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IS LORETTA LYNCH IN BED WITH THE CLINTONS? DOES AN INCESTUOUS RELATIONSHIP EXIST?

March 30, 2016 thenewbostonteaparty 105 Comments

Obama appointed Loretta Lynch and the Senate confirmed her as Attorney General. However, and this is a BIG IF, did the eight Republican Senators vet her properly? We bring up this question because according to WND, the law firm she was employed by represented the Clintstones on several occasions.

Lynch was with the Washington-headquartered international law firm Hogan & Hartson LLP from March 2002 through April 2010. According to documents Hillary Clinton’s first presidential campaign made public in 2008, Hogan & Hartson’s New York-based partner Howard Topaz was the tax lawyer who filed income tax returns for Bill and Hillary Clinton beginning in 2004. But that is not all, the firm filed a trademark request for Denver-based MX Logic Inc., the computer software firm that developed the email encryption system used to manage Clinton’s private email server beginning in July 2013.

It becomes more serious though because Lynch was nominated n 1999, President Bill Clinton nominated Lynch for the first of her two terms as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, a position she held until she joined Hogan & Hartson in March 2002. While there is no evidence that Lynch played a direct role either in the tax work done by the firm for the Clintons or in linking Hillary’s private email server to MX Logic, the ethics of the legal profession hold all partners jointly liable for the actions of other partners in a business.

These instances are more than enough to disqualify Lynch with the decision to charge Hillary the Liar Clintstone. One other question remains, why are the likes of Ryan and McConnell NOT blowing the horn on this one.

MIDDLE EAST CHRISTIANS AT A CROSS-ROADS

March 29, 2016 thenewbostonteaparty 10 Comments

Not a day goes by where Christians are blown to bits, unsightly slaughtered by violent Jihadists. Contrary to what some leaders say, the Middle Eastern Christians are on the verge of extinction; hope is fa figment of their imagination. They have no choice, move or be killed. Bloody as it sounds, the reality is that it is happening under the eyes of the Christian world who either looks the other way or wishes it went away.

There is no appeasing the radical mindset of a Islamist. At first it was the Jews who pay the Dhimmi, with them gone the Islamists go after the Christians. Unless all Christians are eradicated from countries with large Muslim populations the blowing-up, targeting, harassing, killing, raping will continue. Pray for peace, but the reality is peace to us is war to them.

THEY WENT AFTER THE TEA PARTY NOW THEY ARE GOING AFTER CLIMATE DENIERS

March 27, 2016 thenewbostonteaparty 24 Comments

Attorney General Loretta Lynch has thrown down the gauntlet; free speech is not free if you don’t tow the line. Her target is to prevent ordinary Americans from expressing their opinion. In other words, Lynch is stifling freedom of speech and expression which is guaranteed under the 1st Amendment to the Constitution.

By Hans von Spakovsky | March 11, 2016 | 12:08 PM EST

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch

In news that should shock and anger Americans, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that not only has she discussed internally the possibility of pursuing civil actions against so-called “climate change deniers,” but she has “referred it to the FBI to consider whether or not it meets the criteria for which we could take action.”

Previous post warning America on the Loretta Lynch agenda. Please be aware of the Republican Senators that voted for here confirmation; see the list below.

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY FROM CNSNEWS.COM

LORETTA LYNCH OUT FOR BLOOD – YOU WATCH

Posted on May 3, 2015 by thenewbostonteaparty

Remember Obama’s blind justice department, the one that let the New Black Panther Party thugs go scott free although they were harassing voters. Well Loretta Lynch is doubling down on the bet. She will continue to be unjust when it comes to the equal application of the law. America now has two justice systems as it returns to the day of yesteryear’s Jim Crow in reverse.

With Obama pandering to his legions of parasites, America is going down in flames. Words do no stop violence, only law enforcement does. To prevent the kind of hooliganism that we have seen in Baltimore, “Shoot to kill should be the message” -this will stop a looter in his tracks serving as an example when the next brother decides to snatch some booty. This kind of law enforcement will send a loud and very clear message to the trash and burn crowd.

Loretta Lynch, the new attorney general, succeeding Eric Holder, has an agenda far worse than Holders. Her past record speaks loudly to that. But what outrageous us is that ten Senators of the Republican persuasion voted for her confirmation. Our memories are long and we shall savior the day when the true uncompromising Patriot votes the turncoats out of office.

