Today marks the one month anniversary of The Right Side of Life. This post provides an update of this blog and events that occurred with Lan Lamphere and Leo Donofrio from last Friday, November 21 as well as Dr. Taitz’ new blog, and the following top stories:

A Forbes.com blog talks about Berg v. Obama, Alan Colmes is leaving “Hannity & Colmes,” former OH SOS Blackwell for RNC Chair?, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) caught on taxes again, Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) promises hardball on the judiciary, time to revamp sex offender laws, and taxpayers have no stake in bailout company-sponsored stadiums…

Today marks the one month anniversary of this site. It continues to receive several hundred new visitors per day and disperses several thousand pages per day. It also allows numerous software-based arachnids (“spiders”) to crawl all over it, thereby allowing most major search engines access to my various postings. In fact, I now have a feedjit widget (sidebar, bottom) that shows the comings and goings of people on this site.

Thanks to everyone for stopping by and helping to spread the word on important issues covered in the blogosphere. With hope, truth will continue to propagate, Deo volente (Latin: God willing).

Some other points of interest:

• Special thanks to Leo Donofrio (of Donofrio v. Wells) for having The Right Side of Life in his blog listing on thenaturalborncitizen.blogspot.com
• The freerepublic site still has the posting that describes what happened last Friday night, November 21, 2008, on Lan Lamphere’s show and Leo’s original web site.
• Dr. Orly Taitz (the lawyer/dentist of Keyes v. Bowen) now has a new web site: drorly.blogspot.com; be sure to check it out

And now, on with the stories from the past couple of days…

One of the blogs at forbes.com has officially talked about the Berg v. Obama birth certificate issue (special thanks to a friend of Philip Berg’s for passing this on):

One of the pillars of Berg’s argument is that Obama doesn’t have a legally-valid U.S. birth certificate because he was born in Kenya. Though debunking specialists from Snopes.com and Factcheck.org have asserted the validity of a birth certificate released by the Obama campaign and affirmed by the State of Hawaii, Berg remains unconvinced. Factcheck.org, he said, is suspect because it is run by a group called Annenberg of Chicago, where Obama once sat on a board with William Ayers. Snopes.com worked off the same false document, he said. …

The seeming last word on the subject came from Dr. Chiyome Fukino, the director of Hawaii’s department of health. On October 31 she issued a press release stating that she had personally seen and verified that Hawaii’s state department of health has Obama’s original birth certificate on record.

Berg responds that nowhere does the press release say this original certificate is actually American. Instead, he says, the certificate in Hawaii’s vaults is from Kenya.

Hawaii’s answer to this will surely fuel more fires. “Unfortunately the way state laws are written we are not allowed to confirm vital information and vital records,” said Janice Okubo, a spokeswoman for Hawaii’s department of health. “I cannot confirm individual information because that is against the law.”

She added, though, that Dr. Fukino does have authority over and maintains records for individuals born in Hawaii.

It looks like Alan Colmes is going to be leaving “Hannity & Colmes” at the end of the year (hotair); per Radio Equalizer and mediabistro:

In announcing his decision, Colmes said, “I approached Bill Shine (FNC’s Senior Vice President of Programming) earlier this year about wanting to move on after 12 years to develop new and challenging ways to contribute to the growth of the network. Although it’s bittersweet to leave one of the longest marriages on cable news, I’m proud that both Sean (Hannity) and I remained unharmed after sitting side by side, night after night for so many years.”

Colmes will continue to have a presence on FNC as he will serve as a liberal commentator on a variety of FOX News programming, including Foxnews.com’s The Strategy Room and continue hosting his radio program, The Alan Colmes Show on FOX Talk, a division of FOX News Radio. He will also begin developing a weekend program…

Hannity added, “Not only has Alan been a remarkable co-host, he’s been a great friend which is rare in this industry. I’ll genuinely miss sparring with such a skillful debate partner.”

nytimes.com supports the idea that Hannity could be going solo:

So what will happen to “Hannity & Colmes?” Sean Hannity, the popular conservative commentator, may become the sole host of the program, according to one source close to the network who insisted on anonymity while speaking about private deliberations. Mr. Hannity currently hosts a weekend program, “Hannity’s America,” that may be used as a template for the weekday program. A Fox News spokeswoman said that no decision had been made.

There is now a rumor (redstate) floating around that Ken Blackwell, former Secretary of State in Ohio, could be a candidate for RNC Chair.

