I had written on these pages (which I will correct as soon as I finish this) that the State of Hawaii had a law that allows Hawaiian residents to register infants born out of state. I cited the law, which I found on a State web site:
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Entries from November 2008
ERROR! ERROR!
November 30, 2008
The “Smoking Grandmother”
November 27, 2008
There are three recording relating to Barack Obama’s birth on the Internet. Two regard his paternal grandmother in Kenya and one involves the Kenyan Ambassador to the United States.
The first grandmother tape is on YouTube. Before you visit the Obama Grandmother audio recording, let me offer a suggestion. Close your eyes and listen to it [...]
OCD and Math Education
November 26, 2008
I think the persistence of Obama Citizenship Denial (OCD) may be related to the poor state of mathematics education in this country. I do not refer to higher mathematics, or arithmetic, but to the more basic skill of counting.
Let me offer this example:
There is a page on the AtlasShruggs.com web site where a “forensic document [...]
Dr. Ron Polarik’s analysis of Barack Obama’s birth certificate
November 25, 2008
“Ron Polarik” (not a real name?) published an analysis of the Barack Obama birth certificate and concludes that it is a forgery. (That link has stopped working).
[Since I wrote the following article, I ran across a scientific critique of Dr. Rod Polarik conclusions. If anyone believes Polarik still, then visit that critique. What follows is [...]
Poisoning the Well
November 24, 2008
Poisoning the well (or attempting to poison the well) is a logical fallacy where adverse information about a target is pre-emptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing everything that the target person is about to say.
Source: Wikipedia
I ran across the poster child for this fallacy on the Internet on a [...]