Subject: Orly Taitz

• Orange County's Obama-Deniers Keep On Keeping On

  The Mission Viejo Dispatch has an item today about local dentist Dr. Orly Taitz. You might remember her as an associate of Alan Keyes and Weekly interviewee Wiley Drake in their lawsuit trying to prove that Barack Hussein Obama isn't technically qualified to be president. Now, Taitz, claiming to represent more than 100 members of the armed forces, has filed a petition with members of congress to issue some subpoenas to some pretty big names: Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates and those pesky academic

  March 5, 2009

• Local Obama-Phobe Seeks And Annoys Justice

  Thanks to commenter "Doubtful" for bringing extraordinary news to our attention: Dr. Orly Taitz, our Mission Viejo/Rancho Santa Margarita dentist turned political activist, has embarked on a crusade to harass members of the Supreme Court of the United States.Last Friday, Taitz got up at 3 in the morning to journey to the University of Idaho, where Chief Justice John Roberts gave a speech followed by a Q&A session. With tenacity and, presumably, the will of God, Taitz managed to be the first

  March 16, 2009

• Buena Park Pastor Wiley Drake Believes He Still Has a Prayer of Unseating Barack Obama

  December 18, 2008

• Super-Fun Cover Story Supplement: More Orly!

  Even if you read every one of the 4,000-n'-something words of this week's cover story about Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq., our local dentist crusading to have Barack Obama removed from office, you still won't have gotten the full Orly story. She's a busy woman with many pots cooking. So here are a few more Taitz tidbits:You can see her -- tonight! She'll be speaking at a meeting of the Saddleback Republican Assembly in Mission Viejo, according to her blog. Starts at 7 p.m. at Atria Del Sol. Assemblyman J

  June 18, 2009

• Meet Orly Taitz, Queen Bee of People Obsessed With Barack Obama's Birth Certificate

  June 18, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  June 25, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  July 2, 2009

• "Birther Nutjob" Orly Taitz Becomes OC's 2nd "World's Worst Person" This Week

  Earlier this week, it was Orange County's own Reverend Wiley Drake, who prays for the death of President Obama on a daily basis and who has filed a lawsuit seeking his removal from office because he's not a real American citizen. Now fellow Obama "birther" and Mission Viejo attorney Orly Taitz has been named "World's Worst Person" by MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann.As we reported two days ago, Taitz just filed a lawsuit in Florida on behalf of a certain Major Stefan Frederick Cook, who volunteered

  July 17, 2009

• Daily Show's Jon Stewart Eviscerates Birthers, Orly Taitz, Lou Dobbs and Especially Congressman John Campbell

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  July 23, 2009

• Media Matters Gives a Nod to Weekly Cover Story on Birthers

   A Media Matters rundown on the key nutbars in the "birthers" movement that claims Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. includes a couple plugs of Spencer Kornhaber's "Birth of an Obsession" June 19 cover story. The media watchdogs focus in particular on Kornhaber's reporting on Orly Taitz, the Laguna Niguel denist, attorney, real estate agent and queen bee of the birthers, and Wiley Drake, the Buena Park Southern Baptist pastor, homeless advocate, Alan Keyes' presidential running mate in

  July 24, 2009

• Video: Birther Nutjob Orly Taitz Suffers MSNBC Meltdown

  Just in time for Barack Obama's birthday--it's today--the queen of the so-called "birther" movement, Orly Taitz, appeared yesterday on MSNBC to talk up her latest "evidence" that Obama is not an American citizen. That "evidence" is an obviously forged "Republic of Kenya birth Certificate" that was issued several months before Kenya became a "Republic" and which even Karl Rove and Ann Coulter--no friends to the current commander in chief--concur is a fraud. The clip--in which Taitz is alternativ

  August 4, 2009

• Sanchez Navigates I've-Got-Mines to Get to Newport Beach Cash

  Sanchez: Slummin'.Following the lead of politicians of every stripe, Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) swooped down on GOP-friendly Newport Beach Tuesday morning to blab, push cold eggs around her plate and, most importantly, pick up hard campaign cash at the Balboa Bay Club. Junkets in Nouveau Riche generally do not draw protesters because the tony club is too far from their homes, parking is a bitch down there and attendance at jobs/bail heari

  August 4, 2009

• Crank Trifecta: A Birther-Tea Bagger-Town Hall Crier Rolled Into One

  Media Matters gets the scoop on this morning's Fox & Friends bringing together the living embodiment of the "grass-roots" Birther, Tea Party and Healthcare Town Hall movements--without acknowledging it, of course, because that would be embarrassing even to Fox News.

