Yes, it's true. The Washington Post is now pimping access to government officials at the tune of $25,000 to $250,000 a pop! No details on the split between the pimp and prostitute.

If you can't travel this year because of the economy, perhaps you can travel vicariously through your representatives and senators.

When O talks about everyone suffering a bit for the good of the country, apparently he didn't mean anyone in Congress. The Wall Street Journal reports travel costs for Congress have jumped 50% since the Democrats took control.

New unemployment figures now reach a 26 year high, nationally jumping to 9.5% while some states such as California report unemployment figures as high as 15%, yet Barack Hussein Obama wants you to know that the Pork =U Less is "working" and you shouldn't be fooled by those that actually point to the facts.

HotAir reports Yahoo News storythat the Iranian Revolution gets an unexpected boost as former Iranian President switches sides and supports Mousavi's demand for a new election.

Iran's former president has joined ranks with the country's embattled reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, and accused the Iranian government of failing its people in the recent election and condemning the subsequent crackdown on protesters....

Khatami accused Iran's leadership of a "velvet coup against the people and democracy," and Mousavi said the government's crackdown on demonstrators was "tantamount to a coup."

Wonder: now that it's been named a "coup", will Obama stand up and be counted?

We've seen quite a few of these type of articles, quickly explaining why Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Sorento, is a natural born citizen. I link to the comments page because reading through the comments you will discover that John Hawkins has not done his research and many of his commenters cover points he missed when declaring Obama a natural born citizen.

Here are the "problems" with knowing if Obama is a natural born citizen:

1. There are statements from his family members saying he was born in Kenya.

2. Obama has only presented a Hawaiian "Certificate of Live Birth". These documents were issued to children whose parents came and swore their children were born in Hawaii but did not provide any proof. There are known cases (Emperor of China. Sun Yat-sen) who have "Certificates of Live Birth" from Hawaii who were not born in Hawaii.

3. Some question why the numbers on the Hawaiian "Certificate of Live Birth" were redacted since the numbers would provide some clue as to when it was issued.

4. A newspaper announcement in Hawaii of the birth of Barack Obama is not proof of where he was born. Many people place birth and death announcements in papers where they once, but no longer, reside. Nor would an announcement decipher if a baby were born outside the country where the parent happened to be visiting at the time.

5. Some argue that Obama's mother's US Citizenship conferred US Citizenship on Obama, but the rules for a parent conferring citizenship on a child has changed over the years. At the time of Obama's birth (August 1961), his mother was too young under the law at that time to confer US Citizenship upon her child.

6. Obama traveled to Pakistan in 1981. He could not have done so on a US Passport since it was on the US State Department's no travel list in 1981.

7. Obama attended school in Indonesia. At the time, one had to be an Indonesian citizen to do so. We know that his adopted father was an Indonesia citizen. Did the adoption of Barry Sorento make Obama ineligible for US Citizenship since the law states the child's citizenship follows the father? Did Obama later reclaim his US citizenship when be became the age of majority?

8. Why has Obama spent hundreds of thousands of dollars (some estimate $1 million to date)to keep from disclosing his long form birth certificate which would show where he was born?

9. FactCheck.org cannot be trusted as the only source who say they have held the Certificate of Live Birth and find it to be valid. They are funded by liberal sources. Others point out that the document is computer generated and in 1961 one would expect to see only typewriter generated documents. In addition, Hawaiian authorities have said that Obama has an original birth certificate on file. If this is true, a) why was the Certificate of Life Birth issued; and b) Hawaiian officials do not say what country the original birth certificate is from.

10. Why is it conspiratorial or nutty for US Citizens to want some proof positive that those holding the office of President are eligible under the US Constitution to do so?

The truth is that I do not know where Barrack Hussein Obama aka Barry Sorento was born. But I do believe that it is my right and the right of every American citizen to know. The "evidence" produced to date is not enough to satisfy this right to know for many of us because there are too many contradicting pieces of evidence.

From the American Spectator, facts about Crap & Trade that every American needs to know.

1. If everything works in the present bill as planned and you subscribe to humans' being the cause of the earth's warming, it's estimated that by 2050, the US actions will slow temperature increases by an entire, whooping 9/100th of one degree Fahrenheit! This, even if we reduce use of fossil fuels by 83%.

2. The estimate is the cost to the average American family will be $2,000 per year in the beginning, growing to $7,000 per family per year.

