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Even though two Honolulu-based newspapers printed Barack Obama’s birth announcement in 1961, the loons at World Net Daily aren’t buying it. Because knowing he would one day be our president, the vast liberal conspiracy planted those birth announcements 47 years in advance. Or something.

Jim Robinson, the founder of Free Republic, the most widely-read conservative internet forum, has issued a call for the overthrow of the U.S. government. Therefore, We the People of America choose to exercise our right to throw off and alter the abusive government by peacefully recalling and removing from office the President of the United States, the Vice President of …

“While those who were at Stonewall talk about the fear of being arrested by police, 40 years ago, blacks talked about the fear of dying at the hands of police and not having their bodies found or murder investigated. The 13th Amendment was signed in 1865, and it wasn’t until 1948 that President Harry S Truman desegregated the military. That’s …

Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-KS) wonders if President Obama’s mother would have had an abortion if there had been federal funding to pay for it.

Seizing on Bill Clinton’s reversal on same-sex marriage, ABC reporter Jake Tapper asked White House press secretary Robert Gibbs to react. As usual, Gibbs ducked and bobbed. The Advocate’s Kerry Eleveld has the exchange: Tapper: Former President Bill Clinton recently said that he’s basically in support of same-sex marriage. “I think it’s wrong,” he said, “for someone to stop someone …

Oh, brother. Check out this ad from some nutjob outfit called “The Committee For Justice.” Think Progress responds: “The claim that Sotomayor led a terrorist organization apparently refers to her service on the board of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, a mainstream civil rights organization. It seems that, in the right-wing mind, a group that protects Latinos …

The birthers won a small court victory yesterday when a Los Angeles judge agreed to hear Alan Keyes’ claim that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and therefore ineligible to be U.S. president. The case, Alan Keyes, et al. v Barack H. Obama, et al. was filed on Inauguration Day and is one of a raft of suits alleging Obama …

The president would like to see DADT repealed “sooner rather than later,” but the Pentagon blah blah blah….

A YouTube commenter on this clip reports that all of the protesters from yesterday’s needle exchange protest are now out of jail.

Twenty-six AIDS activists were arrested in the Capitol Building’s rotunda this morning in a protest over President Obama’s refusal to lift a ban on needle exchanges, something he promised to do during his campaign. By 10:45, police had arrested 11 men and 15 women. Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said they would all be charged with unlawful assembly and disorderly …

Greenpeace activists unfurled a massive banner of Barack Obama on Mount Rushmore yesterday, urging the president to speak out on global warming at the Group Of Eight summit in Italy. The 65-foot by 35-foot banner — which read “America Honors Leaders, Not Politicians: Stop Global Warming” — was hung to the immediate right of Lincoln at about 10 a.m. local …

Iraq war veteran Rep. Patrick Murphy says he is “taking the point” in Congress to repeal DADT.

“I would encourage gays and straights alike to put pressure on President Obama, on his administration, to call for action — immediate action on the laundry list of items that the gay community deserves for true equality in this country. “What I don’t like is the suggestion by a lot of people that this guy has lied to us and …

(Via JMG reader Jeff)

Watch this one, please.

Pam Spaulding has the complete transcript of the president’s remarks. At one point Obama was interrupted by somebody’s cell phone. The offender’s ringtone? A duck call. Hmm. The president quacked up.

Today’s LGBT cocktail party at the White House will be livestreamed here beginning at 4:25pm EST. Americablog’s John Aravosis vents: I’m so proud of our gay leaders today. Getting all spiffed up to go to the White House and “deliver our president a message.” That’ll be the day. Oh, I’m sure, in the 8 minutes or so that a small …