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Native and Natural Born Citizenship Explored:
Third Obama birth certificate appears in court — Dr C reports that Orly has filed a motion claiming that she has discovered another Birth Certificate for President Obama, this one from the Republic of Kenya — Update: Ron Polarik calls Kenya BC a forgery
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THEY'LL NEVER STOP.... Last week, Hawaii's health director apparently checked the president's birth certificate again, and discovered that Obama was, in fact, born in Hawaii on Aug. 4, 1961, and “is a natural-born American citizen.” A nutty right-wing website, however, produced …
Jeremy Schulman / Media Matters for America:
Sorry, WorldNetDaily: Kenya wasn't a republic until Dec. 1964 — WorldNetDaily and the right-wing fringe are very excited about their scoop that Orly Taitz has “released a copy of what purports to be a Kenyan certification of birth” for President Obama. According to WND …
Doug Mataconis / Below The Beltway:
The Latest Birther Fantasy: Obama's (Fake) Kenyan Birth Certificate
The Latest Birther Fantasy: Obama's (Fake) Kenyan Birth Certificate
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
‘Birthers’ Latch Onto Forged Kenyan Birth Certificate
‘Birthers’ Latch Onto Forged Kenyan Birth Certificate
Discussion:
Salon, Obama Conspiracy Theories, Bookworm Room, IMAO, Little Green Footballs and Saberpoint
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
The Prez, The Press, The Pressure — Networks Grouse About Obama in Prime Time — In the days before President Obama's last news conference, as the networks weighed whether to give up a chunk of their precious prime time, Rahm Emanuel went straight to the top.
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Michelle Malkin, Michael Calderone's Blog, The Note, The Plum Line, Mediaite, protein wisdom and Don Surber
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Jennifer Senior / New York Magazine:
The Message Is the Message — Barack Obama's ubiquitous appearances as professor-in-chief, preacher-in-chief, father-in-chief, may turn out to be the most salient feature of his presidency. — Photo-illustration by James Porto — Since occupying the White House, Barack Obama …
Wall Street Journal:
Cash From Clunkers — Let's have a $4,500 subsidy for everything. — Printer — Friendly — Americans are streaming back into auto showrooms, and one reason is the “cash for clunkers” subsidy. Democrats are naturally claiming this is a great success, while Republicans are claiming …
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Blue-State Blues — We know because he said so, in the first of many famous speeches, that Barack Obama doesn't see Red America or Blue America — he only sees the United States of America. But as the president contemplates his faltering poll numbers and his stalling health-care push …
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Washington Monthly, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Commentary, Clusterstock, PrairiePundit, Economix and Gawker
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Philip Elliott / Associated Press:
2 Obama officials: No guarantee taxes won't go up
2 Obama officials: No guarantee taxes won't go up
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Townhall.com, USA Today, Bloomberg, Gateway Pundit, Below The Beltway, The Foundry, theblogprof, Hot Air, Top of the Ticket, The Strata-Sphere, Scared Monkeys, FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog, Sister Toldjah, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, Reason, Stop The ACLU, CBS News, Associated Press, Right Wing News, msnbc.com, Macsmind and George's Bottom Line
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
California's Budget Crisis Reflects National Economic Reckoning
California's Budget Crisis Reflects National Economic Reckoning
Henny Sender / Financial Times:
Wall Street profits from trades with Fed — Wall Street banks are reaping outsized profits by trading with the Federal Reserve, raising questions about whether the central bank is driving hard enough bargains in its dealings with private sector counterparties, officials and industry executives say.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Rewarding Bad Actors — Americans are angry at Wall Street, and rightly so. First the financial industry plunged us into economic crisis, then it was bailed out at taxpayer expense. And now, with the economy still deeply depressed, the industry is paying itself gigantic bonuses.
Gryphen / The Immoral Minority:
Was it something I said? — As many of you are already aware I DID receive a notification from Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein yesterday. It arrived in my e-mail in PDF form and you can read it over at the Alaska Report. — Now Van Flein is forcing me to make an admission …
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Robert Stacy McCain / AmSpecBlog:
CNN Bozo Accidentally Outs His Source; Palins Threaten LegalActionOn Divorce Smear
CNN Bozo Accidentally Outs His Source; Palins Threaten LegalActionOn Divorce Smear
Times of London:
Iran is ready to build an N-bomb - it is just waiting for the Ayatollah's order — Iran has perfected the technology to create and detonate a nuclear warhead and is merely awaiting the word from its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to produce its first bomb, Western intelligence sources have told The Times.
Wall Street Journal:
High-End Homes Miss Out on Rebound — KENILWORTH, Ill. — Housing is fast dividing into two markets: Sales of low- and moderately priced homes are picking up and values have stopped falling in some parts of the nation. But on the upper end, sales remain mired in a deep slump and price declines are expected to accelerate.
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Political Party Affiliation: 30 States Blue, 4 Red in '09 So Far — PRINCETON, NJ — An analysis of Gallup Poll Daily tracking data from the first six months of 2009 finds Massachusetts to be the most Democratic state in the nation, along with the District of Columbia.
Little Green Footballs:
The True Nirth Certifikit At Last — LGF reader Shiplord Kirel has granted us exclusive permission to reveal his world-shattering scoop! He's discovered the honest-to-goodness, no BS, real, true, and genuine nirth certifikit for Barack Obama ... and the conspiracy goes much deeper …
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Washington Post:
‘High Risk, High Reward’ — John McCain Was Looking for a Way to Shake Up His Campaign. He Took a Surprising Gamble on a Relative Unknown. — Adapted from the book “The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election” — A black car pulled up next to the stairs …
Juan Cole / Salon:
Sarah Palin, meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — You two right-wing populists have a surprising amount in common — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers a speech in Mashhad, Iran, on Friday; Gov. Sarah Palin gives her resignation speech in Fairbanks, Alaska, on July 26. — Is Sarah Palin America's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
Discussion:
Conservatives4Palin.com, The Opinionator, Jihad Watch, Unqualified Offerings, Gateway Pundit and Informed Comment
O.Kay Henderson / Radio Iowa:
Grassley says health care could be done by November — Last week, Iowa Senator Tom Harkin — a Democrat — predicted congress would get health care reform legislation to the president's desk by November and now Iowa's other U.S. Senator, Republican Chuck Grassley, is suggesting the bill will reach Obama by Thanksgiving.
David Corn / Politics Daily:
Obama's Anger Problem? — If President Obama is mad, who's he so mad at? — Let me explain. On Friday afternoon, at the daily White House press briefing, press secretary Robert Gibbs was explaining why his boss this week will be making his second trip as president to hard-hit Elkhart …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
MALKIN, KATZ, AND GOVERNMENT CHEESE.... For reasons I'll never fully understand, ABC News' “This Week” invited right-wing blogger Michelle Malkin to participate in its roundtable discussion yesterday. It was a reminder that the darned liberal media just isn't willing to consider the perspective of right-wing activists.
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
U.S. Weighs Iran Sanctions if Talks Are Rejected — The Obama administration is talking with allies and Congress about the possibility of imposing an extreme economic sanction against Iran if it fails to respond to President Obama's offer to negotiate on its nuclear program …