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Alan Colmes should read for comprehension

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2008/08/31/alan-colmes-should-read-for-comprehension/

Posted: August 31, 2008

Update (AP): I know Ed's written other posts debunking lies about Obama, but here's a few more of my own: Defending him from McCain's accusation that he didn't visit the troops at Landstuhl because he couldn't bring the media; defending him from allegations that he secretly leaked the prayer he left at the western wall; defending him from the dopey rumors about dual citizenship; and even defending him from pedestrian inaccuracies about his tax plan. … So we wrote four whole posts in more than two months on this topic, all of them after the Obama campaign released the birth certificate, and every single time to say that this was a really dumb topic and that conservatives should abandon it. … Yet, the same outraged protectors of our values have no trouble questioning Obama's judgment: a nodding acquaintance with someone in his neighborhood, his choice of a church, his very faith, and then they blamed that on the Clintons)…

Obamateurism of the Day

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2010/08/30/obamateurism-of-the-day-346/

Posted: August 30, 2010

"I can't spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead," quipped Obama, who took a deep breath to gather his thoughts when asked if the poll reflected his inability to communicate with voters. … However, the birther contretemps suits Obama, because it allows the media to dismiss all of his critics by painting them with the Birther brush (which is why so many of us are frustrated and disgusted by the small coterie of people who continue to indulge it). … The President published a perfectly acceptable certification of live birth, with which any American can get a passport, a driver's license, or any other kind of official documentation he or she needs, in response to an unrelated question during the 2008 campaign…

Video: Shep Smith happy to finally leave Birther “crazyland”

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2011/04/27...ep-smith-happy-to-finally-leave-birther-crazyland/

Posted: April 27, 2011

Good news for CNN, I guess: Just when they thought their birth-certificate series had been overtaken by the news, this'll give them a whole new vein to tap. … Judging from our own inbox, the most popular one has to do with the PDF of the document consisting of multiple "layers"; Nathan Goulding, National Review's tech guy, shot that one down, but if Trump decides to double down tomorrow by questioning the authenticity of the new document, my guess is that's the line of skepticism he'll take. … NRO's already found enough attacks on the long-form birth certificate published this morning to warrant a whole new round of debunking…

Perry: You know what’s a lot of fun? Birth certificates! Update: 3 GOP governors say it’s not

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2011/10/2...ry-you-know-whats-a-lot-of-fun-birth-certificates/

Posted: October 25, 2011

Bob McDonnell, a frequent mention for the VP list and the governor of a critical swing state, told Right Turn exclusively through his spokesman: "The governor has always been clear on this matter: The president was born in the United States and any suggestion that he wasn't is an unnecessary distraction from the important issues facing our nation." … Perry's responsible for his own choices, and if you want a template for how to handle the issue, look no further than Michele Bachmann's response in April, when Trump was busy exploiting it for a cheap polling boost, before Obama released the certified birth record. … Harping on Obama's college grades and the lack of transparency won't hurt the GOP and might be "fun" in tweaking Obama's vanity, but spending any time aligning the GOP with the die-hard conspiracy theorists does distract from the better and more substantive arguments we can use to convince voters to send Obama packing…

Horror of horrors: Romney makes a birth-certificate joke

https://hotair.com/archives/erika-johnsen/2012/08/...of-horrors-romney-makes-a-birth-certificate-joke/

Posted: August 24, 2012

There's really no way to make the conspiracy about President Obama's birth certificate completely go away, so we might as well laugh at it -- and make sure as many people as possible are in on the joke. … President Obama, on the other hand, often favors a more citizen-of-the-world approach over a strictly American identity, and he's taken some shots at American exceptionalism (and, there's evidence that he's at least tried to portray himself as a more worldly, exotic, cosmopolitan type of individual at some point in his life). … The point is that Mitt Romney has never tried to paint himself as anything other than a born-and-bred, robustly proud American, and nobody has ever questioned his belief in America as the greatest country on earth…

Oh, Canada: British Columbia may be removing gender from birth certificates

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2015/05/31/o...ia-may-be-removing-gender-from-birth-certificates/

Posted: May 31, 2015

The Los Angeles-based Granada Hills Charter High School is already allowing boys who "self-identify as girls" to use the female locker room, even though a (naturally born) girl complained that one such boy stared strangely at her and also peeked at girls over the stalls while they used the toilet. … According to attorney barbara findlay (who insists we not use capital letters in her name) the antiquated and unfair practice of nosy government busybodies assigning gender on a government document when you're only a baby is wrong because … The Human Rights Tribunal in British Columbia will consider completely eliminating gender designations from birth certificates in response to complaints from the Trans Alliance Society (TAS) and other transgender individuals, according to an article in the National Post…

