Looking towards a run for president in 2012, Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina played games refusing to accept stimulus funds from the federal government to boost his right-wing credentials, while ignoring the second highest unemployment rate in the country. Now we see Sanford went off the radar for a whole week, telling his staff [...]
Entries Categorized as 'Politics'
Mark Sanford must go
June 25, 2009
Am I a Citizen?
December 17, 2008
Reading some of the discussion of the fourteenth amendment and juristiction on the Internet, it makes me wonder. I was born in the United States, as was my father and his father before him, but my great grandfather was not. Heinrich and Helena emigrated to the United States around 1900, citizens of Germany. I do [...]
Natural born Citizen
December 15, 2008
With this odd fellow we elected President has come discussion about the Constitutional requirements for being President, and in particular that pesky little phrase “natural born citizen”. There are some very long (and some long-winded) discussions about that this means. I personally think the thing is being over analyzed. I hit the Concise Oxford English [...]
*****-gate
December 13, 2008
Yesterday’s article at Media Matters said: Media pick up where they left off 8 years ago To anyone who lived through the media feeding frenzy of the 1990s, during which the nation’s leading news organizations spent the better part of a decade destroying their own credibility by relentlessly hyping a series of non-scandals, the past [...]
Berg’s Ingenuous Offer
December 12, 2008
According to WorldNetDaily, “[Attorney Philip J.] Berg has since challenged Obama publicly that if the candidate will simply produce authorized proof of citizenship, he’ll drop the suit.” Having no success in the courts, and getting no publicity in the mainstream media, Berg is asking for a change of venue. He want’s to move his case [...]