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David Quigg: A Vote for President Schwarzenegger Is a Vote Against the “Birthers”

Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution should be amended. It’s antiquated. What’s more, it’s all that gives even the flimsiest veneer of legitimacy to the ongoing fringe fixation on Obama’s birth certificate.

Mike Stark: Elected Birthers on the Hill

The most powerful people in the world — nationally elected legislators responsible for setting policy for the most powerful country on earth — are lining up with elements of the lunatic fringe.

Willie Geist’s Week In Review: Parliamentary Brawls, The Taco Bell Dog And The Birthers (VIDEO)

With just days to go before the premiere of his own show this Monday at 5:30AM, Willie Geist presented his customary Week in Review countdown on Friday’s “Morning Joe.”

His top three stories of the week were:

3. “Awkward Man-Wrestling”: A no…

Harry Shearer: Why The Birthers?

Okay, I admit it, it may be my fault, I’ve watched Chris Matthews for three straight nights, and each evening he’s sent the same question…

Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: As If This Puts Birthers To Bed

click for full size   Seeing is believing? via RJ Eskow. Stewart escalates….

Cynthia Boaz: The “Birthers” and Our Ailing Political Culture

These birthers represent a small but vocal minority in this country who have somehow failed to grasp that American democracy is rooted in a set of principles, not a set of demographic characteristics.

Bill Scher: Will The Birthers Kill Health Care Reform?

The Weekly World News reports this week: “The official copy of Barack Obama’s birth certificate was stolen this week by Republicans wishing to halt his…

Liz Cheney Defends Birthers On Larry King (VIDEO)

The Obama “birther” movement has sucked in a few Republican congressmen. But Tuesday night the conspiracy theorists who think our president isn’t a citizen got a major boost from none other than Elizabeth Cheney, former State Department offici…