Redstate asks, Why is Rep. Charlie Rangle (D-NY) still Chariman of the House Ways and Means Committee after another tax issue has popped up (via Instapundit)?:

Another Tax Issue Surfaces for Rangel (nytimes.com)

WASHINGTON — Representative Charles B. Rangel’s legal team is reviewing his tax records to determine whether the congressman received a homestead exemption on a house he owned in Washington while living in several rent-stabilized apartments in New York City.

The situation is potentially troublesome for Mr. Rangel, a Harlem Democrat who is already the subject of a wide-ranging internal House investigation stemming from an assortment of ethical concerns. …

Republicans have criticized Mr. Rangel, claiming that he has made a mockery of the Democratic Party’s promise to reform Washington’s political culture when it took control of the House in 2006. Republicans have demanded that he step down as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, which writes the nation’s tax laws and is one of the most powerful panels in Congress.

CNSNews.com reports that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) isn’t going to play games with future judicial nominees:

Federal judicial nominees selected because of their ability to “empathize” with politically correct groups must show that they will not deviate from their “solemn oath” to execute the law, even when it runs counter to their personal preferences, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said at a gathering in Washington last week. In his speech, McConnell, Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, said that Republican senators in the new Congress would refrain from engaging in “extra-constitutional” measures to derail President-elect Barack Obama’s nominees. 

peachpundit reports (via reason.com) that making sex offender laws more meaningful could certainly help this woman from losing her house because she performed oral sex on a boy when they were both sophomores in high school:

Whitaker is also involved in a second lawsuit—this one to keep her house. In 2006, she and her husband scoped out neighborhood surrounding the Harlem, Georgia home they eventually purchased to be sure they were in compliance with Georgia’s sex offender law at the time. That law prohibited offenders from living within 1,000 feet of any area where children congregate. Despite their efforts, local authorities ordered Whitaker and her husband to vacate shortly after they moved in. They had overlooked a nearby church, which was running an unadvertised daycare service.

Wendy Whitaker, 29, has been on Georgia’s sex offender list for more than 12 years. Her crime? She performed oral sex on a high school classmate just after turning 17. The boy was just shy of his 16th birthday. Both were sophomores. Whitaker is now suing, claiming that given her crime, her sex offender status is cruel and unusual punishment.
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The question is whether the court will consider the registration requirement in and of itself cruel and unusual punishment for people convicted of consensual oral sex as minors before the law was changed.

Did you think edifice-sponsoring bailout corporations were going to somehow give us a stake in their continued sponsorhip of stadiums? Think again, as hotair mentions (via King Banaian) the following locations will continue to require your bailout money failing companies’ money:

• Ameriquest Capital (Texas Rangers, $2.5 million a year through 2034)
• Bank of America (Carolina Panthers, NFL, $7 million a year through 2024)
• Bank One Ballpark (Arizona Diamondbancks, MLB, $2.2 million through 2028)
• Citizens Bank Park (Philadelphia Phillies, MLB, $2.3 million, 2028)
• Comerica (Detroit Tigers, MLB, $2.2 million, 2030)
• Conseco Fieldhouse (Indiana Pacers, NBA, $2 million, 2019)
• Edward Jones Dome (St. Louis Rams, NFL, $2.65 million, 2013)
• Wachovia Center (Phila. Flyers/Sixers, NHL/NBA, $1.4 million, 2023)
• Fleetcenter (Boston Celtics/Bruins NBA/NHL, $2 million, 2010)
• Great American Ballpark (Cincinnati Reds, $2.5 million, 2033)
• HSBC Arena (Buffalo Sabres, NHL, $800k, 2026)
• Invesco Field (Denver Broncos, NFL, $6 million, 2021)
• KeyArena (now vacant in Seattle, $1 million, 2010)
• Lincoln Financial Field (Phila. Eagles, NFL, $6.7 million, 2022)
• M&T Bank Stadium (Baltimore Ravens, NFL, $5 million, 2018)
• Mellon Arena (Pitssburgh Penguins, NHL, $1.8 million, 2009)
• Nationwide Arena (Columbus BlueJackets, NHL, unknown)
• PNC Park (Pitts. Pirates, $2 million, 2020)
• Raymond James Stadium (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, NFL, $3.1 million, 2026)
• RBC Center (Carolina Hurricanes, NHL, $4 million, 2022)
• TD Waterhouse Centre (Orlando Magic, NBA, $1.6 million, 2003)