I have long been an opponent of the 17th Amendment. Ratified in 1913, this gave the American people direct popular election of Senators. Prior to this, Senators were selected by the states (some states held popular elections), as the Senate was designed to represent the state governments, while the House of Representatives would be democratically-elected representatives of the people. This is stated in the Federalist Papers and apparent when you compare the powers of the Senate to the views of the Founding Fathers (e.g. ratification of treaties) . Since the 17th’s ratification in 1913, we have had extensive growth in government, often against the will (or budget) of the state governments (more recently REAL ID, No Child Left Behind, etc.) and a repeal would once again make the Senate subservient to the state governments while keeping the House subservient to the people.

It is written by “Epaminondas” of An Anti-Federalist’s Blog, and has two parts:

Part 1
Part 2

The article is long, but a recommended read.

The Archive’s last major exposure happened when videos were discovered from the BBC, CNN, and some local Fox-affiliate channels where the collapse of the Salomon Building (aka WTC7) was reported some 10-20 minutes in advance. Until official responses came forward, these videos were repeatedly removed by Google (YouTube) et al and removed from the Internet Archive. According to the blog link above, so-called "birthers" apparently refer to this as "scrubbing the Internet"

(CNN Video, BBC Video, Fox 5 DC Video, Response given by BBC)

Official explanations from AP, The Standard, and Washington could be given regarding this, but something else comes to mind. In 1986, an income tax protestor pointed out inconsistencies in copies of the Constitution’s Sixteenth Amendment (direct federal income tax, ratified 1913) delivered to the states. A federal appeals court (never went any higher) ruled against him, because (1) then-Secretary of State Philander Knox marked it as valid, and (2) "73 years after certification of the amendment’s adoption and after countless judicial applications, would promote only disorder."

The reason this is an issue is because the House and Senate passed resolutions two months ago declaring Obama born in Hawaii. And you can bet there’d be disorder if the courts validate this!

So regardless of the law, Obama will be the 44th President, and there’s no stopping anyone.