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In yesterday's decision about the latest Orly Taitz case, the judge applied a different standard to evidence offered by Taitz than he did to that from the other side. This post is only about that aspect of this issue, and it's an aspect that most people should agree with. Here's what the judge says about the picture of a COLB on Obama's site (PDF here), a picture that's never been authenticated by any government agency: Counsel makes these allegations although a “short-form” birth certificate has been made publicly available which indicates that the President was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks on Thursday turned to modest gains after a measure of economic activity in the Philadephia region jumped more than expected in September. The Dow Jones Industrial Average /quotes/comstock/10w!i:dji/delayed (INDU 9,775, -16.93, -0.17%) added 38.84 points to 9,830.55. The S&P 500 Index /quotes/comstock/21z!i1:in\x (SPX 1,065, -3.59, -0.34%) rose 3.62 points to 1,072.38, and the Nasdaq Composite /quotes/comstock/10y!i:comp (COMP2,124, -8.88, -0.42%) added 5.40 points to 2,138.55.

Face it, my fellow conservatives. We just don’t have what it takes to play the race card effectively. This was amply proven by that ample talk show host, cotton candy conservative, and pop righty Rush Limbaugh who took a story about a beating of a white nerd by black bullies on a school bus and tried to turn it into a spiel involving dire portents of a coming race war enabled by our president:

As Glenn Beck's popularity and ratings increase, so does the attention he's getting from the Obama-loving media. To be sure, most of the recent articles and news reports have been scathing, especially after his comment on FNC's "Fox & Friends" this summer about President Obama being a racist. Yet, despite the headline, "Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?", Time magazine's David Von Drehle actually managed to offer some positive insights to the man that is taking radio, the book industry, and cable news by storm.

"They slammed me against the hood of my car, cuffed me, threw me in the back of the car. I'm in my own driveway at this point and time."

VIENNA (AP) - Experts at the world's top atomic watchdog are in agreement that Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is on the way to developing a missile system able to carry an atomic warhead, according to a secret report seen by The Associated Press. The document drafted by senior officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency is the clearest indication yet that the agency's leaders share Washington's views on Iran's weapon-making capabilities. It appears to be the so-called "secret annex" on Iran's nuclear program that Washington says is being withheld by the IAEA's chief. The...

Baucus bill booed at Obama health rally By Sam Youngman - 09/17/09 12:52 PM ET President Obama's mention of Sen. Max Baucus's healthcare proposal drew boos Thursday at a healthcare rally at the University of Maryland. By contrast, the left-leaning crowd cheered Obama when he endorseed a public health insurance option, which is considered a core provision for liberal lawmakers but is absent from Baucus's (D-Mont.) proposal. The president’s speech in College Park, Md., was part of a return to campaign mode aimed at his attempts to drum up support for his embattled healthcare proposal. Baucus, a centrist and chairman...

(AP) – 18 minutes ago VIENNA — Experts at the world's top atomic watchdog are in agreement that Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is on the way to developing a missile system able to carry an atomic warhead, according to a secret report seen by The Associated Press.

(IsraelNN.com) Hevron resident Baruch Marzel is sick of being disturbed by Muslim prayers, which are broadcast through loudspeakers atop the Tomb of the Patriarchs (Maarat Hamachpelah) and other local mosques five times a day. So the veteran Land of Israel activist has rented his own sound system and says he will play chassidic music 24 hours a day until his Muslim neighbors agree to turn down the volume while praying.

    On Tuesday, former president Jimmy Carter told NBC Nightly News, "I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African-American."   I have some questions for Carter: On what grounds do you label thousands of people as racists? Where is your evidence? Did you consider the Eighth Commandment -- thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbor -- when you made that accusation?   The same questions should be asked of the growing chorus of Obama supporters who...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who usually keeps her emotions in check, got choked up at her weekly news conference on Thursday after being asked whether she was worried about how harsh the political atmosphere had become. After saying she had “concerns about some of the language” in the current political debates, the speaker got emotional while discussing the rhetoric that “created a climate” that led to violence in San Francisco in the late 1970s — a seeming reference to the murders of Harvey Milk, the gay activist and member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and the city’s mayor, George...

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It looks like President Obama’s campaign site cum community organizing website, Organizing for America (OFA), has quietly dropped its claim that the “public option” is a “must” in its healthcare policies open letter to Congress. Originally the open letter told Congress that it “must” vote for the public option. The second bullet point in the OFA’s letter originally read as follows: Guarantee choice - Every American must have the freedom to choose their plan and doctor - including the choice of a public insurance option. (A screen shot of the relevant section of the original is page below. While it...

Reagan Coalition Reduxby Greg MuellerPosted 09/17/2009 ETUpdated 09/17/2009 ET The first nine months of the Obama presidency have demonstrated a hard tack left on economic and domestic issues. The President's domestic agenda has amounted to a new definition of Big Government including trillions in spending, bailouts, corporate takeovers, the firing of a CEO and huge increases in government regulation.  And, as we celebrate Constitution day today, there has been much controversy surrounding the over 30 policy czars that have amassed unchecked power without Congressional confirmation and have the ability to work around the Constitution.  Even Democrats are now growing...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she worries that angry rhetoric over President Barack Obama's effort to remake the nation's health care system could incite violence. Speaking to reporters Thursday, the California Democrat was asked whether she was worried about the tone of the debate. She said it reminded her of the "frightening" rhetoric over gay rights that roiled San Francisco in the 1970s and culminated in the murders of Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. She says those spouting hateful rhetoric must take responsibility for any "incitement" they might cause. The public anger during health care town hall meetings...

Roy Langbord had guessed that someone in his family might have hidden away a great treasure decades before, but not until his mother had him check a long-neglected safe-deposit box did he realize just how great it was. Inside the box, opened in 2003, he found an incredibly rare coin, wrapped in a delicate paper sleeve. It was a gold $20 piece with Lady Liberty on one side, a bald eagle flying across the other and, at Liberty’s left, the four digits that made it so valuable: 1933. The famous “double eagles” from that year were never officially released by...

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You know, those Palin Republicans are all such racist, fearmongers, right? Well if you didn't know it, Macleans of Canada wants to make sure you do with a piece headlined "The Palin Republicans." For Macleans, writer John Parisella thinks he's discovered why the GOP can't capitalize on the distrust that more and more Americans are feeling for the Obama administration and his Social-Democratic Party. It's because Sarah Palin is a big ol' meanie that told a lie about death panels. And what could save the GOP according to this loony leftist? Why capitulating to socialist healthcare, of course. Oh, and...

During his healthcare speech last week, President Obama tried to compare his idea of compulsory health insurance to the practice of mandatory auto insurance now in effect in most of the States of the Union. But as a recent Fox News piece by Judson Berger proves, car insurance is nothing like forced healthcare insurance. The main reason the two do not compare well is that mandatory auto insurance covers other people, not the driver. But forced healthcare insurance covers the individual, not any indemnity against the individual’s actions against others. Additionally, there isn’t anything truly compulsory about mandatory auto insurance....

Professor Harry G. Hutchison of George Mason University recently took a look at the union favored Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) and made a startling conclusion. He believes it will harm minorities. Saying that the EFCA is “arguably the most transformative piece of labor legislation” since 1935, Hutchinson warns that it will seriously harm the rights of workers and the status of minorities alike. To start, Hutchinson summed up the provisions of the bill. One of the newest attempts to transform labor relations is the EFCA. The first to disappear under the EFCA would be a system of union democracy...