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"Strunk v Paterson (Obama): First time in the USA since 1824; Judge has opined on what Natural Born citizen is; Concludes Obama is not a NBC. Via Chris Strunk; The first time anywhere in the USA since 1824, that any Judge has opined on what Natural Born citizen is and concluding that BHO Jr. is not NBC. This affidavit will be notarized tomorrow and duly served by two days mail upon Justice Schmidt and the State in regards to the appearance on a personal and confidential basis with the intent that Plaintiffs understanding of the record of the hearing be...

A very interesting article appeared recently indicating that the Iranian armed forces may be starting to politicize themselves as some officers were arrested for planning to attend Rafsanjani Friday sermon in uniform (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/19/iran-army-officers-arrested ). Those of you who have followed my previous posts will note that the most significant event in a revolution is when the security organs either move against or refuse to act against Khameni and Co. are looking more and more like Hans Brinker trying to shove their fingers into a leaky dike. A couple of weeks ago it looked as if they had managed to stifle...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The dike keeping the nation's second-largest lake from overflowing has a high chance of failing in the event of another hurricane and poses "a grave and imminent danger," according to a state-hired panel of engineering experts. Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday he was worried about the report, which noted that the dike has a one in six chance of being breached in the event of a hurricane. Bush said he would discuss the findings, issued late Monday, in a meeting Tuesday with Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff and R. David Paulison, head of the Federal Emergency Management...

With all due deference to my colleague, Donnel Jones, it is not “over for the Bush Administration.” Maybe it is natural during a national crisis for emotions to run so high, but this blame-game has gotten out of hand. Granted, Donnel is not blaming Hurricane Katrina on Bush as so many wacky leftists are, but to conclude that this is the conclusion of Bush’s efficacy, or that this spells a certain change in who holds the House and Senate; this is just over the top. Katrina is the “worst natural disaster in modern American history”. Could anyone have been fully...