Reince Priebus on John Lewis: You didn’t see Republicans questioning the legitimacy of Obama’s victory in 2008

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2017/01/15...stioning-the-legitimacy-of-obamas-victory-in-2008/

Posted: January 15, 2017

The whole reason Trump's press conference last September about Obama's birth certificate was big news was because he'd never once said to that point that he thought O was born in the United States. … In fact, the distributions are statistically indistinguishable: 40 percent of knowledgeable Republicans disagree that Obama was born in the U.S. compared to 42 percent of lower knowledge Republicans. … " Probably the only reason Mitt Romney agreed to appear with him in 2012 and accept his endorsement is because he feared that snubbing the Birther-in-chief would piss off the populist right, who were already suspicious of Romney's right-wing cred…

St. Petersburg Times sort of verifies Obama’s birth certificate

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2008/06/27...g-times-sort-of-verifies-obamas-birth-certificate/

Posted: June 27, 2008

I remember reading a law review survey a few years ago in which various scholars identified the natural-born citizen requirement as the very worst operative clause in the Constitution as it currently stands. … The irony of this argument is that even if it did prove fruitful and Obama was revealed to have been born in another country, all it would do is provoke a debate on whether the Constitution should be amended to allow naturalized citizens to run for president. … I'm happy to believe them just because I think this is a weak line of attack and am anxious to get it off the table, the various e-mails we've gotten about it over the past week or two notwithstanding…

Cruz: I’ll renounce my Canadian citizenship that I never used

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2013/08/2...enounce-my-canadian-citizenship-that-i-never-used/

Posted: August 20, 2013

By the afternoon, though, Cruz had had enough of the debate over the circumstances of dual citizenship, and by evening apparently decided that the quickest way to put an end to the nonsense was to officially renounce his Canadian birthright. … Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced Monday evening that he will renounce his Canadian citizenship, less than 24 hours after a newspaper pointed out that the Canadian-born senator likely maintains dual citizenship. … In a move that Cruz more or less triggered with the release of his birth certificate, the Senator from Texas pledged to renounce his vestigial Canadian citizenship, part of the dual-citizenship status he has had all his life -- and of which Cruz was apparently unaware…

Ted Cruz: I’m not going to get into a legal debate about whether I’m also a Canadian citizen

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2013/08/19...l-debate-about-whether-im-also-a-canadian-citizen/

Posted: August 19, 2013

That only encourages lefty media to challenge him on it, which in turn will fuel "Can we trust a dual citizen as commander-in-chief?" hysteria on the fringe. … But I don't see the logic in having his spokesman then deny that he's a dual American-Canadian citizen by birth, as he almost certainly is under Canadian law. … Or just hassling a conservative with presidential buzz whom they loathe, maybe partly as payback for anti-Obama Birthers hassling Precious for his own birth certificate for so long?…

New group forms to help save transgender passports from Trump or something

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2016/11/15/n...s-to-help-save-transgender-passports-or-something/

Posted: November 15, 2016

I imagine that federal office buildings will still have to have separate, single user bathrooms and other facilities for those who fall into the "other" category, but they won't force women to allow men in the ladies room. … Now, returning to the purpose of the Trans Relief Project, their poorly worded mission statement seems to imply that once Trump is sworn in transgender individuals will have trouble changing their names or changing their documents (particularly passports) to reflect their new name, different gender, etc. … Given the results of the election here in the US, we are aiming to help as many US-based trans people get their paperwork / legal documents (especially passports) in order in the time they have to do so before the rules surrounding those documents change…

Trump: I don’t know if Obama was born in the U.S., but I’m off that subject now

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2015/07/10...a-was-born-in-the-u-s-but-im-off-that-subject-now/

Posted: July 10, 2015

Some would be dealbreakers, like a handgun ban, but I wonder if he could get away with backing, say, legal abortion for the first 12 weeks and still retain the 10-15 percent of Republicans he has now.) This is why I'm surprised he's toning down the birther stuff: It's pure "warrior" signaling to his fans, proof that he's willing to extend a middle finger to Obama that no other Republican will. … Even if Trump's a phony in his principles -- three years ago, he knocked the party for being too harsh(!) in its rhetoric about illegals -- the fact that he's antagonizing the comfortable class on a subject on which they've failed the working class again and again makes him an honorary "true conservative" if not an actual one, right? … Ace explained that dynamic yesterday in terms of class: The GOP is essentially a coalition of an urban, centrist professional class (what he calls the "comfortable" class) that's culturally aligned with the left and a more blue-collar, populist working class that's firmly right-wing, and neither one can stand the other…

