Orly Taitz Keeps the Faith in Obama Quest

Taitz shares theories on Obama (he's gay), conspiracies, flu shots

(NEWSER) - President Obama or one of his operatives has tried to kill birther leader Orly Taitz many times—according to Taitz. The lawyer/dentist/real estate agent gives Gabriel Winant of Salon an earful of accusations, including:

• Obama may have had his gay lovers killed. Taitz says a few homosexuals from Obama’s church died under mysterious circumstances. “I don’t want to say that Obama did it. But those are the facts.”

Forgery by birthers 'so laughable it’s ridiculous'

(NEWSER) - President Obama’s “Kenyan” birth certificate, posted online by lawyer Orly Taitz, has been debunked as a forgery, and the original document—an old Australian certificate—it was based on has even been discovered. The Australian Broadcast Channel tracked down David Bomford, the man whose genuine birth certificate was used for the forgery. Bomford was quite shocked to have been an unwitting pawn for the US birther movement: More»

Mike Coffman already backpedaling after bringing up birther issue

(NEWSER) - Rep. Mike Coffman of Colorado is already backpedaling furiously after being caught on tape bringing up President Obama's citizenship and questioning his patriotism. "I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that," Coffman said at a fundraiser last week, according to NBC 9 News . "But I do know this, that in his heart, he's not an American. He's just not an American." More»

A recap of the president's latest Rolling Stone interview

(NEWSER) - Barack Obama thinks the Republican Party has backed itself into a corner that's "far out of the mainstream" and even "contrary to a lot of Republican precepts"—and that Mitt Romney is stuck with it. "I don't think that their nominee is going to be able to suddenly say, 'Everything I've said for the last six months, I didn't mean,'" Obama told Rolling Stone as part of a lengthy interview. "When you're running for president, people are paying attention to what you're saying." More»

Birther group suspicious because of his dad's time in Mexico

(NEWSER) - Long-form , schmlong-form . The birthers are at it again, and this time they're not just after Barack Obama—they're going for Mitt Romney, too. Republican primary write-in candidate John Dummett Jr. and six like-minded birthers have filed a lawsuit demanding the California secretary of state check the eligibility of all presidential candidates before putting them on November's ballot, the LA Times reports. The suit specifically mentions “questions concerning the eligibility” of Romney. More»