January Jones didn't list her son Xander Dane Jones' father's information on his birth certificate — and she won't be sharing it with you, either. “That’s my son’s business,” she tells The New York Times. “It’s not the public’s business.”...Show More Summary
White House press secretary Jay Carney caught the White House press corps off guard on Tuesday when he brought up the subject of Obama’s birth certificate, as an example of how, in his opinion, the GOP has politicized the various scandals engulfing the administration. Carney was responding to a question that CBS’s Major Garrett asked [...]
After my surgery and later issuance of a new birth certificate last November, I wanted to apply to the Department of the Navy (DON) to change my recorded gender. The Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) keeps track...Show More Summary
Jay Carney likens HHS questions to Birth Certificate questions. It's an interesting gambit, because it's so childish. He's essentially trying to tell the kids that they can only be Cool Kids if they agree to dismiss questions Carney doesn't like...
Jay Carney tried to move past questions about the series of scandals surrounding the Obama administration by comparing them to questions about the president’s birth certificate at today’s press conference. Major Garrett asked Carney...Show More Summary
It has not been a particularly good week for our President. For the past six years or so, the President and his supporters have been under constant siege from the right. They talked about his birth certificate, his college records, his family trips, about fast and furious, Black Panther-gate and so many other so-called “scandals.” [...]Show More Summary
Today, the Task Force is proud to be testifying at a joint hearing of two committees of the D.C. Council in support of a bill that would modernize the process for transgender people to get legal name changes and new birth certificates reflecting their gender identity and new name (if applicable). The Task Force’s Transgender […]
Just as Donald Trump's bloviating got the White House to release the long-form birth certificate that proved the president was not born in Kenya, ABC reporter Jon Karl's stenography of a GOP's sources false account of a White House Benghazi...Show More Summary
By Navellier & Associates: Today is "Europe Day," the equivalent of our Fourth of July. America was founded on a document dated July 4, 1776. Modern Europe's birth certificate is dated May 9, 1950, when French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman issued a manifesto (called the Schuman Declaration) that gave birth to the idea of a United Europe. Show More Summary
What Benghazi is all about.
DougJ:
Every scandal the right manufactures has something simple at its core: a stained blue dress, a long-form birth certificate, a Budhist temple. What is with Benghazi? I haven’t figure it out yet.
The glib (and accurate) answer is "Hillary Clinton 2016". Show More Summary
Every scandal the right manufactures has something simple at its core: a stained blue dress, a long-form birth certificate, a Budhist temple. What is with Benghazi? I haven’t figure it out yet.
By Scottie Thomaston The Iowa Supreme Court ruled last week in a unanimous decision that the Iowa Department of Public Health must list both lesbian parents of a child on the child’s birth certificate. Lambda Legal filed the suit in 2010, representing Heather and Melissa Gartner, a married couple raising a child named Mackenzie. The [...]
Today the Iowa Supreme Court released an order requiring “the Iowa Department of Public Health to list as a parent on a child’s birth certificate the nonbirthing spouse in a lesbian marriage when the child was born to one of the spouses during the couple’s marriage”.
The Iowa Supreme Court today ruled in favor of a married lesbian couple who sued the state Department of Public Health after officials refused to list both women as the biological parents on their daughter's birth certificate in 2009.
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The state's high court says among other things that the move will ensure support from both parents.
The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that when a woman in a same-sex marriage gives birth to a child, her spouse should be listed as the other parent. The case involved Heather Martin Gartner, who gave birth to her daughter Mackenzie in 2009, but was told her wife Melissa would have to go through the [...]
The first time anyone outside of Florida’s Space Coast heard of Rep. Bill Posey, he was talking about Barack Obama’s birth certificate. It was March 2009. Posey had been in office for two months, and he was the first to propose a bill...Show More Summary
We’ve heard a lot of unfortunate names — heck, just look up “celebrity baby names” — but despite the cruelty some parents inflict via birth certificate, it’s highly unlikely that anyone named their daughter “Vagina.” Now, Virginia? Quite a nice, decent name. And it belongs to a woman who says a Starbucks in Hong Kong scrawled “Virginia” on her coffee … [More]
Today – or maybe tomorrow, depending on who you ask – is the 80th birthday of country music legend Willie Nelson (he says today but his birth certificate says tomorrow). He’s been making music since 1956 and his songs are so ubiquitous that even folks who don’t like country music can name a few. And [...]