Louisiana’s new immigrant marriage laws should be teaching us a lesson

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2016/10/11/l...as-new-immigrant-marriage-laws-teaching-us-lesson/

Posted: October 11, 2016

Let's leave aside for a moment the principle that the government's role shouldn't include the power to demand a permission slip (a license) or levy a tax (even when calling it a "fee") in order for two consenting adults to receive Big Brother's blessing for a private ceremony where they dedicate themselves to each other in front of friends and family. … There were concerns expressed over incidents of marriage fraud, where foreigners enter into sham marriages to gain a smooth glide path to citizenship (or at least long term residency documents) and potentially a host of government funded benefits. … You can eventually grow tired of reading yet another story on the subject of marriage in the United States and the government's role in that ancient institution, but today we've at least got one that doesn't immediately get bogged down in The Gay Stuff…

Barney Frank: Where’s Charles Djou’s birth certificate?

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2010/05/26...rney-frank-wheres-charles-djous-birth-certificate/

Posted: May 26, 2010

Not in a million years will that happen -- there's no sense in gratuitously antagonizing Obama fans back in his home district, where he'll have have a tough time getting reelected even under favorable circumstances -- but I like the idea of Djou ambushing Frank during some press availability in the Capitol hallway. … I'm a Birther critic in good standing but I dig Tom Maguire's reply to Frank: Djou should authorize Hawaii to release his long-form birth certificate, just to show how quickly and painlessly it can be done. … As Djou (pictured here) was being sworn into office, Frank walked the hallway of the Speaker's Lobby off the House floor calling on the media to "do your job" and review Djou's papers…

Hawaii to Balance Budget by Selling Obama Birth Certificates

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2011/01/28/h...alance-budget-by-selling-obama-birth-certificates/

Posted: January 28, 2011

Alaska isn't facing as much of a debt problem as, for example, New York, but might they not get well back into the black by selling DNA samples from Governor Palin's children, assuming she was willing to donate a few toenail clippings? … Washington State could auction off random hair samples from animals found in the woods, allowing the curious to test them for proof of the existence of Bigfoot. … With so many states battling massive budget problems it's no surprise that some of them might start getting creative in new ways to raise cash…

GOP frontrunner: Krauthammer’s a “sad fool”

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2011/04/28/gop-frontrunner-krauthammers-a-sad-fool/

Posted: April 28, 2011

The only explanation I can come up with for trying to take Trump down now is the AP's, namely, that the Birther stuff was catching on more in the mainstream and had the potential to do Obama some damage with undecideds. … But, they said, with so many economic factors souring the public mood, especially soaring gas prices, there was growing fear in the West Wing that angry Americans were more open to believing the conspiracy theories surrounding Mr. Obama's eligibility for the presidency. … Democratic officials said the White House wouldn't have released the president's long-form birth certificate if Mr. Obama's job-approval ratings were strong and his personal favorability ratings were high enough to counter negative innuendos…

Palin: Obama’s birth certificate is fair game; Update: Transcript added; Update: Palin responds

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2009/12/03/palin-obamas-birth-certificate-is-fair-game/

Posted: December 3, 2009

Well, the best way not to get tagged as a Birther is to refrain from saying that people are "rightfully making it an issue" and that the only reason that she would avoid doing that herself is because "there are enough members of the electorate who still want answers. … But at no point – not during the campaign, and not during recent interviews – have I asked the president to produce his birth certificate or suggested that he was not born in the United States. … And I don't think that that was fair to voters to not have done our jobs as candidates and as a campaign to bring to light a lot of the things that now we're seeing made manifest in the administration…

New York City brilliantly outflanks state ban on gay marriage

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2006/11/06...y-brilliantly-outflanks-state-ban-on-gay-marriage/

Posted: November 6, 2006

Joann Prinzivalli, 52, a lawyer for the New York Transgender Rights Organization, a man who has lived as a woman since 2000, without surgery, said the changes amount to progress, a move away from American culture's misguided fixation on genitals as the basis for one's gender identity. … Under the rule being considered by the city's Board of Health, which is likely to be adopted soon, people born in the city would be able to change the documented sex on their birth certificates by providing affidavits from a doctor and a mental health professional laying out why their patients should be considered members of the opposite sex, and asserting that their proposed change would be permanent... … Separating anatomy from what it means to be a man or a woman, New York City is moving forward with a plan to let people alter the sex on their birth certificate even if they have not had sex-change surgery…