The Senate voted 56-43 Thursday, finally, to confirm Loretta Lynch as attorney general, with eight Republicans voting to confirm her. Five had already committed themselves to support her: Republicans Orrin Hatch (UT), Jeff Flake (AZ), Lindsey Graham (SC), Mark Kirk (IL), and Susan Collins (ME).

Not too surprisingly, embattled incumbent Kirk was joined by three others who have potentially tough re-elections in 2016 in purple states: Kelly Ayotte (NH), Rob Portman (OH), and tea partier Ron Johnson (R-WI). But a couple other of the yes votes are a surprise: Thad Cochran (MS) and particularly Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the guy who made AG Lynch wait for five months for a vote.

TRUMP WILL BRING A NEW DAY TO AMERICA AND THE WORLD – A WAKE-UP CALL

March 27, 2016 thenewbostonteaparty 12 Comments

Trump heresies are piling up – FROM THE HILL

By Julian Hattem – 03/27/16 06:00 AM EDT

Donald Trump’s heretical positions on foreign policy are multiplying.

On his way to becoming the Republican Party’s presidential front-runner, Trump has broken with party orthodoxy on several global affairs issues, most recently casting doubt on the usefulness of NATO and suggesting that the U.S. should consider halting oil purchases from Saudi Arabia until the long-time ally helps with combat operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

“Definitely it’s calling into question a lot of basic assumptions that have prevailed since World War II, and it’s shocked a lot of people,” said Arthur Herman, a historian and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.This week, the billionaire real estate mogul doubled down on statements that NATO is “obsolete.” Those remarks came in the wake of a terror attack in the treaty organization’s home city of Brussels.

Last year, Trump said that the U.S.’s alliance with Japan “doesn’t sound so fair,” since “we have to go to their defense and start World War III” if Japan is attacked, but “Japan doesn’t have to help us.”

In South Korea, where thousands of American troops have been stationed for decades, “we get practically nothing compared to the cost of this,” Trump has said.

“We have 25,000 soldiers over there protecting them. They don’t pay us. Why don’t they pay us?”

Taken together, Trump’s comments about foreign policy often hinge on the idea that the U.S. should withdraw from much of the world and negotiate a “better deal” before reengaging. In addition to casting doubts on alliances, he has also been a prominent opponent of the 12-nation Pacific Rim trade deal.

“At the basis is this sense that we’ve been suckered by the world,” said Kathleen Hicks, director of the international security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Hicks said the arrangements that Trump decries are beneficial to the United States.

“We are on the good end of the deal when it comes to why do we have alliances. Sure, we like to help other countries, but it’s for entirely selfish reasons,” she told The Hill.

“Why do we have military bases in Asia? We have used military bases in Asia because we want to be able to deal with threats far from our shores rather than close to our shores,” she added. “That’s smart and it’s actually a lot cheaper.”

Trump’s willingness to go against the grain goes beyond the troop arrangements with other nations, with his positions defying easy categorization.

Adopting a stance often associated with the far left, Trump has said that former President George W. Bush “lied” about the rationale for invading Iraq.

But taking a stance that liberals and some military professionals abhor, Trump has called for the return of harsh interrogations against terrorists, including waterboarding and “a hell of a lot worse.”

When Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) appeared to equivocate about use of waterboarding earlier this year, Trump called him a “pussy.”

This month, Trump sent a shiver down the spine of military officials by suggesting that soldiers would commit war crimes, such as targeting enemies’ families, solely on his orders.

“They won’t refuse,” Trump said in a Fox News debate. “I’ve never had any problem leading people. If I say do it, they’re going to do it. That’s what leadership is all about.”

“That’s deeply disturbing, I think, in the military culture,” said Hicks, who spent more than 20 years at the Pentagon. “I think there’s a true lack of understanding of the profession of arms.

“If he ever is commander in chief, that’s going to be a huge problem.”

Foreign policy experts have struggled to define Trump’s doctrine. Many also appeared puzzled this week, when the billionaire rolled out a list of national security advisers who were unfamiliar to many.

In an interview with the New York Times, Cruz appeared to mock Trump’s “so-called foreign policy advisers.”

