Monthly Archives: July 2013

The occasional open thread: Birther apocalypse edition

Place your Obama conspiracy comments  not related to the current articles here. This thread will close in two weeks.

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Is Mike Zullo running a scam on the birthers?

I have been watching Mike Zullo and the CCP trying to get the goods on President Obama for almost 2 years now, and what struck me is the total dishonesty with which this so-called investigation was being run and presented. … Continue reading

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Birthers scrambling, after Xerox bombshell

It’s been a while since NBC and Kevin Vicklund published the unremarkable result that the White House scanned the President’s birth certificate with a common office machine, previewed it, and saved it for the White House web site. (The work … Continue reading

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How Obama’s birth certificate could have been faked

I’ve been around vital statistics since 1977 when I worked with a vital statistics office in Greenville County, South Carolina, that issued birth certificates and I wrote computer software that printed them. More recently, I served for two years on … Continue reading

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Speculation on the Hayes report

or Is handwriting analysis a science? One of my favorite anecdotes regards the emperor of China. So the story goes, a controversy arose as to the length of the emperor’s nose, a question hard to answer because no one outside … Continue reading

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Certified forensic expert?

On this blog and in the Obama citizenship debate, there is a lot of talk about experts. Birthers have put forward a number of people they call experts by virtue of their own claims or their “above average” familiarity with … Continue reading

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