By The Admin on July 28, 2009
State officials in Hawaii on Monday said they have once again checked and confirmed that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen, and therefore meets a key constitutional requirement for being president.
Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said she hoped to end lingering rumors about Obama’s birthplace.
“I … have seen [...]
Posted in White House
By The Admin on July 28, 2009
The U.S. Coast Guard says a vessel carrying as many 200 Haitian migrants has capsized near the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Coast Guard spokeswoman Sabrina Elgammal, a petty officer third class, says the guard has been working with police to rescue 70 people who were stranded on a reef. She said four bodies have been recovered [...]
Posted in International News
By The Admin on July 28, 2009
The chief White House spokesman said a Thursday meeting of the president, a Harvard University scholar and the policeman who arrested him will be “about having a beer and de-escalation.”
Robert Gibbs said Tuesday that the session, weather permitting, is planned for 6 p.m. at a picnic table outside the Oval Office. “The president wants to [...]
Posted in Race, White House
By The Admin on July 27, 2009
Filmmaker Spike Lee championed a free press Friday during a visit to Venezuela, where broadcasters are under pressure to avoid criticizing President Hugo Chavez’s leftist government.
The director didn’t directly refer to the dispute in Venezuela, but he said there are “no circumstances” under which news media should be silenced.
Visiting to screen his 1989 film “Do [...]
Posted in Media
By The Admin on July 27, 2009
The woman leading the movement challenging President Barack Obama’s U.S. birth says she’s made some high-profile Republican friends on her Facebook page.
Among those who asked to be her friend? Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, House Republican Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia, and Reps. Mary Bono Mack of California and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Politico [...]
Posted in Party Politics