“They’re a pretty ragtag bunch,” said one former government official, who asked for anonymity in order to be candid. “They’ve got no experience and no strategy and no records to go on.”

Trump’s comments on foreign policy have caused increasing amounts of anxiety among conservatives, many of whom have pledged to oppose his candidacy. Some prominent Republican national security officials told The Hill this week that they might vote for Hillary Clinton over Trump in a general election matchup, if that’s what it took to keep him out of the White House.

But though the establishment is uncomfortable with Trump, a large segment of Republicans voters seem to be onboard with his “get tough” approach.

Trump benefitted the most when the political conversation turned to national security last year, following terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif.

Even his critics acknowledge that he is tapping into an anxiety that is shared by many Americans, following long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that cost the nation trillions of dollars and hundreds of lost lives.

The GOP front-runner also isn’t alone in questioning the U.S.’s disproportionate expenditures on global security.

In an interview published in the Atlantic this month, President Obama similarly claimed to be annoyed by “free riders” who depend on American might without making contributions of their own.

Questioning the makeup of international alliances — which in many cases date back more than a half-century and were built for a Cold War that no longer exists — is “not necessarily an unhealthy thing,” said Herman, the historian.

EUROPE ON EDGE – NUKE FACILITIES TARGETED

March 27, 2016 thenewbostonteaparty 17 Comments

ISIS cells have perfected their skills to such an extent that Europe is now paralyzed. Taking lessons from revolutionaries of the past, tactics employed by the likes of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, these malcontents have Europe on edge. Islamists may have infiltrated Brussel’s nuclear power plants. Guard murdered, identification papers stolen. We bring to your attention these gruesome possibilities in the wake of Islamic extremists taken down planes. 911 is not a distant memory for those in the free world. It can happen again. But a nuclear disaster is way more catastrophic than a building implosion, millions can be killed in an instant. The fall out will be much more devastating.

On Friday, the authorities(CLICK) stripped security badges from several workers at one of two plants where all nonessential employees had been sent home hours after the attacks at the Brussels airport and one of the city’s busiest subway stations three days earlier. Video footage of a top official at another Belgian nuclear facility was discovered last year in the apartment of a suspected militant linked to the extremists who unleashed the horror in Paris in November.

North Korea threatens to NUKE Washington.

HILLARY SUFFERS THIRD DEGREE BERNS OUT WEST

March 27, 2016 thenewbostonteaparty 34 Comments

Hillary Clinton dismisses her critics as just that, she jokes about any errors in judgement (oh like with a cloth), she is contemptuous of those who seek the truth, but one thing she can’t ignore is the terrible beating she received in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii on Easter Eve. In Washington Hillary was soundly defeated 3-1, 75% for Sanders, 25% for Clinton. To some, she was Berned beyond recognition.

The Lying Hillary (time to jail the bird) may not think much of the defeat, but there is an underlying message here; AMERICA DOES NOT LIKE HILLARY CLINTON. As the Sander’s onslaught moves eastward to New York and Maryland off today’s victories Hillary talks about Trump, ignoring Sanders; another devious tactic which is meant to take the eye off her opponent. However, this is no sure thing that Sanders will win the nomination because Clinton and her formidable donkey lickers have rigged the system with Super Delegates. They will not waiver in their support for her, already pledged since 2008; talk about a fixing the system. Sort of like Russia where the winner is known today, but the vote will take place tomorrow.

But that could change, and history proves it. Early in 2008, when Clinton was running against then-Sen. Barack Obama, she had the super delegates on her side. But when Obama started gaining momentum across the country, he slowly peeled away their support until he won the nomination.

And who are these candy stripers? Party stalwarts, cigar smoking backroom money crunchers who do what is good for them, not what is good for America. Remember Status Quo is their shibboleth. Newcomers need not apply. but Americans are feisty this year and have had it with talking heads, they are not too pleased by politicians telling them what to do and how to vote; like a volcano ready to blow off, these voters are sending a fire and brimstone message to the “politics as usual” politically correct patronizing demagogue that their days in power are numbered.

THE NEVER ENDING WAR – DON’T BE FOOLED BY POLITICALLY CORRECT POLITICIANS

March 26, 2016 thenewbostonteaparty 18 Comments

The war started in the 7th century and lasted through the 17th century.

