The White House this spring released the president’s “long-form birth certificate” after declining to do so for years. It confirms that Barack Hussein Obama II was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu — precisely what the president has been saying for his entire life.
With the 2012 presidential campaign season getting under way, a rising tide of experts, politicians and pundits are warning of “creeping Shariah” — the notion that any day now, the U.S. Constitution will be swept away by Islamic religious law. Never mind that it isn’t true and isn’t possible. It plays well in certain quarters.
Battling the 'homosexual agenda,' the hard-line religious right has made a series of incendiary claims. But they're just not true.
The Intelligence Project identified 824 anti-government “Patriot” groups that were active in 2010.
