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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Faux commentary
You may have seen various comments here that seem odd in that they repeat comments that have already appeared made by different people. These are spam. They attempt to appear to belong by making seemingly on-topic remarks copied from existing … Continue reading
Posted in Lounge
16 Comments
John McCain’s fake birth certificate
I’ve written about this before, and I thought I had put it to rest. The “birth certificate” filed by Fred Hollander in the Hollander v. McCain lawsuit is a fake. It is not only a fake, but it is an … Continue reading
Posted in Birth Certificate, Fakes and frauds
Tagged John McCain, McCain Birth Certificate
45 Comments
Understanding “natural born citizen”
It’s one thing to dump a list of citations to try to prove a point with proof texts. I’d done some of that on this blog, but in my mind I have sincerely tried to understand what the founders of … Continue reading
Posted in Citizenship
Tagged David Ramsay, Minor v. Happersett, Natural Born Citizen, William Smith
89 Comments
The Jay letter
One of the earliest historical documents to surface in the modern discussion of the meaning of the constitutional phrase “natural born citizen” was a letter from John Jay, who would become chief justice of the US Supreme Court, to George … Continue reading
Posted in Citizenship
167 Comments
2010 Webby Awards
No, I wasn’t nominated, but FactCheck.org (last year’s winner) was. If you share my view that FactCheck.org is the best political site on the web (or at least better than the other nominees), visit the Webby awards web site and … Continue reading
Posted in Lounge
Comments Off on 2010 Webby Awards
Mario Apuzzo’s new blog?
I’m sure that most readers here are familiar with Mario Apuzzo’s blog: A Place to Ask Questions to Get the Right Answers at the web address http://puzo1.blogspot.com. That blog is a closely controlled discussion where it has been difficult to … Continue reading →