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Larry Sinclair on the Campaign Trail

By | 03.11.10 | 1:47 pm

The last time we saw Larry Sinclair, an ex-con who won a strange sort of fame in 2008 for his wild and unsubstantiated allegations against Barack Obama, he was refusing to become a prop in one of Orly Taitz’s lawsuits — and he was mounting a bid for More…

From the Tabloids to the Ballot

By | 11.30.09 | 1:56 pm

In my piece about Randall Terry’s Tea Party-driven comeback, I broke the news that Terry’s activists were going to mount congressional campaigns in 2010 for the express purpose of putting anti-abortion rights TV ads on the air inside the beltway. Along those same lines, the persistent Obama conspiracy figure More…

Larry Sinclair: Orly Taitz Told Me to Lie, Claim That Obama Had People Killed

By | 09.16.09 | 5:32 pm

The affidavit that Obama foe Larry Sinclair claims to have filed in a California court, in which he accuses birther Orly Taitz of trying to get him to lie on the stand, is available right here. In it, Sinclair recounts being ushered into Taitz’s office and being told More…

‘Birther’ War: Original Obama Conspiracy Theorist Accuses Orly Taitz of Seeking False Testimony

By | 09.16.09 | 1:41 pm

One of the strangest figures in the universe of Barack Obama conspiracy theories is Lawrence Sinclair, a 47-year old man with a long criminal record who, as Ben Smith notes, has made “outlandish allegations … that began with sex and drugs and moved on to murder.” It’s not worth More…

Begun, This Birther War Has

By | 05.05.09 | 1:21 pm

Ben Smith points us to the lawsuit that original Barack Obama “Birther” Phil Berg has filed against … well, not everyone in the movement, but pretty close. The defendants in his long, incoherent-as-always filing:

Orly Taitz a/k/a Dr. Orly Taitz a/k/a Law Offices of Orly Taitz a/k/a Orly Taitz,

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