Citizenship

Duo take Obama birth challenge to Court

Posted by Jeff from Firstread.msnbc.msn

Leo Donofrio, a New Jersey lawyer, contends that election officials in his state failed to ensure that only legally qualified candidates were placed on the ballot. Obama may have been born in the United States, Donofrio argues, but "natural born" status depends on both parents being American citizens. Obama's father was Kenyan.

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Conrad Black: now a good American?

Posted by SoxFirst

After waging a legal war against the US, Conrad Black is now asking to get US citizenship rights so that authorities will go easy on him in jail.

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Un-becoming a citizen

Posted by RussWellen from Scholarsandrogues

"Very few Americans actually function as citizens anymore." Not only don't most of us care to be reminded of what we don't know about our government, neither have we much interest in acquiring that knowledge. Furthermore, "That foreign policy stuff is too complicated, man."

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Conrad "Che" Black's optimism

Posted by SoxFirst

Conrad Black, self-proclaimed freedom fighter, was in fine form the other night when he made an appearance at the Empire Club of Canada in downtown Toronto. Determined to get hios citizenship back, he declares Canada is going to be the next power and says he is very confident that he’ll be acquitted of plundering millions of dollars from his old company Hollinger.

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Bitter Debate Over 'Birthright Citizenship'

Posted by Billbar from Associated Press

"This was always seen in the past as some extreme, wacko proposal that never goes anywhere," she said. "But these so-called wacko proposals are becoming more and more mainstream - it's becoming more acceptable to have a discussion about it."

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‘Birthright citizenship’ debate set to begin

Posted by Jeff from MSNBC

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