Editor: I read Diana West's editorial on Sunday, entitled "Lakin serves the Constitution," with my jaw dropped in stupefaction. Ms. West is attempting to perpetuate the "Birther myth," that Barack Obama was not born in the United States, in spite of the fact that his "Certificate of Live Birth" has been extensively published and verified by Hawaiian authorities, and the notion of a foreign birth has been thoroughly debunked. I am quoting the Pulitzer Prize-winning website, Politifact.com: "It is possible that Obama conspired his way to the precipice of the world's biggest job, involving a vast network of people and government agencies over decades of lies.