Full disclosure: I'm a registered Republican who voted for Mr. Obama. Since his inauguration, my appreciation for his Administration has steadily declined. However, my estimation of the conservative side of the country (specifically including Mrs. Palin) has declined even more precipitously.

This brings me to my point: Let's assume, for the sake of debate, Mr. Obama is a Muslim.

My only question then is, "So what?"

But, dear host, why do continue to give credence to the cretins by perpetuating their outrageous (?) ideas?

But, dear host, why do you continue to give credence to the cretins by perpetuating their outrageous (?) ideas?

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts."

Taitz was slapped down not for her theory, but on judicial technicalities that disallowed the presentation of the case and hence disallowed evidence for her theory. From my understanding there have been a hundred court cases across the country that judges would not allow to proceed to discovery -- actual examination of the locked-up records. The President's "Certification of Live Birth" on the internet is not the proper documentation. The proper documentation would have the name of the hospital and a doctor's signature.

Before we get any deeper into the specious birthery arguments, here are two fact-checking sources on the subject. If you want to argue this frivolous point further, argue with them.

From PolitiFact

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jun/27/obamas-birth-certificate-part-ii/

From Snopes.com

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp

Bruce- We have to watch "the cretins"- They take over, if given enough power: for example---Glen Beck.....
We can add his name to a list of movie's, by other charlatans....
Howard Beale--Network
Elmer Gantry
Steve Martin--Leap of faith
Then we have Benny Hinn, Oral Roberts, Pat Robertson, etc,etc,....
Fiction & Truth....Not much difference....

Carl J Weber, I was born in NJ. My birth certificate lists neither the Dr nor the hospital.

So, Eve, how do we know that you are not a Muslim sleeper agent? Can you prove that you are not a Muslim sleeper agent?

Prof. McIntyre, I have had the pleasure of meeting Eve. She looked wide-awake to me.

Accirding to a poll cited in the Washington Post, 1 percent of Americans think Obama was born in Kansas. We don't want to know what percentage of Americans think he has been to Oz.

Mr. Lackey- But---If Obama has been to Oz, is he The Tin-Man, or The Cowardly Lion.?

I guess we'll find out.......

For a slighly different look at rampant stupidity, here is the American Library Association's list of the hundred books most frequently banned or challenged over the past decade:

http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedbydecade/2000_2009/index.cfm

Mr Obama did try to enact a "progressive" agenda. He just was caught doing it.

I was surprised that 1984 and It Can't Happen Here wasn't on the list....Guess we don't have to read those...we're living it.

Sadly, the Institute for Creation Research, notably lambasted by a federal judge for being unable to file a brief that avoided being "overly verbose, disjointed, incoherent, maundering, and full of irrelevant information," has given up the struggle to offer a master's degree in science education in Texas. A contuination of the fight would surely have provided many ripe moments. Details:

http://www.texastribune.org/texas-education/higher-education/institute-for-creation-research-ends-legal-fight/

And the BBC says Stephen Hawking's new book concludes that God is unnecessary to the creation of the universe (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11161493). What we will see next is people mis-citing this as support for the proposition that God in fact does not exist. Now Hawking may believe that God does not exist, but that does not mean that he has proven the non-existence of God. He just thinks he's proven that the universe could have started without God.

Still, we will certainly see some atheists tout the book for this purpose. Someone (such as the eloquent Mr. McIntyre perhaps) should call them on it.

"telling teenagers that human beings are descended from animals apparently encourages them to behave like animals"

Oh dear. Prolly best if we don't let the little rapscallions see the youtube video of that chimpanzee bangin' that poor frog, then.

Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
(Mark Twain)

As much as I admire Twain's writing, Lorraine, his definition of faith is so full of holes that even he must have known that it too ain't so. The quote you cite is merely a prime example of his usual well-crafted hyperbole.

I guess that shows, that Mark Twain was a very "holy man."

Snort! Good one, Lorraine!

Tim, I'll take well-crafted hyperbole over what passes for commentary any time.

Me too, Dahlink

Andrew Schlafly.....betcha he's related to Phyllis.