3. Carbon dioxide emissions from humans is less than 5% of all carbon dioxide emissions.

4. Though O will tell you this is a jobs creator; The Charles River Associates, a Harvard based economics consulting firm, estimates a net loss of jobs from the bill of about 2.5 million each year.

5. Reducing our fossil fuels usage by 83% will take us back to levels used by the USA in 1907. Get out the horse & buggy and goats and put away that car, vacuum cleaner and lawn mower.

6. This year's deficit is already projected at $1.8 trillion. Someone has to make up the deficit. Can we really afford more taxes through carbon credits which will slow the economy growth and send jobs out of the USA?

7. The science of "global warming" has already been sufficiently refuted to cause the liberals to jump to a new term of "climate change".

8. Records show that the earth goes through cycles of both cooling and warming. Current records show the earth started cooling again in 1998. The cycles recorded for cooling and warming have been identified closely with Pacific Decadal Oscillation having to do with a pattern of ocean currents.

Read the whole article, these points are just a few that should really cause Americans to realize what a fraud has been perpetrated upon them by their President and Congress.

We like to think of ourselves as free people. But do free people allow elections to be stolen (like the one in MN)?

Do free people get sold out by the representatives (such as the $3.5 billion given to Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Toledo for her vote for Crap and Trade?

As free people, should we expect the bailout of a Hawaii bank mostly owned by a Senator?

Shouldn't free people expect that money coming back in from TRAP would actually pay down the TARP debt as we were told instead of being used by Barney Frank to house low-income people? That's right, the Democrats now have a $750 billion slush fund!

Shouldn't free people expect a "Townhall meeting" to be freely available for anyone to attend, instead of being stacked with pre-chosen Obamanites?

Should free people expect one national television network to hold its news casts at the White House pushing the President's program without allowing the opposition a few moments?

Free people would expect that their representatives actually represent them and that prior to passing a bill having an enormous effect on the economy, they might even read it! Thousands of calls and emails were generated by the House Crap & Trade bill and I dare say that few representatives actually voted based on what their constituents requested. Rather our "representatives" are now beholding to their party and what might be in it for them to go against their constituents requests.

While we may still be free to disagree openly, we've also seen that those with strong voices who have disagreed with the current administration have been threatened, called names and even fired (several IG's to name a few). The lawyer for Chrysler was called a "terrorist", debtors not willing to go along with the government's handing money rightfully belonging to creditors were told they would be ruined in the media if they didn't go along.

Sorry folks but as the Fourth of July comes upon us, we need to really assess our remaining "freedoms" and whether we are living in the land we once revered.

The Washington Times tells us today how Pelosi and team managed to get Crap & Trade passed last Friday:

They finally secured the vote of one Ohioan, veteran Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Toledo, the old-fashioned way. They gave her what she wanted - a new federal power authority, similar to Washington state's Bonneville Power Administration, stocked with up to $3.5 billion in taxpayer money available for lending to renewable energy and economic development projects in Ohio and other Midwestern states.

House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry A. Waxman, California Democrat, included the Kaptur project in a 310-page amendment to the legislation unveiled at 3 a.m. Friday, just hours before the bill was to be debated on the House floor. The amendment was packed with other vote-getting provisions, both large and small, that had been sought by dozens of wavering Democrats.

Isn't it just profound that the House of Representatives (people elected and paid to represent their constituents) can get the biggest tax ever wrought on Americans by giving away billions of American taxpayers' money to buy the votes!

When will this madness stop?

This video shows police officials beating on windows of cars and destroying motorcycles. In the meantime, reports from The Jerusalem Post say that 6 Mousavi supporters have been hung.

And instead of reacting to the murderous regime in Iran, Obama continues to focus on getting the deposed President of Honduras who violated the country's constitution back in to power.

It took 8 months and mysterious appearance of ballots supposedly not previously counted, changed totals at election stations and lots of court assistance, but Al Franken has been declared the winner of a Senate election which took place in November 2008.

On election eve, Norm Coleman held the slim lead by just over 200 votes. After selective recounts, Franken was declared the winner by a margin of about 300 votes.

UPDATE The Wall Street Journal covers this story and sums it up with

The unfortunate lesson is that you don't need to win the vote on Election Day as long as your lawyers are creative enough to have enough new or disqualified ballots counted after the fact.