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Why did resident 0bama’s grandmother say he was born in a village in Kenya? Because he was? That explains why such effort has gone into concealing 0bama’s original birth certificate. That explains why resident 0bama’s spent a reported 4 million dollars (Reported by Donald Trump on Fox News but unverifiable by Fox News) to conceal his passport. That explains why resident 0bama has sealed his college records and student applications because he was born in Kenya, traveled to and from Kenya while in America and registered at Princeton, Harvard and Yale as a Foreign Exchange student from Kenya. That’s why...

The US White House has released a photograph of President Barack Obama's daughter Sasha sneaking up on her father as he works in the Oval Office. The image has drawn comparisons with the famous 1963 image of John F Kennedy Jnr playing underneath the Oval Office desk as his father reads documents. That picture helped create the image of "Camelot" associated with the Kennedys. Mr Obama has said being able to work and live at home is "one of the huge benefits of being president". The photograph, taken in early August and released through the official White House Flickr website,...

What happened to President Obama? His wax wings having melted; he is the man who fell to earth. What happened to bring his popularity down further than that of any new president in polling history save Gerald Ford (post-Nixon pardon)? The conventional wisdom is that Obama made a tactical mistake by farming out his agenda to Congress and letting himself be pulled left by the doctrinaire liberals of the Democratic congressional leadership. But the idea of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi pulling Obama left is quite ridiculous. Where do you think he came from, this friend of Chavista ex-terrorist William...

Obama funds $20M tax payer dollars to immigrate Hamas Refugees to the USA This is the news that didn't make the headlines... By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in migration assistance to the Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza . The "presidential determination" which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4. Few on Capitol Hill took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing and food...

Yesterday I had two Obama campaigners come to the door asking for one of my sons by name. Considering the facts that my wife and I moved to North Carolina four years ago and the son, who was 18 at that time, remained in the state of our previous residence as a college student, has never resided in North Carolina, and is no longer declared as a dependant, how in he** do they even know his name? Is this an invasion of privacy issue? Commentary would be appreciated.

BAGHDAD — Leaders and Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division distributed humanitarian aid to residents in Shula, a neighborhood in northwest Baghdad, May 26. Soldiers travelled door-to-door handing out staples such as rice, lentils and tomato paste to 100 residents. At the end, nearly 300 residents throughout Shula received aid during a three-day period beginning, May 24. Shula resident’s movement to and from markets had been hampered by criminal activity in the area, making Soldiers clad in desert uniforms bearing boxes filled with food a welcome sight. Capt. Joseph Sincere, a fire support officer with...

WASHINGTON, March 22, 2007 ? Resident care is the paramount concern at the Armed Forces Retirement Home here, and allegations of poor conditions ?are without merit,? the facility?s chief operating officer said in a statement released yesterday. Tim Cox responded to the Government Accountability Office?s request that the Defense Department investigate allegations against the historic home in the heart of the nation?s capital that has housed four U.S. presidents, including Abraham Lincoln. ?Because nothing is more important than the safety and health of our heroes, we take these allegations very seriously,? Cox said. Cox noted that the GAO has...

ISKANDARIYAH, Iraq, April 13, 2006 – In a room crowded with more than 150 religious, political and military leaders, speakers took turns voicing their hopes and their concerns for Iraq in this city 25 miles south of Baghdad April 8. Local religious, political and military leaders, united against terrorism and instability in their district, attend the Civic Unity Conference held in the Huteen Establishment of Iskandariyah, Iraq, April 8. Photo by Spc. Rodney Foliente, USA   Standing at the back of the room was Wala, a newlywed who works there as a janitor during the civic unity conference. He listened...

former Chaska man who was an animal rights activist at Macalester College in St. Paul has been described by the Times of London newspaper as the "mastermind" behind a campaign to incite violent attacks on officials at England's Oxford University. Nicolas Atwood, who now lives in West Palm Beach, Fla., said the story about him published in the Sunday Times is "pretty ridiculous." But Atwood acknowledged that the Web site he helps maintain has been posting "communiqués" from the radical Animal Liberation Front, which opposes Oxford's plan to build an animal research laboratory. The Times reported that the site's postings...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2005 – In the summer of 1982, Mustafa Hassan Ali al-Doujaily watched the Iraqi army enter his hometown. Soldiers flattened date palm and fruit orchards and surrounded the town for months, beating and intimidating the populace into submission with systematic harassment, kidnappings and killings. Doujaily spoke with American Forces Press Service by telephone from his home in Iraq. More than 140 Shiite men and boys were killed, and several hundred more were captured -- including women and infants -- many of whom remain missing more than 20 years later. Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein brought his wrath down...