WaPo columnist: Let’s face it, fellow Dems, Hunter Biden has to testify

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/01/2...umnist-lets-face-fellow-dems-hunter-biden-testify/

Posted: January 24, 2020

Among the things Biden has failed to provide, Lancaster wrote, are addresses, telephone numbers, names of financial institutions, a list of all sources of income, a list of all companies in which he has an ownership interest, copies of deeds to properties he owns, copies of his 2017 and 2018 tax returns, and unredacted copies of his other tax returns. … Independence County Circuit Judge Holly Meyer signed an "Order to Appear and Show Cause" on Monday, a day when Arkansas courts were closed to honor the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The judge's order was filed into the court record Tuesday... … Joe Biden's intervention while his son filled a no-responsibilities job that paid $600K a year in Ukraine created at least the appearance of a conflict of interest, and arguably an actual conflict of interest…

Smearmania: Biden, Axelrod, Tim Kaine still pushing attacks on Chamber of Commerce

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2010/10/11...aine-still-pushing-attacks-on-chamber-of-commerce/

Posted: October 11, 2010

As Ed noted this morning, the charge in this case is so egregiously unfair that even the NYT felt obliged to debunk it in the heat of campaign season -- and yet everyone from Obama to his VP to his senior advisor to the head of the DNC is biting down on it like it's a new chew toy. … AXELROD: Someone once in the course of this debate about whether we should have a law to force these organizations to disclose where they're money is coming from in the campaigns, someone said, and I think they're right – "the only people who want to keep things secret are folks who have something to hide. … I think the answer is, I think if the American people knew where their money was coming from they'd be a lot less apt to listen to the advertising, to read the mail, to respond to the kind of negative campaigns that the Chamber and some of these other organizations are underwriting…

Trump to speak soon on Birtherism

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2016/09/16/trump-speak-soon-birtherism/

Posted: September 16, 2016

" Walking back Birtherism feels like Alex Jones announcing that, okay, Al Qaeda blew up the Twin Towers after all but in any case 9/11 Truth didn't originate with him and he should be praised for now showing civic virtue in announcing that the case is closed -- and saying all of that while he's running for office. … Trump's going to use that as a tu quoque on Hillary, to try to get black voters wondering about her -- although the idea that this guy, of all people, is now going to affect fake outrage at Birtherism being a "smear" after doing more to promote it than anyone else in the United States is a show of brass balls so brazen, who knows what the media fallout will be. … Clinton's chief campaign strategist, Mark Penn, wrote a memo in 2007 highlighting Obama's foreign upbringing and emphasizing that he "is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and his values," which is what Birtherism is all about, although Penn never quite went the whole nine yards and suggested that Obama wasn't born in Hawaii…

Carney: Asking about Sebelius fundraising for ObamaCare a lot like being a birther, or something

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2013/05/2...draising-for-obamacare-a-lot-like-being-a-birther/

Posted: May 21, 2013

Struggling with a reporter about which Republican concerns are and are not legitimate, White House spokesman Jay Carney said that if reporters are going to ask about every issue, they should include President Obama's birth certificate... … Accusing them of being conspiracy nuts for asking about Kathleen Sebelius' fundraising for ObamaCare, starting with CBS' Major Garrett, who just got done fronting the Benghazi e-mail defense demolished by Glenn Kessler today. … You know, a White House that just got exposed for spying on journalists probably should be doing some bridge-rebuilding, especially for an administration who needs a friendly media as much as this one does…

MSNBC host: There are studies that show you are “literally” more likely to be beamed up by a UFO than find a case of voter fraud

https://hotair.com/archives/erika-johnsen/2014/03/...eamed-up-by-a-ufo-than-find-a-case-of-voter-fraud/

Posted: March 24, 2014

Progressives are pretty upset about the ruling, as well as some of the other voter-ID victories that have played out across the country recently, because -- as they relentlessly insist -- voter fraud isn't actually a thing that exists in the real world. … The federal voter registration form only requires that new voters sign a statement declaring that they are citizens, and the Federal Election Assistance Commission had been giving state officials nothing but grief in trying to change the federal form in their states to comply with their new laws. … Last week, a federal judge ruled in favor of Kansas and Arizona in their suit to get the federal government on board with their voter-ID laws that require new voters to provide a birth certificate, passport, or other documentation to prove their citizenship…

Trump: “Somebody” told me that Obama’s birth certificate is missing or doesn’t exist

