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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been -- Birther Edition
By Jordan Carr - AOL News(Aug. 6) -- Army doctor Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin is scheduled to be arraigned today at Fort Belvoir, Va., where he will face a court martial for refusing to show up for his deployment to Afghanistan on the usual birther argument that Barack Obama is not the real president. And with that re-emerges, at least for now, a story line that had receded from the news. Not all that long ago, there was a stretch when you couldn't fling your copy of the pocket Constitution without hitting a news story about someone questioning Obama's birth certificate and, thus, his legitimacy as president of the ...
California Primary Results Give Boost to Old GOP Archetype: The Mainstream Republican
By Paul Wachter - Politics DailyIt's a tale of two parties in California. On the Republican side, deep-pocketed former tech CEOs Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina won the primary nominations for the governorship and U.S Senate seat. They'll be facing, respectively, career Democratic politicians Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown and Senator Barbara Boxer, who won their primary runs even more handily (sorry Mickey Kaus). Whitman, who headed eBay, spent $71 million of her own money on the race -- a California record -- while Fiorina contributed $5 million from her pockets. Both will be running as anti-incumbents, and Whitman has already ...
Primary Election Results: 3 Biggest Shockers-in-the-Making
By David Knowles - Politics DailyAs voters in 12 states await the results of Tuesday's primary elections -- the biggest yet in this electoral season of American discontent -- a handful of races promise to give pundits plenty to talk about come Wednesday. Surge Desk previews the potential headlines most primed to shake up the current political order. 1. Tea Party Favorite (and Scientologist?) Sharron Angle Wins in Nevada One of the stranger narratives of the 2010 campaign came when one of Angle's two opponents, Sue Lowden, cut an ad that questioned Angle's ties to the Church of Scientology. Angle, who has been endorsed by ...
California Judge Dismisses 'Birther' Lawsuit
By David Sessions - Politics DailyA federal judge in California has dismissed another case questioning President Obama's qualification to hold office, Politico's Josh Gerstein reports. In a withering 30-page ruling, the judge attacked the suit brought by prominent "birther" leader Orly Taitz on behalf of military personnel and others, and accused the plaintiffs of trying to avoid going to war. "This Court will not interfere in internal military affairs nor be used as a tool by military officers to avoid deployment. The Court has a word for such a refusal to follow the orders of the President of the United States, but it will ...
Georgia Judge Fines 'Birther' Lawyer Orly Taitz $20,000
By David Sessions - Politics DailyOrly Taitz, the California lawyer known for her vocal and litigious leadership in the "birther" movement, has been slapped with a $20,000 fine by a District Court in Georgia for "wasting the Defendants' time" in a case one of her clients brought against the U.S. Army. The court ruled that Taitz violated Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which stipulates that attorneys will not sign onto cases that are clearly brought with dishonest or frivolous motives. ...
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