Fringe Views Not So Fringe
Via Eric Kleefeld, I see Public Policy Polling has surveyed Americans on various conspiracy theories and wild ideas and found substantial adherence to all of them, leading their Tom Jensen to ask "Is extremism becoming mainstream in 21st century American politics?" Our latest national poll would seem to say yes- 35% voters in the country either think that Barack Obama was ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on September 24, 2009 08:55
Andrew Sullivan and the Rule of Law
Jonathan Last has somehow obtained a memorandum [PDF], dated yesterday, written by U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert B. Collings in the matter of Andrew Sullivan, who was caught in a federal park with small amounts of a controlled substance but whom the U.S. Attorney declined to prosecute in the "interests of justice." To wit: Paying the $125 fine would make ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on September 11, 2009 14:06
Shouting ‘Liar’ in a Crowded Congress
The big news surrounding President Obama's latest heathcare speech is that South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson shouted "You lie!" in response to the claim that illegal immigrants would not be covered under universal coverage: AP ("Obama heckled by GOP during speech to Congress"): The nastiness of August reached from the nation's town halls into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday as President ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on September 10, 2009 08:02
Will Wilkinson – Canadian
Will Wilkinson became a Canadian at midnight. Canadian Press' Bruce Cheadle reports: Wilkinson, to use the breezy term used by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, will be "waking up Canadian" on Friday morning as new and controversial changes to the Citizenship Act become law. "It's a strange thing to all-of-a-sudden one day gain a citizenship to a new country," the 36-year-old journalist from ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on April 17, 2009 09:22
Army Officer Challenges Obama’s Eligibility
The bizarre idea that Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen and therefore not eligible to hold the office of president continues to thrive, with an active duty Army officer now joining the fray. The soldier in question, 40-year-old contractor-turned 2LT Scott Easterling asserts that his oath to defend the Constitution require that, "Until Mr. Obama releases a 'vault ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on February 24, 2009 20:26
Army Offers Citizenship for Enlisting
The Army is beginning a pilot program to allow skilled green card holders to enlist and get a fast-track to citizenship, Julia Preston reports on the front page of today's NYT. Stretched thin in Afghanistan and Iraq, the American military will begin recruiting skilled immigrants who are living in this country with temporary visas, offering them the chance to become United ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on February 15, 2009 07:03
Court Won’t Review Obama’s Citizenship
[caption id="attachment_28436" align="alignright" width="294" caption="United States Supreme Court Building"][/caption] As widely anticipated, the Supreme Court today declined to hear a frivolous case about Barack Obama's citizenship status. The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth. The court did ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on December 8, 2008 11:12
Supreme Court to Decide on Obama Citizenship
A group challenging Barack Obama's citizenship will finally get its day in court. Or, more likely, be among the thousands of cases rejected each year by the Supreme Court. The U.S. Supreme Court will consider Friday whether to take up a lawsuit challenging President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship, a continuation of a New Jersey case embraced by some opponents of Obama's ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on December 4, 2008 11:29
Obama Admits He Was Not Born In Hawaii
At the Al Smith dinner last night, Democratic candidate for President Barack Obama admitted that, as some critics contend, he was not born in Hawaii:In fact, not only does this news indicate that he's not an American citizen, I'm pretty sure it means that he's an illegal immigrant, too. Shocking.Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 17, 2008 08:41
Video Proves Obama an Alien!
Thomas Lifson believes the "game changer" desperate Republicans are looking for could have arrived with this video from -- and, sadly, I'm not making this up -- someone calling themselves "Molotov Mitchell" at something called " Illuminati Productions." The video is just shy of 11 minutes but, as Lifson describes it, It makes accessible to the general public some of the serious ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 12, 2008 08:54
Obama: Citizen of the World
Greg Ransom: BARACK OBAMA IS A CITIZEN OF KENYA as well as a citizen of the United States, according the Rocky Mountain News and other sources. There's reason to believe that Obama is also a citizen of Indonesia. He calls himself a "citizen of the world", and in some sense, he is. That's a good line. Whether Obama is actually a ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on August 10, 2008 07:41
Army Linguists Net $150,000 Bonus
The Army is looking at paying incredibly large bonuses to people fluent in Arabic and other strategically important languages. The Army may begin paying a retention bonus of as much as $150,000 to Arabic speaking soldiers in reflection of how critical it has become for the US military to retain native language and cultural know-how in its ranks. Only one other job ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on August 5, 2008 14:15
On Being a Citizen of the World
Said an American politician, speaking to an international audience:"I speak today as both a citizen of the United States and of the world. I come with the heartfelt wishes of my people for peace, bearing honest proposals and looking for genuine progress." I mean can you imagine? Didn't this politician know that he was an American? What kind of ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on July 27, 2008 22:48
Conservatives for Obama II
When I saw the headline "Hunter: This conservative activist is backing Obama" on memeorandum yesterday, I was intrigued. Duncan Hunter, arguably the most conservative of the 2008 Republican presidential aspirants was endorsing a liberal Democrat?! When it turned out the "Hunter" in question was Larry Hunter, a fellow of whom I'd never previously heard, my interest waned. After all, ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on July 18, 2008 09:27
John McCain’s Presidential Eligibility Redux
Gabe Chin, a University of Arizona law professor, has re-opened the "Is John McCain a natural-born citizen" debate with a new paper arguing that persons born in the Panama Canal Zone did not technically become automatic citizens until eleven months after his birth. Adam Liptak examines this closely in today's NYT and gets a wide variety of legal ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on July 11, 2008 07:46