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (Sept. 22, 2005) -- Just about anywhere you look these days, yellow ribbons and bumper stickers adorn vehicles across the country indicating Americans support for their military. However, some patriots like Kristen M. Maddox, 21, from Santa Ana, Calif., chose to do a little more in order to express her gratitude of servicemembers job overseas. Not content with several programs which claim to aid those deployed in foreign countries, Maddox decided to take matters into her own hands and concentrate instead on the specific needs of those who serve through her program HOT, or...

BISBEE - Marilyn Jones was tired of sitting at home and crying about what was happening on the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Jones, who has been involved with the Bisbee Animal Shelter, was to leave for Houston today to put her animal skills to work. The Houston chapter of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has reported more than 1,000 cases of pets being separated from their owners. Jones said she will first travel to Houston, and, if possible, then go to Louisiana to care for pets. "I think my particular skill will...

ALBANY, Minn. (AP) -- The man believed to be Minnesota's oldest resident, Charles Young, has died. He was 110. Young died Wednesday night at Mother of Mercy Nursing Home in Albany. He was born Dec. 28, 1894, in Stearns County. The Gerontology Research Group, which tracks "supercentenarians" who reach the age of 110, listed Young as the fourth-oldest man it knew of in the United States, the sixth-oldest man in the world, and 57th-oldest person in the world as of July 20 by its records. Young's family said through the nursing home where he lived that Young, at the time...

/begin my summary S. Korea: Pro-American and Anti-American Crowds at PyongtaekMostly Pyongtaek residents, sponsored by Pyongtaek K-6 Business Association, 800-strong, staged a pro-American rally, welcoming their presence in their neighborhood.  However, MSM only covered the violent anti-American rally by militant lefties who were mostly from outside. There were some clashes between two parties. Some pro-American crowds managed to confiscate steel-pipes anti-American crowds carried to attack riot police. The pipes are shown at the end.Pro-American Rally  Anti-American RallyAbout 8,000 anti-American crowds, mostly outsiders from pro-North militant labor union, "Min-no-chong", and a more militant college organization, "Han-chong-ryon," were bused into Pyongtaek. 80 buses transported them. They eventually...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

Feel free to Blast Lisa Getter: lisa.getter@latimes.com WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service (news - web sites) has informed the NAACP that it is investigating whether the civil rights organization improperly "intervened in a political campaign" when it posted on its website a speech by Chairman Julian Bond that condemned the Bush administration's policies. The IRS sent a letter Oct. 8, less than a month before Tuesday's election, to the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People informing it of the investigation. The group has until Nov. 5 to respond. "I think what's at issue is our right to...

Terrorist plot in Tennessee foiled Federal authorities arrested an Iraqi-born Nashville resident on illegal weapons charges. It was after a sting operation that was set up when Ahmed Al-Uqaily (AH'-mad HAH'-sahn al YOO'-quay-lee) told an acquaintance he wanted to "go Jihad" over the war in Iraq. FBI terrorism agents arrested the 33-year-old Al-Uquaily after he took possession of two disassembled machine guns, four disassembled hand grenades and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. Court documents show Al-Uqaily also was interested in getting missiles used to disable tanks. Authorities said he expressed animosity toward the Jewish community, but did not give specific...

President Vladimir Putin announced radical changes to Russia's democratic institutions yesterday that will give the Kremlin greater power than at any time since the fall of the Soviet Union.In what critics say amounts to a serious setback for Russian democracy, Mr Putin effectively negated the right of citizens to elect a regional representative. Instead, the country's 89 regional governors will be proposed by the president.   President Putin: it will 'make Russia safer and easier to govern' The former KGB spy also announced that seats in the Duma allocated to single-member constituencies will be scrapped in favour of a fully...