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Q&A Bill Frist: Healthcare, The GOP and Birthers

David Goodman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Gop, Birthers, Obama Birth Certificate, Republican Party, Health Care, Healthcare, Republicans, Politics News

Bill Frist is the former Republican Senate Majority Leader. He is the author of the new book: A Heart to Serve: The Passion to Bring Health, Hope, and Healing.

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The Tea Party's Takeover Of The GOP

Mother Jones | Stephanie Mencimer | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birthers, Tea Baggers, Tea Party Protests, Birther-Movement, John Boehner, Tea Party, Michele Bachmann, Tea Bagging, Politics News

You have to hand it to Michele Bachmann: She has succeeded in turning the GOP into one big Tea Party. This past weekend, the Minnesota Republican we...

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Fox News Reports: American Wins NY Marathon, Kenyan Wins US Presidency

Andy Borowitz | Posted 11.01.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Birthers, Fox News, Andy Borowitz, Orly Taitz, Kenya, New York Marathon, Obama Kenyan Birth Certificate, Comedy News

After Fox reported that Meb Keflezighi, an American runner, had placed first in the marathon, conservative activists questioned Mr. Keflezighi's status as a U.S. citizen, which he became in 1998.

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Birthers Rarely Leave U.S., Less Likely To Vote: Hunch Profile

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birthers, Obama Birth Certificate, Birthers Obama, Hunch, Birther Profile, Politics News

Hunch, a new website that helps people make decisions based on survey questions, found some interesting stuff when they crunched the numbers on site u...

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Reclaiming "We"

Terrance Heath | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

When it comes to health care reform, the states most likely to benefit -- because they have the highest percentages of uninsured citizens -- are the source of the loudest objections to reform.

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The Paranoids Are Right About Barack

Caryl Rivers | Posted 10.27.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Birthers, Deathers, Tea Party, Death Squads, Barack Obama, Comedy News

Evidence of Obama's plans to turn the US into a socialist state comes in the transcript of a recent Obama cabinet meeting, leaked to this reporter by an anonymous source.

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Obama and the Political Center

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birthers, John McCain, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Death Panels, George W. Bush, Health Care Reform, Fox News, Democratic Party, Glen Beck, Republican Party, Bill O'Reilly, Barack Obama, Politics News

The failure of McCain's divisive message to resonate beyond the base should have alerted Republican leaders to the resurgence of the center, but they seemed to have missed this clue.

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From John Birchers to Birthers

Thomas Frank | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birthers, John Birch Society, Conspiracy Theories, Fox News, Right Wing Conspiracy, Glenn Beck, Politics News

Conspiracy-mindedness isn't just for fringe political groups anymore; it makes for riveting entertainment. And it is all around us today, a disorder with an entire industry to act as its enabler.

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Who's On First?: Haters, Conspiracists and the Conspiracists Who Hate Them

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Birthers, Obama Birth Certificate, World Net Daily, Orly Taitz, Hate, Cair, Michael Savage, Alan Keyes, Politics News

With unemployment in the United States at a 26 year high of 9.8% and the UK not far behind, a sector of the economy in both nations is booming -- extremism.

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MTSU Survey Documents Entrenching Of Falsehoods

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Obama Rumors, Birthers, Media Criticism, Cass Sunstein, Rumors, Media News

Over at the Atlantic, Marc Ambinder digs into a recent survey conducted by Middle Tennessee State University, which demonstrates the extent to which "...

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Is Dr. Fox-enstein - Roger Ailes - Building Another Monster?

Karl Frisch | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Birthers, Msnbc, Cnbc, Lou Dobbs, Crossfire, The Glenn Beck Show, Immigration, Roger Ailes, Fox Broadcasting Company, Tucker Carlson, Fox Business Network, RFD TV, Fox Business, Chris Wallace, Rutgers Womens Basketball Team, Cnn, Don Imus, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Savage, Fox News, 20/20, John Stossel, Glenn Beck, ABC News, Dancing With the Stars, Fox News Channel, Media News

For months now, Roger Ailes has been putting the finishing touches on his first monster, Fox News Channel, just as its bride, Fox Business Network, is showing signs of life.

