Yearly Archives: 2009

My views on the meaning of natural born citizen

After 9 months of study, and dozens of articles written, I have made up my mind about who is a natural born citizen of the United States. This is the way I reasoned it out. One striking omission from the … Continue reading

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August must be world “Birther” month.

Here’s just a sample of media coverage in just the past week (taken from the Obama Conspiracy Theories Media page): Birthers release forged Kenyan birth certificate for Obama, August 3, 2009, Salon.com. The document is just another in an increasingly … Continue reading

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Kenyan Official confirms: it’s all “baseless claims”

In a report on August 3, 2009, The Washington Independent quoted a Kenyan Embassy official: Jon Chessoni, a first secretary at the Kenyan Embassy in Washington, can’t understand why his office gets so many baseless questions about whether Barack Obama … Continue reading

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I need all of you to support me before it is too late…

… says Tae Kwando black belt Orly Taitz, Esq,  in a recent email to Obama Conspiracy Theories, making an appeal based on an article by Bob Unruh, that fount of anti-Obama propaganda over at WorldNetDaily. I prefer to talk about … Continue reading

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A stake through its heart

When the fake Kenyan birth certificate surfaced a week ago, it looked odd. Within hours, problems surfaced, the most humorous was the certificate number 47,044 (Obama was 47 years old and the 44th president). Then when the real birth certificate … Continue reading

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When will the Birthers be happy?

Once again, we read a long discussion, with a rational-sounding style, laying out the facts, so it appears, about citizenship in the United States. Is it reasonable and is it true? Our guest commentator has doubts, and responds to When … Continue reading

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