I would contend it never stopped but historically the facts below are correct.

This is why I choke when I hear someone say we will defeat or contain these Islamic terrorists in a few years or even 30 years as recently stated by Leon Panetta.

If the latest batch of murders, beheadings, and killing of innocent Christians has shocked you, maybe you should read this compilation of historical facts about the hatred of Muslims.

WE, THE STUPID

This is all factually (and historically) correct – and verifiable:

In 732 AD the Muslim Army which was moving on Paris was defeated and turned back at Tours, France, by Charles Martell. Charles’s victory is widely believed to have stopped the northward advance of Umayyad forces from the Iberian peninsula, and to have preserved Christianity in Europe during a period when Muslim rule was overrunning the remains of the old Roman and Persian Empires

In 1571 AD the Muslim Army/ Navy was defeated by the Italians and Austrians as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to attack southern Europe in the Battle of Lapanto. To half of Christendom, this event encouraged hope for the downfall of “the Turk“, the Satan-like personification of the Ottoman Empire, who was regarded as the “Sempiternal Enemy of the Christian”. Indeed, the Empire lost all but 30 of its ships and as many as 20,000 men, and some Western historians have held it to be the most decisive naval battle anywhere on the globe since the Battle of Actium of 31 BC.

In 1683 AD the Turkish Muslim Army, attacking Eastern Europe, was finally defeated in the Battle of Vienna by German and Polish Christian Armies. The battle was fought by the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nations in league with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Holy League) against the invading Muslim Ottoman Empire and chiefdoms of the Ottoman Empire, and took place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna. The battle marked the first time Poland and the Holy Roman Empire had cooperated militarily against the Turks, and it is often seen as a turning point in history, after which “the Ottoman Turks ceased to be a menace to the Christian world”.^[19] In the ensuing war that lasted until 1698, the Turks lost almost all of Hungary to the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold.

Finally, WWI ended the hegemony of the Ottomans; soundly defeated, their long arm in Europe and Asia has been severed. The Armistice of Mudros was signed on 31 October 1918, ending the Ottoman participation in World War I. The fact to remember today is that Turkey is a member of NATO.

Part of a series on the

History of the
Ottoman Empire

Rise
(1299–1453)[show]

Growth
(1453–1683)[show]

Stagnation and reform
(1683–1827)[show]

Decline and modernization
(1828–1908)[show]

Defeat and dissolution
(1908–1922)

…Muslim armies have been on the warpath for 1,400 years and half of the politicians don’t even know it.

If these battles had not been won we might be speaking Arabic and Christianity could be non-existent; Judaism certainly would be… And let us not forget that Hitler was an admirer of Islam and that the Mufti of Jerusalem was Hitler’s guest in Berlin and raised Bosnian Muslim SS Divisions: the 13th and 21st Waffen SS Divisions who

killed Jews, Russians, Gypsies, and any other “subhumans”.

Reflecting:

A lot of Canadian & Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine that America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves.

Pause a moment, reflect back.

These events are actual events from history. They really happened! Do you remember?

1. In 1968, Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by a Muslim male.

2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by Muslim males.

3. In 1972 a Pan Am 747 was hijacked and eventually diverted to Cairo where a fuse was lit on final approach.  It was blown up shortly after landing by Muslim males.

4. In 1973 a Pan Am 707 was destroyed in Rome,

    with 33 people killed, when it was attacked with grenades by Muslim males.

5. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by Muslim males.

6. During the 1980’s a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by Muslim males.

7. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by Muslim males.

8. In 1985, the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by Muslim males.

9. In 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens,

    and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by Muslim males.

10. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by Muslim males.

11. In 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by Muslim males.

12. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim males.

13. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take down the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by Muslim males.

14. In 2002, the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against Muslim males.

15. In 2002, reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and beheaded by—you guessed it was a Muslim male.
(Plus two other American journalists were just beheaded)

16. In 2013, Boston Marathon Bombing 4 Innocent people including a child killed, 264 injured by Muslim males. In 2014 Canada was attacked in Québec and Ottawa… No, I really don’t see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?

So, to ensure we Canadian & Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people. So, ask yourself “Just how stupid are we???”Absolutely No Profiling!

They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President’s security detail, 85-year old, Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males, alone lest they be guilty of profiling.

