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Snopes' Certification of Live Birth shows supposedly issued in August, 1961 but the Revision date is 11/01. What is REALLY interesting is the light blue time stamp that reveals the actual date of issuance as Jun 6 2007. See the picture for the highlighted area showing the time stamp from the back side where it bleeds through. Hold it up to a mirror and you can see the date!

SMITHFIELD, N.C. Students in Johnston County schools looking to relieve chapped lips better have all their paperwork in order. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports that the district has begun requiring a note from parents before it will allow students to bring Chapstick and other lip balms to school. Schools spokeswoman Terri Sessoms says the policy was set by the county health department. Sessoms says parents were worried that children would share lip balm and spread germs. The new policy is actually less strict than the one it replaces. In the past, a note from a doctor was required...

A U.S. Army Reserve major from Florida scheduled to report for deployment to Afghanistan within days has had his military orders revoked after arguing he should not be required to serve under a president who has not proven his eligibility for office. His attorney, Orly Taitz, confirmed to WND the military has rescinded his impending deployment orders.

Another day, another new low point for cable news channel MSNBC. On Thursday, May 14, syndicated left of center radio talk show host Ed Schultz, who has hosted The Ed Show, a daily political talk program (6-7 PM ET) on MSNBC since April 6, devoted his regular "Psycho Talk" segment to Michael Savage. The inspiration was Savage's announcement on May 13 that the Thomas More Law Center sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on behalf of Savage requesting that she "call upon the government of the United Kingdom to rescind the arbitrary and capricious decision" of British...

Based on a $14.5 Trillion Gross Domestic Product, if the U.S. shut down on November 4th as Barack Hussein Obama suggests, it will cost over $55 Billion in Gross Domestic Product.

Few people are more likely to need a holiday than Barack Obama. Yet as he heads off on Friday for his first week-long break since he launched his presidential bid 19 months ago, Mr Obama is dogged by rising angst about his campaign’s direction. Although he has run what is widely acclaimed to be one of the most impressive campaigns in years, Democrats live in fear of Mr Obama falling prey to the kinds of accident that derailed predecessors in earlier cycles. With polls showing him neck-and-neck with John McCain at a stage at which many Democrats expected he would...

WASHINGTON (AP) — John McCain is facing an excitement deficit. While overall interest in the presidential campaign has swelled since last fall, backers of Barack Obama are more fired up and express more loyalty to their candidate than McCain's do, a poll by The Associated Press and Yahoo News showed Friday. In addition, individual groups backing Obama — African-Americans, Democrats and liberals — are more enthusiastic than whites, Republicans and conservatives, who are more aligned with McCain, the GOP senator from Arizona. (Snip)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man is in custody for allegedly stealing 26 cars. Police say he was using them as transportation to see his girlfriend. According to police, Antonio Moreno didn't have a driver's license or a car of his own. Police say that since January, Moreno had been stealing Toyota Camrys and Nissan Sentras by using a simple device that starts Japanese cars of a certain age. Acting on a tip, members of a regional auto-theft task force arrested the 31-year-old on Wednesday near his Inglewood home. They say he was behind the wheel of a 1987...

HILLARY CLINTON (591) (3%) JOHN EDWARDS (637) (4%) NEWT GINGRICH (3,816) (22%) RUDY GIULIANI (3,138) (18%) JOHN MCCAIN (2,084) (12%) BARACK OBAMA (754) (4%) BILL RICHARDSON (285) (2%) MITT ROMNEY (1,117) (6%) FRED THOMPSON (5,212) (30%)

What does it say about a man when his children aren’t willing to campaign for him? Is it a private family matter, or a public measure of character? Does being a good parent have anything to do with being a good president? In the wake of news reports that Rudy Giuliani’s 18-year-old year old daughter and 21-year-old son from his second marriage to Donna Hanover would not be appearing on the campaign trail with their dad, the former New York mayor asked the press to respect his family’s privacy, and leave his kids out of it. Rudy Giuliani isn’t asking...