  August 19, 2009

• Obama Squares Off Against Gays and Birthers in Carter Country

  Photo by Pete SouzaThe Chosen One​U.S. District Judge David O. Carter is working his magic in his Santa Ana courtroom in two cases involving President Barack Obama.One pits The Chosen One against his gay supporters, the other against his nuttiest foes.Carter on Monday dismissed the first of several pending challenges to the federal Defense of Marriage Act on a technicality, ruling that the same-sex marriage lawsuit must be refiled in federal court. The suit brought by Mission Viejo couple Arth

  August 25, 2009

• Orly Taitz's Day In Court

  John Gilhooley / OC Weekly​Today, Dr. Orly Taitz Esq., the Laguna Niguel dentist, lawyer and real estate agent who is attempting to sue Barack Obama out of office, appeared before Judge David O. Carter in Santa Ana's Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse. The occasion: a hearing in her lawsuit, Barnett vs Obama. We were there.Midway through the hour-and-change hearing, it became clear that in Taitz's mind, today was going to be a day straight out of a Dean Koontz-Dan Brown mash-up novel. It didn't

  September 8, 2009

• Chatting With Bill Maher About Rick Warren And Orly Taitz

  From Religulous: Bill Maher on the left, Jesus on the right.​Comedian, talk show host and atheist evangelical Bill Maher will perform at the Grove of Anaheim on Sunday, Sept. 13. We got a chance to chat with him on the phone last week, mainly to ask him for his thoughts on all things Orange County and right-wing. Maher hosts HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher, and produced and starred in the 2008 anti-religion documentary Religulous. If you think he's a jerk for saying Saddleback Church pastor Ri

  September 9, 2009

• Orly Watch: Taitz Battles Obama-Caused Beheadings In Georgia

  John Gilhooley / OC Weekly​We reported last Tuesday from Dr. Orly Taitz's hearing in Santa Ana. You remember Taitz, the Laguna Niguel "birther"/dentist/mother/lawyer/Weekly cover girl that's trying to sue Barack Obama out of office, right? Taitz's lawsuit with more than a hundred of plaintiffs before federal judge David Carter in Santa Ana... it's not the only pot she's got cooking. The good doctor took a red-eye flight to Georgia this week to represent another plaintiff in court: Capt. Connie

  September 15, 2009

• Birther Smackdown: Orly Taitz Faces Judgment In Georgia

  John Gilhooley / OC Weekly​As we blogged yesterday, OC dentist and lawyer Orly Taitz was heard in court on Monday in Georgia, arguing that an army surgeon should not have to deploy to Iraq because Barack Obama isn't actually eligible to be president. Today, federal district judge Clay Lands issued his judgement. For Taitz, it wasn't pretty. Lands dismissed Capt. Connie Rhodes' claim as "frivolous" and then went on to point out what many Orly watchers see as the central hypocrisy of the "

  September 16, 2009

• Judge To Orly Taitz: I Think You Owe Me $10,000

  John Gilhooley / OC Weekly​Laguna Niguel's best Obama-suer, Dr. Orly Taitz, has been tearing through headlines this week. The latest development: After accusing a judge of treason and petitioning to reverse his decision, that judge has asked Taitz why he should not fine her $10,000.The order from Georgia federal district judge Clay Lands is here (courtesy of Politijab Orly watcher Bob Haggard). It opens with a Yogi Berra quote, takes Taitz's motion for reconsideration point-by-point, and then

  September 18, 2009

• Anti-Obama 'Eligibility' Movement Members Breaking Ties With Laguna Niguel Birther Orly Taitz

  September 24, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  October 1, 2009

• Tales Of Suicide And Tyranny From Orly Taitz In Santa Ana

  ​Whew, that was a long one. Laguna Niguel dentist/lawyer Orly Taitz, along with her co-counsel/nemesis Gary Kreep, spent a couple hours this morning in the Santa Ana Ronald Reagan Federal Building and Courthouse arguing why Judge David O. Carter shouldn't throw their case against Barack Obama out of court.Carter's verdict? Eh, give him more time. No ruling today.The courtroom discussion rambled across a range of topics, from John McCain's birth in Panama to Taitz's oppressed family in Siberia.

