President Barack Obama ended a Hawaiian vacation to return Monday to the Washington he never really escaped.  Obama and his family boarded Air Force One on Sunday evening for an overnight flight, capping off an 11-day trip that would be remembered more for an al-Qaida affiliate’s botched attempt to bring down a Christmas Day flight about to land in Detroit from Amsterdam rather than the hours... 

By Toby Harden There is no more solemn duty for an American commander-in-chief than the martialling of  “all elements of American power” – the phrase Obama himself used on Monday – to protect the people of the United States. In that key respect, Obama failed on Christmas Day, just as President George W. Bush failed on September 11th (though he succeeded in the seven years after that). Share/Save Read More →

By Ed Morrissey HOT AIR – The Chicago Tribune briefly revives the Obama-birth-certificate kerfuffle in an update today, if only to throw more cold water on it. Tomorrow, the Supreme Court confabs over whether to grant a review to Leo Donofrio’s lawsuit after having it rejected in district and appellate courts: Share/Save Read More →

By Janet Porter  The media bought it. The voters bought it. And now some in Congress are resisting the idea of congressional hearings because they believe that Barack Obama's "birth certificate" has been posted online. Not so. Share/Save Read More →

By Thomas Latino  The nature of this case should give every citizen who holds the Constitution in high regard some pause and ask themselves several key questions. "Why isn't Mr. Obama simply releasing his Birth Certificate?", "Why would the DNC interject itself into this matter?" and "Why would the Obama team spend upwards of around $800,000 of tax-payer dollars to... 

Now it's pretty apparent why Barack Obama made his sudden, last minute visit to Honolulu. It wasn't Granny's health problems that interested him but Hawaii's Health Department. The strategy may have backfired. A statement by Hawaiian officials Friday that they have seen but won't release an "original" bith certificate that has never been released raises more questions... 

By Jerome R. Corsi  Although the legitimacy of Sen. Barack Obama's birth certificate has become a focus of intense speculation – and even several lawsuits – WND has learned that Hawaii's Gov. Linda Lingle has placed the candidate's birth certificate under seal and instructed the state's Department of Health to make sure no one in the press obtains access to the original... 

By Jonah Goldberg LOS ANGELES TIMES – Judging by his reaction to the Georgia-Russia crisis, Obama's make-believe presidency isn't ready for prime time. The Obama campaign has for months pursued the odd strategy of having the junior senator from Illinois act as if he were already kinda-sorta president of the United States. In June, it tried sticking a quasi-presidential seal on his lectern.... 

By Andrew Walden AMERICAN THINKER – American voters must make up their minds about what Barack Obama really believes in, if anything. His recent rhetorical concessions to the center further muddy the waters. So we must look to his past teachers and associates for help in understanding the inner Obama. Share/Save Read More →

By Andy McCarthy NRO – I had not caught up until today with this apparent controversy over whether the Hawaii birth certificate proffered by Obama's campaign is a forgery and whether there are legitimate questions about whether he was born in the United States — if he wasn't, he almost certainly would not be qualified under the Constitution and relevant immigration statutes to be... 

By Texas Darlin NO QUARTER – I have acquired additional information related to my earlier posts today (at my blog) on the subject of Barack Obama’s ‘Certification of Live Birth.’ My first post on this subject, Obama Birth Certificate, Fake?, included an analysis that I came across by a blogger named Polarik, who concluded based on “20 years of experience in computers, printers, and typewriters”...