Obama eligible for presidency on two counts

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

You have probably heard about it. President Obama is not entitled to be President because he was not born in the United States. Not because Hawaii was not a state yet, as Hawaii was admitted to the Union on August 21, 1959, and Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 (I know, younger than me, too), but because he was actually born abroad. Not that there is any proof he was born abroad, but because of some concerns about…

What if he was a foreigner?

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s daughter’s partner As reader’s of this blog may have noticed, the “What if he was a foreigner?” entries in this blog address the immigration impact of what would happen if a non-U.S. citizen committed an act or crime that a prominent person has committed. The entire point of these postings is to point out how harsh the immigration laws are and how it could impact people of prominence if they did not have the good fortune…