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Pennsylvania Republican Challenges Obama's Citizenship

Baldwin-Whitehall Patch | Robert Edward Healy III | Posted 02.10.2012

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Barack Obama does not have the legal right to be President of the United States. Such is the claim of Thomas Barchfeld, a Whitehall Borough residen...

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New Book About Obama's Mother Stirs Controversy

Posted 09.13.2011

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A new book about the life of Barack Obama's mother is casting doubt on an anecdote shared by the president during his 2008 election campaign and subse...

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Obama's Father Planned To Put Son Up For Adoption

Posted 09.06.2011

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President Barack Obama's father told federal immigration officials in 1961 that he planned to put his unborn son up for adoption, The Boston Globe rep...

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Dear Mr. President, I Wish I Had Known...

Wendell Potter | Posted 07.12.2011

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Wendell Potter

Like many others, I've heard President Obama talk about his mother's insurance problems during her final months in 1995. But I didn't realize until now that the company she was pleading with was CIGNA, the one I used to work for.

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Obama Census Choice: African-American

AP | MARK S. SMITH | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — He may be the world's foremost mixed-race leader, but when it came to the official government head count, President Barack Obama ga...

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A Big Thank You to Obama's Mother, Ann Dunham, for US Health Care

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vivian Norris

Now that President Obama has helped get health care for all Americans, let him remember his mother once again and focus on great public education.

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Hillary Clinton Understands the Link Between Security and Poverty

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vivian Norris

If we spent as much time and money and effort as we put into defense budgets into fighting poverty, a lot of wars would have been stopped before they began.

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Leadership Growing Up: France and the US

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vivian Norris

What is described in a Financial Times article as Obama's "reserve" and Sarkozy's being "intuitive, impulsive and direct," represents not only a contrast, but also how the two have been influenced by different backgrounds.

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President Obama, His Mother Ann Dunham and the Nobel Peace Prize

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vivian Norris

Obama will be thinking of his mother as he receives the highest honor our world can bestow on a living human being. It is a global recognition of not only the hope he brings but what the future can become.

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Dear President Obama: Channel Your Mother, Immediately!

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vivian Norris

Please President Obama...don't listen to the banking tennis buddies...channel Stanley Ann, that vibrant spirit watching over you! She is in you and you will do the right thing.

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Documentary To Focus On Obama's Mother

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — President Barack Obama often is greeted like a movie star, but it's his mother who will be the subject of an upcoming documentary....

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Mormons Baptized Obama's Mother: CONFIRMED

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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ABC News has confirmed reports that Mormons posthumously baptized President Obama's mother five months before the election. The Church of Jesus Chris...

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Ann Dunham Book "Surviving Against the Odds" Published After Death

The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 05.25.2011

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A book written by President Obama's mother is set to be published in November by Duke University Press, the school announced Monday. "Surviving again...

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Obama's Mother May Have Been Posthumously Baptized By Mormons Without Consent

AMERICAblog | Posted 05.25.2011

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A reader contacted me last week, saying that last year, in the heat of the presidential campaign, the Mormons had posthumously baptized Barack Obama's...

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The Obama Presidency and the Triumph of the Single Parent

Jason Notte | Posted 11.17.2011

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Jason Notte

Obama and his mother benefited not only from their own unique gifts, but from the willingness of Dunham's parents to assist in the process.

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Obama, In Black and White

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joan Z. Shore

This is not simply the victory of one black man in America; it is the victory of American tolerance and integration, where black can marry white, where barriers are broken.

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Hearing Ann Dunham

Ann Medlock | Posted 11.17.2011

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Ann Medlock

Me, I'm looking for the first time at a President young enough to be one of my kids. Ann Dunham's son, Toot Dunham's grandson, is in fact younger than two of my sons.

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Obama Ad That Touches On Mother's Cancer Released In More States

Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama campaign announced today that it will play the ad titled "Mother" in Ohio and Texas. In the ad Obama discusses his mother's struggled to pay...

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