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GOP Claims Olympia Snowe Was Born in Kenya

Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.13.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Birthers, Andy Borowitz, Orly Taitz, Senate Finance Committee, Olympia Snowe, Health Care Reform, Michael Steele, Gop, Republicans, Comedy News

Orly Taitz, leader of the so-called "birther" movement, said that Sen. Snowe's vote was "textbook Kenyan" behavior. "She's putting her tribe first," Ms. Taitz said.

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Orly Taitz Slapped With $20,000 Sanction

Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

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Birther leader Orly Taitz has been fined for "wasting the judicial resources" of the Middle District of Georgia with her "frivolous and sanctionable c...

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Bad News! Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nobel Prize, President Obama, Obama Nobel, Birthers, Norway, Right Wing, Nobel Peace Prize, Liberals, Politics News

The neoconservatives will trumpet this as the ultimate evidence of Obama being a socialist, embraced by notoriously socialist Norway.

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The Demonization of Barack Obama

Sheldon Filger | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Obama, Conservatives, Republican Party, Barack Obama, President Obama, Tea Party Protesters, Conservatives Cheer Olympic Loss, Birther Movement, Birthers, Obama Olympic Bid, Chicago Olympics, JFK Assassination, Protestors, Politics News

While wrapping their vituperation in the American flag, these extremists masquerading as patriots are actually damaging the heart and soul of the conservative movement in the United States.

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Orly Taitz: Washington Post Profiles 'Birther Queen'

The Washington Post | Liza Mundy | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif.-The dental office of Orly Taitz, DDS, Esq., is in a low-slung complex in a quiet planned community in Orange County, al...

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To Er Is Human

Steven Weber | Posted 10.03.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Birthers, Deathers, Teabaggers, Olympics, Obama Olympics, Comedy News

We've had the Birthers. We've had the Baggers. We've had the Deathers. Now, In light of the IOC's slapping down of Obama's face to face bid for the Olympic games to be held in Chicago, we're now suffering the Smuggers.

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Democrat Calls Republicans "Knuckle Dragging Neanderthals." Is Berlusconi One Too? You Bet!

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

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Being progressives and promoting a positive agenda of Socio-Spiritual Liberation and Joyful Justice doesn't mean being wimpy.

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Why We Let Rush Live

Jodi Lampert | Posted 10.02.2009 | Home

Read More: Birthers, Rush Limbaugh, Randi Rhodes, Ron Reagan, Guns, President Barack Obama, Rush Limbaugh Obama, Home News

I would never advocate harming Rush or his kind; we are too kind. But I think it's time to stop behaving like ourselves. Anyone who brings a gun to a rally needs to be roughed up.

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Trent Franks: Obama Should Release His Long-Form Birth Certificate (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

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Dave Weigel of The Washington Independent caught up with Congressman Trent Franks (R-Az.) at the "How to Take Back America" conference and offered him...

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Left, Wrong and Center

Steven Weber | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Robert Scheer, Birthers, Deathers, Barack Obama, Left-Right-and-Center, Matt Miller, Neo-Conservatives, Glenn Beck, Arianna Huffington, Tom Blankley, Media News

At the core of the rapidly spreading division in the body politic is the fungibility of facts and the emergence of a veritable alternate reality based solely on the preservation of one's ideology.

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Birther Billboards Spring Up In Colorado

The Colorado Independent | Joseph Boven | Posted 09.25.2009 | Denver

Read More: Birthers, Colorado, Obama Birth Certificate, World Net Daily, Birther Movement, Peter Boyles, Denver News

According to billboard owner Phil Wolf, Denver's "birther boards" will go up mid-day today at Kipling and I-70 on the north side of frontage road. Wes...

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Are Evolution-Deniers any Different from Holocaust-Deniers, Birthers, or Truthers?

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Would Ben Stein hear out Ahmadinejad on the Holocaust the way Glenn Beck heard Stein out on his anti-evolution film? Fair and balanced, anyone?

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Birther Poll: 42 Percent Of Republicans Believe Obama Not Born In U.S.

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

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A new study from Public Policy Polling finds that 42 percent of Republicans believe that President Obama was not born in the United States, while 22 p...

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Secesh 3.0: Fear Of A Black President

David A. Love | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

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When the Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) disrupted the President’s health care address before a joint session of Congress, it was not the first time th...

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