an EPA waiver allowing it to further kill its economy. Too bad the state can't stop the air pollution imported from a growing China. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday granted California its long-standing request — denied by the Bush administration — for a waiver to allow it to impose even more stringent air pollution rules than currently required by the federal government.The way is now clear for implementation of a 2002 state law requiring new cars to increase their fuel economy 40% by 2016....

Juan Williams, filling in for Bill O'Reilly, was doing a great job mincing Bill Burton, Obama's Deputy Press Secretary. Juan didn't let him get away with the "no new taxes" pledge that Obama may violate, called him out on increased taxes, called him out on Obama requiring homeowners to bring their homes up to energy standards before a home sale, and made Burton tread water on other issues. For being a Liberal, Juan sounded more like O'Reilly tonight - at least in that segment. Catch the video when one is on the Internet.

Abandoned by Michael Jackson after a humiliating child molestation trial in 2005, the late singer's Neverland Ranch could now become one of the biggest draws in the world as a memorial to the King of Pop. Jackson's family has said there are no plans for a funeral or burial of his body at the ranch in central California after his death last week. But the rural playground inspired by Jackson's alter-ego, Peter Pan, would remain an attraction in a region already visited by tourists, and it could rival Elvis Presley's Graceland as a future venue for his millions of fans...

WASHINGTON – Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman remained in the hospital in his home state of California on Wednesday, a day after fainting in his office. Waxman, 69, was not feeling well Tuesday and was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for "routine testing," spokeswoman Karen Lightfoot said. In a brief update late in the day, Waxman's staff disclosed that the congressman had fainted in his district office in California.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday declared a fiscal emergency to force lawmakers into a special session to tackle a state budget gap that has widened to $26.3 billion from $24.3 billion after they failed to close it on Tuesday. Lawmakers debated late into the night Tuesday but could not agree on a plan to balance California's budget for its new fiscal year, which began early Wednesday morning. That cleared the way for state officials to suspend payments owed to vendors and local agencies, who instead will get "IOU" notes promising payment. The notes would mark...

1. What is the supreme law of the land? 2. What do we call the first 10 amendments to the Constitution? 3. What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress? 4. How many justices are on the Supreme Court? 5. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? 6. What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States? 7. What are the two major political parties in the United States? 8. We elect a U.S. senator for how many years? 9. Who was the first president? 10. Who is in charge of the executive branch?

LINK TO ALL U.S. TEA PARTIES!There is a place at the right of the web page to select your state. You might want to post this link on your state page.