DURHAM -- One alleged rape out of the 100 reported in Durham last year overshadowed all the others -- the accusation that three Duke lacrosse players assaulted an exotic dancer at a March team party. The alleged incident sparked rallies, vigils, outpourings of community concern and massive media attention. That's no surprise, perhaps, considering the mix of elements in the case. The alleged attackers are white men from comfortable families and play on a team known for its raucous behavior. The accuser is a black single mother from a modest family who attended N.C. Central University and was hired to...

The National Catholic Register is out with an editorial where they say the following: No deal Rudy. We cannot support you. Here's why: "Rudy’s deal: He’ll promise not to push the pro-abortion agenda, and he’ll nominate judges in the mold of Samuel Alito and John Roberts. Pro-lifers in the Republican Party in return would support him, but keep insisting that the party stay pro-life, and fight our fiercest pro-life battles at the state level, where they belong. We also see the downside of Rudy’s deal. If pro-lifers went along, we’d soon find out that a pro-abortion Republican president would no...

Rudy Giuliani's legacy is that he was the luckiest mayor we have had in a long time. He was blessed by being mayor when we had a great national upsurge in the economy. He was blessed by being mayor when we had a national downturn in crime. He was blessed because he had very little to do with either phenomenon in New York, but most New Yorkers and most tourists will think he did. Most celebrants of Rudy Giuliani seem mesmerized by the disappearance of the squeegee men. As I wrote in my book "Rudy," the issue of the squeegees...

TRENTON, N.J. - The man former New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey identified as his gay lover said Thursday he believes McGreevey is not gay. Appearing on "Larry King Live," Golan Cipel, an Israeli citizen hired by McGreevey first as a campaign aide and later as his homeland security adviser, said that McGreevey's 2004 resignation speech admission that he is "a gay American" was "part of the spin." Through lawyers, Cipel had threatened to sue McGreevey for sexual harassment shortly before and after McGreevey's resignation. A lawsuit was never filed. "I think McGreevey had no choice. There was a sexual...

Millions and millions of people have purchased his books. His California church attracts thousands every Sunday. He seems to be the go-to guy whenever the establishment, ultra-secular press wants to quote an evangelical leader they like. I'm talking about Rick Warren, author of "The Purpose Driven Life" and the pastor of the Saddleback Church. Ever since I first pointed out the way he betrayed the persecuted church and our Jewish brothers and sisters living in captivity in the totalitarian police state of Syria, I have been expecting to get blasted. Millions and millions of people have purchased his books. His...

State troopers this weekend arrested a 300-pound double amputee on suspicion of drunken driving after the legless man refused to get out of his car, forcing troopers to call for reinforcements. The 34-year-old Seattle man, who had lost both of his lower legs to gunshot wounds, was pulled over on northbound Interstate 5 near the Roanoke exit on Saturday by a trooper who said the man was speeding and changing lanes erratically, according to the State Patrol. The man, who was driving a vehicle with hand controls, told the trooper he had been to a party where he sat in...

American Protestant Pastor Rick Warren on Monday said there was no peace in the region without Syria, noting that 80 percent of the American people rejected what the US Administration is doing in Iraq and considered the US policy in the Mideast as wrong. Syria’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Badr al-Din Hassoun received the American Pastor in Damascus in which he referred to the importance of spreading culture of amity, peace and coexistence instead of the 'clash of civilizations'. The Mufti called for conveying the real image of Syria, national unity and its call to spread peace, amity and justice to...

As a businessman, he's been mixing with a sketchier crowd. Rudolph W. Giuliani sprinted through October as if he were running for national office. He was, of course, campaigning for other Republican candidates--popping up, over a period of ten days, in Detroit; Schaumburg, Ill.; Portland, Ore.; Seattle; New York City; Mystic, Conn.; Concord, N.H.; Providence, R.I.; and Stamford, Conn. Wherever he went, Giuliani was the main attraction. The crowds didn't want to hear much about election 2006; they wanted to know if Rudy was planning to run for president in 2008. "I'll make the decision sometime next year," he announced...

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DURHAM, N.C. -- Officials say they are investigating an alleged assault involving Durham police officers outside a Raleigh bar.