Yes he was!

Anyone who still thinks Barack Hussein Obama wasn't born in the US making him "natural born" should go check the newspapers from August 1961 in Hawaii. A notice of his birth was listed in two different competing papers there.

Some say his birth certificate that has been released was faked and other such nonsense but it's hard to go back in time and place those notices 40-odd years after the fact just to create some sort of conspiracy.

When the world (almost) came to an end

According to this September 18th, 2008 almost marked the end of the world as we knew it. But it didn't happen. Someone pointed out that it was the turnaround point from when McCain/Palin went from leading in the polls to trailing again. It makes you wonder who might be behind the events of that day.

What's your tax cut?

Check this out!

You can find out an estimate of what your tax cut would be under Obama or McCain with the site linked above. I think the intent is to see what your cut would be under Obama but it also shows what it would be under McCain. In my case, I would get nearly twice the tax cut under McCain than I would under Obama.

Obama chose his friends carefully?

Why has no one mentioned this before? This is a quote from Obama's book, Dreams from my Father.
"I chose my friends carefully,... The Marxist professors and structural feminists."

You can read more about it here.

Is bankruptcy the answer?

No, I'm not declaring bankruptcy. I would never encourage any private citizen to do so. However, this article suggests that the current financial crisis would be best solved if those companies who are in trouble did declare bankruptcy.

The other day, the US House voted down the bailout package, which, in my opinion, was the right thing to do. Now, however, our political leaders are all pushing again to get another version of the bill to pass. It appears to me that they're taking a barrel of pork, trying to add enough lipstick to the pigs so that they will look like supermodels.

If they would let the inevitable happen, it might hurt at first but in the end it would be less painful than if they keep messing around and make the problem worse.

The rest of the story on The Surge

This is a fascinating article that describes the behind-the-scenes push for the surge in Iraq by John McCain. The article is quite long but it is worth reading if you plan on voting in November.