(July 29) -- Politics Daily's Mary C. Curtis calls it The Battle of Concord ... Mall.
Free Market Warrior, which sells conservative-themed products, is losing its lease and must leave North Carolina's Concord Mills mall at the end of the week.
Loren Spivak, who owns the kiosk, says the decision is purely political, noting that other stores in the mall sold lots of pro-Obama merchandise for months after the inauguration. A statement from the mall near Charlotte says it won't renew the lease because Spivak refuses to remove three bumper stickers and a T-shirt that suggest a link between the president and terrorism.
Although the future of Spivak's business is in doubt, he says the uproar has given his kiosk's sales a boost during its final days in the mall.
Everybody's Irish
Maybe they should add Guinness to the beer menu for Thursday night's White House happy hour with President Obama, Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and police Sgt. Jim Crowley. It turns out the African-American scholar is half-Irish and is distantly related to the officer who arrested him.
On top of that, the president also has Irish roots that go back to the village of Moneygall -- where, of course, they call him O'Bama.
(Note to "birthers": This is not further evidence for questioning the president's citizenship.)
Online video of a woman haranguing Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del., about Obama's birth certificate at a recent town hall meeting has stoked conspiracists' fervor. Hosts at WGMD say the woman is know to listeners as "Crazy Eileen" and her views are so extreme she's been banned from calling the conservative talk radio station several times.
Nationally syndicated radio host John Batchelor describes the claim that Obama isn't really president as "a neutron stink bomb" that's hurting conservative Republicans.
Hot Air's Ed Morrissey accuses CNN of fueling the controversy while Fox is debunking the birthers' claims.
And if you think the rumors about Obama are wild, what do you make of George Washington allegedly conspiring with the British? That's just one of the items on The Daily Beast's list of history's nuttiest presidential conspiracies.
The Poetry of Politics
You might recall how some of Sarah Palin's statements have been cast as poetry. One of this week's most viral videos is William Shatner delivering this dramatic interpretation of her resignation speech on 'The Tonight Show.'
But the ex-governor of Alaska isn't the only muse among politicians. Slate offers Senate Judiciary Committee members explaining their votes on Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination -- in haiku form.