  October 5, 2009

• Judge Slaps Orly Taitz With $20,000 Fine

  OC Weekly​After threatening to hit Laguna Niguel lawyer and dentist Orly Taitz with a $10,000 sanction less than a month ago, Georgia federal district court judge Clay Lands has passed down a new, final ruling: She actually will have to pay $20,000.In a 43 page opinion (posted below) that accuses Taitz of "wasting judicial resources," Lands excoriates her for continuing to file "frivolous" suits attacking Barack Obama's eligibility to be President, and bristles at her accusations that Lands hi

  October 13, 2009

• Sleepy South-County Towns Make US News's List Of Political Junky Zones

  Ed Piskor / OC Weekly​A proponent of the Lance MacLean recall (blogged about earlier today) just tipped me off to a list in published in US News and World Report last week: "10 Cities for Political Junkies." Orange County towns comprise one-fifth of the cities on the list, which seeks to document "where those obsessed with political affairs live." You might assume Santa Ana, with its GOP-run county seat hemmed in by liberal-leaning ethnic communities and activist groups, would make the cut. Di

  September 28, 2009

• The Top Five Artistic Depictions of Orly Taitz

  Clockwork Coker sent me this Photoshop job he saw posted on Crooks and Liars:​ It's the "Taitz-Tanic," see. Lou Dobbs is being targeted by Media Matters for his questions about Barack Obama's eligibility for the presidency, while Laguna Niguel's attorney/dentist Orly Taitz has recently faced a number of public setbacks in her quest to remove Obama from office. Hence, the ship's sinking.With her unrelenting drive and flair for... drama... Taitz does sometimes seem like a movie character. Or a c

  September 23, 2009

• Orly Taitz's Star Witness: The Dentist Asked Me To Lie In Court

  John Gilhooley / OC Weekly​Dr. Orly Taitz believes that Barack Obama wants to destroy America, but lately she's been dealing with a different threat: the defection of her former allies in the "eligibility" (a.k.a. "birther") movement. The lawsuit against Taitz from fellow birther lawyer Phil Berg has been given a full public airing, as has been her in-court kerfuffle with co-counsel Gary Kreep. It's been widely reported, too, that potential crazy person Larry Sinclair -- the guy who claims he

  September 17, 2009

• Big Week For Birthers and Their Crusade to Unseat Obama the Usurper!

  The Ledger-Enquirer of Columbus, Georgia, reports today that Orly Taitz, the Orange County attorney who reigns as queen bee to the Obama "birther" movement, is representing a "conscientious objector" who refuses to deploy to Iraq*, not because he's a pacifist or because George Bush authorized the invasion of the country on bogus claims, but because President Obama isn't a U.S. citizen.That's right: As everyone knows, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Indonesia or somewhere, but definitely not Hon

  July 14, 2009

• What Are Birthers Doing Hanging With Top Repubs In Newport?

  ​Matt Coker already did a nice job previewing the Western Conservative Political Action Conference taking place today and tomorrow at the Radisson in Newport Beach. But the Washington Independent's David Weigel -- who loves Orly Taitz as much as we do -- points out that  this conference isn't just for the best and brightest stars of mainstream GOP like Chuck DeVore, Meg Whitman, Steve Poizner, Tim Pawlenty and Andrew Breitbart.There'll also be birthers!

  October 16, 2009

• Taitz Minions Launch Attack on Santa Ana Judge's Clerk

  ​Besides asking for donations to help pay off the $20,000 fine imposed upon her by a Georgia judge last week, Laguna Niguel's Orly Taitz has been lately filling her blog with comments from contributors making hay about a law clerk working in the office of David Carter, the judge who's  been hearing her lawsuit against Barack Obama in federal court in Santa Ana.The target is Siddharth Velamoor. Wikipedia, apparently, listed him as a clerk for Carter. Previously, he worked at law firm Perki

  October 19, 2009

• Orly Taitz Bombards Media; Media Says 'Get a Life'

  ​First, a copy-paste: Please contact USA today and demand that they provide the readers with info about January 26 trial. If they refuse, report them to FCC, as defrauding the public in connection to electionsThat's right, folks: On her blog, Dr. Orly Taitz says that USA Today would be committing a crime ignoring her. It's part of Taitz's new campaign to annoy random reporters across the country.