Ask yourself “Just how stupid are we?”

Have the Canadian & American people completely lost their minds or just their Power of Reason???

Each opportunity that you have to send this to a friend or media outlet…

MELANIA TRUMP vs HEIDI CRUZ

March 26, 2016 thenewbostonteaparty 4 Comments

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They’re wrong.

There’s been a lot of pearl-clutching lately over Donald Trump’s tweet about Heidi Cruz, in which he compared a flattering picture of his own wife to a particularly dour-looking snap of Cruz’s. Critics say Trump’s not-so-subtle attack on Heidi’s looks was un-presidential and uncalled for.

CLICK HERE FOR TRUMP’S RESPONSE.

CLICK HERE FOR CRUZ’S RESPONSE

TEXAS ARMING UP

March 26, 2016 thenewbostonteaparty 1 Comment

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A “140 percent” increase in concealed handgun license applications puts Texas on the verge of surpassing a total of one million license holders in the state.

Those are one million people who can carry a handgun concealed or, if they choose, carry it openly under the Open Carry law Governor Greg Abbott (R) signed into law last year.

According to CBS-DFW, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) “received 136,000 License to Carry applications” from December 2015 through February 2016. That “140 percent jump in applications” when compared to the “57,000 [applications submitted] over that period last year.”

Central Texas Gun Works owner Michael Cargill believes the surge in applications is due to an overall sense of unrest in the nation right now. He credited that unrest to “fears of terrorism brought on by the shootings in San Bernardino” combined with the continued concern that President Obama is still pushing gun control.

The DPS has been forced to increase staff dedicated to concealed handgun licensing in order to keep up with the growing demand.

AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

“NATURAL BORN CITIZEN” MUST BE ADJUDICATED

March 26, 2016 thenewbostonteaparty 3 Comments

Ted Cruz & the Qualifications for President of the United States

EVALYN BENNETT — MARCH 27, 2015

With his declaration of candidacy for President, Senator Ted Cruz has unfortunately launched the Republican Party into the same realm of lawlessness traversed by the Democratic Party when its delegates nominated Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. Neither man is eligible to be President based upon the qualifications listed in the U.S. Constitution.

The Constitution makes a clear distinction between the citizenship requirements for a U.S. Representative (Article I, Section 1), U.S. Senator (Article I, Section 2), and the President (Article II, Section 1). While Representatives and Senators have more lenient citizenship requirements (they must only be “citizens” for a specified period of time), the President has to be a “natural born citizen.” Of all the millions of jobs in the U.S., only two jobs — President and Vice-President — require the worker to be a “natural born citizen.”¹
The critical question is obviously this: What did the writers of the U.S. Constitution mean by the term “natural born” when they applied this unique requirement to the President? ²

The Founding Fathers relied heavily upon the work of Swiss philosopher Emerich de Vattel when drafting the Constitution. In 1758 Vattel wrote the following in The Law of Nations: “…natural born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens…The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children…in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country” (emphasis added).³ The Founders rightly understood that the most influential component of a child’s upbringing is his parents – and the cultural, philosophical, political, and religious influence of a child’s parents fundamentally establish the direction of his future conduct and decision making.

In the U.S. Supreme Court case Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875), which is the only defining precedent on the Constitution’s use of the term “natural born Citizen,” the Court concluded the following: “At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners” (emphasis added).⁴

Numerous writers are already trying to validate Ted Cruz’s eligibility, stating he can be President because he is a U.S. “citizen.” Is it enough for Senator Cruz to be a “citizen,” or is something more required by the term “natural born”? What are the categories of U.S. citizenship, and who might qualify to be President under those various types of citizenship status?

Category I. A person is a U.S. citizen if he is born in the U.S., even if neither parent is a U.S. citizen (as long as his parents are not foreign diplomats). This is the citizenship status of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who is listed alongside Senator Ted Cruz in national straw polls as a prospective Presidential candidate. Jindal’s parents were student visa holders from India when he was born; neither of his parents was a U.S. citizen. While Governor Jindal is obviously a patriotic American, another U.S. citizen of this same citizenship category was not — yet he could have been considered for the Presidency if the Founder’s definition of a natural born citizen is rejected. I refer to the radical al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki, who was a central figure involved in planning the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Anwar al-Awlaki was born in the U.S. to parents from the country of Yemen and was thus considered a U.S. “citizen.” He met the age and residence requirements to be President. Would you want to dilute the meaning of natural born citizen to allow Anwar al-Awlaki to be a candidate for President?

