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9/11 responders show unusually high rates of cancer

By | 04.05.11 | 12:00 pm

Firefighters who answered the call at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, are suffering from certain types of cancer at levels far beyond those found in the general population, UK newspaper The Daily Mail reports.

Survivors of the attack and first responders have been diagnosed with increased rates of More…

#1 in Conspiracy Theories

By | 01.25.10 | 4:18 pm

Andrew Young’s tell-all biography of John Edwards, hitting shelves next week, is surging in one Amazon.com category in particular.

Palin Goes After CPAC, Sticks With SRLC

By | 01.08.10 | 1:29 pm

Via Ben Smith, it seems meaningful that Sarah Palin’s camp explained her decision not to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference with two unprovoked attacks on the American Conservative Union. The first is on a More…

WorldNetDaily Wants Us to Know How Many People Hate It

By | 12.31.09 | 11:47 am

Chelsea Schilling has published the best WorldNetDaily article in my recent memory, an expose of the many, many, many names that WND Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah has been called on Wikipedia. To wit:

Wikipedia’s profile page for Farah has dubbed him “homophobic,” a “conspiracy theorist,” “white supremacist,” a “proud member

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Limbaugh at Birther Ground Zero

By | 12.31.09 | 10:16 am

Nice catch by Andrea Nill — Queen’s Medical Center, where Rush Limbaugh is being treated after experiencing chest pains yesterday, happens to be a crucial location in the birther mythos. A UPI article mistakenly identified that hospital, not the Kapi’olani Medical Center, as the birthplace of Barack Obama. And More…

WorldNetDaily’s Year That Was

By | 12.30.09 | 1:55 pm

The fringe right-wing Website that became a lot less obscure this year is out with a Top-10 list marking its “groundbreaking reports.” Five (and a half if you count the self-promoting birther billboard campaign) of the stories really did break through to the mainstream media, though you could More…

Local Birther Makes Good

By | 12.29.09 | 9:53 am

The Orange County Register has named Orly Taitz, the birther attorney who briefly became a weird kind of political celebrity, as one of the region’s top Newsmakers of the Year. The paper makes a strong case, pointing out that if Taitz succeeded in handing the presidential election over to More…

Chrysler Dealers: The New Birther Dupes

By | 12.09.09 | 9:26 am

WorldNetDaily breathlessly reports the latest from the birtherverse: two owners of Chrysler dealerships are going to sue to get their businesses back, on the basis that Barack Obama, having never been the legitimate president, had no right to use TARP funds to restructure car companies.

Birtherism as a Fundraising Tool

By | 12.04.09 | 10:55 am

Continuing today’s unexpected surge of “birther” news, Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.)–the freshman Republican who has introduced legislation that would demand proof of citizenship from future presidential candidates–is using WorldNetDaily’s “alerts” email list to raise reelection cash.

“I commend Rep. Bill Posey for taking the lead in introducing and securing More…

Palin Walks It Back, But the Fans Won’t Have It

By | 12.04.09 | 9:36 am

Sarah Palin tries to put the toothpaste back in the tube following her “birther” comments yesterday. The full post today on her Facebook page:

Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose. I’ve pointed out that it was seemingly fair game

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