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If I may appeal to our good friends pinning their hopes on this birther nonsense, please read up on the nature of conspiracy theories. Best regards; Now an excerpt: 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,...

First, sorry for the Spanish-language article, but I'm unable to find anything in English. My short summary follows. Honduran investigators have found that the already illegal referendum would have likely been fraudulent. The allegedly "dumb" voting machines, contrary to claims, could have been connected to computers. The computers in question had been diverted from other uses. The Zelaya government had spent government money--this is illegal, as it would be in the US. There was also evidence of vandalism and falsification of documents. The Honduran prosecutors do not want to concentrate on proving fraud, but rather on other crimes that are...

As I wrote in Western Resistance, this is an example of the long reach of Muhammad's life. Turkish Law allows 9-year-old girls to be married off because Muhammad consumated his marriage to his beloved Aisha when she was nine. From the Opinion Journal article: The Turkish community is not the only party at fault, however. Until last year, few Turks, including those whose families had lived in Germany for generations, could obtain German citizenship. Successive German governments compensated for their refusal to facilitate citizenship procedures by allowing the Turkish community to do more or less as it pleased. Thus the...