Category 2. A person is also a U.S. citizen if he is born in the U.S. or anywhere in the world to one parent who is a U.S. citizen. This situation is complicated, since the child is also often a dual (or even triple) citizen at birth, receiving the citizenship of the country where he is born as well as the citizenship of each parent. This is the situation of Barack Obama, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and possibly Rick Santorum⁵. Barack Obama was a dual U.S. – British citizen at birth (his father was a British subject of Kenya) and is even now a dual U.S. – Kenyan citizen after adoption of the Kenyan constitution in 2010. If we go back to Vattel’s statement, it is clearly evident from President Obama’s writings and economic and foreign policy decisions that the U.S. is not “his” country; rather, his allegiance is to the country of his Islamic father (Kenya), his Islamic step-father (Indonesia), and his Communist/socialist father-mentors. While I do not doubt the patriotism of Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio, and Rick Santorum, who were all raised in the U.S, the current President should be ample evidence of the dangers of accepting this category of citizenship as being the same as a “natural born citizen.” Barack Obama’s loyalties are clearly to the ideologies of the nations of his fathers, who were not U.S. citizens.

Also problematic is the potential for this second citizenship category to result in dual citizenship. The U.S. Constitution was very carefully crafted by patriotic, wise men under Divine inspiration. It is no accident that the words “natural born” precede the citizenship requirement for the President, while being omitted from the listed qualifications for Representative and Senator. It was unthinkable that a nation newly freed from foreign oppression would allow a dual citizen to serve as head-of-state and military commander-in-chief!

Category 3. A person is a U.S. citizen if he is born to parents who are both U.S. citizens, regardless of his place of birth. This person is clearly a natural born citizen. As Vattel wrote, it is the child’s parentage that is significant, not the place of his birth. If both of a child’s parents are U.S. citizens, he will be rooted in American language and culture, even if he is born and raised in a foreign country (such as to parents who are in the Armed Forces, serving as missionaries, or working in U.S. diplomacy). This “foreign-born” circumstance of natural born citizenship was affirmed as recently as 2008, in the case of Republican nominee Senator John McCain, who was born to U.S. citizens who were serving on a U.S. military base in the Panama Canal Zone. All but three, and possibly four⁵, of the current prospective Presidential candidates fit this citizenship category; voters need look no further than these candidates, but should omit from consideration all candidates from the other citizenship categories.

Category 4. A person may become a “naturalized” citizen after fulfilling various requirements of legal immigration, lawful residence in the U.S., and examination. Naturalized citizens may serve as U.S. Representatives or Senators, but they clearly do not have the same citizenship status as natural born citizens.

Ted Cruz and Barack Obama were both dual citizens at birth, not natural born citizens whose parents both owed allegiance to the United States. While I do not doubt Senator Cruz’s loyalty to the United States (and I appreciate his decision to relinquish his Canadian citizenship), he can never satisfy the “letter of the law” stated in the U.S. Constitution. Harvard law professors (writing in the Harvard Review to try to justify Ted Cruz’s eligibility), Congressional Research Services staff (Jack Haskell’s memorandum to Congress seeking to justify Barack Obama’s eligibility⁶), the courts, and Congress have no authority to change what the U.S. Constitution clearly states and intended: The President of the United States can only be a person whose parents were both U.S. citizens.

Ted Cruz claims to be a defender of the Constitution, yet he is violating that very document in seeking the Presidency. The Idaho Republican Party is unfortunately complicit in this constitutional violation by listing Ted Cruz (as well as Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio, and potentially ineligible candidate Rick Santorum⁵) on their web site’s straw poll of prospective Republican Presidential candidates.⁷ Wise voters can reject Senator Cruz as a candidate, even if he chooses not to drop out of the race before the Republican primaries and caucuses begin in 2016. And we can support his efforts in the U.S. Senate, an office for which he is unquestionably eligible.

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By implication, the Vice-President must also be a natural born citizen, because the Vice-President shall assume the responsibilities of President under specified circumstances stated in the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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