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Birthers should put their challenges about President Barack Obama’s origins “to bed,” his half-sister says. The continuing debate over whether he was born in the United States or Kenya, Indonesia or elsewhere is “unfortunate,” Maya Soetoro-Ng said in an interview with CNN set to air Tuesday night. “He was born in Hawaii, there is a tremendous amount of proof that has already been presented.” (snip) “I think it’s a shame and I think that my brother should definitely be president for a second term,” she said. “And that’s really all I have to say about it.”

(Apr. 7, 2011) — Editor’s Note: Miki Booth, who was born in Japan, spent much of her life in Hawaii and ran for Congress in 2010 from the Second District of Oklahoma, is about two-thirds of the way finished writing a book about her life experiences through the present day. She describes her many years in Hawaii and what led her to finally drop her congressional bid to focus on the missing history, records, and long-form birth certificate of Barack Hussein Obama, the putative U.S. president. While two Hawaii officials publicly stated that Obama’s vital records were on file there,...

INDIANAPOLIS — Over the howls of hundreds who are gathering at the Statehouse to protest, Republican state lawmakers are pushing forward this week with several measures that reduce the influence of organized labor. Funding for unions could suffer a blow under the most controversial of those bills — one that would allow workers at all Indiana businesses to choose not to pay union membership dues. Proponents call it "right to work," and a House committee endorsed it Monday.

The Problem with the Announcement Stories Two items have been offered as evidence of Barack Obama being born in Hawaii: an online COLB image which the HDOH has indirectly confirmed in 2 different ways as a forgery, and online images of birth announcements in the Hawaii papers shortly after Obama’s birth. This post will explain why I believe we’ve been fed – and swallowed – a lie about where those images came from. Later posts will give a glimpse of just how far it seems somebody was willing to go in order to have something – anything – that would...