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2011/04/25...amas-birth-certificate-is-missing-or-doesnt-exist/

Posted: April 25, 2011

He also digressed from his pursuit of a serious policy debate in an interview with the AP today to say that he's heard Obama was a "terrible student, terrible" while at Columbia and Harvard. … He feels bad because he'd much prefer to talk about the important policy issues facing the country, every one of which turns out to be "so easy" to solve. … Not only did they rush a story about this "scoop" onto their website hours before Cooper's show airs, they posted a sneak preview of the exchange to entice viewers to watch…

New Hawaii governor: We’re going to put a stop to this Birther crap once and for all

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2010/12/27...put-a-stop-to-this-birther-crap-once-and-for-all/

Posted: December 27, 2010

And of course, since Abercrombie's a liberal Democrat, if he does somehow manage to produce the long-form certificate and it confirms that Obama's birth happened as alleged, skeptics will dismiss it as a forgery planted by an ideological ally to throw Birthers off the scent of the "real" birth certificate. … Either he inadvertently revives the Birther movement by crusading for a new law to make long-form birth certificates public without the approval of the individuals to whom they belong or he decides nothing can be done legally and backs off, which will itself inflame Birthers by inspiring dark theories about pressure on him from the White House to quiet down. … Even his personal testimony about having seen Obama as a baby in Hawaii won't count for anything among true believers, since he admits that he wasn't at the hospital for the delivery -- which is too bad, since it would have been fun to watch them come up with theories to explain even that inconvenient fact away…

Rachel Dolezal: There’s no proof those two white people are my biological parents

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2015/06/17...those-two-white-people-are-my-biological-parents/

Posted: June 17, 2015

Pitner makes a good point: If it's true under the modern "one drop" rule that Dolezal could claim black identity if, say, one of her great-grandparents was black, why not just institute a "no drop" rule and let her claim it anyway? … Barrett Holmes Pitner and Camille Gear Rich have op-eds out today defending her with the same argument I've been making -- namely, if Dolezal lacks authenticity because she's free to drop her black identity whenever she finally tires of the bigotry it attracts, what do we do if she goes on living as black for the rest of her life? … Is this the statement of someone who's so desperate to preserve what's left of her black "authenticity" that she feels she has no choice but to question her lineage, or are we dealing with someone who's legit mentally ill?…

CNN president to Lou Dobbs: Stop covering the birth certificate story

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2009/07/24...u-dobbs-stop-covering-the-birth-certificate-story/

Posted: July 24, 2009

Possible lines of Birther attack: McCain's vetters were too dumb to find the smoking gun; even if they found the smoking gun, McCain's eligibility was also in question at one point due to his being born in Panama so he couldn't use it; McCain's a RINO and wanted to lose so even if he did find the smoking gun, he probably destroyed it to help Obama out. … Dave Weigel, who's been tracking the Birther phenomenon for months, floats a new story today about Team McCain having investigated the rumors last year and found nothing to them. … S. president Jon Klein sent an email to a handful of "Lou Dobbs Tonight" staffers last night regarding the coverage of the so-called birthers and the validity of Pres…

Gibbs on Birthers: Nothing will convince them

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2009/07/27/gibbs-on-birthers-nothing-will-convince-them/

Posted: July 27, 2009

You'll find the crux of his argument here, explaining that the Dunham family had a perfectly sound motive at the time to claim little Barack was American-born even if he wasn't -- namely, that it might give them leverage in a future custody battle with Obama's father if he decided to try to have the matter heard in Kenyan courts. … I do a lot of dumping on Birthers so in the spirit of reconciliation I'll direct you to the most credible person on their side that I know, the always thoughtful and insightful Tom Maguire, whose front page currently features three posts on the subject. … Even so, whatever they have on record is sufficient to warrant an official state certificate attesting to his birth in Honolulu, which is good enough for me and for 95 percent of the rest of the population although YMMV…

SCOTUS passes on Indiana gay parenting case

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2020/12/15/scotus-passes-indiana-gay-parenting-case/

Posted: December 15, 2020

As to the conservatives who will respond by objecting to the possibility that the child will be "indoctrinated" into a gay lifestyle or something similar by being raised in a same-sex household, I've pretty much been disabused of that notion. … Hill had argued for the justices to reverse a January decision by the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals that affirmed a ruling by Indiana's federal southern district court that said Indiana laws limiting who can be called a parent of a child were unconstitutional. … The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to take up an Indiana case seeking to reverse a lower court's ruling that allows both members of same-sex couples in the state to be listed as parents on the birth certificates of their children…

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