  October 27, 2009

• Will You Protest Bill O'Reilly for Orly Taitz?

  Papa Bear Bill O'Reilly devoted a short segment on The Factor to Laguna Niguel's Dr. Orly Taitz a few nights ago. Nothing in depth; just featured two ladies with no perceivable qualifications other than their intellect discussing the $20,000 judicial fine recently levied on Taitz. There didn't seem to be much sympathy for the "eligibility" cause: Ever since, Taitz's blog has featured a steady stream of letters from outraged followers. Thank goodness they're turning their words into action by or

  October 29, 2009

• Orly's Santa Ana Case Dismissed!

  No more birther crowds in the Santa Ana Ronald Reagan Federal Building and Courthouse for now. Judge David O. Carter passed down a ruling this morning dismissing Dr. Orly Taitz's Barnett v. Obama lawsuit. Judgement below, more to come. Earlier today, Taitz posted on her blog that "IF THE COURT DOES NOT ADDRESS OBAMA ELIGIBILITY, THERE WILL BE CIVIL UNREST." Yuh oh. Judge Carter Ruling on MTD

  October 29, 2009

• The Greatest Hits of the Taitz Dismissal

  ​Judge David O. Carter today threw out Dr. Orly Taitz's Barnett v. Obama lawsuit against President Obama. This was the lawsuit filed with dozens of plaintiffs, in Santa Ana Federal court, with a judge that seemed to listen patiently to the legal theories of Taitz and co-counsel Gary Kreep.Read the judge's opinion here.Essentially, Carter ruled that the courts don't have the power to remove a sitting president -- only Congress does -- and therefor the case could not move forwards. In addition,

  October 29, 2009

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  October 29, 2009

• Why Not Draw and Quarter Obama and Judge Carter?

  WikicommonsThe execution of Guy Fawkes' (Guy Fawkes), by Claes (Nicolaes) Jansz Visscher,​The reactions to yesterday's dismissal of Orly Taitz's Barnett v. Obama lawsuit continue to pour in. Taitz has been publishing letters from her followers non-stop on her blog. This charmer just got put up, addressing Federal Judge David O. Carter, who presides in Santa Ana:

  October 30, 2009

• Orly Taitz and Barbara Coe, Together Again

  ​Well, this isn't shocking. Laguna Niguel's Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq., the key anti-Obama lawyer that has had every single one of her lawsuits challenging the President's eligibility dismissed, will be speaking at an upcoming meeting of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform.You remember CCIR, Gustavo's favorite bashers of Mexicans, Muslims, gays, vaccines and reality. It's actually where Taitz first met Rev. Wiley Drake, one of the first plaintiffs in her lawsuits (they've since become es

  November 4, 2009

• Orly Taitz's Fox News Protest Defies Expectations

  ​Dang, forgot all about that plane ticket I was gonna buy. Laguna Niguel's Orly Taitz did indeed pull off her protest of Fox News in New York City today. She was mad at them, remember, because Bill O'Reilly called her a nut. Fox sent a memo to employees warning that they expected about 150 protesters. Gawker's got the photos (click), looks like there were maybe... 10 people there.Head to Salon for more on the lovely person who partnered with Taitz the protest: the Rev. James Manning, who has r

  November 11, 2009

• Judge Sends the Law after Orly Taitz for Ignoring $20,000 Fine

  ​A Georgia federal judge last month fined Laguna Niguel's Dr. Orly Taitz Esq. for repeatedly filing "frivolous" lawsuits about Barack Obama's eligibility to be president. The deadline to pay that fine came and went Thursday; Taitz told the Columbia Ledger-Enquirer that she has no intention of paying it."Absolutely not," Taitz said Thursday afternoon when asked whether she would pay. "I have filed an appeal. It was a complete abuse of power."But filing an appeal doesn't push back the deadline t

  November 13, 2009