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Tribal leaders gather at Interior: Obama is the “first American Indian president”

Erika Johnsen — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:21:27 +0000

Poverty in perpetuity.

Little noticed in all of the continuing fiscal-cliff hullabaloo today, the Obama administration held their annual White House Tribal Nations Conference with the Department of Interior on Wednesday — and if ever there was a specific, targeted example of the long-term results perpetuated by the type of persistent big-government help the Obama administration wants to [...]

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Scott Brown to Elizabeth Warren: How can we trust your character when you lied about being Native American?

Allahpundit — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 01:45:35 +0000

Identities.

Via BuzzFeed, five minutes of fun at the start of tonight’s debate. I agree with William Jacobson: In some ways, this is a tough subject for Brown to broach. To make the case effectively he’s got to get into details about the debunked genealogy, her dubious explanations for identifying as Native American, and her insistence [...]

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Elizabeth Warren: I was the first nursing mother to take the bar exam in New Jersey, you know

Allahpundit — Wed, 30 May 2012 20:41:59 +0000

Plus: "Cherokees Demand Truth for Elizabeth Warren."

Via Legal Insurrection. As you might expect, New Jersey bar administrators have no idea what she’s talking about. Maybe she meant to say she’s the first fake Native American nursing mother to take the bar exam in New Jersey? Because that might well be true. “I was the first nursing mother to take a bar [...]

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Report: Elizabeth Warren’s ancestor may have … rounded up Cherokee for Trail of Tears

Allahpundit — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:01:00 +0000

Oh my.

Out: Elizabeth Warren, Native American. In: Elizabeth Warren, Jacksonian Democrat. Man, in hindsight it’s a good thing she didn’t attend the annual Harvard Powwow yesterday after all, huh? Awwwk-ward. As I pointed out in my article here on Sunday, no evidence supports this claim [that her great-great-great grandmother was Cherokee]. O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford had [...]

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Quotes of the day

Allahpundit — Thu, 03 May 2012 02:39:10 +0000

Authenticity.

“I shouldn’t write about this. I’m way too insane on this topic, too strident and militant and prone to uncharacteristic flights of outrage. Very few things offend me, but someone passing himself or herself off as Native American when he/she is white by any reasonable definition, and doing so in a way that might accrue [...]

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Elizabeth Warren: I listed myself as minority in order to make friends “with people who are like I am”

Allahpundit — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:41:49 +0000

Faux-cahontas.

Why didn’t she just say so in the first place? After all, who among us hasn’t wildly exaggerated his/her ethnicity for social purposes? Just last week, I joined an Eskimo book club by claiming that I’m 1/512th Inuit. By “people who are like I am,” I take it she means … people who are 1/32nd [...]

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Video: Would-be Secretary of State now doing Indian accents when talking about call centers

Allahpundit — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:50:28 +0000

Terrific.

Via National Journal, a new bit he’s working on as part of the “Indian accents” segment of the stand-up routine that is his political career. (If I’m not mistaken, “Indian accents” debuted on Biden’s double live album “Clean and Articulate.”) This is one of those gaffes where I feel obliged to mock him in the [...]

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